Protest And Survive

The 83rd, whose name is reclaimed from a Bushwick police precinct, is a record producer who runs a record label and media company called Sermon 3. "My biggest driving factor is pushing boundaries in art, music and possibilities; and also giving priority to people who deserve it, who a lot of times are the foundations of art, music, culture, that don't get the proper privy. When I look at my family, the Black community and all the things that we've done and all the things that go unwritten and uncovered, with Sermon 3 I wanted to cover deep roots in Mississippi and ghetto house and things that were happening in hoods and rural areas that impacted the rest of the world, but they never got an interview." I met The 83rd at Occupy City Hall in New York City in June 2020. The 83rd was projecting a message on a building across the street from the protest, which was a 5-point plan he’d developed about how to address police violence: end qualified immunity, pass a Civilian Defense Act, divest the police, invest in bla