Vic Mensa, also known as Victor Kwesi Mensah, has showed compassion by gifting Da Book Joint enough money to pay the Chicago bookstore’s rent for a whole year. The business reported on Instagram that the rapper wrote a magnificent check for $7,200, ensuring the shop had no rent to pay for the rest of the year.
“Hey, family! “This has officially been the best Wednesday ever!” they said. “We’re grateful. We feel honored. We are thankful. We are literally living a dream right now. Thank you so much to @vicmensa and the entire @93boyz crew for blessing us today by covering our rent for a full year.
“Thank you for seeing our mission and assisting us in standing firm on our purpose. You are the breath of fresh air we required. His generosity keeps our doors open to all book lovers and dreamers. This gesture of generosity warms our hearts and confirms the strength of community and support. Thank you, Vic Mensa, for illuminating our world with optimism and kindness.”
According to HipHoppDX, Da Book Joint hosts Noname’s book club, which began in 2019. In 2020, the book club worked with seven cities countrywide to ensure the selections were included in the branches’ collections, which include roughly 200 libraries. Noname’s book club focuses on works authored by persons of color.
The club’s current offices are at the Radical Hood Library in Los Angeles’ Jefferson Park district.
Vic Mensa’s charitable commitment to Da Book Joint is an indication of his company’s mission of making books accessible, according to AfroTech.
Books Before Bars is 93 Boyz’s first endeavor to assist provide books to Illinois prisoners.
At the time, Vic Mensa told AfroTech, “The goal of Books Before Bars is to bring liberation and freedom to people who are incarcerated through literature because I believe strongly that when you change your inner reality, you begin to influence your external reality.”