John, we wanted to share something incredible with you today as we are all immersed in a pivotal moment for our country.

While David Jassy was serving a life sentence at San Quentin Prison, he created space for young men to feel, to speak, to create. Together, they produced an album – the San Quentin Mixtape, 17 powerful songs featuring voices and stories from inside. 

These voices have been silenced. These voices have been suppressed. But today, their voices are lifted up. Today, the songs they wrote from behind bars are released into the world – their lyrics join the chants and cries reverberating across our cities, their rage and their pain merge with the nation's collective outrage and grief for a justice system that is not just, a system that brings more pain than healing, a system that often brings more violence than safety for far too many communities.

We hear them. Papoose, Ty Dolla $ign, X-Raided, David Jassy, Weldon Angelos, and Tony Lewis Jr. hear them too. We invite you to listen with us.

Join us today at 3pm eastern to listen to and discuss the San Quentin Mixtape, entirely produced by young men incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, supported by a group of influencers from Kim Kardashian West to J. Cole and Roc Nation’s Equity Distribution. 

We’ll be joined by David Jassy himself, the Grammy-nominated Swedish artist who helped bring the mixtape to life.

Rappers X-Raided, Papoose, and Ty Dolla $ign will join Jassy and other criminal justice and music industry leaders to hear how prison altered his creative process, and how he ultimately learned to let his creativity flow behind bars.

Jassy was released from San Quentin Prison only two months ago, and we are so grateful that he’ll be able to witness this album drop from the outside and see its real world impact on a monumental day in our nation's history. 

This special-edition dispatch is happening today – Friday, May 29th, at 12 pm pacific // 3 pm eastern. We hope you'll take the time to listen with us, John.

- the Dream Corps #cut50 team

PS: Can’t make it but still want to stream the San Quentin Mixtape? Click here to access links to hear this incredible project on the streaming platform of your choice.