Smoke DZA's We Outside Mixtape Lands Before Election Day With a Union LA and Barriers Capsule
Key details
- Project
- We Outside, a mixtape by Smoke DZA and Popular Democracy, produced by Mike & Keys
- Released
- Monday, November 2, 2026, on streaming services
- Guests
- Bun B, Benny the Butcher, BIG K.R.I.T., Kai Kash, Fergie Baby and more
- Capsule
- Box tee from $40, crewneck from $60, hoodie from $70, with Union Los Angeles and Barriers
- Where
- Popular Democracy's online store
Smoke DZA released a mixtape on the eve of Election Day, and it comes with clothes. We Outside, which the rapper presents with the organising network Popular Democracy, came out on streaming services on Monday, November 2, produced in full by Mike & Keys, as Smoke DZA's post puts it. Alongside it, Popular Democracy's store is selling a three-piece capsule made with two streetwear names, Union Los Angeles and Barriers.
Popular Democracy's release, as BroadwayWorld carries it, lists Bun B, Benny the Butcher, BIG K.R.I.T., Kai Kash and Fergie Baby among the guests. Smoke DZA's own post calls it "a Project of purpose" and slightly different from his other projects, and tells his followers to vote. Popular Democracy's page for it frames the music and the clothes the same way, as a way to carry its message into the midterms, and names the issues it is organising around, from immigration raids to the cost of living.
The capsule
Three pieces, all black, all listed on Popular Democracy's store since October 29: an oversized box tee from $40, a crewneck sweatshirt from $60 and a pullover hoodie from $70, with a couple of dollars more for the larger sizes. The store's photos of the hoodie show WE OUTSIDE across the chest in white bubble lettering, flanked by EVERY BLOCK and EVERY VOTE, a zigzag and stars running down both sleeves, and the credits stacked down the back: a ballot box, Smoke DZA, Popular Democracy, Barriers' star and UNION.
Our read
Get-out-the-vote merch is usually a slogan on a stock tee. Putting two working streetwear names on the back of this one, and pricing it like band merch rather than a collab drop, makes it something people might wear past November. The timing is the catch: the music arrived a day before Election Day, the clothes went on sale less than a week before it, and both will outlast it. Popular Democracy's page doesn't say where the money from the capsule goes, so we haven't either.
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