That intensity is in full force on “G.O.D.,” a track from The Cornel West Theory’s new album Coming From The Bottom, as Dobbins and vocalist/producer Tim Hicks discuss drone warfare in photorealistic detail.

“I decided to address an issue that most MCs are afraid to,” says Hicks. Dobbins is on the same page. “It’s a very troublesome feeling when you see society entering a digital-militant state.”

The duo pulls no punches on “G.O.D.”: Citing present facts, they forecast a grim future deprived of safety and privacy. The song’s video drives the point home with war footage, clips from sci-fi films and images of world leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama — or as Dobbins calls him, “the drone president.”

Notably, the song features vocals recorded over the phone with journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who’s spent the last 33 years in prison, charged with a murder that many say he did not commit. A chilling sample of Abu-Jamal uttering “drones” punctuates the song’s anxious verses.

Hicks says he’s been in touch with Abu-Jamal since 2013.

“I became totally absorbed with his cause and the issue of his freedom, and began tracking down people within the movement to get him released,” Hicks says. “I have spoken with him both through letter and occasionally by phone. I’m a friend of his family.”

Abu-Jamal is one of several prominent activists and artists on Coming From The Bottom, the group’s first full-length since 2011’s The Shape Of Hip-Hop To Come. Other appearances include rapper Chuck D, community organizer Rosa Clemente and film director Melvin Van Peebles, who is credited with inspiring the project.

“[Van Peebles] told me to make an album that people have to hear, not one they want to,” says Hicks.

“We wanted to make a scathing album that was conscious and brutal,” says Dobbins. “People have been stuck in glam-hop since Bush was in office. We were like, it’s time to behead n****s.”

Now, D.C. label Bad Friend Records is giving back in its own way. Tuesday marks the release of the imprint’s new remix collection, Deleted Scenes vs The Caribbean vs Tereu Tereu: A Benefit for HIPS. All proceeds will go to nonprofit organization HIPS, which provides services and advocacy for people affected by sex work and drug use.

Bad Friend Records’ co-owner Ryan Little, a member of Tereu Tereu, says the mission of the compilation is simple. “For me, it’s just caring about other humans,” he writes in an email. “Sex workers and prisoners are two marginalized groups that won’t score advocates any political points, so I think they’re important to care about. I learned about that in church growing up — Jesus tended to hang out with prostitutes and criminals.”

Little also has a history of supporting HIPS in particular. “I was part of a HIPS benefit years ago on Exotic Fever Records when I played in the band Pash,” he writes. “Being part of that compilation, which was called This Is A Care Package, taught me a lot about the issues facing sex workers. When I brought the idea of working with HIPS to the bands … they all really felt it was an important issue.”

The album features remixes of songs by local indie-rock acts Deleted Scenes, The Caribbean and Little’s Tereu Tereu — all of them tweaked by the bands themselves.

Some tracks sound like a loose homage to the original recording, like Tereu’s Tereu’s version of Deleted Scenes’ “You Get To Say Whatever You Want,” which turns the guttural slow burn of the original into a four-on-the-floor stomper. Others, like Deleted Scenes’ hypercaffeinated take on The Caribbean’s “Jobsworth,” use the source material as a springboard to something out of this world. “There were no rules!” Little writes. “That was the only way we knew to approach it.”

Tereu Tereu and The Caribbean, along with D.C. guitar experimentalist Harness Flux, play a release show Saturday at Union Arts. The compilation will be available for purchase in advance of its Tuesday sale date, and the show’s $8 admission will also go towards HIPS.

“Bands don’t make much money, period. Most begin and end in obscurity,” Little writes. “But if you put a little effort into it, playing music can be an inclusive way to bring people together to work on stuff that matters to the community you live in.”

Tereu Tereu, The Caribbean and Harness Flux play a benefit for HIPS at Union Arts on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m.