After a career spent denouncing homosexuality, Vybz Kartel made a small movement towardsacceptance, but it wasn't enough to fully atone before he was sentenced to life in prison for murder. So we can say with almost absolute certainty that the Jamaican dancehall star would not approve of this unofficial video for his song "Beautiful Girl," co-directed byAndy Capper and Adri Murguia.
It was filmed on location during a shoot for a Vice documentaryin Kingston, Jamaica, where the city's LGBTQ youth have been marginalized from society by discrimination and violence to live in the city's storm drains and sewers. With a fog machine, a generator and some studio lights, the gyrating youth take the genre's powerful sexuality and turn into an occasionally direct confrontation the society that produced it. Brave doesn't even begin to describe. Give it a much-needed upvote on YouTube.
Vybz Kartel’s “Beautiful Girl” gets an unofficial video starring Jamaican LGBTQ youth by Jordan Darville | Chart Attack.
