Justice - Stress

Here is the music video for Justice's song 'Stress'. The video has caused a lot of controversy due to the violent content it involves.



The video was first posted on May 1st by Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay (Justice) on rap artists Kanye West website. The video is around 7 minutes long and it displays a group of French adolescents in jackets with the Justice logo on the back. There was an uproar as many people thought it was just youths of African descent shown in the video, but it is clearly youths of all different descents shown in the video. The youths cause havoc in the video and it goes to the electro beat of the music. It is filmed in a documentary type style as if they are being followed by a camera crew. They harass women, break a bottle over a cafe owners head, fight with the police and steal a car. The video ends with the car being set alight and the cameraman apparently beaten unconscious. The screen goes black and then a voice screams in French, "Does filming this get you off, you S.O.B?".

In France the video caused much uproar, and the police saw the video without knowing it was an official music video. This raised huge concern and a hunt began for the people shown in the footage. Two of the actors were found and remained in custody until they were proven innocent for the crimes committed in the video by Justice.

There was a parody made of the video which has also been a big hit in France, here is the parody: