Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm have dropped the official music video for their single, โRun Dem File,โ produced by Short Boss Muzik, Vybz Kartel Muzik and Aiko Pon Di Beat.
In the visuals, Jamaican comedian Fatskull stars as the protagonist who pretends to be a murderer. Meanwhile, Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm, who do not appear in the video, do the honor of lyrically exposing their adversary as a fraud.
โA chat bout baddest ting, him must be telling joke / A Ity and FancyCat di duppy a promote / Bout how him buss di p-ssy head wid โe telescope / Never buss a bump ina face, a weh him a smoke? / Him never kill a chicken yet or crack a head with yolk / Him kill a mosquito weh day weh fly ina him nose / Mi hear him used to itch up pon ends weh selling coke / A it di bwoy a bun, yuh see him face, yuh see di dough / Crime liad, all police him sending note / See all guardi, di bwoy run go make report,โ Shawn Storm and Vybz Kartel deejay on the first verse.
Watch โRun Dem Fileโ music video by Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm.
The dramatic video, directed and produced by LCRJ Media, was released on April 29 and has so far racked up over 287k views on YouTube. Many fans of Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm chimed in to share their views.
โ๐ฅ๐ฅ Vybz Kartel Makes Music With Sense For Those Who have common sense. Big Up Shawn Storm Enuhโ one user express.
โVybz kartel is the only artiste in the world ๐ who could be locked up and remain relevant ๐ฏ,โ another added.
โFrom 2000 until now VYBZ Kartel still a run dancehall ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Who agree?,โ one fan wrote.
โNo prison can hold back vybz kartelโฆ Vybz Kartel is still the lyricist vocabulary physicist,โ another asserted.
Vybz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) and Shawn Storm (Shawn Campbell) received life sentences after they were in 2014 convicted for the 2011 murder of Clive โLizardโ Williams.
In April 2020, the Court of Appeal reduced their parole eligibility, citing Justice Campbellโs failure to consider the time they had spent in jail while awaiting their trial.
Vybz Kartel is eligible for parole at the age of 70, after serving 32 years and 6 months, instead of 35 years. Meanwhile, Shawn Storm must serve 22 years and six months instead of the initial 25 years.
Kartel, who has been a dominating figure, even years after being sentenced, has had legions of fans worldwide calling for freedom for the โWorl Boss,โ as he refers to himself.
Both Jamaican artistes maintained their innocence and are awaiting a Privy Council appeal later this year, according to their attorneys.
The disappointment for Tom Tavares-Finson, Queenโs Counsel, was palpable as he reflected on the courtโs decision to reject his clientsโ appeal.
โThe judgment delivered by President Morrison of the Court of Appeal which dismissed the appeal of Adidja Palmer and his co-defendants is not one that has been unexpected. We have been preparing to go to the Privy Council for several months now and we will proceed to do that,โ Tavares-Finson said shortly after the appeal in 2020.
The attorney who also serves as president of the Senate claimed that โnobody in Jamaica believes Adidja Palmer got a fair trialโ.
โWe are confident that once we go to the Privy Council, we will get justice in this matter. This is a travesty, it is unprecedented and it is outrageous โฆ and the Privy Council will no doubt have something to say about that,โ he charged.
โRun Dem Fileโ is a follow up to Vybz Kartelโs Roxxie-assisted โPoliticsโ and โTell Mommy.โ