Video of the week :: Justice Stress {Uncensored}

The music video for Stress by Justice off their † album is in no way a new video but is one that hit the net extremely hard in 2008 and caused major controversy globally. The video which depicts a group of French adolescents, visibly of African descent (or so say the articles we read), wreaking havoc as they swarm from their neglected homes in the outskirts or banlieues of Paris into the heart of the city, while Justice’s Stress blares in the background.

They are followed by a camera crew from their housing project to Sacre Coeur to Charles de Gaulle airport, while they harass women, break a bottle over a café owner’s head, fight with the police and commit a carjacking. The video ends with the car set aflame and the cameraman apparently beaten unconscious. The screen goes black, and a final, garbled voice screams in French, “Does filming this get you off, you S.O.B?” The video has been viewed millions of times on Youtube and other sites although it is often removed, but is quickly replaced.