Vybz Kartel and Alkaline are among a handful of artists who came under scrutiny from police force enforcement last week for tearing music videos.

Both dancehall artists who are at the top of their game in the Jamaican music space right at present are curvation enemies but feels the verbal same nearly this topic, that artists creative freedom are under attack. Vybz Kartel and Masicka music video "Infrared" and Alkaline music video "After All" both describe fictional law-breaking sprees and involves constabulary officers, guns and in one case an armored truck.

"You never hear authorities speaking out against violent movies shown in theaters and on TV merely as soon as a ghetto youth put something out they set on it," a rep for Vybz Kartel told Urban Islandz. "This is not simply an assail on the creative freedom of our entertainment manufacture, but a articulate bias towards the elites. Instead of support our own industry we are fighting against information technology."

Alkaline issued a statement apologizing for the video in which a female person law officeholder performed a sexual deed on the deejay, only he as well feels that artists should be allowed to express their artistic liberty. "With respect to the situation surrounding the video, Afterall, which was released on May xviii, 2017, and directed by Jay Volition, the artiste reserves the right to creative licence in expressing the contents of the song artistically with the relevant props," Alkaline, real name Earlan Bartley, said.