An inmate who was previously imprisoned at the Tennessee Davidson County jail, tricked corrections officers into allowing him to shoot a music video while locked up. William Harness, whose rap name is Struggle Jennings, had a camera crew come and visit him while the jail officials simply thought it was for a standard documentary, according to Davidson County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Karla West.
The footage from the video taped visit became a crucial part in the video for his song, “Black Curtains,” which was uploaded to his YouTube channel as well as his blog. Karla explained to News Channel 5:
“They sat there and asked him 20 minutes worth of questions, just as they would with any documentary about his life and different things like that. At the end they asked, as part of the documentary, could he mouth some of the words to his song and I allowed that. We were duped when it seems as though now, their purpose from the beginning was to try to get that accomplished so it could turn into a video, not a documentary at all.”
The interview-turned music video was filmed back in 2012, and Struggle Jennings has since been relocated to another incarceration facility. The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office is contemplating taking legal action against the production company that filmed the video, Creativity for Hire.