Watch Young Thug's Disastrous Video for "Wyclef Jean"

$100,000 USD in production costs down the drain.

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Young Thug’s “Wyclef Jean,” a track inspired by The Fugees member, is one of the standout tracks of Young Thug’s critically acclaimed JEFFERY project. Today, the record’s music video finally surfaces, and everything goes dreadfully wrong. Directed by Pomp & Clout, the video cost $100,000 USD and the Atlanta rapper hardly showed up, due to a number of reasons including having his Instagram account hacked. An altercation between Thug’s camp and the cops even occured during shooting so the directors opted instead to use B-roll footage for the final video. Watch the results above.

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