Jason Aldean’s ‘Small City’ music video cuts BLM footage — right here’s why

Jason Aldean’s “Strive That in a Small City” music video is six seconds shorter since footage of a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta was quietly eliminated.

A supply near the scenario informed The Submit on Wednesday that the footage, which confirmed confrontations throughout a BLM demonstration, got here from Fox 5 Atlanta.

Aldean’s report label, BBR Music Group, told TMZ in a press release that “the video footage was edited because of third-party copyright clearance points.”

The insider confirmed to The Submit that TackleBox Movies, the manufacturing firm behind the video, contacted Fox on Might 8 to ask permission to make use of the affiliate’s imagery from a BLM rally.

The supply claims Fox requested for extra details about the music, together with its lyrics.

TackleBox allegedly despatched Fox a hyperlink to the music, which was launched Might 19, however didn’t ship the lyrics in writing, per protocol.

When “Small City” was uploaded to YouTube on July 14, Fox 5’s footage was projected onto the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, which served because the backdrop for Aldean’s efficiency within the video, however was additionally the positioning of the 1946 Columbia Race Riot.

That riot practically resulted within the lynching of the primary black Supreme Court docket justice, Thurgood Marshall. The town additionally noticed the lynching of 18-year-old Henry Choate again in 1927.

Aldean, 46, has repeatedly defended himself this month from accusations that the song and video are “racist” and “pro-lynching.”

The source told The Post that Fox reached out to TackleBox and gave the production company a “polite ultimatum” to remove the footage to avoid legal action.

TackleBox complied, and the footage appears to have been cut from “Small Town” about a week ago.

The Post has contacted reps for Aldean, BBR Music Group, Fox 5 Atlanta, and TackleBox for comment.

TackleBox previously told “Entertainment Tonight” that Aldean didn’t personally choose the Maury County Courthouse because the filming location. The corporate insisted that many music movies and flicks have been shot within the space.

“Any various narrative suggesting the music video’s location resolution is fake,” the corporate informed the outlet.

The ending of the video has additionally modified because it dropped July 14. It now not consists of information footage of a struggling small city farmer.

“Farmers are dropping their very own crops for the day. A good friend is in want, and so they’ve come to assist,” a feminine information anchor says within the authentic video.

“It’s what this neighborhood — what quite a lot of communities — stand for: Anyone wants some assist, you’ll get it,” a person in a wheelchair tells the digital camera.

It’s unclear why that footage was axed.  

“Small City” and its accompanying imagery proceed to attract controversy.

Days in the past, a TikToker took a closer look on the newspaper article featured within the background of Aldean’s promotional TikTok for the music.

The TikTok sleuth claimed the textual content was a letter to a writer from an NAACP public relations guide who counseled him for utilizing his platform to ridicule white supremacists and criticize the Jim Crow-era coverage of segregation in faculties. The writer stated he swiftly confronted backlash for doing so.

One outlet argued that inclusion of the article within the TikTok glorifies the assault on the writer.

Aldean, in the meantime, exhibits no indicators of eradicating the music from his setlist.

“So, someone requested me, ‘Hey man, do you suppose you’re going to play this music tonight?’” Aldean said onstage during a recent concert in a clip posted to social media.

“The answer was simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.”