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Watch Lil Jon and Flosstradamus' insane new video for "Prison Riot"

by Jeremy Mersereau

The video for “Prison Riot”, Lil Jon’s new collaboration with Chicago trap producers Flosstradamus and GTA, features an amped-up motivational speaker, but don’t worry, it’s not creepy old Frank T.J. Mackey from Magnolia. Instead, the self-help guru teaches a roomful of buttoned-down business types how to “act up like a motherfuckin’ prison riot” and put their middle fingers up, for they do not give a fuck. OK, maybe he’s not that different from Frank T.J. Mackey.

“As fate would have it, I had just done a solo piece as a motivational speaker named Dennis Falcon with my sketch group Get Some” says Toronto comedian Alex Tindal, who plays the motivational speaker. “The real highlight of the shoot day for me was watching a room full of so many unbelievable Toronto comedians deliver gold take after take on a project that I knew would provide a platform they all deserve.”

The video directed by The Young Astronauts features a big chunk of the Toronto comedy community including Tindal, Daniel Woodrow, Stephanie Kaliner, Peter Stevens, Jon Blair, Gwynne Phillips, Miguel Rivas, Thomas Rivas, and Matt Folliott. Check it out below: