British Artist Duval Timothy Breaks Free of Industry Shackles in Provocative ‘Slave’ Video (Watch)
Jeremy Helligar When he was making the video for the song “Slave,” off his just-released album “Help,” Duval Timothy rounded up a pair of unimaginable co-stars: Prince and Nipsey Hussle. No, the UK-based ambient-jazz musician didn’t resurrect the late “Purple Rain” icon, who died in 2016, or the late rapper, who died last year, in the form of holograms, but rather he collaborated with visual artist Max Valizadeh to create stop-motion likeness of both to join an animated Timothy in his battle against the tyranny of record labels.“There’s a deep history of Black artists being exploited by largely white-owned record labels,” Timothy explains.