Adeem the Artist Parodies Jason Aldean with “Sundown Town”

When Jason Aldeen followed up his dog whistle of a song, “Try That in a Small Town,” by releasing a video set at the Maury County Courthouse, the site of a 1927 lynching of a teen and a 1946 race riot, it was as if he was trying to make Morgan Wallen look like a Freedom Rider. The song’s lyrics include “Cuss out a copy, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up, Yeah you think you’re tough,” followed by “Well, try that in a small town/See how far you make it down the road.” And the video splices in images of Black Lives Matters protesters.

This week, CMT dropped the video from rotation and several artists and others have come out against the video and song, with Margo Price calling Aldean “a clown” and Jason Isbell challenging him to actually write a song (“Try That in a Small Town” is credited to four different songwriters).