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Fuck tha Police

"Fuck tha Police"
Song by N.W.A from the album Straight Outta Compton
Released August 9, 1988
Recorded 1988
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Length 5:43
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Straight Outta Compton track listing
"Straight Outta Compton"
(1)
"Fuck tha Police"
(2)
"Gangsta Gangsta"
(3)
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"Fuck tha Police" is a protest song by the group N.W.A that appears on the album Straight Outta Compton as well as on the N.W.A's Greatest Hits compilation. It was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Protesting police brutality and racial profiling, its lyrics express approval of violence against police.

Since its release in 1988, the "Fuck the Police" slogan continues to influence pop culture today in the form of T-shirts, artwork, and even transitions into other genres as seen in the cover versions by Dope, Rage Against the Machine and Kottonmouth Kings (featuring Insane Clown Posse).

Ice Cube and MC Ren wrote their own lyrics, while Eazy-E's lyrics were written by MC Ren.

"Fuck tha Police" parodies court proceedings inverting them by presenting Dr. Dre as a judge hearing a prosecution of the police department. Three members of the group, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and then Eazy-E, take the stand to "testify" before the judge as prosecutors. Through the lyrics, the rappers criticize the local police force. Two interludes present re-enactments of stereotypical racial profiling and police brutality.

By doing this, Dr. Dre takes the formalities of the judicial system and stands them on their head. He mocks the way that prosecuting attorneys use witnesses to prove their side of the story, while still respecting it, taking it on as his own way in allowing the MCs to state their cases in order to prove how the police department is focused on young black minorities, assuming that they are all drug dealers and are looking to rob or murder (see Criminal stereotype of African Americans). At the end, Dre finds the policeman guilty of being a "redneck, white bread, chickenshit motherfucker."


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