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Dr dre eazy e straight outta compton12/16/2023 It is prominently featured in the 2015 biopic of N.W.A, also called Straight Outta Compton.(Niggaz With Hats) as "Fuck the Security Guards." The song and the group were parodied in the 1994 hip-hop mockumentary film Fear of a Black Hat and its soundtrack album, as a single for the fictional gangsta-rap group N.W.H. On 13 April, Tiki told Marcus Lush on Radio Live that the lyrics often feature in his performances and his arrest came as a complete surprise. On 10 April 2011, New Zealand musician Tiki Taane was arrested on charges of "disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence to start or continue" after performing the song at a gig in a club in Tauranga during an inspection of the club by the police. It was revealed in 2005 that the scratch sound from that track was sampled for the Triple J news theme. The song was preceded on each occasion by a speech explaining that due to industrial action, normal transmission had been interrupted. As a reaction, Triple J staff went on strike and put N.W.A's " Express Yourself" on continuous play from 9am until 4.30pm ( AEST), totalling 82 plays. In 1989, Australian youth radio station Triple J had been playing "Fuck tha Police" (the only radio station in the world to do so) for up to six months, before being banned by Australian Broadcasting Corporation management following a campaign by a South Australian Liberal senator. Censorship "Fuck the police" graffiti in Cairo, 2011 Ahlerich did not mention any N.W.A song by name in the letter, but later confirmed he was referring to "Fuck tha Police". In the letter, Ahlerich went on to reference "78 law enforcement officers" who were "feloniously slain in the line of duty during 1988" and that recordings such as those produced by N.W.A "were both discouraging and degrading to these brave, dedicated officers". Heller also wrote that he removed all sensitive documents from the office of Ruthless Records in case of an FBI raid. In his autobiography Ruthless, the band's manager Jerry Heller wrote that the letter was actually a rogue action by a "single pissed-off bureaucrat with a bully pulpit" named Milt Ahlerich, who was falsely purporting to represent the FBI as a whole and that the action "earned him a transfer to the Bureau's backwater Hartford office". The song prompted the FBI to write to N.W.A's record company about the lyrics, expressing disapproval and arguing that the song misrepresented police. Dre orders him out of the courtroom, prompting the police officer to yell obscenities as he is led out. Two interludes present re-enactments of stereotypical racial profiling and police brutality.Īt the end, the jury finds the police department guilty of being a "redneck, white-bread, chicken-shit motherfucker." A police officer, who is revealed to be the defendant, contests that the arguments presented were all lies and starts to demand justice as Dr. Through the lyrics, the rappers criticize the local police force. Three members of the group, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and Eazy-E, take the stand to "testify" before the judge as prosecutors. Dre as a judge hearing a prosecution of the police department. "Fuck tha Police" parodies court proceedings, inverting them by presenting Dr. Since its release in 1988, the "Fuck the Police" slogan continues to influence popular culture in the form of T-shirts, artwork, political expression, and has transitioned into other genres as seen in the cover versions by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Dope, Rage Against the Machine, and Kottonmouth Kings (featuring Insane Clown Posse). In 2021, Rolling Stone re-ranked the song at number 190 in an updated list. The lyrics protest police brutality and racial profiling and the song was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone 's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. " Fuck tha Police" is a protest song by American hip hop group N.W.A that appears on the 1988 album Straight Outta Compton as well as on the N.W.A's Greatest Hits compilation.
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