Fuck tha Police
N.W.A's Fuck tha Police, from 1988's album 'Straight Outta Compton', is a protest song about police brutality and racial profiling. Highlighting many of the tensions between black urban youth and the police. It was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is infamous for its inflammatory lyrics approval of violence against police. N.W.A even got the attention/backlash of the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service. The FBI wrote to N.W.A's record company about the lyrics expressing disapproval and arguing that the song misrepresented police.
The video has a compelling narrative that people, who have been affected by police brutality, can relate to. It parodies court proceedings, presenting
With the use of body cameras, witnesses and victim 's statements can be easily reviewed for clarity. Especially, with the situations going on today it’s a great idea for police officers to wear body cams. In “Police should expect unruly suspects —and not abuse them,” DeBerry realizes every altercation dealing with “footage of police brutality” defenders of police brutality raise their voice (7). They say “the brutality victim should have just complied.” (8). They also, said “the brutality victim had it coming for all that back talk, for all
The subject of police brutality and violence was just a topic for music in the past; it is still alive and strong in music today. A rapper named lil boosie wrote a modern version of NWA’s F*ck Tha Police called, F*ck The Police. The song is mostly about the endless threats, humiliations, and violations experienced at the hand of vicious cops. (Clover) In the chorus of the song he raps, “We don’t need you bitches on our street, stay away from me.” He is so against police that he thinks our streets would be safer without police. The rapper doesn’t want the police to help him, that is how much he hates cops. He also states, “Without a badge, you’re just a bitch.”(Clover) He wasn’t holding anything back when writing this song. You can really feel
The lyrics found in this album are extremely violent and aggressive, a prime example is the song titled “Fuck tha Police”, just the title alone was enough to scare people; People did not know what this type of music was and therefore they rejected it and were scared of it, they believed it promoted violence, drugs, etc. N.W.A. simply rapped about their experiences, they wanted to publicate the harsh realities of gangsta life and the everyday struggle that a large amount of people faced in L.A. as well as other areas. They were very socially aware and against police brutality, violence, and more and this is the content they rapped about. Straight Outta Compton used rap as a platform to express their social/ political ideas and to let people know that these situations were actually happening, this sub genre of rap would become popular amongst many other rappers for years to
Through these pointless murders, these officers get off with a warning like it is the norm for the police force. This was also the norm in society when blacks were forced to be slaves. The mistreatment that is shown in today’s society is also depicted in many literary works. Additionally, this disturbing truth is presented in the music video for the song “G.O.M.D”. This video takes the viewer back in time to the days of slavery. The video is a scenario from the early 1900’s, thus presenting the cruel hardships the Africans had to endure. In a scene in the video, white men on horses trudge across the field where a number of black men are working. One of the slaves stop and wipes his forehead from the sweat created by the exhausting heat. At that moment, one of the white men kick down the black slave while generating a wave of laughter from the slave owners. This music video reflects on how police officers are in today’s society and how the physical harm of blacks are seemed as the norm. Furthermore, even though blacks were “free”, many racists made sure black men didn’t feel
When examining the video the first thing that stood out to me was two statements by the officer. The first was when one officer said that if he’d seen 4-5 black guys in a white neighborhood he’d go up to them ask them what they were doing and even slow down and talk to them if he was in the patrol car. If the kids then gave him an attitude that would raise even more suspicion and escalate the situation. I think that this idea relates to some of the reading about police misconduct and even the personality of some of the officers. For white male officers, their motivation for becoming a police officer was linked to their “authoritarian personalities” (128). In this situation, these teenagers could be seen as disrespecting the police and having
It's clear that in America and other countries the same racially charged issues between the public and police are still at the forefront for our lives. Moreover, the emergence of protest groups like Back Lives Matter show that this issue still affects African Americans today. The parallels between 1992 and today are shocking and through the scope of the media perspective shows little progress made. In addition, due to our technologically soaked environment we are being shown these types of horrific videos far too often. Its clear that there is still systematic racial barriers to overcome in our society.
The video was shot in a unique and powerful way but was still kept very simple as it was shot entirely on a cell phone. Signs from both New York City and Sydney were used to create the message for the film, adding to the simplicity. Underlined with a sad, slow and touching piece of music, the short film grabs your attention due to the sign texts as you need to watch them, you need to concentrate on the text so that you can read and understand the intended message. The pictures of the homeless people shown in the video are brutally honest with the purpose to directly address the viewer, to make them look and not, as usual when people come across homeless people, ignore them. The video makes you think about your own behaviour towards the homeless,
This is a very emotional staged documentary and with very graphic subtle visuals engulfed in not-so-subtle external forms in order to awaken my inner awareness of the film form and distance myself from the story itself.
In 1992, Ice-T released a song titled "Cop Killer". The song is about basically about killing cops. Ice-T called it a "Protest Song", while others thought about it more in an offensive way. Former President, George H.W. Bush, thought it would cause some big riot-based on police brutality. Although, people can base The First Amendment on the song. But then again, it sends a bad message to young people, especially for African Americans who live in poor communities and African Americans in general.
N.W.A was a rap group who became known when their album Straight Outta Compton came out in 1988. N.W.A’s song “Fuck Tha Police,” from their album Straight Outta Compton became popular because it’s controversial message. Some people did not find, N.W.A’s “ Fuck Tha Police” amusing because they thought it was, offensive. While others had different opinions on “Fuck Tha Police.” For example, a Minnesota attorney named Hubert Humphrey III said, “This is frankly offensive to me, and to any parent-If they were to hear and know what
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“Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A. is a song that protesting about police brutality, racial profiling, and expressing violence against the police as it was done to them. The song begins with it opening up with the members of the group as Dr. Dre acts as the judge of the court, while the other members are attorneys for the prosecution, who are taking the stand to testify under Dr. Dre about the police actions that were committed against them, with showing examples about it in the song, plus talking about hurting the police. At the end of the song, they announce the verdict of trail, where they found the police guilty. The sound of the song is angry about the injustice leveled at them from the police, and it’s very violet.
Police brutality and abuse of power are issues that the United States and many other countries face. There are always articles on the news with headlines about violent actions used against peaceful protesters or police shootings. Many of these actions are racially charged. These compelling problems that exist today were more obvious in the late 1900s. During this time, specifically in LA, many African-Americans were brutally beaten, killed, or arrested just for the color of their skins. People may make the argument that some of these people deserved to be thrown in jail, which is true. However, majority of the victims were innocent and even the guilty were victims of stereotyping, and should have been arrested for anything other than just walking on the street. Rapper group NWA highlights the racism behind police brutality and racial profiling in a highly controversial song “Fuck tha Police.” With their angry and violent lyrics, NWA spoke out against the corrupt Los Angeles police department with hopes that their message would be spread throughout the whole nation.
NWA came out with the song "Fuck the Police,” not only did every crime fighter in
rap group N.W.A. The F.B.I’s intent was to notify the rap group that their song “Fuck tha