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Summary Of The Song 'Straight Outta Patrol'

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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

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