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The 9 Best ‘F--- the Police’ Songs, Ranked
No metaphors necessary when hip-hop’s favorite sentiment only needs three words
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9. “Fuck tha Police,” Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
The Bone brigade paid homage to the late Eazy-E — who originally signed the group — by covering N.W.A’s hit more or less to the letter for the 1997 tribute album In the Beginning… There Was Rap. It might lack the intricate, syncopated, singsong flow East Cleveland’s finest was known for, but on an album that featured oddities like Puffy doing LL’s “Big Ole Butt” and Cypress Hill covering BDP’s “I’m Still #1”, it at least didn’t make your brain want to turn inside out.
8. “Fuck the Police,” Jay Rock
TDE’s resident red-rag rocker flips that old Common “I Used to Love H.E.R.” schtick. But instead of a love letter to hip-hop, he personifies the police as a woman you’d want to avoid at all costs.
7. “Fuck the Police,” dead prez
M-1 and stic.man were always on some revolutionary shit, and it went far beyond croutons and…
