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N.W.A – Fuck Tha Police – Lyrics
NWA - Fuk Da PoliceIntro
Right about now, N.W.A. court is in full effect
Judge Dre presiding
In the case of N.W.A. vs. the Police Department
Prosecuting attorneys are MC Ren, Ice Cube
And Eazy-motherfucking-E
Order, order, order
Ice Cube, take the motherfucking stand
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
And nothing but the truth to help your black ass?
Ice Cube : You goddamn right!
Well won’t you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
Verse 1 – Ice Cube
Fuck the police coming straight from the underground
A young nigga got it bad cause I’m brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, cause I ain’t the one
For a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun
To be beating on, and thrown in jail
We can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fucking with me cause I’m a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searching my car, looking for the product
Thinking every nigga is selling narcotics
You’d rather see, me in the pen’
Than me and Lorenzo rolling in a Benz-o
Beat a police out of shape
And when I’m finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still getting swoll off bread and water
I don’t know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down, and grabbing his nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they can’t get none
But don’t let it be a black and a white one
Cause they’ll slam ya down to the street top
Black police showing out for the white cop
Ice Cube will swarm
On any motherfucker in a blue uniform
Just cause I’m from the CPT
Punk police are afraid of me, huh
A young nigga on the warpath
And when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dying in L.A
Yo Dre, I got something to say
Chorus
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Interlude 1
Pull your god damn ass over right now
Aww shit, now what the fuck you pullin me over for?
Cause I feel like it!
Just sit your ass on the curb and shut the fuck up
Man, fuck this shit
Aight, smartass, I’m taking your black ass to jail!
MC Ren, will you please give your testimony
To the jury about this fucked up incident?
Verse 2 – MC Ren
Fuck the police and Ren said it with authority
Because the niggas on the street is a majority
A gang is with whoever I’m stepping
And the motherfucking weapon is kept in
A stash box, for the so-called law
Wishing Ren was a nigga that they never saw
Lights start flashing behind me
But they’re scared of a nigga so they mace me to blind me
But that shit don’t work, I just laugh
Because it gives them a hint not to step in my path
For police, I’m saying, “Fuck you punk!”
Reading my rights and shit, it’s all junk
Pulling out a silly club, so you stand
With a fake-ass badge and a gun in your hand
But take off the gun so you can see what’s up
And we’ll go at it punk, and I’ma fuck you up!
Make you think I’mma kick your ass
But drop your gat, and Ren’s gonna blast
I’m sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime
But I’ma smoke them now and not next time
Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me
Or any asshole that threatens me
I’m a sniper with a hell of a scope
Taking out a cop or two, they can’t cope with me
The motherfucking villain that’s mad
With potential, to get bad as fuck
So I’ma turn it around
Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound
*2 gunshots*
Yeah, something like that
But it all depends on the size of the gat
Taking out a police would make my day
But a nigga like Ren don’t give a fuck to say
Chorus
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Interlude 2
Yo man, what you need?
Police, open out!
Aww shit
We have a warrant for Eazy-E’s arrest
Get down and put your hands up where I can see ‘em
(Move motherfucker, move now!)
What the fuck did I do, man what did I do?
Just shut the fuck up
And get your motherfucking ass on the floor
(You heard the man, shut the fuck up!)
But I didn’t do shit
Man just shut the fuck up!
Eazy-E, won’t you step up to the stand
And tell the jury how you feel about this bullshit?
Verse 3 – Eazy-E
I’m tired of the motherfucking jacking
Sweating my gang, while I’m chilling in the shack, and
Shining the light in my face, and for what?
Maybe it’s because I kick so much butt
I kick ass — or maybe cause I blast
On a stupid-ass nigga when I’m playing with the trigger
Of an Uzi or an AK
Cause the police always got something stupid to say
They put out my picture with silence
Cause my identity by itself causes violence
The E with the criminal behavior
Yeah, I’m a gangsta, but still I got flavor
Without a gun and a badge, what do ya got?
A sucker in a uniform waiting to get shot
By me, or another nigga
And with a gat it don’t matter if he’s smaller or bigger
(MC Ren: Size don’t mean shit, he’s from the old school, fool)
And as you all know, E’s here to rule
Whenever I’m rolling, keep looking in the mirror
And ears on cue, yo, so I can hear a
Dumb motherfucker with a gun
And if I’m rolling off the 8, he’ll be the one
That I take out, and then get away
While I’m driving off laughing this is what I’ll say
Chorus
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Interlude 3
The verdict
The jury has found you guilty of being a redneck
White bread, chickenshit motherfucker
But wait, that’s a lie! That’s a god damn lie!
Get him out of here!
Get him the fuck out my face!
I want justice!
Out, right now!
Fuck you, you black motherfuckers!
Chorus
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police
Fuck Tha Police – Lyrics analysis, explanation & meanings
Intro
Right about now, Short NWA is in full effect
Right now : now, in linguistics, we call a deïctic word , that is to say a wordwhose meaning changes according to the context : “now”, the precise moment of the present, changes all the time , for example, this “now” of Dre from 1988 is now 30, it is not the now of 2018.
An advantage of the deïctiques is that they are updated gracefully according to the public – and so every time we listen to FUCK THA POLICE , their now from 30 years ago is now! (or the now of 30 years, 20 years, 10 years, or those in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years.) Which creates a realism effect and a sense of urgency : it will happen there under our eyes, right now . it’s always happening because the present is always present.
NWA court : the court of the NWA, the court of justice of the stylish niggers, by this expression, the authors introduce the theme of the song : it will be for the rap group to constitute a people’s court to judge the The most institutionally criminal institution of all states: I named this old sadistic torturer and always right, the police!
is in full effect : there is at once a parody of the jargon of justice and a counter-claim of power, in a rather macho fashion as usual.
Judge Dre presiding
In STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, Dre was a MC / presenter. In reality, he is a DJ producer and musician more than a singer.
As producer he assumes this first album of the NWA, which will launch his career and those of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, MC Yella. Later he will launch the careers of Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar.
As a DJ, he is already busy throwing samples, scratching, managing drum machines and effects, and launching the verses of his singers .
It is therefore quite logical that he has easily projected himself into this role of president of the judges, in a position of supervisor. By the way, 30 years later, he has made his career as a supervisor of the success of rap in America.
In the case of NWA vs. the Police Department
They define the main characters of the story :
- Heroes : the NWA court
- Antagonist : the police
Prosecuting attorneys are MC Ren, Ice Cube
So here, the singers play the role of prosecutors, so they will develop a case against the police in the position of accused.
So even if this song is narrative , since it tells a lawsuit, it staged speeches, as in STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON and many other rap songs.
And Eazy-motherfucking-E
It can be noticed that Dre and Eazy-E had a whole line to introduce, while MC Ren and Ice Cube had to share one. That says something about the history and power games internal to the NWA training, led by Eazy-E who was looking for Dre as a producer to set up a group with the money from his deals. From there, MC Ren and Ice Cube, among others, were recruited as singers . Eazy-E takes a prime position also because he bought his place.
Order, order, order
The parody continues, and the audience obviously finds funny this dramatic irony that there is to see gangsters claim the order ?
Ice cube, take the motherfucking stand
All along we will witness a strange explosive mix between the true identityof the singers and their parody . So here we have for example take the standthat sounds good legal, stuffed with a motherfucking that sounds … otherwise.
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
Here, same game: perfect parody of the role of judge, with typical formulas …
And nothing but the truth to help your black ass?
… then a verbal transgression betrays the fact that it is still a nigga that speaks.
Ice Cube: You goddamn right!
The little game of alternation between conformity and transgressioncontinues, since here, Ice Cube is precisely the opposite of what is expectedof a good prosecutor plenary, namely that he starts to swear like a pig, on God and more.
Well will not you tell everybody what’s the fuck you gotta say?
And hop, we replace the eloquence expected by the truculence of the street.
Verse 1 – Ice Cube
Fuck the police coming straight from the underground
Fuck the police : this will be the main gimmick of the song , the first words of each verse , and the chorus-slogan repeated 4 times.
coming straight from the underground : it’s an intertextual allusion to STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON.
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