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Criminals on the Mic? Top 8 Cop Hatin' Rap Tracks

criminalswanted.org — If Rapping about Cop Killing were a crime, these gangstas would be doing time.

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  • alapoet, on 06/10/2008, -12/+14Nice list! Enjoyed reading it (and remembering the songs)...
    • TheMidnight, on 06/11/2008, -2/+1Isn't there supposed to be a link to an online casino or a splog after a comment like that?
  • favoriteshare, on 06/10/2008, -11/+3support
  • NightcrawlerX, on 06/10/2008, -5/+97 Rap used to reflect what was happening in the streets. Now the streets are reflecting what happens in rap.
    • Peachi, on 06/10/2008, -2/+23That's pretty deep, but you're right ;)
    • PATSCRU, on 06/11/2008, -2/+22Incidentally, only one or two of the songs on the list were released after the mid-nineties, so most of them are within the time period that represented rap's golden age. Before rap became a cartoon of itself and had very important things to say. Whether you agree with their anti-police sentiments or not, they were/are real and very heartfelt.
      • pintomp3, on 06/11/2008, -1/+15real hip-hop is alive and well, it's just not on mtv. judging rap by what's on tv is like judging metal by the hair metal bands.
    • artofficial, on 06/11/2008, -8/+2word.
    • mummbleswers, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4Even Pac said he never went to jail until he became a rapper. "Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game."
    • xkingADROCKx, on 06/11/2008, -0/+9I hate to quote Wu-tang but there really is too much commercial *****.
      • lordtyros, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2I love to quote Wu-Tang: "Wicked women puttin period blood in stew / Does that make the stew witches' brew?"
        • wakmofo, on 06/12/2008, -0/+0Oh *****! Me to: First things first man you're ***** with the worst. I'll be stickin pins in your head like a ***** nurse. I'll attack any ***** who's slack in his mack.
    • kukiweed, on 06/11/2008, -4/+8Kurt Loader asked me what I say to a dead cop's wife
      Cops kill my people everyday, that's life

      Talib Kweli - The Proud
  • Bukowsky, on 06/10/2008, -4/+28All classic rap songs, but I'm not too sure how "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta" made the list? Thats one of the most chilled out rap songs ever!

  • Jasper710, on 06/10/2008, -12/+49***** THE POLICE COMIN' STRAIGHT FROM THE UNDERGROUND
    • sepultura, on 06/10/2008, -7/+20A YOUNG N***A GOT IT BAD CUZ I'M BROWN
    • adh3isive, on 06/10/2008, -4/+17AND NOT THE OTHER COLOUR SO POLICE THINK
      THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO KILL A MINORITY
    • Iamironman, on 06/11/2008, -3/+15***** THAT ***** CUZ I AIN'T THE ONE FOR A PUNK ***** WITH A BADGE AND A GUN
    • mikeazorin, on 06/11/2008, -1/+11TO BE BEATIN ON AND THROWIN IN JAIL
      WE COULD GO TOE TO TOE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CELL
    • Acglaphotis, on 06/11/2008, -2/+10***** WITH ME CUZ I'M A TEENAGER
      WITH A LITTLE BIT OF GOLD AND A PAGER
    • stizz, on 06/11/2008, -2/+7SEARCHIN MY CAR LOOKIN FOR THE PRODUCT
      THINKIN EVERY ***** IS SELLIN NARCOTICS
    • lolbrandon, on 06/11/2008, -4/+2somebody screen shot this and it will get front page
    • markthegoth, on 06/11/2008, -1/+3PLEASE don't let this hit the front page, Digg used to be good
  • threemagic, on 06/10/2008, -2/+12What about Ice T's Colors...

    from the movie soundtrack...

    great rap too.

    Anything that starts:

    "I am a nightmare walking psychopath talking
    king of my jungle just a gangster stalking"

    Has to be great.
  • MMATapout7, on 06/10/2008, -16/+1good list but im pretty sure i didnt see 2 of the most notorious early rappers....2pac and Biggie --- thats when the whole east coast/west coast battle...
    • Louis11, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3The list wasn't about who the better rappers where/are, nor was it about their 'battles' . . .
  • BoonTobias, on 06/10/2008, -3/+5t.o.n.y. should be on it because of the whole kicking the judge in the face scene
  • sodade, on 06/10/2008, -5/+18Man, I am gonna crank that ***** up and play me some GTA:SA. Better run Ballaz!
  • macabaret, on 06/10/2008, -4/+12Instead of "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta," there definitely should have been some Notorious on there. Maybe "Gimme the Loot" just for the ending?

    (Oh *****! The cops!)
    Be cool, fool
    They aint gonna roll up, all they want is ***** doughnuts
    (So why the ***** he keep lookin'?)
    I guess to get his life tooken
    I just came home, ain't trying to see central booking
    • mummbleswers, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1Right! That should have made it if Nas' track just had one line. I don't think a lot of people understand either that "putting hits on 5-0" is a NY thing. New York gangsters straight up get in gun fights with police constantly. There are TONS of NY tracks with at least one line mentioning this. Ever been to the Bronx and seen those billboards that say "Please. Don't kill cops." It's a real problem.
  • mastazed, on 06/10/2008, -3/+9that was a great post. i am personally sick of todays rap and hip hop music, it all seems to be about how much money they are making and there rhymes are never original. New hip hop just cant compare to EPMD or NWA.
  • badwithcomputer, on 06/11/2008, -5/+2http://www.last.fm/music/audiobytes+for+autobots/_ ...
  • Br3ach, on 06/11/2008, -8/+1Buried for lame "D.A.R.E." inspired rhyming description.
  • rationalbeats, on 06/11/2008, -20/+11Gutter culture.
  • DJWingMan, on 06/11/2008, -3/+3How did they forget to include F*ck Martinez by the 2 live crew..

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=iSbtvgkGw04 (its some ***** remix, but you'll get the point)

    In 1989, Martinez ordered state prosecuters to determine whether Miami-area rappers 2 Live Crew's album Nasty as They Wanna Be violated Florida obscenity laws. As a result, record store owners were arrested for selling the album and members of the group were arrested after a concert. [6]

    All arrested parties were eventually acquitted. On Banned in the USA, their follow-up album, 2 Live Crew included a song entitled ***** Martinez.
    • DarkoKun, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1I don't like that song my last name is martinez!
  • wrathofg0d, on 06/11/2008, -3/+2Missing UGK - Protect & Serve

    • bedouin, on 06/11/2008, -3/+3UGK sucks. The South sucks. Everything below Maryland should just be given to Mexico.
      • bignerd, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2Are we a little mad because the east coast is garbage right now...lol... Check billboard. With a hot release today, I can almost guarantee the a young southerner is holding down that number 1 spot...
  • blacksteve0, on 06/11/2008, -15/+7Front page?
    This?
  • Loco801, on 06/11/2008, -9/+8Dugg for 911 is a joke by The Game

    R.I.P. Sean Bell
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-9Zl0Mlrc8
  • FearNLoathing, on 06/11/2008, -3/+7J Dilla - ***** The Police
    • mummbleswers, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4R.I.P. That guy was ***** brilliant.
    • dcconz, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Oh word how could I forget that track. Are they ever going to officially release the album that is on, think he was on MCA when that was recorded. I know it is on Vinyl but I have never found it.
      • slimpip, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2It's on the Pay Jay album which was leaked recently but has never been released.
    • slimpip, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1Turn on the TV, is this
      another cop busted for illegal business?
      They outta control, they outta they minds,
      They pullin' you over, they hoppin' inside
      Just, 'Know you got drugs, know you got guns'
      And you know they be mad when they can't find none!
      Stupid! Don't you know they invented the stash box?
      The heat be in it you need a key to get in it.

      Any offended people suck my balls!

      On the count of 3 say '***** THE POLICE'. 1 - 2 - 3 ***** THE POLICE!
  • dcconz, on 06/11/2008, -2/+9Great List, talk about reminiscing, a part from the Game track as that is only a couple months old.

    With the recent Sean Bell verdict a new era of cop hating tracks have emerged. Below are some of my favorite (new school) cop hating tracks.

    Papoose - Change Gon' Come (Sean Bell R.I.P)
    Papoose - 50 Shots
    Mickey Factz – I’m Sean (50 Shots More)
    Joell Ortiz – Fifty Shots
    Grafh - Not Guilty The Peoples Verdict
    • mummbleswers, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1Don't forget Uncle Murda, that boy gets busy! He even got a song on GTA 4. "I hate police that's why I say it so much / I want to throw a bomb in the precinct and blaze them up / And tell them fa**ets don't ya'll investigate us / we them gettin' money gangsters ya'll supposed to hate us."
      • dcconz, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Yeah Uncle Murda is nice. Gun with a body (ft. Maino) is a hot track.
  • kakwakas, on 06/11/2008, -4/+1Dugg for Boyz n the Hood.
  • guillebravo6, on 06/11/2008, -2/+5great list! I love these tracks, I'm a big fan of hip hop music.
  • yosserhughes, on 06/11/2008, -10/+3"***** da Police coming straight out da under ground. (opening line)
    A young n____ on a warpath and when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbath"

    Struck me as kind of odd; apparently its OK to have '*****' on the page but you have to strike out *****.

    SIgn of the times eh?
  • alexra, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5what happened to you Ice Cube!
    • dcconz, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1Ice Cube is making a comeback is two latest tracks "It Takes a Nation" & "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" are fire.

      I never thought I would say this about another Ice Cube album but I am looking forward to his new one, which I think comes out in July sometime.
    • Enkairi, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3XXX State of the Union, and Are We there Yet. That is what happened to him.
  • Ultra200, on 06/11/2008, -15/+6***** Rap Music Buried
  • paperclips4u, on 06/11/2008, -3/+3All I have to say is, 'Damn it feels good to be a gangster.'
    • rogerly, on 06/11/2008, -1/+0Is it bad that I associate that song with Michael Bolton now?
  • jordankasteler, on 06/11/2008, -1/+8"Holla 187 on a mutha phuckin cop" - Snoop
  • raisedinhell, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2C-BO - DEADLY GAME

    Now that's one bad ass cop killing song

    It's one-eight-seven on the D.A., cause they
    ain't tryin to give a young ***** no leeway
    Yes yes... y'all
    One-eight-seven on the whole courtroom, ***** em all
    You better swing, batta batta swing
    Cause once you get your third felony, your fifty years you gotta bring
    It's a deadly game of baseball
    So when they try to pull you over
    Shoot em in the face y'all
  • skyfyre, on 06/11/2008, -4/+9I feel bad because even though I am a police officer, I like some of these songs. Nobody (myself included) should support any media that encourages or condones violence on groups of people. They aren't talking about killing virtual people in these songs...they're talking about real people with real lives and families...and that's just wrong.
    • 0011002, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4I agree and i just don't understand why people back these song so much. I'm not tiring to say they are crap or anything but why does a culture that fought to be free suddenly hold proud to call themselves "*****" but at the same token will cry fowl anytime someone else uses the term. Not tring to cause a scene just generally curious. I like Rock personally and as far as i can remember there aren't any songs i listen to that condone killing someone. So would someone mind explaining to me what is so facinating about rap/hip hop that does?
      • alexforcefive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5Well I can't speak for modern rappers, but back when NWA etc got started, it was an artistic response to the situation that these young men found themselves in - uneducated, poor, futureless, stigmatised and persecuted. They wrote violent music in response, much like the punks in britain - although obviously there was more real life violence reflected in the rap lyrics.

        Nowadays it's mostly just for show :(
        • 0011002, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Thanks for the honest answer. I can see them doing in the 90s w/things like Rodney King beating and such but now it's just ignorance really. To many people talking about beating their women and killing other people. I guess i just think like the writers for Boondocks. I have often wondered what would have happened if Martin Luther King where still alive.
      • praisethelard, on 06/11/2008, -0/+10011002, listen to some death metal sometime.
    • rdoger6424, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1Blast that ***** in your car to see how people react!
    • scoetrain, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1I'm all about condoning violence against cops. Go ***** yourself.
      • skyfyre, on 06/12/2008, -1/+1Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing worthwhile. Dick.
  • colonelpanic, on 06/11/2008, -0/+9Cypress Hill-Pigs?
    Sure is more cop hatin' than Geto Boys...
  • merbot, on 06/11/2008, -1/+12I was just listening to ***** Tha Police; also, shouldn't it be Bodycount that did the song Cop Killer?
  • FuckXboxx, on 06/11/2008, -9/+5Cops are the real criminals. They're the ones who are enforcing the laws that are destroying the constitution.
    • Rikkochet, on 06/11/2008, -2/+7Are you daft? Cops are criminals because they are enforcing laws? Take a step back and redirect your angst at someone less convenient: your lawmakers. Cops are employees of the state doing their jobs to enforce the regulations as created by the legislative branch. Blame the lawmakers, not the cops for deciding which laws they should enforce.
      • FuckXboxx, on 06/11/2008, -6/+2Do you really think that any law that goes against the constitution is valid?

        Why are they upheld if they are against the constitution?

        Because cops view themselves as more powerful and of higher status than the citizens and they will use anything written in the books to make their fellow man feel subservient.

        Cops of 50+ years ago had moral integrity and real courage. Cops today are inbred CRIMINALS that care nothing about upholding the CONSTITUTION (read: base of all law) and they never question their superiors. They are everything that caused the pilgrims to flee the oppression of England and found a free society.

        I used to think that cops were human too but I'm beginning to believe they're devolving into a sub-species that somewhere along the line had an ancestor that ***** a pig. And I've never even been arrested....
        • mrremy, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4So first off cops are criminals because they enforce the laws WRITTEN BY LAWMAKERS that are "against the constitution"? (which i'd like some examples if you are able to come up with some)

          Sounds like you need some basic correlation skills. Cops are paid to enforce the laws, lawmakers are paid to (now this may come as a surprise) MAKE THE LAWS.

          If you have a problem with the laws, it's the LAWMAKERS you should be bitching about/talking to. Jesus people.
        • Terasiel, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2"Cops of 50+ years ago had moral integrity and real courage."
          You might want to tell that to them. http://vintagenewscast.com/wp-content/uploads/2007 ...
        • 0011002, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2@ mrremy: Could not have said it better thank you. I know some excellent cops and I know of some serious power trippers too but to simply call them all criminals because they enforce laws is simply insane. I know all the tazer clips have made us not trust cops but not all of them will taze you at the drop of the hat. See good cops don;t get shown on video like the bad ones. The bad ones make it there because they have pissed someone off and it's not good media to show a cop doing their job because that's to boring. Cops are just like anyone else trying to get the day over with without some dick head going ape ***** and trying to kill them on the lousy ass salary they get. I've got high respects for the Harrison Sheriffs office of Mississippi because they stopped and helped me in my need. I still hold them in such even after of of their own on a different day was a total dick because the number of good cops out weighted the ***** ones.
      • crazy0, on 06/11/2008, -3/+1lol you shielded ass little boys.... you either get it or you dont, life aint as peachy as you think ... must be happy in yall little bubbles huh?
  • sjps220, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2Dugg for Nas's "Halftime"
  • mikeazorin, on 06/11/2008, -5/+1`
  • FUR10N, on 06/11/2008, -4/+3office space! that is one of my favorite songs now.
  • bedouin, on 06/11/2008, -2/+32 Pac - Soulja's Story
    X Clan - FTP (***** the Police)
    Public Enemy - Get the ***** Outta Dodge
    Boogie Down Productions - Black Cop, Who Protects Us From You
    LL Cool J - Illegal Search
    Too Short - I Want to Be Free
    Main Source - Friendly Game of Baseball
    Willie D - ***** Rodney King

    Others . . . this top 'eight' list must have been written by someone who discovered Hip-Hop last year. I don't really consider many of the songs on this list anti-police brutality songs. "Half Time" is just an ordinary Hip-Hop track with no specific agenda. Same with "Boyz in the Hood" in my opinion.
  • JayyMan, on 06/11/2008, -2/+2IMO Nas' Illmatic to me is the best rap album to ever be released, and the way things seem to be it will always be...
  • nycmac247, on 06/11/2008, -3/+5I love Nas (really) but wonder if hiphop, etc. will every have lyrics glorifying night school or moving to another state to get a job?? Some cops might be assholes but if you're at Home Depot at 5am lined up to get a construction job will you be more or less likely to be arrested? Can you not set your alarm for 4am like the non english immigrants and get to Home Depot on the bus by 5? Most older black guys I know / talk with say the same thing - they are concerned that "the youth of today" are hooked on glorifying how tough they are instead of submitting to authority (even older black men!) and getting a god damn job or going to school. Worse yet, when people like Cosby come forward they are made fun of ... and so the cycle continues; bragging about being idiots and wallowing in their victimhood. If _an older_ Malcolm X saw these kids he would most certainly call them what they are: white- blaming bums that keep looking outside their own community for a saviour instead of shaping up and looking for answers.

    /end rant of white guy with black friends in their 40s, 50s and even 60s

    • crazy0, on 06/11/2008, -3/+0yea please end that nonsense...you have no license cuz of your "black friends", having them as acquaintances does not give any of that BS any validity....what say you bout country and blue grass, i dont hear much about dem trailer pahks....lol ah i pity these fools that think they down
      • nycmac247, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2wow - you know nothing about me; wow!
        Have you ever even read the Autobiography of Malcolm X?
        or

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois

        !??!?!?!!?
        • crazy0, on 06/11/2008, -1/+0wow you know nothing of contemporary black people, good ***** on getting ur degree in black studies though, apparently all you have to do is read a book and wiki some *****..you generalized too much and in much in turn, you incurred my disdain for so called authoritative sources ... you know, instead of preaching to a largely white population who may not be as enligthened as you, and preach it to the young/old black males .... or wait you cant get your ass kicked on digg, thats why
  • nsummy, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5A great list full of classics. Cop Killer definitely should have been #1 though. That by far is the most offensive and hateful song to police. And not to be a rap snob, but the song was by a band named Body Count, not just Ice-T.
    • solrac66, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4Also, it isn't a rap song. Body Count was Ice-T's venture into metal. "Cop Killer" is a metal song.
  • dkitch, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Good songs, but none of the videos work damnit. I was looking forward to some nostalgia
  • krahzee, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1Always liked 2pac's Holla If Ya Hear Me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1oE6yP2yvw

    skip to about 55 seconds in
  • bigrob75, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5What about Chuck D and Public Enemy? 911 is a joke! That should be on the list before damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
  • aserer511, on 06/11/2008, -2/+2white boys everywhere celebrate
  • h0dg3s, on 06/11/2008, -6/+1This is why I left Digg. That KRS-1 song sucks, and he definitely was NOT the first one to release gangsta rap. Typical digg fanboyism, stupid blog articles, ***** you all.
    • DeFex, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6How are you posting when you left digg. thats AMAZING!
    • h0dg3s, on 06/11/2008, -5/+1Also, "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta" isn't an anti-police song, retard.
  • beauTL, on 06/11/2008, -3/+1I'm just a teenager, with a little bit of gold and a pager.
  • pbeternal99, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1some classics in that list.
  • hellomatt, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2I was lookin for Tupac's "Just don't give a *****", surprising it didn't make the list considering the last minute or so of the song Tupac "gets his ***** offs" to anyone that he feels is posing as a threat to him including the FBI, CIA, and KKK just to name a few..
  • DarkDx, on 06/11/2008, -8/+2Cops suckass. Your suppossed to be a cop to help people, but it looks like their penises grow 5 inches when they adquire "power" just for being a cop and then act as *****, on the other hand, you have firemen/firefighters which don't have power, so the ones that join are ACTUALLY joining to HELP people. I think we whould give cops a lot of less power.
    • Rally603, on 06/11/2008, -2/+1What a stunningly compelling argument you've got there.
  • super1221, on 06/11/2008, -1/+0I mean, people listen to what is good these days.

    Hey, if you get a chance could you check out my first article:
    http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Single_Best_S ...
    Thanks so much for your time.
  • avatara, on 06/11/2008, -2/+0nice "gangsta" lists made by suburban 20-somethings trying to get adsense revenue. digg has reallllllly gone downhill, even over the past few months.
    • artzoom, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1What a useless comment.. There is no adsense on this website.. Maybe you're right about the author but plz don't leave your out-of-the-blue frustrations on this article like a 20-somethings!
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