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I Don't Give a Fuck
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Wikipedia article
"'I Don't Give a Fuck"' Christopher Malone, George Martinez Jr. - The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement 2014 1628920084
This reference was reminiscent of Newton's (August 15, 1970) stance on reserving what he saw as derogatory terms for law enforcement and preceded 2Pac's homophobic derision of authority and other targets on songs such as "I Don't Give a F*ck" (IDGAF) (2Pac 1991a). AMW's ongoing homophobic slur continued as the rappers called the police "sweet and feminine" as they tried to jail the rap crew. However, AMW was not going to give in easilyas they would respond to police ... is a protest song by American rapper 2Pac and the fourth track of his debut studio album '2Pacalypse Now' (1991). The song, which features rapper Pogo, deals overtly with police brutality and racism. In the song, he narrates how the black community in the United States face harassment by racists, including police.
Overview
In the intro, Tupac receives phone calls from one of his friends about the police beating them for no apparent reason and various crimes that are directed at them, after which he starts to rap. The theme of the song is strongly anti-racist and anti-police, and the lyrics tell about racism, such as store owners following him in the store, and crime in the ghetto.
This was one of the songs that a youth in Texas blamed for his shooting of a state trooper, as in the outro of the song, Tupac questions the authority for not dealing with these issues and he curses out the CIA, the FBI, and then president George H. W. Bush in the spoken-word outro of "I Don't Give a Fuck".
He says:
Fuck you to the San Francisco Police Department
Fuck you to the Marin County Sheriff Department ['sic']
Fuck you to the FBI
Fuck you to the CIA
Fuck you to the B-u-s-h
Fuck you to the Ameri KKK a
Fuck you to all you redneck prejudice motherfuckers
Media appearances
Tupac mentioned the phrase used for this song later as a major turning-point line in his big screen debut 'Juice' (1992) while in
an verbal altercation with "Q" (Omar Epps) in their school hallway.
The song was later sampled by American rapper Eminem in his song, "Just Don't Give a Fuck".
The song appeared in the 2004 video game 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' in the radio station Radio Los Santos, though it was later removed in 2014 due to expired copyright licensing.
References
Category:1991 songs
Category:Tupac Shakur songs
Category:Criticism of police brutality
Category:Songs about police brutality
Category:Songs about police officers
Category:Songs against racism and xenophobia
Category:Songs written by Tupac Shakur
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