Rap Videos That Address Police Brutality

Scarface releases visuals for "Steer."

Public Enemy – 'Can't Truss It' - Public Enemy brought the noise with "Can't Truss It" in 1991 as they documented America's history of violence against African-Americans with their visual. Chuck, Flav and crew end the empowering clip with a re-enactment of Rodney King getting beat by a goon squad of pigs.(Photo: Island Def Jam Music Group)
Tupac – 'Trapped' - Tupac talked about being "Trapped" in the ghetto and his community being overseen by po-pos. The video shows Pac getting sweated by police but it also has an interesting twist as the crooked cop catches one after years of hunting down brothers.(Photo: Interscope Records)
Geto Boys – 'Crooked Officer' - Scarface, Big Mike and Bushwick Bill waged war with the police and their harassing and murderous actions in their 1993 visual "Crooked Officer." Speaking about the Rodney King ordeal and beating which took place around the time, The Geto Boys used actual footage of police attacking Black people throughout the years as well as cops using gestapo tactics to make people confess to crimes and murders they didn't commit.(Photo: Rap-a-Lot Records)
J. Cole Featuring TLC – 'Crooked Smile' - J. Cole pulled at the racial strings for his 2013 video "Crooked Smile," which depicts an overzealous cop murdering a little girl during a drug raid. The eerie clip was was dedicated and based loosely on a 7-year-old girl who was shot and killed during a police raid on her house in Detroit back in 2010. The touching video closed with the words, “For Aiyana Stanley-Jones. And please reconsider your war on drugs."(Photo: Roc Nation)

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Tupac – 'Trapped' - Tupac talked about being "Trapped" in the ghetto and his community being overseen by po-pos. The video shows Pac getting sweated by police but it also has an interesting twist as the crooked cop catches one after years of hunting down brothers.(Photo: Interscope Records)

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