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One Too Many - With the speculation surrounding the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, and the broken leg of a New York adolescent, and a chokehold on a pregnant Rosan Miller, police brutality has been at the forefront of the national consciousness.Read on to check how Jay Z, Game and Nicki Minaj have lyrically memorialized Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Danroy Henry and more whose lives were cut short by those employed to protect and serve.(Photo: BIG'MIKE JR BROWN VIA FACEBOOK)

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J. Cole, "Crooked Smile" - J. Cole made an emotional plea against the war on drugs with his video, "Crooked Smile," featuring TLC. Playing up his lyrics, "Hey officer man, we don't want nobody getting killed/Just open up that cell, let my brother out of jail," Cole focuses the video on a drug bust that results in the death of a little girl at the hands of a police officer.(Photo: Roc Nation)

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Papoose, "Change Gon' Come (50 Shots)" - Papoose was one of the first rappers to address the death of Sean Bell, a father of two who was unarmed when police killed him in a hail storm of 50 gunshots. On "Change Gon' Come (50 Shots)," Pap rapped:  No justice, no peace Another Black man shot dead in the streets... Your reason was you thought he had a gun That means you shot him for nothing 'Cause he ain't have one (Photo: Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)

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Jay Z, "A Billi" - Hov doesn't usually get political in his lyrics (with these notable exceptions), but he spoke about the Sean Bell shooting in this freestyle over Lil Wayne's "A Milli" beat. Shawn Carter, Sean Bell What's the difference? Do tell 50 shots or 50 mil Ain't no difference, go to hell (Photo: Vince Bucci/PictureGroup)

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Prodigy, "Field Marshal P" - The video for this dark heater from one half of Mobb Deep was partially filmed at a candlelight vigil for Sean Bell and features Joseph Guzman, who was wounded in the shooting as well. New York Pricks and D--ks (NYPD) know the deal They wanna do the kid like my n---a Sean Bell F--k that, it be a racist cop buried there With the bagpipe music, I'll burn another L (Photos: John Ricard/BET; REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

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Game, "911 Is a Joke" - Game addressed the Sean Bell shooting in several songs and he dedicated his anti-cop treatise "911 Is a Joke" to him (though he got the number of shots wrong, the sentiment is clear): Stay with the 8-Ball like MJG I hate the motherf--kin' pigs cause them pigs hate me And I should kill 51 cops For the 51 shots that they gave that f--kin' kid in New York (Photo: Terrence Jennings/PictureGroup)

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Nicki Minaj, French Montana's "New York Minute" - Nicki had a touching line for her fallen fellow Southside, Queens native on this mixtape banger: There's gotta be a heaven 'Cause Sean Bell will never get to make it to his wedding (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Ice Cube, "The Predator" - Ice Cube has been saying "F--- Tha Police" since day one, so it was no surprise when he went in on the L.A. cops who were acquitted for beating Rodney King in 1991 and even for Reginald Denny, the white trucker who was beaten by rioters afterward. F--- Lawerence Powell and Presino, Wynd and Koon Pretty soon We'll f--k them like they f--ked us and won't kiss 'em Riots ain't nothing but diets for the system Fighting with the beast, no justice, no peace If any, even if we f--k up Denny (Photo:  Associated PressAP)

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Pharoahe Monch, "One Four Love Pt. 1" - In one of the most shocking examples of police brutality ever, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was beaten and sexually assaulted with a toilet plunger by Brooklyn police officers in 1997. Despite this, hip hop was relatively silent on the incident. Monch helped resolve this with his fiery verse on "One Four Love Pt. 1," a 2000 posse cut that spoke out against police brutality. Cops they transport me from Long Island to Medina With they f--ked up demeanor Dreamin' of stickin' it to me like Abner Louima (Photos: Ethan Miller/Getty Images; Reuters)

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Wyclef, "Diallo" - Several hip hop songs addressed the 1999 shooting of 23-year-old Guinean immigrant murdered by the NYPD in a hail of 41 bullets, but none as directly as this Wyclef ballad. Enemy... on the borderline Who'll be the next to fire 41 shots by Diallo's side? You said he reached, sir but he didn't have no piece, sir But now he rest in peace, sir in the belly of the beast, sir (Photos: Cindy Ord/Getty Images; Richard Harbus/Getty Images)

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Maino, "My Hood" - Maino was one of the only MCs to address the shooting of fellow Bed-Stuy native Timothy Stansbury, the unarmed 19-year-old shot by the NYPD in 2004. Please tell me how we 'posed to recover When them gunshots Touch more people than them songs from Usher And it don't help seein' all my men get buried We should've riot when them pigs killed Timothy Stansbury (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for AXE)

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Big K.R.I.T., "American Rapstar" - Here, Mississippi up-and-comer K.R.I.T. addressed the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant, the unarmed 23-year-old who was shot while lying face down by transit police in Oakland. Dodging jail cells and them pigs down to kill They shot Oscar Grant, swear it gave a n---a chills (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Jay Z, "Murder to Excellence" - On this deep track from Jay and Kanye West's Watch the Throne, Hov honored Danroy Henry, the unarmed 20-year-old Pace University football player shot by police last year. This is to the memory of Danroy Henry Too much enemy fire to catch a friendly (Photos: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel; Bill Greene/Globe Staff/AP Photo)