A scene from Straight Outta Compton 2015
Ice Cube

[N.W.A have been warned not to perform **** tha Police.]

Hey, hold on, hold on! Y'all know what the mother****in' police tried to tell us back stage?

Ice Cube

They tried to tell us...what the **** we can't play. [audience angrily boos] Mother****ers tried to tell us...what the **** we can't say! [audience still boos] This N.W.A.! [audience cheers wildly] We do what the **** we wanna do; We say what the **** we wanna say! So everybody, put them middle fingers high in the sky. And to the punk-ass cop backstage-- [audience boos the police with their middle fingers raised, and cheer and whistle for N.W.A] Yo, Dre.

Dr. Dre

What up?

Ice Cube

I got somethin' to say.

Ice Cube

[Dre scratches vinyl record in rhythm] [rapping]

**** the police coming straight from the underground,A young **** got it bad cause I'm brown.And not the other color so police thinkThey have the authority to kill a minority.**** that shit, 'cause I ain't the oneFor a punk mother****er with a badge and a gunTo be beating on, and thrown in jail.We can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell.

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