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| + | Cops Shot the Kid is a song of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nas Nas’] eleventh studio album, Nasir (2018) featuring fellow rapper, Kanye West. The hip hop song was released in 2018 and this track is another collaboration between West and Nas after "Everything". The rapper took to Instagram after knowing that the song is as a standout track from the album and paid homage to Slick Rick as he is the sample and inspiration behind the song. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_Shot_the_Kid</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 07:15, 8 January 2021
Cops Shot the Kid is a song of Nas’ eleventh studio album, Nasir (2018) featuring fellow rapper, Kanye West. The hip hop song was released in 2018 and this track is another collaboration between West and Nas after "Everything". The rapper took to Instagram after knowing that the song is as a standout track from the album and paid homage to Slick Rick as he is the sample and inspiration behind the song. [1]
Key Lyrics
White kids are brought in alive
Black kids get hit with like five
Get scared, you panic, you’re goin’ down
The disadvantages of the brown
How in the hell the parents gon’ bury their own kids, not the other way around?
Reminds me of Emmett Till
Let’s remind ’em why Kap kneels [2]

