Rap duo’s ‘CPD’ tackles Henry Louis Gates

Boston Herald ^ | August 13, 2009 | Lauren Carter

[ConservativeStatement]

Two Cambridge rappers are weighing in on the Gates-Crowley debacle with a verbal assault aimed at racist cops and a sellout black scholar.

E’Flash and Vee Knuckles of Natural Born Spitters (NBS) say they don’t want to take sides in the protest track “CPD” (for Cambridge Police Department), their reaction to the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley. Instead, they want to offer a street analysis of longstanding problems within their community.

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I saw Knuckles and thought maybe this was a tribute to Phil Niekro. /sarc.

[Sherman Logan]

“Everyone in the ’hood knows someone he harassed or wronged,” he said. “Yeah, he’s probably got some legit cases too. But he targets black males.”

Dillinger's response when asked why he robbed banks springs to mind.

[xsrdx]

Instead of goin’ to school, they got us locked up

MmmHmm. Busted right in the middle of trigonometry class, no doubt.

[Le Chien Rouge]

“Every cop’s a criminal and all the sinners are saints”

[ConservativeStatement]

I wonder if they have a “Celebrate DIEversity” sticker on their autos at Howard.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The think Gates a sellout... is Barack Obama insufficiently black for them too?