Inside The NYPD Rapper Wars

The New York Post reports former narcotics detective-turned-author Derrick Parker, during his 20 years on the force, investigated the still unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and Jam Master Jay, as well as the ongoing Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Kim sagas – and has written about his travails in detail. Parker says that “the cultural ignorance of my fellow officers made them assume that all rappers were evil criminals.” And the Rudy Giuliani administration made them a target because they tended to be “young, black, rich and angry.”