Is The NYPD At War With Hip Hop?

During a recent stint as a guest DJ on New York’s Hot 97, 50 Cent tauntingly shouted out the “hip-hop cops” that he claims follow him everywhere. Detective Walter Burns, a senior NYPD spokesperson, insisted to MTV News such a force doesn’t exist. “There is no such thing,” Burns said. “We have no hip-hop task force, no hip-hop unit, no hip-hop patrol.” But Fat Joe countered, “It’s definitely a task force. You go to hip-hop spots now and they ain’t just your normal walking-the-beat cops. There’s cops out there in undercover cars like they know something we don’t know. Like bin Laden’s in the club, B.” Read more.