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‘Hip-Hop Cop’ to Release Tell-All Book
Thursday, April 13, 2006 By: Kenny Rodriguez
The police-backed ‘war on hip-hop’ is no longer an urban legend, at least according to former detective Derrick Parker. He should know: in the 1980s he was dubbed the ‘hip-hop cop’, and in his upcoming book titled “Notorious C.O.P.,” he talks in great detail about how he was assigned to monitor hundreds of rappers.
During his 20 years on the force, the New York detective investigated the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and Jam Master Jay, as well as the ongoing Busta Rhymes and Lil Kim cases.
But in 2001, Parker was assigned to create “The Binder” – a database detailing the criminal associations and arrests of hundreds of rappers, including Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, 50 Cent and Jay-Z. When the dossier was leaked to the American Civil Liberties Union, Parker writes, “I was suddenly public enemy number one.”
Parker also describes run-ins with several crooked cops, including a crack addicted officer who stole paychecks from his precinct. He also details an all-cop “cocaine fiesta” in the Bronx, where a female sergeant offered him “a shoebox full of cocaine” after snorting some herself. Parker reported the incident to his commanding officer the next day.
The hip-hop loving author, whose book hits stores in July, insists rappers were lucky they were on his beat. “The cultural ignorance of my fellow officers made them assume that all rappers were evil criminals,” Parker says, explaining that officers under Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s administration labeled them as “young, black, rich and angry.”
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