Cypress Hill have put their twist on N.W.A‘s classic “Fuck Tha Police” via their remix of Argentine star Trueno’s “Fuck el Police.”
Trueno’s version interpolates and samples the 1988 classic protest song, and was released in 2022. Now in celebration of Hip Hip’s 50th anniversary, he teamed up with Cypress Hill to make the record even bigger.
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“Bringing Cypress Hill on for ‘Fuck el Police’ was so important for me, given the style of the song,” Trueno told Rolling Stone on Tuesday (July 25). “Of course, it has a lot of history with N.W.A and ‘Fuck tha Police’… The flow of the song, for me it [felt] very much Cypress Hill, and it was important for me to raise a fist and bring this message to the Latin side as well, the reality that we go through.”
“To have legends of Hip Hop like Eric Bobo, B-Real, and Sen Dog in the United States makes this concept much bigger and much stronger,” he added. “This collaboration was a dream for me.”
You can listen to the remix below:
Trueno also told the publication that it was his father, rapper Peligro, who introduced him to Cypress Hill when he was just six — specifically their song “Insane in the Brain” and its Spanish version, “Loco en el Coco.”
“I remember not only the music, but also being able to hear the song in both Spanish and English versions, which rarely ever happened,” he added. “In Latin America, one would have to translate every song that you liked or search up the lyrics and break your back with it even when the internet wasn’t as advanced as it is today.”
In related news, Dr. Dre recently spoke out about the type of music N.W.A. made in the late ’80s and ’90s – explaining that he wasn’t responsible for labeling it as gangsta rap.
The legendary producer sat down with Kevin Hart for his Hart to Heart series on Peacock earlier this month, where he shared what type of music he felt the iconic West Coast group made as opposed to what everyone else associates the group with.
“By the way, I never liked it being called that, ‘gangsta rap,’” Dre admitted. “That’s never what we went in to do. We were just making hardcore Hip Hop. That’s all it is. I don’t know why it got that title, or who gave it that title. I don’t know who the fuck that was but, it wasn’t us.”
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After Hart asked if N.W.A. was concerned with correcting the actual term for the type of music they created, Dre simply said: “We let it go.”
“We just embraced it and let it go, but that’s not what we decided to do,” he continued. “That’s not what we called. We [were] just doing Hip Hop. Hardcore Hip Hop.”
