name in the letter, but later confirmed he was referring to "Fuck tha Police". Censorship In 1989, Australian youth radio station Triple J had been playing "Fuck tha Police" (the only radio station in the world to do so) for up to six months, before being banned by Australian Broadcasting Corporation management following a campaign by a South Australian Liberal senator. As a reaction, Triple J staff went on strike and put N.W.A's "Express Yourself" on continuous play from 9am until 4.30pm (AEST), totalling 82 plays. The song was preceded on each occasion by a speech explaining that due to industrial action, normal transmission had been interrupted. It was revealed in 2005 that the scratch sound from that track was sampled for the Triple J news theme. On 10 April 2011, New Zealand musician Tiki Taane was arrested on charges of "disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence to start or continue" after performing the song at a gig in a club in Tauranga during an inspection of the club by the police. On 13 April, Tiki told Marcus Lush on Radio Live that the lyrics often feature in his performances and his arrest came as a complete surprise. Notable references in popular culture Dr. Dre referenced the song on his 1999 single "Forgot About Dre" from his 2001 album with the line "Who you think brought you the oldies, Eazy-Es, Ice Cubes, and D.O.C.s, the Snoop D.O. Double Gs, and the group that said 'Motherfuck the police'?". The song and the group were parodied in the 1994 hip-hop mockumentary film Fear of a Black Hat and its soundtrack album, as a single for the fictional gangsta-rap group N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats) as "Fuck the Security Guards." It is prominently featured in the 2015 biopic of N.W.A, also called Straight Outta Compton. The song was satirically referenced in South Parks season 19 episode "Naughty Ninjas", when the townspeople are protesting the police. Former group member Ice Cube also sampled the song on the track "Late Night Hour" from his 2001 Greatest Hits album, which was based on the sample of his then-group of the same name. The song is also heard in the 2019 film Us, where Kitty Tyler, portrayed by Elisabeth Moss tells the voice assistant, Ophelia, to "Call the police", causing the device to play the song before she is killed by her Tethered counterpart. Charts Certifications See also