IDK has channeled his creative artistry to bring awareness to police brutality with the release of a powerful new music video, titled “Mr. Police” — watch it below.
In the video, the Maryland rapper highlights a series of interactions with police during what appear to be random traffic stops gone awry, as officers repeatedly get physical — snatching phones away, as their abuse is recorded.
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“Mr. police I know where you live/ You gotta wife and four kids/ Couple mistresses and a guy on side,” IDK spits. “Fuck the police.”
Throughout the visual, officers can be heard showing somewhat of a fondness for the culture while ordering “two Cardi B and Offset meals” at McDonalds — a stark contrast to scenes in which authorities are captured beating and berating young Black men, as they sit curbside, handcuffed.
Check out the full video below:
This isn’t the first time IDK has used his platform to create awareness around social issues and disparities. Last month, the 30-year-old partnered up with Rich The Kid for their first collaboration with “850 (We On Top).”
On the track, the Warner Records star reflects on his trapping ways and the turbulent journey his rap career took him around the globe as he incorporates Los Angeles, Japan, France and Spain into his rhymes.
Prior to the music video crossing the finish line — which was self-directed by IDK — a combination of the Ghana and Sierra Leone flags serve as the background to a sobering closing message about the transatlantic slave trade and his Free Coast world.
“Often times African-Americans are questioned and even ridiculed for not understanding their history… Well the effects of Trans-Atlantic slavery and lack of in-depth teaching in the American school systems do not make learning as easy as one would expect,” the image reads.
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“Free Coast is a world created to bring awareness to Cape Coast, Ghana (Where slaves were taken from West Africa to America) and Freetown, Sierra Leone (Where slaves were freed) through combining both flags and their historic components to make one movement.”
