I Don't Give a Fuck

"I Don't Give a Fuck" is a song by American rapper 2Pac and the fourth track of his debut studio album 2Pacalypse Now (1991). The song, which features R&B singer Pogo, deals overtly with police brutality and racism. In the song, he narrates how the black community in the United States face harassment by racists, including police.

Overview

In the intro, Tupac receives phone calls from one of his friends about the police beating them for no apparent reason and various crimes that are directed at them, after which he starts to rap. The theme of the song is strongly anti-racist and anti-police, and the lyrics tell about racism, such as store owners following him in the store, and crime in the ghetto.

This was one of the songs that a youth in Texas blamed for his shooting of a state trooper, as outro of the song, Tupac questions the authority for not dealing with these issues and he curses out the CIA, the FBI, and then president George H.W. Bush in the spoken-word outre of "I Don't Give a Fuck".^[1]

He says:

"Fuck you to the San Francisco Police Department
Fuck you to the Marin County Sheriff Department [sic]
Fuck you to the FBI
Fuck you to the CIA
Fuck you to the B-u-s-h
Fuck you to the Amerikkka
Fuck you to all you redneck prejudice motherfuckers"^[2]

Media appearances

The song appeared in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in the radio station Radio Los Santos.^[3]

2Pac mentioned the phrase used for this song later as a major turning-point line in his big screen debut Juice (1992) while in
an verbal altercation with "Q" (Omar Epps) in their school hallway.

The song was later sampled by American rapper Eminem in his song, "Just Don't Give a Fuck".

References

↑ "A Rap Legend Debuts With an Apocalypse". epinions.com. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
↑ "Tupac - I Dont Give A Fuck Lyrics and MP3". Cduniverse.com. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
↑ "Soundtrack". GTA San Andreas.net. Retrieved 2012-03-28.

Tupac Shakur

Studio albums	2Pacalypse Now Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... Thug Life: Volume 1 Me Against the World All Eyez on Me The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

Posthumous albums	R U Still Down? (Remember Me) Still I Rise Until the End of Time Better Dayz Loyal to the Game Pac's Life

Live albums	2Pac Live Live at the House of Blues

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits The Rose That Grew from Concrete The Prophet: The Best of the Works Nu-Mixx Klazzics Tupac: Resurrection The Rose, Vol. 2 The Prophet Returns Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991 Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2 Best of 2Pac

Related albums	Nothing but Trouble (soundtrack) Sons of the P Juice (soundtrack) Poetic Justice (soundtrack) Above the Rim (soundtrack) Gridlock'd (soundtrack) Gang Related (soundtrack) A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle

Extended plays	Makaveli & Dillinger Don't Go 2 Sleep

Singles	"Brenda's Got a Baby" "If My Homie Calls" "Trapped" "Holler If Ya Hear Me" "I Get Around" "Keep Ya Head Up" "Papa'z Song" "Cradle to the Grave" "Dear Mama" "So Many Tears" "Temptations" "California Love" "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" "How Do U Want It" "All Bout U" "I Ain't Mad at Cha" "Life Goes On" "Toss It Up" "To Live & Die in LA" "Hail Mary" * "Wanted Dead or Alive" "Made Niggaz"

Posthumous singles	"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" "Do for Love" "Changes" "Unconditional Love" "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)" "Who Do U Believe In" "Until the End of Time" "Letter 2 My Unborn" "Thugz Mansion" "Still Ballin'" "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" "One Day at a Time (Em's Version)" "Thugs Get Lonely Too" "Ghetto Gospel" "Untouchable" "Pac's Life" "Playa Cardz Right"

Other songs	"I Don't Give a Fuck" "Runnin' (From tha Police)" "Hit 'Em Up" "Are U Still Down" "Panther Power"

Featured singles	"Smile" "Playa Cardz Right"

Books	The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Stage	Holler If Ya Hear Me

Filmography	Nothing but Trouble Juice Poetic Justice Above the Rim Bullet Gridlock'd Gang Related

Documentaries	Biggie & Tupac Tupac: Resurrection Tupac: Assassination

Outlawz	Yaki Kadafi Kastro Napoleon E.D.I. Mean Hussein Fatal Mussolini Komani Young Noble

Related articles	Discography List of songs Outlawz Digital Underground Afeni Shakur Assata Shakur Mopreme Shakur Mutulu Shakur East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry Makaveli Branded Clothing Niccolò Machiavelli Orlando Anderson Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts Billy Garland Kadafi List of awards and nominations received by Tupac Shakur Murder of Tupac Shakur

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