(“I call it nice, you call it a 'drug car'
I say 'disco', you call it a 'drug bar'
I say 'nice guy', you call me Mr. Good Bar
I made progress, you say, "Not that far")
I remember listening to this song when it played after listening to N.W.A, and I didn’t know who ll cool J was but the words to the song really made me think and also surprised at the amount of artist that are out there and speak on the criminalization by the police on the communities of color. In the song Illegal Search by ll cool J, he mentions how targeted he feels as black man when the police automatically assumes that he is doing something illegal just because he may “look good”. This indirectly makes the assumption that people of color in urban areas and within marginalized communities, can’t look good or make money without their white counterparts or the police thinking they may be illegally obtaining the goods they have.