I've got the Rap Patrol on the gat patrol

from Jay-Z – 99 Problems Lyrics on Rap Genius

The “hip-hop police” (police, particularly NYPD, officers unofficially assigned to urban music industry figures) are after Jay and looking for him to have illegal guns. This is actually true — he was arrested on a gun charge in 2001 after his bodyguard was found outside a Manhattan nightclub with a loaded Glock

Strangely enough, Jay predicted this arrest in song. On “Streets is Talking” from the year before, he rapped:

You see me with a bodyguard, that means police is watching
And I only use his waist to keep my Glock in

Um, Jay, how about not telling the cops where you keep your unlicensed guns? Just a thought…

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