 The 12" front cover includes pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Amadou Diallo and Rodney King.As a teenager in the late 1980s, James Dewitt "J Dilla" Yancey worked as a junior police cadet for the Detroit Police Department.Several years later however, after suffering through one too many incidents of police harassment and racial profiling as a young adult, his opinion of the police would change as he would record "Fuck the Police" in 2001.