“There were close to two hundred of us,” recalled one officer. “We had our marching orders. We were told that under no circumstance that they were to perform that song … We immediately jumped on the stage and started taking out amplifiers.” Priority Records, NWA’s label, received hundreds of letters of complaint. A reporter with the Village Voice tried to determine their origin: “To find out why the letters were so often alike, I called their authors, who came from all over the country. I checked more than 100 letters. Most of the letters claimed that the authors would ‘never buy an album from
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