{"id":977214,"date":"2020-06-02T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1009172"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:51:16","slug":"yg-shares-new-protest-song-ftp-f-k-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/yg-shares-new-protest-song-ftp-f-k-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"YG Shares New Protest Song \u2018FTP (F\u2013k the Police)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/YG.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/yg\">YG<\/a> has released a new protest song, \u201cFTP (Fuck the Police),\u201d amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-floyd-protests\">nationwide protests<\/a> over the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-floyd\/\">George Floyd<\/a> at the hands of Minneapolis police.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper made the announcement on Instagram, adding that he would have to cancel his previously planned Hollywood and Vine demonstration in Los Angeles due to safety concerns. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to get none of my people hurt or shot so I\u2019mma cancel the date,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s fucked up but I\u2019m gonna come back bigger and better. I\u2019m partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/black-lives-matter\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> and we gonna do this shit the right way. For the people, for the city, and for all the artists that wanna pop out and participate.\u201d He then announced he was dropping the song on YouTube without the help of his label.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA8Sa_TAqb7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-7.5116279069767\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFTP,\u201d produced by Swish and Larry J, builds off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/yg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_yg\" data-tag=\"yg\">YG<\/a>\u2019s previous protest song with the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nipsey-hussle\/\">Nipsey Hussle<\/a>, \u201cFDT (Fuck Donald Trump),\u201d released during the 2016 election. That song has become a protest anthem in its own right, and has reportedly been played at George Floyd demonstrations in the past week.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WkZ5e94QnWk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/yg-ftp-police-george-floyd-1009172\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YG has released a new protest song, \u201cFTP (Fuck the Police),\u201d amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. The rapper made the announcement on Instagram, adding that he would have to cancel his previously planned Hollywood and Vine demonstration in Los Angeles due to safety concerns. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 14:35:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}