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I think it was slightly misunderstood, but worldwide, we never got a negative connotation.вЂќ The song is about growing up who wants to be a man but doesnвЂ™t understand that itвЂ™s the family that you should springboard from. They donвЂ™t listen to the words of the song where itвЂ™s talking about a person who was coming into crime and adversarial towards their parents. вЂњIt was used in the context of Cops, but if they listen to the song, everybody just knows the hook. How many groups in the world can say they have a song that the world knows, but what is not understood is the essence of the song,вЂќ Lewis tells Rolling Stone from Miami. If Inner CircleвЂ™s Ian Lewis, the songwriter and bassist behind вЂњBad Boys,вЂќ had his way, the cancellation would bring a renewed analysis of the song past its ubiquitous chorus. More than 30 years later, вЂњBad Boys,вЂќ which was re-released in 1993 to capitalize on the showвЂ™s success, catapulted the veteran reggae group to global fame, with multiple generations still able to reflexively sing, вЂњBad boys, bad boys/Whatcha gonna do/Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?вЂќД®arlier this week, amid nationwide protests against police brutality, the Paramount Network canceled the long-running show after 32 seasons. At that point, the group had been around for two decades, staying together after the untimely 1980 death of their revered lead singer Jacob Miller. ThatвЂ™s the song for the show,'вЂќ Langley told EW.

вЂњI heard the song and I said, вЂThatвЂ™s it. While looking for a theme song, a field producer brought Langley One Way, the new album from reggae group Inner Circle that featured a track about Jamaican wayward youth and the perils of growing up in a dangerous environment. New York Senate Votes to Overturn 44-Year-Old Law Shielding Police Disciplinary Records

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вЂњIt seemed to announce, this is not your regular cop show.вЂќ вЂњI was a Bob Marley fan - still am - and I thought it would be very interesting to counterpoint law enforcement with reggae,вЂќ Langley told Entertainment Weekly in 2017 about the soundtrack to what would become Cops. He had the basic premise for a follow-up - follow police officers on the job with no narrator or re-enactments - but there were still crucial stylistic details to sort out. A few years earlier, his first foray into the then-nascent genre, American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, had brought live drug arrests to prime time. In 1988, reality-TV producer John Langley was plotting out his next show.