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“Cops Shot The Kid” (originally titled “Cops”) is the second track from Nas' eleventh studio album, NASIR. There was some initial confusion with this song’s placement on the tracklist, due to it being listed as track #6 in a Twitter post five days before its release: The song features a prominent sample of Slick Rick’s iconic cautionary tale, “Children Story” (1988). Nas and Kanye trade verses about the constant cycle of police brutality against African American youth.