NYPD’s legendary ‘Hip-Hop Cop' Derrick Parker, who investigated rap’s biggest stars and murders, dead at 65
Derrick Parker, the former NYPD detective known as the "Hip-Hop Cop" for his work in the city's rap-related intelligence unit in the 1990s, has died. He was 65.His brother, Ralph, told Fox News Digital Monday he died unexpectedly on July 24 at a hospital in New York's Nassau County.
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Derrick Parker, the former NYPD detective known as the "Hip-Hop Cop" for his work in the city's rap-related intelligence unit in the 1990s, has died. He was 65.His brother, Ralph, told Fox News Digital Monday he died unexpectedly on July 24 at a hospital in New York's Nassau County. He did not give a cause.A funeral is scheduled for Thursday at the J Foster Phillips Funeral Home in Jamaica, New York.Derrick J. Parker was the former head of the NYPD's rap intelligence unit when the city's hip-hop scene exploded in popularity in the 1990s.
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NYPD’s legendary ‘Hip-Hop Cop' Derrick Parker, who investigated rap’s biggest stars and murders, dead at 65
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