“We have played in places where everybody sings the song because music is the healer. “I hope people take a moment to understand that the song is about teenage life and becoming semi-aggressive as you start growing up,” Lewis says.
When Lewis first saw the show in 1989, he thought it would be “a docudrama something that would come on one time and that would be the end of it.” The track would eventually peak at Number Eight on the Billboard 200, soundtrack Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s popular film franchise of the same name, serve as sample fodder for Diddy, and become the group’s signature song. I think it was slightly misunderstood, but worldwide, we never got a negative connotation.” The song is about growing up who wants to be a man but doesn’t understand that it’s the family that you should springboard from.
They don’t listen to the words of the song where it’s talking about a person who was coming into crime and adversarial towards their parents. “It 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,” Lewis tells Rolling Stone from Miami. If Inner Circle’s Ian Lewis, the songwriter and bassist behind “Bad Boys,” had his way, the cancellation would bring a renewed analysis of the song past its ubiquitous chorus. More than 30 years later, “Bad Boys,” which was re-released in 1993 to capitalize on the show’s success, catapulted the veteran reggae group to global fame, with multiple generations still able to reflexively sing, “Bad boys, bad boys/Whatcha gonna do/Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?”Įarlier this week, amid nationwide protests against police brutality, the Paramount Network canceled the long-running show after 32 seasons. 'Silence of the Lambs': The Complete Buffalo Bill Story 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. That’s the song for the show,'” Langley told EW. “I heard the song and I said, ‘That’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.
“It seemed to announce, this is not your regular cop show.” “I was a Bob Marley fan - still am - and I thought it would be very interesting to counterpoint law enforcement with reggae,” 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.
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