![]() ![]() That decision, and the days of deadly rioting that followed, fueled Jackson’s most successful album, The Predator, which ripped the verdict and the King beating as just one snapshot of a far wider culture of systemic subjugation of black people in America. That feeling Jackson describes is the same one he felt in 1992, when a jury in Los Angeles found the four police officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King not guilty of assault and excessive force. “I feel the same way: mad as fuck,” he says. He says he doesn’t remember precisely where he was when he heard about the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson in the Mike Brown killing-he suspects his wife told him the news-but the feeling was a familiar one. ![]() Jackson is in Australia at the moment, finishing an Ice Cube tour that spanned the first half of December.
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