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. 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. His work included monitoring high-profile artists and their entourages as they came and went from the Big…

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