A rap song playing on a Hawke's Bay police radio channel has prompted a warning that interference with a police radio is a prosecutable offence.
Rapper Tupac Shakur's song "Shorty Wanna Be A Thug" was broadcast in full over a four-minute period on Wednesday afternoon about 1.30pm.
The track by Shakur - also known as 2Pac - was on his "All Eyez on Me" album and includes explicit lyrics that talk about the dangers of a young man entering a gangster lifestyle.
!['Shorty Wanna Be A Thug' features on Tupac Shakur's - AKA 2pac - fourth album 'All Eyez on Me' which was the last released before his death in a drive-by shooting. Photo / NZME](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/K4X4R4TFM2RX26XI4TDMWSJWXA.jpg?auth=f5f062f11dae872390ca5d63b0ff62cc7256007156d86c3bf23e8e68417ac9a7&width=16&height=16&quality=70&smart=true)
It was his last album produced before his death, aged just 25, in a drive-by shooting in 1996.