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The title of the song is the date of King's verdict, which led to the riots. However the opening lyric in the song is 'April 26th 1992/there was a riot on the streets/tell me where were you?'. The wrong date in the lyric can be explain as a mistake, but another story tells of Bradley strong vocal performace on that cut so they decided to keep it.

Bradley Nowell, lead singer of the band, claimed both in the song and in interviews that he took part in the riots.^{[citation needed]} Bradley James Nowell (February 22, 1968 – May 25, 1996) was an influential American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the punk-reggae fusion band Sublime. ...

The song begins with police banter from that night recorded by Sublime friend (and future Long Beach Dub All Stars singer) Michael "Miguel" Happoldt on his neighbor's police scanner. The Long Beach Dub Allstars were a punk band formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2002. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Miguel Happoldt. ...

City list

In the song they list a number of cities that the riots happened in, In fact these cities are just the places Sublime toured in on that year, but a number of them did actually have riots on that day.^{[citation needed]}