Story I read about the Police... They show up to Top Of The Pops or something like that, and find out John & PiL are doing a gig. Now, they're apparently big fans, and they want to ask John if they can collab, he characteristically tells them to fuck off. However, John decides he's not doing the show, blah blah blah... So The Police fill in for PiL for the miming of their song.
I get that their appropriation of reggae is clammy handed and a bit lame, but they don't actively replay reggae. Its indebted, but its not wholesale copying.
I have friends who adore Steward Copeland as a drummer. It was cool for hipster/2dopeboyz rappers to namedrop stuff like The Police and Tears For Fears for a minute to say they're 'not like the other ones, they have taste', etc. Wiz specifically was always big on saying he loved the Police.