Coup - Steal This Album
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Free Music Review: Majer-D
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a must have. Every song on the album is bangin'! This is a huge come back for The Coup and political rap.....it's also the westcoast sound that's funkier than collie greens!!!!!Free Music Review: best CD ever
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't heard "Kill My Landlord" by the Coup, but i'm sure it's dope too, cuz this one and Genocide and Juice were ill. check this one out and you won't be disappointed.Free Music Review: Music for the masses - this time for real
Hit: 4 Stars
It's a well-known, long-suffered feature of popular music: the tradition of presenting artists as democratic and "of the people" when they're often merely appealing to the lowest common denominator. The Coup puts substance into this practice and manage to present a truthful, pointed perspective while also offering constructive arguments. Oh, yes, they're funky, too, with every track featuring a live band - with the fat, elastic bass and use of harmonica that signify the Oakland funk sound - and DJ Pam the Funkstress' incisive scratching. It's not a perfect album - a couple of songs drone on with no change in the music or the vocal delivery - but when it hits, it's hard. Boots Riley calls himself a Communist in one tune (the paranoid-but-realistic "Breathing Apparatus"), but he really comes across as a defender of grassroots, community-based governance and business as a necessary foil to the evils he sees perpetrated by our modern, corporate-conglomerate economy and society. Where a band like Public Enemy would rap lofty sentiments from a more theoretical perspective, Boots tells his own story brutally, frankly, and intelligently, and I think that means more.