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The Coup

The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California. Their music is an amalgamation of influences, including funk, punk, hip hop, and soul. Frontman Boots Riley's revolutionarily-charged lyrics rank The Coup as a renowned political hip hop band aligned to radical music groups such as Crass, Dead Prez and Rage Against the Machine.

The Coup's music is driven by assertive and danceable bass-driven backbeats overlaid by critical, hopeful, and witty lyrics, often with a bent towards the literary. The Coup's songs critique, observe, and lampoon capitalism, American politics, white patriarchal exploitation, police brutality, marijuana addiction, romance, and disparities among races and social classes.

Albums

1993 Kill My Landlord
1994 Genocide & Juice
1998 Steal This Album
2001 Party Music
2006 Pick a Bigger Weapon
2012 Sorry to Bother You
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Album Review: The Coup - Sorry To Bother You
The Coup, with rapper/singers Boots Riley and various female vocalists sharing mic time, have their own sound that can never be totally removed from its roots
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Album Review: The Coup - Sorry To Bother You
Sorry To Bother You manifests the spirit of the experimental and interracial 1960s revolutionary movement...
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