The opening lines of The Coup’s new album, Pick A Bigger Weapon, speak of contradiction.
“I’m a walking contradiction, Like bullets and love mixing” - The Coup “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” - Walt Whitman Note : The Coup is Boots Riley on vocals, Pam The Funkstress on turntables, and various friends with things that make noise. BabyLet’sHaveABabyBeforeBushDo Somethin’Crazy (feat. I Just Wanna Lay Around All Day In Bed With Youġ5. The Coup are the simply said the fantastic progeny of George Clinton, Prince, Chuck D and KRS-One!Ġ5. This is revolution and fun while the world is spiraling into the absurd, banging grooves for positive partying with inspirational lines. You might consider passing on the new Outkast soundtrack and get this opus instead, one of the very best hip hop albums of 2006.
Their fifth album, "Pick A Bigger Weapon", is drenched in p-funk influences.
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That's the idea, this duo are revolutionaries who know how to put the P into "P-Funk", raptivists making fun of America's administration, deep down into politics from a poverity standpoint. Bay Area hip hop/funk duo The Coup are proclaimed communists and so will of course be dissed as unserious by pro-Bush ass-kissing losers because of the "Head (Of State)" track (quote: "Bush and Hussein together in bed / Giving 'h-e-a-d' head"), or by never-concerned journalists who'll consider obvious stuff like "You're voting which you're hoping, Will stop the guns from smoking, Is someone fucking joking, They're bankers in sheep's clothing" as some childish philosophy, for example.
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