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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 in 2012. Studio albums: 6: EPs: 2: Soundtrack albums: 1: ... The discography of the American California-based political hip-hop band The Coup is composed of ...
Party Music is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group the Coup. It was originally released on 75 Ark on November 6, 2001. It was re-released on Epitaph Records in 2004.
It included two versions of Carpenter and his band, The Coupe De Villes (consisting of himself, Nick Castle, and Tommy Lee Wallace), performing the "Big Trouble in Little China" theme song, three tracks from Alan Howarth's previously unreleased score for Backstabbed (also known as Mørkeleg), and a track from Escape from New York, entitled ...
The band performed The Coup songs behind Riley's vocals and they also performed their collaboration, "Hustle Up". In 2008, while performing with Galactic, police interrupted the concert and Riley was charged with using "abusive language"—a charge that had not been laid in 26 years, and never before against a performer.
In 2012, The Coup's frontman Boots Riley completed the first draft of the screenplay for the 2018 film Sorry to Bother You. While he would later direct the film from that screenplay, Riley had no way to produce the film in 2012. As such, The Coup made the album of the same name, which was inspired by the screenplay. [12]
Pick a Bigger Weapon is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group The Coup. It was released on Epitaph Records on April 25, 2006. It peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, [ 10 ] as well as number 35 on the Independent Albums chart.
Kill My Landlord is the debut studio album by American hip hop group the Coup. [1] It was released on Wild Pitch Records in 1993. [ 2 ] The album peaked at number 83 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart.