The Coup - Party Music
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Artist: The CoupEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-11-06
Music Label: Tommy Boy
Soundtracks:
- Everythang
- 5 Million Ways To Kill A C.E.O.
- Wear Clean Draws
- Ghetto Manifesto
- Get Up (featuring Dead Prez)
- Tight
- Ride The Fence
- Nowalaters
- Pork And Beef
- Heven Tonite
- Thought About It 2
- Lazymuthafucka
Music reviews of Party Music
Music Review: Better Than the Average
Rating: 4 Stars
We've all heard it before. The subject matter for this music is certainly nothing different than anything you could read in an undergraduate research paper from any student who's just encountered the campus Marxist brigade. This record--and The Coup in general--probably get a little more credit than they're due for espousing this sort of just-beyond-juvenile anti-capitalist agenda, but that's probably to be expected. There's nothing new here in terms of philosophy, and it continues to be a touch unintellectual to be considered any kind of enlightened study, but for Rage Against the Machine without the guitars, you get what you paid for.
And what you paid for is a decent hip hop record. And that's what you get. Indeed--I'd say that this record is probably a good sight better than your average hip hop album these days. The album arrangement (up until the last three tracks or so) is excellent, managing tone and rhythm very well, with a number of catchy, up-tempo, and funky songs interrupting the standard hip hop formula of droning, lyrically overwrought music. Indeed--the biggest problem that I see most folks who don't listen almost exclusively to hip hop struggling with in the genre is the fact that so many of the records tend to blend into a sort of dull, thumping, vanilla backbeat that does little more than dull the senses and befog the mind.
Simply for avoiding that fate, this album deserves three stars. The fact that it's also at least passably literary, has infectious hooks and beats, and features a lead figure who is, at the least, charismatic, fun to listen to, and possessed of the sense of humor that so many other rappers desperately need to develop nets it the fourth.
Unfortunately, the album DOES run out of gas near the end. I've had this CD for about three months now, and I find myself regularly popping it back out of the drive almost immediately after the end of Pork and Beef because the denoument just isn't that compelling. Had the group seen fit to add on another, slightly more upbeat number as an album capper (my personal solution has been the remix of Get Up released by 75Ark on their "Takes You to the Bridge" collection, which has since fallen out of availability after the label's collapse), I think I could justify giving the record five stars even with my general disagreement with it's philosophy.
As it stands, however, this is still a strong record, accessible both to hardcore hip hop fans and outsiders. Definitely recommended to any like-minded political listeners (translation: if you like Rage Against the Machine, you'll probably like this album), and also worth a listen for anybody else out there in the audience.
Description of Party Music
Oakland duo the Coup (Boots and DJ Pam, the funkstress) rank in the top three as far as underrated rap groups of the '90s go. That said, because lead MC Boots has no problem suggesting that big corporations are colluding with Satan and that corrupt cops disgust him ("Pork and Beef" implores listeners to "throw a Molotov at the pigs"), this release won't sit well with the apolitical crowd. In fact, the original cover artwork for Party Music depicted the duo detonating the World Trade Center. It was immediately pulled following the events of September 11, 2001. Boots' revolution will obviously not be sanitized, and on the opening track "Everything" he lays down his manifesto: "Every cop is a corrupt one without no cash up in the trust fund.... Every tried man is innocent.... Every boss better run and hide." The list of witty, counterculture songs is long, from "5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO"--a crude expos? of corporate "politricks"--to the poignant "Get Up," where they team up with everybody's other fave raptivists, Dead Prez. Raging against machines and offering solutions to problems that plague low-income communities has never come in a funkier package--the sonic backdrop is mostly live funk instrumentation--and the sheer breadth of topics covered here makes the joints of most top-selling rappers seem inane and unsubstantial. Fans of Mos Def, KRS-One, and Public Enemy will get a rise out of this one. --Dalton HigginsGeneral CDs
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