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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
I swear to God, Moistworks is more profesional than Blogger. Shit doesn't work half the time, it's down or you sit there like a stoned monkey hitting "Try Again" buttons for 20 minutes straight. Maybe I am a monkey, spending my time typing stuff like this:
(a href="http://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Double-Album-Coup/
dp/B000069CLP/ref=sr_11_1/103-5076181-6798221?ie=UTF8" target="new")[Buy It](/a>
But it's not me. It's Blogger's the monkey here.
Brian wrote this great post and couldn't get in - this was all day - and I didn't read the post, either. But I'm sure it's great and it's Wednesday night already, but Blogger's back for now. Lots of college kids spent their book money on iPods this year. MW has a job to do.
FAT CATS, BIGGA FISH
The Coup
Genocide and Juice
Capitol : 1994
[Buy It]
The beat, flow, smart & subtle narrative, are so on here. The microphone level are so off, at 3: 26 or so. But it's kind of brilliant. There's a nice sketch on the Coup's first album, "Kill My Landlord": A reporter calls and asks to speak to Boots from the Coup. (W/he prounounces "coop"), and he wants to get Boots' reaction to the riots outside. "It's not a riot, it's a revolt," Boots says, and spends the rest of the day spitting dialectical analysis:
DIG IT
The Coup
Kill My Landlord
Wild Pitch : 1993
[Out of Print]
Here are a few Coup songs that have nothing to do with dialectical analyses except insofar as our lives are controlled by forces which are so far beyond our grasp or, frankly, understanding that we never will control them:
FUNK
The Coup
Kill My Landlord
Wild Pitch : 1993
[Out of Print]
LAST BLUNT
The Coup
Kill My Landlord
Wild Pitch : 1993
[Out of Print]
ME AND JESUS THE PIMP IN A '79 GRANADA LAST NIGHT
The Coup
Steal This Double Album
Foad : 2002
[Buy It]
A new Coup album came out this year. Cocaine Blunts dude interviewed Boots Riley [Here], and Amazon has this to say: Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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 expose of corporate "politricks"--to the poignant [ed. - omg, "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.
WHatever. But here's that GET UP song, which makes this post a palindrome, and here's to Blogger, Brian, and you.
(ps: is it ok to put kate moss in blackface if half the proceeds go to fight aids in africa? ooh, also, i saw the last king of scotland this week and guess what? it's the most racist movie since black hawk down. guess what else?? that's like, the least of its problems. if i didn't have my plate full this semester i'd write something serious, for a serious place, but also, i'm kinda happy to sit this one out.)Labels: alex, hip-hop
posted by Alex
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