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.
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Told in first person, this is the story of a boy, his prostitute momma, and her evil pimp. Fear, sex, money, poverty, history repeating itself, violence against women, revenge, and redemption are just some of the poignant themes we experience through Boots Riley’s gritty narrative
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