The CoupBest The Coup Albums Ranked

Steal This Double Album

pitchfork

8.1

“Although The Coup have been making their rounds in the hip-hop community since the early 90s, they didn't garner mainstream attention until after the planes crashed in the World Trade Center last September. Before 9/11, The Coup had been preparing to release their fourth album, *Party Music*, with the cover notoriously depicting Coup members Boots and Pam the Funkstress standing in front of an exp”

Pick a Bigger Weapon

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7.9

“Another strong effort from the Bay Area hip-hop group-- smart, politically aware lyrics couched in full-figured, Parliament/Prince digi-funk.”

Party Music

pitchfork

7.9

“Oakland-based rappers the Coup are about as adamantly political as hip-hop comes. The original cover art for *Party Music*, planned long before the events of September 11th, and originally intended to go to press on that fateful day, featured an image of the Twin Towers exploding, with the two rappers posturing in front of them-- one holding conductor's batons, the other holding a detonator. The i”

Sorry to Bother You

pitchfork

7.2

“The Coup have always been a party band first and foremost, and Sorry to Bother You reaffirms their belief that the revolution, if there is going to be one, will start at the hips. On their sixth album, frontman Boots Riley sounds as nimble, funny, and wry as ever.”

Sorry to Bother You

rollingstone

6.0

“You will not hear a finer accordion solo on a rap record this year than the one in the Coup's "We've Got a Lot to Teach You, Cassius Green." The song also has 2012's most furious washboard solo, and its most wild-eyed indictment of corporate oligarchy: "The assistant crouched at the monster's feet . . . in a puddle of urine and meat." The Coup's sixth LP is stuffed to the gills: with Boots Riley's”