The Coup Fat Cats, Bigga Fish ( Explicit)
From the 1994 album: Genocide Juice 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 revolutionarilycharged lyrics rank The Coup as a renowned political hip hop band aligned to radical music groups such as The Clash, Dead Prez and Rage Against the to whom The Coup s music is driven by assertive and danceable bassdriven backbeats overlaid by critical, hopeful, and witty lyrics, often with a bent towards the literary. The Coup s songs critique, observe, and lampoon capitalism, American politics, white patriarchal exploitation, police brutality, marijuana addiction, romance, working at fast food places, and disparities among race and class. The Coup s debut album was 1991s The EP and almost all of the songs on it (except Economics 101 ) were put on 1993 s Kill My Landlord. In 1994, the group release
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