i remember the first time i saw this vid. i was 17. as much as i loved ice-t, & liked too short, i was getting sick n tired of the whole pimp, playa, hustla thing. i saw the benz logo, & said to myself, "here we go again, more typical bullshit"..... & then "boots" hands the keys over to that guy.... next day, i was on the bus to the big city to purchase the album, on cassette, for 22$. that's a lot of dough for a teen in 93. worth every penny.
The world done slep on this and we need to bring them back! That made music at the time we needed it and still a heater!!!! The whole album is a classic
its interesting - i have not seen nor heard this song since 1994; and even then i knew it was powerful - yet my competency level had not been developed yet for me to fully absorb it all. now 17 years later i am blown away by a message so real.
lilspawn206 We don't have anything close to socialism now. Socialism means that the workers own the means of production. That is not the case in America, or really anywhere in the world except for small towns and villages that do happen to be socialistic and communistic but that is pretty rare. Socialism has nothing to do with social welfare or anything like that.
***** I don't support state-socialism which is what it seems your are talking about. I agree it is bad. But socialism doesn't equal state socialism. Anarcho-communism is a socioeconomic theory or whatever you want to call it. And it includes socialism, but doesn't have taxation at all, and it supports individual liberty as much as possible. Idk, kinda confused on what you are talking about
9th grade all ova again. My adolescence was saturated with exceptional, creative, ground and neck-breaking hip hop!!! Good hip hop, please "Come Back to Me" like Janet. 😳😒
Sea Pea Same here! Was rapping Practice Lookin Hard in my head,knew it was a Coup sample in it from the video from back in the day,had to find the song it was sampled from
Boots is like if Slick Rick were to start Rapping in the 70's... man he's got SOOO much soul to him. Truly he sounds like the Shaft of Hip Hop. Too smooth
The Coup put out 7 albums- Kill My Landlord (1993), Genocide and Juice (1994), Steal This Album (1998), Party Music (2001), Pick A Bigger Weapon (2006), Sorry To Bother You (2012), and the Sorry To Bother You soundtrack (2018). Theyre all tight.
+lewis webb that's because we have been dealing with this shit for thousands of years already, they just happened to be awake back then before many of us now.
Man if you ever get a chance get Kill My Landlord and Genocide and Juice... (but especially Kill My Landlord) Amazing some of my favourite albums... and you know how many albums I have.... that's saying a lot
fuckin love this group man.. thanks to 4 putten this in youtube. The Coup could flow to just about anything in my mind. But the funk draws meaning as to what they are saying. Defenetley goes together in the end. Keep dis shit comin
@LGKids aw yeah man, you're in for a treat. boots riley is now rapping with the guitarist from ratm, Tom Morello. They go by the name of the street sweeper social club, I love it, its not as mellow or funky as the coup but it stands up for something and its what got me into the coup and all. uhm... well I thought I knew summoar but look around you'll find more man :) I'm actually dutch but your president rocks man! I hope his new health care system won't be taken away by them greedy gov' guys...
yeah...this is from the album "kill my landlord" from 1993...their newer stuff is a little funkier and more aggressive...you can listen to the newer album on myspace myspaceDOTcom/thecoupmusic...
+Ashton S SudengaLegg Goddam right on. How many folks worked their entire lives, slaving in factories and building this country that allowed the upper class to make millions off the backs of the working class. As they enter their "golden years" they're forced to now work well into their 70s and 80s just to get by...and ANYONE under 60 who thinks Social Security will be there for them when they get there is kidding themselves. I watched my grandfather work his ass off until the age of 78 only to lose everything he ever worked for by having to turn all his assets over to Medicaid. That's horseshit...the American dream us work hard and be rewarded, not work hard and give it all to the government for mediocre healthcare when you have to have it. Health insurance is a multi-billion dollar business that feeds off the working poor while fat cats at the top get fatter. I'm telling you, there is going to be a revolution in this country soon...it's not gonna be between black and white but between rich and poor...the hungriest will win. Power to the people.
Since the days I was sh#tin in diapers..it was evident the president didn't like us....delivery..witty...dope ryhme scheme...political commentary..boots was incredible MC.
@Knarf009 maybe you meant to reply to someone else because I didn't say any of those things. where did I say anything about a relationship between ethnicity and economics? where did I even use the word economics? where did I blame anyone for anything? not only are you reading into things that aren't there, but you're also being divisive, whereas I was not. you have no reason to respond defensively to what I said. your comment says a lot more about you than it tried to say about me.
@LGKids then you're not listening to the right rap music brought out today, the real revolutionary lyrics are allways everywhere, just look around and you'll find them. though I can't find anything I like more than the coup ;)
finally found this joint ,and it's 2023 and We STILL "not yet free"
i remember the first time i saw this vid. i was 17. as much as i loved ice-t, & liked too short, i was getting sick n tired of the whole pimp, playa, hustla thing. i saw the benz logo, & said to myself, "here we go again, more typical bullshit"..... & then "boots" hands the keys over to that guy.... next day, i was on the bus to the big city to purchase the album, on cassette, for 22$. that's a lot of dough for a teen in 93. worth every penny.
“Assassination attempts, i root for the Sniper!” 😱😱😱 that was a 🥶 piece 👌🏼
Classic track...
This is the most Underrated group in history..
Agreed... Album after album.
Gotta love that Oakland sound!
Also notable... Digable Planets
💯💯💯💯
Where has this been all my life ? Too underrated man, This is real hip
hop. This what the masses need rn
Driving my 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier when I was in the Air Force. Bumping this song with my neon lights under the car. I miss those years
"my teacher told me i didnt know what right was but she was wrong cuz i knew what a right was and a left and an uppercut too" classic
Boom, bap- dope cognitive westcoast rap!!! Boots Riley, E Roc & DJ Pam The Funktress...
RIP DJ Pam The Funktress aka Purple Pam
She died?? Damn.
The world done slep on this and we need to bring them back! That made music at the time we needed it and still a heater!!!! The whole album is a classic
From 2:40 - 3:37 is timeless.
I knew what a right was, and a left and an uppercut too
I got this on cassette when it came out and im still bumpin this dope ass cut in 2020 into 2021!!
One of the most Underrated songs ever!!
WHAT A BROTHA WIT A AFRO KNOWWWW!!!!! Revolutionary music!!!!!!
Lol, especially one raised in Oakland California...
1993 est.
its interesting - i have not seen nor heard this song since 1994; and even then i knew it was powerful - yet my competency level had not been developed yet for me to fully absorb it all. now 17 years later i am blown away by a message so real.
Boots lyrics are lethal
Classic 100yrs later hip hop will never be the same
3:04 onwards is pure genius!
Dam I forgot about this, This was the shit back in 1993" 94"😎😎😎
This is what i call music.
The song suffer from censorship at the end, listen to the real audio track to have a bigger and much more revolutionary ending
Rest In Power!!! DJ Pam
lilspawn206 We don't have anything close to socialism now. Socialism means that the workers own the means of production. That is not the case in America, or really anywhere in the world except for small towns and villages that do happen to be socialistic and communistic but that is pretty rare. Socialism has nothing to do with social welfare or anything like that.
*****
I don't support state-socialism which is what it seems your are talking about. I agree it is bad. But socialism doesn't equal state socialism. Anarcho-communism is a socioeconomic theory or whatever you want to call it. And it includes socialism, but doesn't have taxation at all, and it supports individual liberty as much as possible.
Idk, kinda confused on what you are talking about
Ya I know exactly what anarcho communism is lol.
***** CAPITALISTS ARE THOSE WHO HAVE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, A SMALL SECTION OF SOCIETY.
TheRandomSkillz Bernie Sanders 2016!
***** lol you are talking out of your ass
1-2-3 Everybody get a gat!!!
This was so underrated.
E-40 sampled this on Practice Lookin' Hard
His lyricism in this is so slept on and uncanny! Peace!
9th grade all ova again. My adolescence was saturated with exceptional, creative, ground and neck-breaking hip hop!!! Good hip hop, please "Come Back to Me" like Janet. 😳😒
Brilliant isnt the word
E-40's Practice Lookin' Hard brought me here!
Sea Pea Same here! Was rapping Practice Lookin Hard in my head,knew it was a Coup sample in it from the video from back in the day,had to find the song it was sampled from
Fuck, I remember when this album dropped. These SF cats were in deep and did it correct!
Still bangin in 2018 🎤🔥💉
Hip hop foreva!
Still bumping this in 2022
love the shots on the full version of this track hahaha
Boots is like if Slick Rick were to start Rapping in the 70's... man he's got SOOO much soul to him. Truly he sounds like the Shaft of Hip Hop. Too smooth
Slapper 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
They told me rap was poetry... I didn't get it until now.
Boots is the best rapper in the world.
All 3 albums are dope !!!!!
The Coup put out 7 albums- Kill My Landlord (1993), Genocide and Juice (1994), Steal This Album (1998), Party Music (2001), Pick A Bigger Weapon (2006), Sorry To Bother You (2012), and the Sorry To Bother You soundtrack (2018). Theyre all tight.
I got a mirror in my pocket and I practice looking hard.
i see the coup and heard them for first time this year at Rome, I have to say they are really good
VERY UNDERRATED !!!!
hilllllllll yeh! them boys were talking about shizzz we dealing with today!
+lewis webb that's because we have been dealing with this shit for thousands of years already, they just happened to be awake back then before many of us now.
@kkalayaan The problem, Rush, is that there are millions of people working hard day after day and not getting anywhere.
wow this is like the most interesting and deep youtube comments i've ever seen.
Don't you see?! Soulja boy is telling us to SUPERMANNNN out of poverty! MY EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED!
Maybe I'm dating myself, but, this flow will never be matched again!
:D love this song. strength to the working class
Man if you ever get a chance get Kill My Landlord and Genocide and Juice... (but especially Kill My Landlord)
Amazing some of my favourite albums... and you know how many albums I have.... that's saying a lot
yeah the message is "get out my face" lol wat a message
Golden.
I was the 1st in my Hood to Knock this back in the day!!90's in East Palo Alto!
Black Heat's track Check It All Out was the main sample for this song.
Sick flow.
Vicelord vicelord vicelord
everyday i pose a front so nobody pulls my card, i got a mirror in my pocket and i practice lookin hard.
that picture in the beginning of the video is so powerful .
fuckin love this group man.. thanks to 4 putten this in youtube. The Coup could flow to just about anything in my mind. But the funk draws meaning as to what they are saying. Defenetley goes together in the end. Keep dis shit comin
lol i heard this a million times and never saw the video until now.
the coup yeahhhhhh
There are caveats to that statement.
2018 💫
@LGKids aw yeah man, you're in for a treat. boots riley is now rapping with the guitarist from ratm, Tom Morello. They go by the name of the street sweeper social club, I love it, its not as mellow or funky as the coup but it stands up for something and its what got me into the coup and all. uhm... well I thought I knew summoar but look around you'll find more man :)
I'm actually dutch but your president rocks man! I hope his new health care system won't be taken away by them greedy gov' guys...
Our new president was shit. And the one after him. And the one after him. And we still do NOT have universal health care.
CLASSIC
yeah...this is from the album "kill my landlord" from 1993...their newer stuff is a little funkier and more aggressive...you can listen to the newer album on myspace myspaceDOTcom/thecoupmusic...
'93 CLASSIC!
1..2...3 Everybody get a gat!
Assassinatoin attempts I root for the sniper.....
NICE!! '-
Classic
Still not free!
)))-2020->😷🔥✊🏾
Kill My Landlord, Genocide & Juice and Steal This Album were amazing records so much funk James Brown's socks would be jealous.
WORD!
I agree. And look who it is that signs these clowns and makes them big.
the man in the pawn shop is boots riley's father?
Y'all hear the chorus in the intro, "Blacks are too fuckin broke to be Republicans"!
+Ashton S SudengaLegg Goddam right on. How many folks worked their entire lives, slaving in factories and building this country that allowed the upper class to make millions off the backs of the working class. As they enter their "golden years" they're forced to now work well into their 70s and 80s just to get by...and ANYONE under 60 who thinks Social Security will be there for them when they get there is kidding themselves. I watched my grandfather work his ass off until the age of 78 only to lose everything he ever worked for by having to turn all his assets over to Medicaid. That's horseshit...the American dream us work hard and be rewarded, not work hard and give it all to the government for mediocre healthcare when you have to have it. Health insurance is a multi-billion dollar business that feeds off the working poor while fat cats at the top get fatter. I'm telling you, there is going to be a revolution in this country soon...it's not gonna be between black and white but between rich and poor...the hungriest will win. Power to the people.
PMA and this shit works for me
Actually it would be possible to decrease the amount of work needed, collaboration is much more efficient than competition.
Looks pretty old. Is this from the 90's or something?
Town bizznes....
Classic
NOT yet free style
or
not YET free style
its self evident
does anyone have enlightenment on where the bassline is from? :)) epic song
the coup from oakland
@OysterOfDoom ... well said my friend...
anybody got me and jesus the pimp?
Since the days I was sh#tin in diapers..it was evident the president didn't like us....delivery..witty...dope ryhme scheme...political commentary..boots was incredible MC.
@kingofcrunk1010 ... well said my friend... more people need to know the facts! even my own people!
Thumbs up if you're white and NPR brought you here!
you're right soulja boy's message is to degrade women.
Free Oscar Lopez Rivera!
@Knarf009 maybe you meant to reply to someone else because I didn't say any of those things. where did I say anything about a relationship between ethnicity and economics? where did I even use the word economics? where did I blame anyone for anything?
not only are you reading into things that aren't there, but you're also being divisive, whereas I was not.
you have no reason to respond defensively to what I said.
your comment says a lot more about you than it tried to say about me.
does this song have an uncensored version? or was it made this way?
2:51 Is it just me or is that the face of nick offerman and neil degrasse tyson.
Where’d that image from the beginning come from?
You're right. If you came from NPR, you're white: my comment had some redundancy in it fo sho dawg.
@LGKids then you're not listening to the right rap music brought out today, the real revolutionary lyrics are allways everywhere, just look around and you'll find them. though I can't find anything I like more than the coup ;)
2019: in this land i can't stand or sit without bullets 🚔 being thrown up in my face.......
Where the real revolutionaries at?
gender roles to control