@Kc Jones, I agree that one is mind blowing. I guess this one has that more subtle edge to it, and it tells a story and paints a picture and is almost like a classic, art film while also being a hip hop music video.
The streetlight reflects off the urine on the ground / which reflects off the hamburger sign that turns round /which reflects off the chrome of the BMW / which reflects off the fact that I'm broke/ so what the hell else is new Love those rhymes and (like chuckdeezee said)storytelling ability. Can't get enough!
It's a story. All the other verses literally set the last verse up. It's like saying the last 15 minutes of a movie were incredible. Like yeah, but they needed the previous 1.5 hour set up to be that dope
I am just now discovering The Coup. I had heard some of their songs like once before and liked them, but now I'm seeing how ingenious they are. They have social commentary, beats and they're hood. Usually you only get one or 2 of those at a time.
this brother Boots Riley was the truth all the way back in 92 son. He bout to blow yall minds with that new movie Sorry To Bother You. Bro been deep and official af!
@BxxDxx Hoodoo totally disagree, his stories have messages the masses aren't ready to receive because they're not tuned in. His messages come from the spirit world; Hollywood is devoid of spirit. his lyrical portfolio was ahead of its time and you've only see one movie from him so far. He's also not fucking children. Assertion rejected. When he makes a movie where black males are wearing dresses for no substantially plot-relevant reason, then u can have that conversation. making a movie in hollywood when u come from HIPHOP doesn't make u a sellout unless u make a movie intended to sell-out. relax bub you haven't seen his whole bag yet
@@theothertonydutch to the uninitiated who have no business commenting on things of which they clearly demonstrate a superficial overstanding, yes. HIPHOP belongs to artists like me and Boots who kept its authenticity intact as we practiced its disciplines over the years. There can be no so-called sell-out in such energy fields. I don’t expect laypeople of the West who haven’t studied and lived HIPHOP culture in its purest formats and presentations to grasp a thing I’ve said. So you can walk out the gate here and close it behind you bub. Next
Damn the credits of this video is straight up a who's who of Bay rap at the time. E-40's sister Suga T (part of The Click, had that verse on the classic Sprinkle Me) is the hamburger girl. I couldn't make out their faces but the credits have E-40 and The Click at the stairs scene and Jamal Diggs aka J Diggs, who got caught up robbing banks with Mac Dre, at the shell game scene, which is pretty dope because this was around the time those two Vallejo camps (Crest side and Hill side) started feuding. Only one missing is Pac which is crazy cuz this would have been exactly at his intersection when this video came out.
This is the GREATEST descriptive song in Hip-Hop!!! The Coup was soooo slept on. People still are not ready for this type of message. What a cryin' shame. WAKE UP!!!!!
I can explain gentrification better than this song does... Black people want their own racial ethnostates in America, so they don't want any other races moving into what they've deemed as "their" neighborhoods and "their" communities (despite the vast majority of them owning no land or houses in those areas), even though every violent ghetto that has experienced gentrification has been vastly improved in every possible way. There, that about sums it up. Of course, if white people want their own ethnostates and they bitched and played the victim every time any other race moved into "their" neighborhoods (where they DO own most of the houses and land), that would be considered extremely racist, right? But blacks have enjoyed more racial privilege than anyone else in America for the past 30+ years, so their spoiled brat attitudes of entitlement are to be expected.
Interesting. Always wondered who he was. Please tell us more. What's his name? is he an actor? how did he get that role? More importantly, how did he feel about reciting the lines in the song and how did he memorize and stay on rhythym? He nailed it!
Why is the music video missing a whole verse? After Boots grabs the fast food, but before he goes into the party, he meets his cousin who was working inside. "I use peoples before they use me Cause you could get got by an Uzi over an OZ That's what an OG told me Gots to find someplace warm and cozy to eat the vittles that I just got Came to an underground parking lot "This place is good as any, fuck, it's all good" Walked in, found a car, hopped and sat up on the hood Ate my burger, threw back my cola Somebody said "hey"; it was a rent-a-pig, I thought it was a roller "Want me to call the cops?" I don't want them to see me Looked down and saw that I was sitting on a Lamborghini It was Rollses, Ferraris and Jags by the dozen A building door opened; damn, it was my cousin Getting off of work, dressed up, no lie Tux, cumberbund and a black bow tie I was like "hey!" ("Who is it?") "me" ("Oh, what's up man, I just quit this company They're hella racist and the pay was too low") I said "right, what was up in there though?" ("A party with rich motherfuckas, I don't know the situation I know they got cabbage, owning corporations IBM, Chrysler and shit is what they said") Just then a light bulb went off in my head "They be thinking all black folks is resembling Give me your tux and I'll do some pocket-swindling" Finna change in the bathroom and not freeze off my nuts Lets take a short break while I get into this tux"
Happen to have a great independent radio station here that played the full version today. Noticed a whole section of the song I hadn't heard before so when I got home I looked this video up. I've been listening to the shortened version this whole time!
Every fan of this music HAS GOT to see Sorry To Bother You. Its pretty much all of his music and ideas transformed into a visually stunning, surreal film. He's a visionary and i love his music, but i hope he plans on making more movies. Because thats where he really shines.
The video cuts out the interim section that leads to Boots (the lumpenproletariat) ending up as a waiter at the event of the ruling class. Regardless, the juxtaposition presentation between the impoverished hustling to eat and the oligarchs hustling to rip whatever they can away from democracy is something incredibly informative and prescient. Americans are only now starting to wakeup to how corrupt our system is, whereas Boots (through pure trauma) knew this years ago.
Conscious rap isn't gone! There are thousands of artists out there and we now have the internet to check them all out. Do some research and you'll find something you like.
this song is so old, so true, and still so true. i mean : i am stunned. i thought i hallucinated this song. the coup are REAL terry gross just brought back my faith i could never remember the names. the coup.
Boots is such a chill dude too. I'd always see him at Art Murmur the first friday on the month in downtown oakland. I'd yell "whadup Boots!" And he'd just nod at you and act real cool.
Big ups to my cuz, Ray AKA Boots....you have got great flow and an even more powerful message. I love the fact that you do your thing and send a message that makes folks think! BET with their mainstream same 'ol videos will never understand this. They can't get past BowWow and Omarion (crap!) Love you, man! When are you coming back to see the fam in NC?????
a lifetime of "i swear i this" and yes, i heard this. the coup are real and this song sums it up. but do not stop here. they ARE ALIVE AND WORKING RIGHT NOW. IM SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
This is true social commentary about how as much as one man may have control over his life and believe to be in power there are those in charge of the structure and larger circle which determines the smaller circle individuals without power can operate in, as freely as they want but always within the smaller circle.
yes yes yes, i'm glad i just found this even though it might be a little late. Better be late than never, so yeah, im gonna get that album, i like the vibe of the track. Peace.
C'mon man we're lucky we got a video! Yeah we're missing the part where he borrowed the suit but some shit has to be edited to make room for budget and time.
caught these dudes live last night been a listener since 99' serious group...they played a couple new joints some older tracks fat cat was the last song...would have been a bigga fish if Riley spit the last verse...still dope though none the less...kicked it up tempo...wow wow ...
![The Coup - Me and Jesus The Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night [Subtitulado al Español]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-dD7jfBzyPQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I always felt the Coup were under appreciated.
No credit given to em when The Blackout came out. I concur
RIP Pam The Funktress...
No Shit!
7yy6y
Yaya has 7t
arguably one of the best hip hop music videos ever made
the Pharcyde - Drop is still to me the best hip hop music video ever
@Kc Jones, I agree that one is mind blowing. I guess this one has that more subtle edge to it, and it tells a story and paints a picture and is almost like a classic, art film while also being a hip hop music video.
Slick Rick did this a lot with his story telling raps.
I was just thinking that too (Drop). Best video, not sure about that but definitely one of the most underrated hip-hop songs of all time.
Rupert Common Top 20 for sure.
The streetlight reflects off the urine on the ground / which reflects off the hamburger sign that turns round /which reflects off the chrome of the BMW / which reflects off the fact that I'm broke/ so what the hell else is new
Love those rhymes and (like chuckdeezee said)storytelling ability. Can't get enough!
That last verse is incredible.
puppetMattster honestly puts the whole song up several notches on my favorite list. So good
puppetMattster shits my future local office campaign song. just that verse
Who knew that it would all come true 25 years later :(
It's been true for the history of this country
It's a story. All the other verses literally set the last verse up. It's like saying the last 15 minutes of a movie were incredible. Like yeah, but they needed the previous 1.5 hour set up to be that dope
I am just now discovering The Coup. I had heard some of their songs like once before and liked them, but now I'm seeing how ingenious they are. They have social commentary, beats and they're hood. Usually you only get one or 2 of those at a time.
"I'm getting hustled only knowing half the game ..."
shit, this is *so* fucking great
RIP DJ Pam The Funkstress AKA The Turntable Queen.
wow thats terrible news
Word she will be missed
Rest in peace to her most definitely.
I love the political message here. We're ALL getting hustled knowing only half the game!
I know this is an old comment, but you should watch his move Sorry To Bother You. Its pure genius.
@@hihowareyou6629 .
Great message! I agree.
@@hihowareyou6629 It was directed by Boots Reily too
The Coup rollin' through dropping street knowledge over dope beats....RIP DJ Pam The Funktress aka Purple Pam
This shit is deep. They need some media heat to say that gangs are running the streets.
That's crazy because this is what's going on in Oakland right now.
Art Tech Life real talk
I was in the area during that time, it's been going on for a long time.
The most consistent west coast group when it comes to serving up non skip albums....mad overlooked crew!!!
Rest In Peace Pam...One my fav groups without doubt
It may not be as popular or recognized as others, but if I had to choose a song that's "the most Oakland", this would be my unapologetic nominee.
Had this album back in middle school
Last verse stills stands
The girl at the burger stand was E-40's sister: Suga-T.
sprinkle me mane
I thought that was her
this brother Boots Riley was the truth all the way back in 92 son. He bout to blow yall minds with that new movie Sorry To Bother You. Bro been deep and official af!
Its easily one of the best films of the past ten years. I didn't even know who he was until his movie. Now I'm just blown away by his non stop talent.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo totally disagree, his stories have messages the masses aren't ready to receive because they're not tuned in. His messages come from the spirit world; Hollywood is devoid of spirit. his lyrical portfolio was ahead of its time and you've only see one movie from him so far. He's also not fucking children. Assertion rejected. When he makes a movie where black males are wearing dresses for no substantially plot-relevant reason, then u can have that conversation. making a movie in hollywood when u come from HIPHOP doesn't make u a sellout unless u make a movie intended to sell-out. relax bub you haven't seen his whole bag yet
@@joseflindsey2260 Smells a bit gate keep-y.
@@theothertonydutch to the uninitiated who have no business commenting on things of which they clearly demonstrate a superficial overstanding, yes. HIPHOP belongs to artists like me and Boots who kept its authenticity intact as we practiced its disciplines over the years. There can be no so-called sell-out in such energy fields. I don’t expect laypeople of the West who haven’t studied and lived HIPHOP culture in its purest formats and presentations to grasp a thing I’ve said. So you can walk out the gate here and close it behind you bub. Next
Damn the credits of this video is straight up a who's who of Bay rap at the time. E-40's sister Suga T (part of The Click, had that verse on the classic Sprinkle Me) is the hamburger girl.
I couldn't make out their faces but the credits have E-40 and The Click at the stairs scene and Jamal Diggs aka J Diggs, who got caught up robbing banks with Mac Dre, at the shell game scene, which is pretty dope because this was around the time those two Vallejo camps (Crest side and Hill side) started feuding.
Only one missing is Pac which is crazy cuz this would have been exactly at his intersection when this video came out.
This is the GREATEST descriptive song in Hip-Hop!!! The Coup was soooo slept on. People still are not ready for this type of message.
What a cryin' shame. WAKE UP!!!!!
this is one of the most well-written songs ever
The coup explaining gentrification 20 years ago. #boycotthighrent
laphayettetv true but Laurence Fishburne's character Furious Styles on Boyz In the Hood broke it down a few years before this video
Yep. My favorite part of the song.
Gentrification been in effect way before.
@Agent 74 Yes brother. OPEN BORDERS!
I can explain gentrification better than this song does...
Black people want their own racial ethnostates in America, so they don't want any other races moving into what they've deemed as "their" neighborhoods and "their" communities (despite the vast majority of them owning no land or houses in those areas), even though every violent ghetto that has experienced gentrification has been vastly improved in every possible way. There, that about sums it up.
Of course, if white people want their own ethnostates and they bitched and played the victim every time any other race moved into "their" neighborhoods (where they DO own most of the houses and land), that would be considered extremely racist, right? But blacks have enjoyed more racial privilege than anyone else in America for the past 30+ years, so their spoiled brat attitudes of entitlement are to be expected.
That bit at the end was GENIUS. I love Boots Riley so much
oakland rap music is so underated !!!!!!
tucsonhiphop Dangerous Crew 🤜🏾
I’m from nyc and I thought that today I love a lot of Oakland artist they don’t get enough credit
I think this might be my favorite hip hop song ever. This is a radio edit, but I still get chills every time I hear it album version or not.
......."You Know We got A Process Like ICE T's Hair!!!!)
These cats are legends in the Bay area and they were a tight group on some black power shit but they were good
Does anyone notice the relevance of this song to today's world? This is more than just music it's a message!
Just so everyone knows, my dad is the one that plays the owner of Coke!! So cool!
Interesting. Always wondered who he was. Please tell us more. What's his name? is he an actor? how did he get that role? More importantly, how did he feel about reciting the lines in the song and how did he memorize and stay on rhythym? He nailed it!
Katie Winton-Henry that's right!
Sweet. Your dad can spit some rhymes. He keeps right up with BR like he'd been rapping for years.
Katie Winton-Henry your dads a gangster
@Mike Grandmas Kisses Uncensored?
One of the cleverest, wittiest, most insightful hip hop tracks ever written. Food for thought.
Why is the music video missing a whole verse? After Boots grabs the fast food, but before he goes into the party, he meets his cousin who was working inside.
"I use peoples before they use me
Cause you could get got by an Uzi over an OZ
That's what an OG told me
Gots to find someplace warm and cozy to eat the vittles that I just got
Came to an underground parking lot
"This place is good as any, fuck, it's all good"
Walked in, found a car, hopped and sat up on the hood
Ate my burger, threw back my cola
Somebody said "hey"; it was a rent-a-pig, I thought it was a roller
"Want me to call the cops?" I don't want them to see me
Looked down and saw that I was sitting on a Lamborghini
It was Rollses, Ferraris and Jags by the dozen
A building door opened; damn, it was my cousin
Getting off of work, dressed up, no lie
Tux, cumberbund and a black bow tie
I was like "hey!" ("Who is it?") "me"
("Oh, what's up man, I just quit this company
They're hella racist and the pay was too low")
I said "right, what was up in there though?"
("A party with rich motherfuckas, I don't know the situation
I know they got cabbage, owning corporations
IBM, Chrysler and shit is what they said")
Just then a light bulb went off in my head
"They be thinking all black folks is resembling
Give me your tux and I'll do some pocket-swindling"
Finna change in the bathroom and not freeze off my nuts
Lets take a short break while I get into this tux"
I forgot about that. Thanks!
possibly to make the video shorter
Happen to have a great independent radio station here that played the full version today. Noticed a whole section of the song I hadn't heard before so when I got home I looked this video up. I've been listening to the shortened version this whole time!
This is the video release version. You're quoting the Album version. I've never seen a video version with that verse.
And I look!
for real
Every fan of this music HAS GOT to see Sorry To Bother You. Its pretty much all of his music and ideas transformed into a visually stunning, surreal film. He's a visionary and i love his music, but i hope he plans on making more movies. Because thats where he really shines.
Well I hope he keeps doing music, when the revolution comes we'll need a soundtrack
The video cuts out the interim section that leads to Boots (the lumpenproletariat) ending up as a waiter at the event of the ruling class.
Regardless, the juxtaposition presentation between the impoverished hustling to eat and the oligarchs hustling to rip whatever they can away from democracy is something incredibly informative and prescient. Americans are only now starting to wakeup to how corrupt our system is, whereas Boots (through pure trauma) knew this years ago.
So much talent! I miss conscious rap. The lyrics maybe be even more relevant now than they were then
Conscious rap isn't gone! There are thousands of artists out there and we now have the internet to check them all out. Do some research and you'll find something you like.
Unrated classic. Yougnoes that game.
this song is so old, so true, and still so true. i mean : i am stunned.
i thought i hallucinated this song. the coup are REAL
terry gross just brought back my faith i could never remember the names.
the coup.
amazing. i love the flow and the rhymes
Boots is such a chill dude too. I'd always see him at Art Murmur the first friday on the month in downtown oakland. I'd yell "whadup Boots!" And he'd just nod at you and act real cool.
LOVE!!!this song Much respect from Trini.The COUP r slept on
real hip hop..in the era i grew up in..i havent heard this since high school
so dope to revisit this classic
Big ups to my cuz, Ray AKA Boots....you have got great flow and an even more powerful message. I love the fact that you do your thing and send a message that makes folks think! BET with their mainstream same 'ol videos will never understand this. They can't get past BowWow and Omarion (crap!) Love you, man! When are you coming back to see the fam in NC?????
Thank you so much!!! I cannot believe you have this...You know whats up and that is lovely...
Nevah gets old! I could listen to this every day!
YO THAT LAST VERSE HOLLY SHIT. I rewound and listened to it three times so dope
Waiting on that Sorry To Bother You Movie!! Watching this to tide me over beforehand.
Doesn't get better than this #storytelling
One of my favorite all time videos. His petty crime was NOTHING compared to that bourgeois networking party.
Deserves way more attention.
We are taking these if you please. The Coup is the sheit...
Rest in paradise Pam the Funkstress Djs live forever
Getting hustled only knowing half the game!
A nickel and dime hustler who realizes how inconsequential he really is. A brilliant song
Baloo the Bear set it off properly! 0:00
a lifetime of "i swear i this" and yes, i heard this. the coup are real and this song sums it up. but do not stop here. they ARE ALIVE AND WORKING RIGHT NOW.
IM SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Just watched Sorry to Bother you and flipped out when the credits rolled and it said Directed by Boots Riley.
The opening quote is from Disney's "The Jungle Book" (1967). In case you were wondering. =)
2020 & still bumping this classic...Boots Riley way ahead of the game..
My hometown!! Great music and video!!
Who can fucking dislike this? This guys lyrical skill is just off the hook!
THE COUP, ONE OF THE BEST OUT THERE!!!
he is a lyrical genius
I Love this Record,Real Eye opening ,Soulfull feel,damn I miss REAL RAP MUSIC
one of best hip hop songs of all time, genius wordplay
Been looking for this tune for years! Just couldn't remember the name of tune or artists!
They're still ahead of their time :p love these guys, they came up here to AK a few months ago and put on a helluva show!
wow! Thats a good read. Coup was always one of the deeper groups.
still current and one of the most slept on emcees...
Excellent, le premier couplet est génial.
i just don't understand why radio doesn't play more music and artist with substance
This is true social commentary about how as much as one man may have control over his life and believe to be in power there are those in charge of the structure and larger circle which determines the smaller circle individuals without power can operate in, as freely as they want but always within the smaller circle.
Respect from Barcelona!
the song is so funky and dope.
best collection of jackets ever
I must've been living under a rock because I just discovered this. it's dope.
Same here. 😊 Better late than never, right?
great analysis!
I'll be back when this hits 20'000.000 playbacks. That's in one month.
Instrumental sounds so similar to method man and redman instrumental in cereal killer
+Has645 both tracks sampled the same riff from George & Gwen Mcrae - The Rub
@@colonelsanders4006 knowledge. Sumpin these fuckboy "rappers" know nothin bout these days
Some very good points the video is making. Hopefully people will actually listen.
This is so freshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh true hip hop!
yes yes yes, i'm glad i just found this even though it might be a little late. Better be late than never, so yeah, im gonna get that album, i like the vibe of the track. Peace.
C'mon man we're lucky we got a video! Yeah we're missing the part where he borrowed the suit but some shit has to be edited to make room for budget and time.
this shyt was a classic and alot peeps overlook this joint
God, this song is so great. I'm plotting how I can make my coworkers and people in my life watch it ALL the way.
Boots looks just like Andy Samberg at 3:44.
Coup is so good. Wish they done made a video of that song 'gunsmoke' that sh1t was just too dope son
RIP Pam.
The Coup = best hip-hop group come out the O-town
R.I.P - Pam the Funkstress
caught these dudes live last night been a listener since 99' serious group...they played a couple new joints some older tracks fat cat was the last song...would have been a bigga fish if Riley spit the last verse...still dope though none the less...kicked it up tempo...wow wow
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Been trying to find this song for years. Just saw BR on hip hop evolution!
the sample is george mccray. The Slap Report has it for download.
This video used to get played all the time on "video jukebox".
AMAZIN!!!!!! AS ALWAYS
a treatise in the picaresque...
one of my fave lines, "i'm getting played only knowing half the game"
brilliant.
God damn this song comes wit it 😃🤘🏼
im diggin the bassline
Holy Shit!! I never heard of them before.
E-Roc's not dead, he just hung up the mic. Riley's still friends with him and everything, it's just that e-roc's got a family and a job now.
Classic song .... Very underrated and underappreciated group...That last verse was the shit.