Spacecho said:I've only really heard the first three albums by The Coup so i'm not sure if this is a big departure musically from what they've been doing since then.. but i'm guessing that yes it is.
Lyrically i thought it was ok. If i'm not giving Boots too much credit, is the message of the song that when 'the people' are unified in demanding what they want that its a powerful thing? Eg. if you imagine a crowd at a concert clapping for the artist to come back out to perform an encore there's an undeniable feeling of strength and unity?
Maybe i'm reading too much into it. Musically it is pretty weak.
I think it's just different, rather than weak. It ain't a hip-hop record as most people would know it, but as a sort of "Outkast meets early Stooges" kind of thing, it works really well.
The kind of hip-hop Boots makes has been largely disregarded by hip-hop's core audience for such a long time that I can't really blame him for trying to take his message to another audience via a different method. I understand the scepticism and the suggestion that this is just a blatant attempt to reach a more mainstream audience, but dude isn't really compromising himself that much. This is a guy who was in the New York Times a few weeks ago describing himself as a communist - there's only so far someone like that can ever hope to cross over.
