A thread about Boots Riley

ayentee · Post by **ayentee** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:18 pm

Appreciate an extremely talented producer and emcee in this here thread.

stand out tracks:

We Are the Ones
Ghetto Manifesto
Lazymuthafucka
I Know You
Santa Rita Weekend
Me & Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night

ayentee · Post by **ayentee** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:57 pm

bout 30 min after posting that i stumble upon this song.......totally coincidental.

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Julius Seizure · Post by **Julius Seizure** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:55 am

kill my landlord is a personal classic.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:25 am

Amazing live performer. Engaging and a nice mix of enraged/humorous.

NH.

Brokewax · Post by **Brokewax** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:54 am

Genocide and Juice >>>>>

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battlecatmeowstab212 · Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:12 am

Employee wrote:Amazing live performer. Engaging and a nice mix of enraged/humorous.

NH.

I'll agree with this, although I think musically he was at his best when he had E-Rocc to balance him out.

vermillion · Post by **vermillion** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:21 am

Boots Riley with E-Rocc>>>>>Without

With that being said, their first 3 albums are all very good, but after that they haven't been nearly as good.

ayentee · Post by **ayentee** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:13 am

vermillion wrote:Boots Riley with E-Rocc>>>>>Without

With that being said, their first 3 albums are all very good, but after that they haven't been nearly as good.

im not sure i agree with this. "We are the ones" is up there with his best work. One of the rare times where a corny accent works extremely well

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:40 pm

Employee wrote:Amazing live performer. Engaging and a nice mix of enraged/humorous.

NH.

The live show with his band took me by surprise. I imagined him to be real laid back but he was more energetic on stage than I thought.

The only thing about The Coup is that I wish I heard more from Erocc while he was in the group like he was. He definitely added a different element to the group.

Joe Pesci · Post by **Joe Pesci** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:08 pm

ayentee · Post by **ayentee** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:24 pm

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:38 pm

Boot is one of my favorite MCs, but there is NEVER an excuse for rapping in an accent. Fuck that song. (which otherwise would be dope)

ayentee · Post by **ayentee** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:59 pm

Dids wrote:Boot is one of my favorite MCs, but there is NEVER an excuse for rapping in an accent. Fuck that song. (which otherwise would be dope)

accent makes the song

Texas Raised Mikey · Post by **Texas Raised Mikey** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:26 am

ayentee wrote:bout 30 min after posting that i stumble upon this song.......totally coincidental.

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This.

And of course Boots Riley.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:38 am

Boots is underrated as hell. He gets hated on because his fans can be kinda obnoxious and overtly political music is just easy to hate on. Should have gone farther in the underrated tournament.

peanut butter · Post by **peanut butter** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:48 am

My favorite MC of all time

PEACE

shakeanjake · Post by **shakeanjake** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:18 pm

He's great. And Pam's beats are ridiculous more often than not. But he's the opposite of organic, his verses are really worked over and meticulous. Not a bad thing necessarily, but I like that straight-from-the-dome raw-talent-on-wax sound, and since he's opposed to freestyling (read:can't) his shit is always too precise.
That said:
Pimps
Me and Jesus The Pimp
Funk
Dig It
Nowalaters
My Favorite Mutiny
Fat Cats Bigga Fish
Last Blunt
Repo Man
Piss on Your Grave

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:06 pm

I would say Boots' precision is one of his good points. I bought every album except Pick a Bigger Weapon, which, to me, was the best album of '05/'06. My roommate bought it, so I jammed his.

I didn't care for the production on Party Music. But Pick a Bigger Weapon had a sound that reminded me of Prince/The Time, yet reminiscent of the funk from The Coup's earlier work.

Texas Raised Mikey · Post by **Texas Raised Mikey** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:09 pm

Boots Riley>>> all of yall.

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:19 pm

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my favorites

Pimps (Freestyling at the Fortune 500 Club) is really good too.

oh hell yeah to "Pimps". that was my shit.
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odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:12 pm

shakeanjake wrote: but I like that straight-from-the-dome raw-talent-on-wax sound, and since he's opposed to freestyling (read:can't) his shit is always too precise.

Texas Raised Mikey · Post by **Texas Raised Mikey** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:13 pm

odium-LSC wrote:
shakeanjake wrote: but I like that straight-from-the-dome raw-talent-on-wax sound, and since he's opposed to freestyling (read:can't) his shit is always too precise.

I missed that post.

Yohan · Post by **Yohan** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:03 am

I always really liked "Not Yet Free".

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:12 am

my favorite tune from boots is 'fat cats, bigga fish' from that genocide & juice album, he merked that tune, boots and the coup are legends in the game, big em up

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:50 pm

The Coup- The Magic Clap

http://soundcloud.com/antirecords/the-c ... magic-clap

http://exclaim.ca/News/coup_return_with ... t_to_guest

1. The Magic Clap
 2. Strange Arithmetic
 3. Your Parents' Cocaine
 4. The Gods of Science
 5. My Murder, My Love
 6. You Are Not A Riot (An RSVP from David Siquieros to Andy Warhol)
 7. Land of 7 Billion Dances
 8. Violet
 9. This Year
 10. We've Got a Lot to Teach You, Cassius Green
 11. Long Island Iced Tea, Neat
 12. The Guillotine
 13. WAVIP

peanut butter · Post by **peanut butter** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:05 pm

Sounds like a lost track from

PEACE

Larry2times · Post by **Larry2times** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:50 pm

God almighty, its so terrible. I dont care if he really was using live instruments all along like he said that time, fuck that fusion fuckery in its Pompaloose asshole.

Worst part is he seemed to find a nice balance with that shit on Pick A Bigger Weapon that counteracted his overly rigid flow hes had since E-roc's departure but this is a bridge too far. I thought hed got all this fuckery out his system with that abortion with dude from the student union nu-metal band. Still at it.

Fuck this cunt and the pale white horse he rode in on.

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:51 pm

Boots Riley >>> God & Allah

Sucka Ducka · Post by **Sucka Ducka** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:09 pm

Huge Coup fan but this shit sucks as did the Tom Morello collabo album.

slooth · Post by **slooth** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:17 pm

tell homeland security
we are the bomb

i'm all in. OCCUPY AND ESCALATE
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boots just announced a kickstarter as well:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/190 ... r-the-coup

A thread about Boots Riley

A thread about Boots Riley

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