Steal This Double Album [Explicit Lyrics]

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Even though Steal This Album is its third LP, the trio of Boots, E-Roc, and DJ Pam the Funkstress remains one of hip-hop's most underrated bands. Rather than represent the big ballers, the Coup kick it to the other side of the black community--the proletariat. With most other rappers lost in the paper chase, the Coup expose the capitalist cheddar chase for the hustle it is and promote politics beyond mere polemics. Merging their message with intricately funky music, they are artists and activists for a new era. The revolution won't be televised, but you can find it recorded on Steal This Album. --Oliver Wang

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Steal This Double Album [Explicit Lyrics]

Tracks:

The Shipment
Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night
20,000 Gun Salute
Busterismology
Cars & Shoes
Breathing Apparatus
U.C.P.A.S.
Pizza Man (Skit)
The Repo Man Sings For You
Underdogs
Sneakin' In
Do My Thang (Skit)
Piss On Your Grave
Fixation
What The Po-Pos Hate
Swervin

Tracks:

Live Performance

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Even though Steal This Album is its third LP, the trio of Boots, E-Roc, and DJ Pam the Funkstress remains one of hip-hop's most underrated bands. Rather than represent the big ballers, the Coup kick it to the other side of the black community--the proletariat. With most other rappers lost in the paper chase, the Coup expose the capitalist cheddar chase for the hustle it is and promote politics beyond mere polemics. Merging their message with intricately funky music, they are artists and activists for a new era. The revolution won't be televised, but you can find it recorded on Steal This Album. --Oliver Wang

Customer Reviews:

Dont steal it, buy it!!!.......2007-06-05

I'll admit that Im a newbie when it comes to The Coup. I first heard The Coup on Dead Prez's Get Up(off of the Turn Off The Radio mixtape). Then I read an interview with The Coup in this local magazine concerning their controversial cover for Pick A Bigger weapon. Then I decided to search for their albums. Unfortunatly I was only able to pick up this one and Pick A Bigger Weapon. Boots Riley is a gifted and creative Mc who will slip you some solid gems in the music whether or not you're too slow to catch it and Pam "The Funkstress" does her thing as usual on the ones and twos. Standout Tracks: THE SHIPMENT, ME AND JESUS THE PIMP IN A '79 GRANADA LAST NIGHT(great story about a pimp he knew who had his mother as one of his hoes), 20,000 GUN SALUTE, BUSTERISMOLGY, BREATHING APPARATUS(creative as well as truthful on the hospital situation), THE REPO MAN SINGS FOR YOU, UNDERDOGS(the deepest song on here), FIXATION, WHAT THE PO-POS HATE etc. Dont forget the all too funny Piss On Your Grave and the hilarious interlude that comes before it. Filler: NONE!!! Bottom Line: The Coup's Steal This Double Album is another excellent album to add to The Coup collection. Its not only creative and conscious music, its soul music. Boots Riley was impressive on the lyrical tip, the guest appearances were not bad and Pam is the best Female DJ you'll ever hear and the live performance on disc 2 is proof of that. All in all it was a great effort. DONT STEAL THIS DOUBLE ALBUM, BUY IT!!!

Scratch the Barcode (4.5 stars).......2006-05-06

Steal This [Double] Album was the very first Coup album I've picked up and I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I never knew what this group: Boots Riley, Pam The Funkstress, and E-Roc (if you want to add him) was all about or their rhyme style, but it was a great experience for me. As many reviewers pointed out, the hit song, "Me and Jesus The Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night" is a long ballad about his days hanging around a pimp named Jesus and how it's affected his mom an his life. "Busterismology" is a hard hitting/fast moving song that talks about starting the revolution.

The next few tracks will explain to me that this trio wasn't a very rich group. "Cars & Shoes" is a song about Boots riding in a P.O.S. hooptie driving. "Breathing Apparatus" is funny because its sets Boots and E-Roc in the hospital without any health insurance, so they fear that the doctors will do something to them like "...f*** with their breathing apparatus..." "Pizza Man (skit)/Repo Man Sings" both features vocals from Hiero member Del The Funky Homosapien playing as the repo man. "Underdogs" will carry over from the previous song, basically sayings that Boots feels your pain if you can't pay your bills on time (I'm guessing that hes had his stuff repoed also). "Piss On Your Grave" is a good song too, and "Sneakin In" will make you laugh a little bit.

"Fixation" will have your head nod on how Boots rhymes throughout the song.

The second disk is just a live performance by the group.

It's a good album if you're new or old to The Coup, and want to get a feel on opinionated/political rap. I highly recommend it to those who like independant rap from The Bay Area, or just want to try something new, because you won't be dissapointed.

Standout tracks: Me And Jesus The Pimp..., Busterismology, Cars & Shoes, Repo Man Sings For You, and Fixation

The other side of the hip-hop nation.......2004-02-06

The Coup are always at their best when deconstructing hip-hop mythology. On "Me and Jesus the Pimp" the Coup look at the pimp's lifestyle from the viewpoint of a victim of pimp machinations, in this case a boy borne of the relationship between Jesus the Pimp and "his #1 ho" in which the protagonist avenges the death of his mother at the hands of his father after a healthy dose of self-realization. On "Cars and Shoes" Boots, Pam, and E-Roc serve up an antidote to all those rollin' in my Benz car anthems with humor and not a little bit of reality.
The Coup continue to provide a refreshing alternative to the "gangstas" by pointing out who society's REAL gangsters are: the corporations, the government, the media, etc. "The Shipment" and "Piss on Your Grave" are, musically, my favorite cuts with the harmonica in the former and the horns on the latter. So buy, beg, borrow, or STEAL this album.

This is hip-hop.......2003-12-02

If this listing was for the single of Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night, the price would still be a bargain. Luckily for both reviewer and reader, there is much more to this album than that cut.

There has been a long history of commercial critique in hip-hop that is normally overwhelmed by rather bland rappers seeking scrilla. From time to time more conscious tracks and rappers come to the forefront. Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Whodini and others achieved commercial success with singles focusing on social issues. Steal This Album tackles more topics than Warren Sapp does top picks. In a just world The Coup would be in that group. In a just world though, The Coup wouldn't have had to make this album.

When Adolf Eichmann was convicted in 1961 for his role in the genocide against Jews, Sinti, Romani and others, he spoke this in defense:

I understand the demand for atonement for the crimes which were perpetrated against the Jews. The witnesses' statements here in the Court made my limbs go numb once again, just as they went numb when once, acting on orders, I had to look at the atrocities. It was my misfortune to become entangled in these atrocities. But these misdeeds did not happen according to my wishes.

On The Repo Man Sings for You (feat. Del the Funkee Homosapien), The Coup have a look at this type of moral rejection of responsibility for one's actions. The differences between a Repo Man and Eichmann are only in scale and in details as is made clear in different words on this track. Boots isn't misguided though in his indictment of the Repo, he sees as well the hand behind it, "Banks that give the loan figure - damn, in the worst case we makin money cause we had it in the first place".

This album is full of similarly incisive critiques of a variety of life's rigged trials. Whether discussing relative pride and arbitrary assumptions of superiority (Cars & Shoes), the po-po's effect on the respiratory system (Breathing Apparatus), or having a nostalgic look at how a poor kid got into shows (Sneakin' In), Steal This Album provides a listening experience like few, if any albums can. The production on the album is some of the best of the 1990's. A good portion of it is derived from funk but it is unique throughout. The production gives proper time for some serious scratchin' as well. Some excellent bass and guitar lines fill out the drums, horns, and whatever else has been laid down on the beat. This album is not without moments of brevity though. Piss On Your Grave is kind of a guilty indulgence for the revolutionary who has always wanted to step on Washington's grave and lets loose with bodily waste.

There are so many exceptional tracks on this album it is absurd to me that one can actually stick out as the best. Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night is THE track on the album. If there is another cut in hip-hop that is better by any margin worth noting, I have yet to hear it. Tearing down whatever idea is behind Pimp Chic, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night describes pimping from the perspective of a nine-year-old son of a prostitute. Even beyond having a rhyme scheme that is über-fresh, this track exemplifies the unification of art and message. There is no abstract nicety nor didactic lecture to be found here. Instead one finds a piece of art with a message woven intricately into it. One doesn't have to sympathize with The Coup's Marxist philosophy to be moved by this track. This is as good as it gets.

half great - half ok.......2003-04-17

The live Cd is recorded at a low quality. It does capture the energy of The Coup's live show though. The second half of the studio CD is great. Viva la Revolucion! Right on Boots & Pam!

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