“We’re the have-nots, but we’re also the
go-gets,” raps Boots Riley early on the Coup’s fifth album. From there,
Riley — a Bay Area MC and avowed Marxist — charges up his group’s
most militant record yet with calls for an armed revolt against the
government (“ShoYoAss”), tributes to shoplifters (“I Love Boosters!”)
and a thumbnail sketch of our complicity in Saddam Hussein’s reign of
terror (“Head [of State”]). [read more and listen]
