![]() Pick a Bigger Weapon is out on Epitaph, and while releasing a provocative hip-hop record on a label normally associated with California punk rockers is acting globally (or nationally, anyway), the Coup can’t decide whether or not they should be thinking locally. Are these really “bigger” weapons than Party Music’s explosives? The cover to the Coup’s new record Pick a Bigger Weapon depicts Riley and DJ Pam the Funkstress demolishing the interior of an office building with baseball bats and magic markers. ![]() Although well received by critics, Boots Riley’s left-leaning hip-hop outfit always ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time: Their early efforts harkened to the funky political awareness of Boogie Down Productions, but 1993’s Kill My Landlord sunk like a stone during the Year Gangsta Broke, and Party Music, the Coup’s don’t-call-it-a-comeback album of 2001, had the spectacularly poor foresight to depict the group blowing up the World Trade Center on the record’s cover. Few artists in the annals of popular music have the poor fortune of the Coup.
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