The Coup - Dig It

[iTrick22]

Listening to this shit in 2012. Hold Dat.

[benzclips]

Im suprised ive slept on all of their hits for so long. 

[Indepeoplemusic]

This was the hot stuff in the day.

[dannyzee4]

If I ever met Boots I gotta thank him. He's changed my life. Same goes for Zack De La Rocha and Tom Morello. These guys were most important for educating me and waking me up to the world.

[Muslim91]

When did the rock have an Afro?

[tmanagement]

Use to bump the shit out of this back in 7th grade when it came out in 93', Montera jr high in Oakland CA, those were the days, hella taggin goin on, skatin and shit, fightin

[SOADafi]

I met Boots RIley at Occupy Oakland last night, best moment of my life...

[OysterOfDoom]

@SOADafi Met him at Boulder a few years ago... just wish he had more time to answer my question, but he spent so much time reciting his lyrics that we didn't get to hear his opinions. Still awesome though. Given the history of the coup, I would love to hear his opinion on the "occupy the ports" movement of 12/12.

[chrisolaf530]

@OysterOfDoom He was there when we occupied the port on Nov 5th..so I think he would be behind us this time too.

[jumpindog]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!!!!

The Coup, ya heard!!!!!!1

[MC1O1FER]

still listinin in 2011

[birgander]

Diggin it in sweden

[JAY1BLAZE]

They was so ahead of they time.....

[robertoalmazansales]

the wuevossssssss

[julyphoenix]

"Told the streets were paved with gold

Whoever paved that shit got minimum wage too!"

[TheBBoyCompany]

Do You Understand The Metaphoric Phrase?

[TheBBoyCompany]

That's The Spirit...

[MrNapt]

im new to these guys, whats there best album?

[ManicEskimo]

@MrNapt can't go wrong with "steal this album" one of my favourite hip hop albums of all time

[MrNapt]

@ManicEskimo thanks man, i picked this and kill my landlord up like last week and boots is now one of my favorite mc's

[cantecleer]

~ The record ski- , the recor ski-, the record ski- , the record skips cuz my voice is kinda scratchy from yelling "OH SHIT!" when five-oh comes to harass me...

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

Black Comrades Rock, REVOLUTION NOW!

[sighedeffects]

How can someone thumbs down this?

[molly0000000s]

I think someone said it before but it takes some talent to get Communist Manifesto to rhyme. Tune to boot.

[venturae]

1:52

[LiBlub1]

You said the streets were paved with gold

Well who ever paved that shit's got minimum wage too!

They are painfully brilliant

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

this is dam Great, infectious beats, Epic lyrics

[udownwithepic]

peace and love to boots and e roc

[projectETH]

OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND SICK PLACE 2 BE! (im white on the outside)

[LIVExLEARNxLOVE]

fuck commies

[TyrannisSicSemper]

@LIVExLEARNxLOVE

Good point! Compelling argument! I see what you did there!

(fuck your mom)

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@TyrannisSicSemper I'm all into his suggestion, it could lead to more commie kids :.D.

[TyrannisSicSemper]

@TheRacistsMustDie

good point! I'm an anarchist but I'll pretend to be a commie if she's cute and likes to smash the state.

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@TyrannisSicSemper Hell yeah, I'm sadly oscillating between all sorts of positions, I think I'll either end up as a boring social democrat or a dictator of a country with an average temperature of 23°C.

[cnees208]

This sound like the The Doors- Backdoor Man

[drummer87ish]

????WHERE THEY FROM????

[IceManLikeGervin]

@drummer87ish

The Bay Area (San Fransico/Oakland, California).

Str8 up cognitve hiphop dopeness!

[KYSNB]

Always liked the coup but y fk columbus?

[buzz851]

@KYSNB Many people don't like the way Columbus treated the indigenous people when he "discovered" the America's. Couple that with the fact he thought he was in India I can see why people would say Fuck Columbus.

[KYSNB]

@buzz851 Well any body can make a mistake as far as him thinking he was in India. Shit they thought the world was flat back then right. LMFAO. But yeah I get what your sayin.

[ChrisnSnoop]

@KYSNB

It's not about him thinking it was India. Columbus was a colonizer who led Spanish expeditions to steal and conquer Native American lands. He captured slaves and his actions led to one of the bloodiest mass murders in history, that of the North/South American natives who are STILL largely mistreated.

[KYSNB]

@ChrisnSnoop Key word bein expeditions. That's a party of more than just him so I'm sayin. Single out one person from a time that was filled with people just like him? Man I did graduate. I was probablly drunk when I made the comment and being sarcastic.

[inFLUence2508]

i wanna see pam the funkstress using her breasts scratching me:)

[JamalTellEm]

FUCK COLOMBUS!

[costybarbu]

2:00 -> that fat guy is biggie smalls?

[samjs721]

@costybarbu

lol nope.

[lari861]

Can't believe i slept on this for that long . fuck my ignorance

[QCBEC]

@lari861 You understand why the world hate american now.

[lari861]

@QCBEC Ca avoir avec quoi exactement? Tu hais p-e les americains mais t'écoute leur musique par exemple

[QCBEC]

@lari861 J'était pas serieux lol.

Mais cest vrai que ont reproche au americain d'etre ignorant cest tout se que je voulait dire par la.

[MyEmoWaffle]

man its tough being bi

[TheUltralucker]

probz from Germany :D

nothing is better to chill^^

[TheDanielo85]

sweet shitt, i like it:>

[NoNORADon911]

New to me : ) Reminds me of De la soul.

[nauris705]

AHHH, MEMORIES

[UhrShak]

I'd understand all of the lyrics in this track, but i'm polish and my english is average.... damn! :/

[Steamboat12002]

that's the guy from street sweeper

man he hasn't aged

[plumbandlevel2]

So, this is 17 years old, and it's still better than MOST of what you'll hear on the "market" today...

[6angelo9]

boooooy back when music had meaning and substance!..now the youth is being mislead on a daily!..

[MoonLightFacade]

I DIG IT, even though I'm a market anti-statist.

Whoever said you couldn't like music which disagreed with your political affiliation? Yeah, fuck you.

[MyEmoWaffle]

@MoonLightFacade not to bug u man , but whats so good about market systems in the first place? before public police corporations in the united states used to use private detective agencies to break up unions. but the worlds already wrapped in hell anyways , whatever

[MoonLightFacade]

@MyEmoWaffle Nah, no worries dude. Market systems definitely aren't perfect, but the thing about economics is that it's purely subjective: there is no good nor bad. The ideal civilization is one which allows complete economic freedom by allowing settlements and large urban areas to function via their own political and economical rules. Unfortunately, this can only be accomplished in a government willing to grant such powers, or an anarchistic civilization.

[TheGeneralMoe]

classic!!!!

[xzyanya]

here's a twist cuz we'll overthrow like kwame nkrumah, spread around the wealth as if it were a vicious rumor <3

[FunkFight1]

@ecologicalsocialist I don't understand. Was there something sexist said in this song?

[EnergizerBunny804]

weird politics, but good music

[AntifaAustralia]

Maoist Black panthers? Ye-yah! MAO MAO!

[getyoasshome]

mau mau is not the same as maoism...

[1024Carebear]

Turn this sh*t over like Bush did a boatload of HATE....

[dannyzee4]

it's mau mau not mao mao

[OfficialFrizzo]

I can't deny Boots' talent but he's killin' me with this communist bullshit. Be careful what you wish for.

[getyoasshome]

as if capitalism works lol lol lol

[colebiz]

these guys are fucking awsome

[boysdontcry17]

"speaking dialectical analysis"

these gentlemen are actually learned!

[StrictlyBG]

westcoast rap? sound slike eastcoast rap ..funky

[geogeyboy219]

listen to the retard who said that dumb shit i know who boots riley is i got his fuckin autograph u retard

[AYEMang]

Dope.

[iamthejake2000]

Hella jih, fool.

[oscarelnica]

FUCK COLUMBUS!

[hymnofashes]

Mao's administration turned into a one-party capitalist state that suppresses any political dissent or attempt at unionization. Without democracy, there's no difference between fascism and socialism.

Yeah, American blacks are totally disenfranchised, but at the same time they need capital and education as much as, or more than, redistribution. And I don't know if its a race thing so much anymore. Poor people are fucked in this country.

I mean the president is black...

[ShutYaBloodclot]

@hymnofashes I disagree with your vision of Mao as the installment of capitalism didnt occur until after his death.

Anyway although the issue in the USA is ultimately class, we must understand there's still racism, including institutional racism in the USA.

Obama is just a puppet for the capitalist class.

Obama's presidency doesnt mean a thing because the capitalists are still in power and they are mostly white and dont give a fuck about black people or proletarians in the USA.

So yeah

[hymnofashes]

@ShutYaBloodclot My point is that doesn't matter much that Mao was nominally communist because he created a rigid class society just like the Soviets did, and even today its a rigid class society. Maybe your'e right and I'm glossing over too much.

Obama does mean SOMEthing. He's a capitalist puppet, sure, but a racist? I doubt much 'institutional racism' will be caused by Obama.

[bluwakpa]

If Obama is a puppet and he aint opposing inst racism, how could he NOT perpetrate inst racism? Might as well be a white guy over there in the white house. Its not his fault, he's just a politician in a political system of violence. Whats he gone do anyway? Give the red race their land back? Fuck no.

[NationalPopularism]

they make all whites look bad, spoiled . and stupid in hollywood. Similaril, they make us black people look like gangsters and fake gangsters at that:(.

[hymnofashes]

@NationalPopularism Hollywood makes black people look like buffoons, like Eddie Murphy, or casts an oreo as the token black in every other kind of movie.

They are so race-conscious a lot of the time that it ruins the storytelling.

Hollywood itself is spoiled and stupid and white, and ends up making movies about itself, even when they aren't thinking about race. 90% of whites are poor, but the entire ruling class is white and Hollywood peddles the fantasy of class mobility to the rest.

[geogeyboy219]

he isnt talkin about tse tsung mao the mao mao is an african organization within that country

[hymnofashes]

@geogeyboy219 Yeah I know but you wouldn't call it the Mao Mao collective unless you identified with Mao somehow.

I'm not dissing communism (at the moment) I'm saying Mao is a bad example of it.

[ShutYaBloodclot]

It's actually Mau Mau.

And Boots does talk about Mao Tse-Tung.

Mao didnt start the class society it was already in China.

Mao did everything to smash class society.

Obama might not have started institutional racism but he doesnt challenge it, he leaves it be.

[ECWUSA1995]

Mao also is responsible for a government that smashes down on human rights activists and censors the internet. Good job Mao and all other communists of the world.

[ShutYaBloodclot]

@ECWUSA1995 The Chinese regime since the presidency of Deng has completely deviated from Mao's path.

Internet censorship cant even be Mao's fault as their was no internet in his time.

Mao encouraged people to give useful criticism to the government, which is what the cultural revolution was for.

[AntifaAustralia]

@ECWUSA1995 smashing Nazis, and greedy selfish bastards, and religious fundamentalists is against human rights? they are against human rights, Mao was for True Human rights and Democracy.

Censorship is the problem with the communist party of china and Deng xiao ping, the deformation/revisionism of china created such issues, it also seeked to blend into capitalism.

Mao was a great leader, revolutionary, anti-fascist guerilla fighter and tactician, philosopher, and communist theorist.

[geogeyboy219]

UNDERSTOOD

[espark1089]

mother fucker he looks like boots riley

[Btrstarwolf]

the dude with the fro looks like jamie kennedy

[BrotherChimaobi]

Well, isn't this some of the illest I've heard in the longest rhyme (time/rhyme, get it?). Brother just rhymed Comunist Manifesto, Ernesto and Nkrumah in ONE song. Hot dang.

Did it with skill too, smoothe mayhn.

Black power is real and coming to a hood near you.

One,

- Brother Chimaobi

[locoxlog]

What happened to music like this, brothers like these. The 90's ended and articulation and saying something real when out the window for music like this. It's sad.

And can I say, finally someone with a little dictum on youtube. I'm speaking of you Brother Chimaobi. Very nicely put.

-Logan

[urbanjournalist]

One of the illest songs in hip hop history.

Do understand the metaphoric phrase......

[dude0wnage]

OLD SCHOOL !!!

[sebukraine]

Real hip hop, none of this new chart shit. Boots and Morello takin over, the Street Sweeper Revolution is coming, watch out.

[RedScare94]

Presto, read the Communist Manifesto

Guerillas in the Mist, A Guavara named Ernesto

And I dissent as I clench my fist

Spread around the wealth as if it's a vicious rumor.

Turn this shit over like Bush did a boatload of Haitians

I'd like to take a moment to say FUCK COLUMBUS

The Coup is the best!

[GomerDose]

yeah well maybe these niggas should roll down to Cuba and see how well this commie shit works. Niggas be shot for trying to leave the island. pish

[bs9nonsense6]

damn good song man. i'm just starting to get into hip-hop (real hip-hop like oldschool Dre and NWA) and it's shit like this that needs to get into the mainstream even though the record producers and fat cats up at MTV won't make any money off of it. primo shit man

[Canaderek]

The Coup's music is fucking great, and message is even more important.

It's not big commercially, because it doesn't sound like the music kids are told to like.

Check out "Lazy Muthafucka" and the rest of "Party Music"

[jacksalley]

i remember seeing boots in San Diego no one was showing them love...i bought "party music" from him and its the original released by 75 ARK...he was a coll cat....hes doing some ill shit with Tom Morello

[miles1jj]

Boots is one of the best...so underrated and so revolutionary in his artistic approach and contribution to hip-hop

[dlemma74]

Was livin' in Berkeley when this album dropped. Just saw boots as the front man for a new band.

[cupphouse]

reminds me of Digable Planets, go check that out if you didnt know about it.

[juannrachelle]

a classic!!!!1 brings back da memories.....

[djspair]

3:25 Wow., The old Montgomery Wards building. My graff heads no what's up.Haha

[roskoeheat]

the coup is soooo slept on....

[MACHYISM]

The record skips, the record skips, the record skips cuz my voice is kinda scratchy! yeah Ive caught tags on that bus!

[ozmandiusdrakes]

to MustworshipSatan: You satanic ahole. You have the nerve to comeup here and spread your NWO disinfo. FYto da I, This was dropped in 93 bitch

[MustWorshipSatan]

lol, they are still in there early 80s

[mikethaironlung]

how now brown cow? i'm down wit the mau maus

[xXxxxxNABILxxxxXx]

the world really needs more bands like the coup - bands who aren't afraid of class war.

[theinfamous1efcuttin]

Kill My Landlord!!! Great Album indeed!

[DESERTHAWKIN]

an alltime favorite and classic

[PIZZA1000]

This some good stuff right here yes sir

[therebelwaltz]

I'd like to take a moment to say "fuck Colombus"

[needlejerk]

@therebelwaltz

[wuzreeelytho]

@therebelwaltz congrats idiot be proud of your stupidity

[FRONTMEAT]

was jammen dis from way back! so glad i found it!! one big love gives respect to the coup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[cibida1]

seen this yesterday on MTV JAMS, "bay day"

good shit

[kocity69]

avent heared of them before i saw the film superbad , but their are so good , their are top

[HckyFan0001]

i like street sweeper social club and Boots is the new lead singer. check em out. pretty good. Boots and Tom morello.

[metrofc11]

i kno i have their cd, its really good

[metrofc11]

i got the cd, im a big ratm fan, its great

[inechaime]

The Coup is an amazing rap group. boots is one of the best rappers ever to live.

[metrofc11]

the record skip, the record skip, the record skip, the record skip cuz my voice is kinda scratchy

[metrofc11]

id like to take a moment to say "f*ck columbus"

[axeman721]

wat6chur language josh. lol, jk

[metrofc11]

how now brown cow im down with the mau mau

[Zao125]

fucking sick comrades!

[GTADMUSIC]

"Turn the shit over like Bush did a boatfull of Haitians!"

[LionGong]

Presto read the communist manifesto

[Homee2000222]

this song is cool ride the fence is my favorite

[urasmore]

i like we are the ones, but ride the fence is really good

[squeak1498]

ffs get a clue dude mau mau rhythm collective, the group that they were a part of at the time, get your facts straight before you start ranting

[Craydon]

never liked e rock...

[zamg289]

These guys are more ill informed than ten-thousand college jerk-offs in Ché shirts. They probably mean well, but this group is beat. Not dead prez stick-up-the-ass-hypocritical-­beat, but misguided. Art and politics are mutually exclusive.

Ps Feel free to mouth off, call me an idiot, fag or whatnot.

[MUrrrrD]

yeah they are sick! i get ya dude :)

[MUrrrrD]

Art and politics are mutually exclusive?? Right, because no literature from, say, Chaucer onwards, has had any sort of political and also been a credible artistic work. I'd direct you to absolutely anything by George Orwell, Joyce's short story 'Ivy Day in the Commitee Room', Blake's humanist masterpiece 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', and Godwin's fantastic 'Caleb Williams', aka 'Things As They Are.' There are plenty of others, but they'd make a good start.

[MUrrrrD]

And, from the world of music, any and all Rage Against the Machine, Nas, The Clash, much of Radiohead, including 'You and Whose Army' and 'Electioneering', Arcade Fire's 'Windowsill', Muse's 'Black Holes and Revalations' album, most of NWA's stuff, all of Public Enemy's stuff, Minor Threat, The Specials, The Jam. I'll shut up now.

[zamg289]

(1/3) I'm not saying that a work of art cannot convey other addition values, values with intellectual and/or emotional heft. However if it's really art then those values will play a secondary role. We may praise a piece for its cultural insights, the progressive statement it makes makes, or the courageous stand it takes, but to honor it as "art" when its aesthetic impact is not its dominant feature is to fall into a philistine trap of shoddy semantics and false emphasis.

[zamg289]

(2/3) Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that deals with our powers of sensory perception; more specifically, with how we attempt to understand and evaluate the external phenomena registered by our eyes and ears. When the composition that delights, thrills, captivates, or challenges our sensory receptors has been created for that very purpose we call it "art".

[thePolerin]

you're asserting your rather narrow view of what art is and what it should be as an attempt to shut down a point of view you dislike.

Trolling 101.

Get better.

[zamg289]

My statements were not a view, but definitions. A view would be opinions. The definitions stated previously were part of a essay published by Bantam. I found them useful in illustrating my point.

I see trolling as harassing, badgering, and possibly off topic comments, with the purpose of eliciting an emotional responses. My purpose was purely critical and on topic.

[Tahmus]

How can aesthetics not communicate politics too? It seems like you have a very narrow-minded few of art that fetters any investigation into culture and focuses on a surface form. Art is also a form of communication too, zamg289.

Hip hop is musical poetry. Fans of the Coup appreciate the vibrancy of their sound, as well as the message they are conveying to their listeners. So no, politics and art are not "mutually exclusives."

[LionGong]

Saying that art should be praised firstly as an aesthetic is the bourgeois definition of art. That definition is what perpetuates a culture of oppression. If art/culture is not liberated, people cannot be either.

[remy1121]

with ya comrade

[TaraKaylor]

Boots is a really fuckin awesome guy, I met him when I saw him with Tom Morello, I can't wait for the Street Sweeper's album!

[Randen111]

Happy May Day, comrades.

[f1KING]

happy may day!

[stef1061]

patience is not a virtue... boots is the shit

[Moncada56]

sing it!!

[Zao125]

fuk yeah!

[BlackJack719]

Why the hell am I hearing the top 20 every damn day when I turn on the radio?

-Put this shit on blast and i bet it blows the radio freqs ears out from the realness boots and E was kickin'

[AvEryBadApPLe]

real rap music legends

[iamtheender]

The Coup are Maoists.

Just to clear it up.

[ngaronoataki]

Really guys. Its great to see and hear raw fresh egaging Minds mixing politics and real world survivalism. Word strategists care little for petty surface squabbling. Travel with them and learn for yourself, they aren't breast feeding anyone. You don't get, go get some for yourself. That is the whole nine yards of the point. But hey, what can a sister know right? Love these guys, power to them.

[thomasvisee]

sorry i can't post links on youtube

[thecardcheat1989]

The Coup played one of the best shows I saw last year. They were fucking dope, and I got to meet Boots Riley after the gig. That cat's cool as Hell, man. I asked him who he was voting for, and he said he was planning on voting in the local propositions, but that he probably wasn't voting for a Republican.

[jesusmaf1a]

bro, i love the coup but pick a bigger weapon and party music are a little to synthpop like for me. I think after e-roc left they lost a lot of their funk sound other than on steal this album

[stacyandangela]

Bring this BACK!!!

[ViperRob42]

Marx owns you!

[Randen111]

wait...why did E Rock quit?

[mrsfincter]

Simply on of the funkiest hip-hop groups ever.

[intr1nzic]

this is my shit. how come the dj never gets love any more? i miss cutts on the hook