The Coup "Taken This"

[crowbarkelly01]

400 years ago dude were is my doh hahaha

[IceManLikeGervin]

The Coup- Eroc, Boots & DJ Pam are certified dopified on the ill cognitive hiphop tip!!

[LiBlub1]

Takin' these...?

[synt1f1k]

"among other things", lol

[phism]

"takin these" *

[Tenuxsi]

LOVE SCratching

[ponchopopcorn]

so hella 90's west coast revolutionary!

[Darkalex4ever]

motherfuck to nateee1000

[Mackadoeshez]

The Coup is chilly most from coast II coast!!

[callumbrowns]

OLD SKOOL HIP HOP NUFF SAID.

[Darkalex4ever]

hello

[anarchodolly]

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

bring on the revolution motherfuckers!

[jackriter]

And here i was thinking I was the only anarchist who listened to The Coup.

[GEEkoneseer]

eee you really want to have second ZSRR or China in America? pfff haha

[YungPsylent]

man they KILLED it wit the "We Are Siamese" shit from lady n the tramp!! LMFAO

[stagolee7]

I'm in this video. :)

[MOBOOZ]

REAL HIP-HOP!

[sotocapo]

come up come up c-c-ome up mayne!!!! :P

[Shittlestickers]

To be honest, I've been assailed a ton by black "hustla's" for no fucking reason at all. Whether it's harassment or once a mugging, it's always when I've been minding my own fucking business and always from blacks. I've never had to deal with it from anyone but blacks.

So if I had the chance to gentrify low-income housing - I'd do it, and I might in the near future. If hustlers only want to care about themselves, then I guess I should take a page from them and turn tricks on communities.

[Shittlestickers]

Oh, and I won't call anyone any names here. I'm just letting you know that what goes around comes around. If hustlers want to fuck with god-damn everyone, then I have no problems steam-rolling their communities.

[1980kangaroo]

That's right not to call names. you're also right, I guess poetically, about "what goes round" So how do exactly (in the fuck) do you think centuries of race-based slavery and imperialism is going to boomerang? Gee whiz, what about the proportion of kids in poverty, shitty schools in a country of billionaires, and lead paint? Doesn't that come back around to afflict the comfortable?

"you know, takin' from the rich, givin' it back to the po'"

[RHCP10206]

hey shitsticks or whatever so you just go around to every coup video and say the same shit about how you could give 2 shits about hustlers and want to take out there communities well yea how about you take a look around maybe it wouldnt even be necisary if we werent being fucked by the united snakes.. a combo meal of marxism communism and democracy is whats needed here

[lureed1971]

Nothin' like sinkin' to the lowest common denominator. It takes too much strength to rise to the top huh brotha?  Weak minded fool.

[1980kangaroo]

REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH!!!

Politricksters won't do it.

"Rich man, share the riches with the poor, before dem share their poverty with you" - Joseph Campbell

[Shittlestickers]

Yeah right. Petty crime & hustling is going to redistribute the wealth.

No, getting off your ass & doing something will redistribute the wealth. You think blacks are incapable of doing so? No, they get off their asses every single day and make it... but people with the mentality shown in this video blame it on whitey and go around fucking with everyone.

The hustlers deserve every bit of poverty they get. Make as much rap as you want about it, we'll continue to earn money and laugh at it.

[1980kangaroo]

You are right that a mugging isn't the redistribution required, like from billionaires to starving babies. What yoiu don't understand is that Boots isn't recommending random mugging, as shown, but making a statement that "society has the criminals it deserves," that keeping people poor and deprived has violent, unintended consequences, random victims.

If you say that you have "no problem" with a genocidal "steam rolling their communities" approach then you get the problem the israelis have.

[dacull]

hell yeah. My favorite song from the best hip hop group I can think of, never knew it had a video

[nikpregler]

this video is called "Takin' These"

[anthonydjuan]

i think the point is missed with this video: these guys are robbing white folks NOT black folks. in '94 this was a huge change. they did it "right" in a sense. they took from those who deserved to get robbed from. not to mention, The Coup never did took the victimhood route. they just did what they had to do. it is beautiful hip-hop.

[manimal75]

Mad props Ray!  this is from Big Eli from the High!

[RoaR3000]

*at 1:47 the light skinned brother ripped it seriously!!!* - LMFAO...Yeah,Bootz tendz to kill micz 24/7,nevermind 1:47 ;-) light skinned...LOL

[sotocapo]

at 1:47 the light skinned brother ripped it seriously!!!

[milkymike375]

like he always do...

[jahermos]

He's smokin' hot, too.

[gabeeatscocoapuffs1]

I remember seeing this on a commercial on BET but they never actually showed the video to this song on Rap City now I know why

[sotocapo]

y??

[nobody3693]

fuckin nice

[sotocapo]

the beat is killa. i remember the coup..gosh where is the real hip hopness....

[masterphoenixca]

The Coup are still around. Check out their '06 release Pick a Bigger Weapon.

[kangiwiyaka]

I love this video, especially when the fat dude steals the plant. This introduced me to The Coup.

[5burowz]

WOW! Never knew The Coup had a video for this song. The first 4 Coup albums are great.