The Coup - Underdogs

Steal This Album (c)1998 Dogday Records

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• Shipment
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• Riley
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[EmeraldSonNet]

One of the best songs on one of the best fucking barely heard of albums out there.

[gremlinfeatures]

boots is a fucking legend.

[SleighJessi]

Boots came to my school last week and gave us a speech about hip hop, politics, and social change. And he performed this for us acappella.

[SocialistaTribalista]

This to me is my John Lennon's "Imagine", probably the most moving song I've ever heard.

Whenever I get caught up forgetting about helping others, forgetting about standing up for those in need, whenever I get too self interested, I listen to this.

Much love from East LA

[cfmceroz]

This is my top favorite song from Boots Riley

[phraedusthamusicdigr]

I love the feel of this song very deep

[831daking]

@DRIPPY831 my bad bro i meant mainstream rappers to be exact still much respect to all those underground rappers too.Peace

[DRIPPY831]

@831daking not all rappers are like that bro

[831daking]

these guys talk on real things while new rappers only rap about girls exotic cars and how much money they got while where here struggling being underdogs trying to make a damn dollar out of 15 cents and its still not enough when it comes to paying rent. much respect bro. peace

[RedCrescentDemon]

@Putzpie4U A place where one truly is what he makes himself out to be without any outside force or faction stopping him. A place where people truly choose their own destinies. Sounds nice. Gotta read that book some time. I'm the kind of guy that likes to give every kind of thought or perception a try before truly basing an opinion on it. You've just given me a book I'm gonna go out and read.

[Putzpie4U]

@RedCrescentDemon Not by much. And in Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia he says, "Many of the normal motives of civilized life--snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc.--had simply ceased to exist. The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money-tainted air of England; there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master"

Human nature isn't really concrete.

[RedCrescentDemon]

@Putzpie4U Hmm. I should probably look them up. Still though, with the greed of mankind, it's a not a system that could work for everyone. I mean, capitalism is fucked up too, but even the lower echelon who live under that system live much better than the poverty ridden people of those dictatorships.