Artist Name

The Coup

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Members
7 Mixed

Popularity

40

Followers
82,598

Origin
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Oakland, CA

Genre
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Alternative Hip-Hop

Style
Urban/R&B

Mood
Political

Born

1991

Active
1991 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
My Favorite Mutiny	123,475	4 users
Fat Cats, Bigga Fish	44,863	3 users
Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night	52,253	3 users
Pork and Beef	55,004	3 users
We Are the Ones	51,153	3 users

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The Coup is a band from Oakland, CA. Their music is an amalgamation of influences, including funk, punk, hip hop, and soul. Because of the lyrics of leader and frontman Boots Riley, they are often put into the category of political hip hop. The Coup is politically communist in its music and aligns itself with other radical music groups such as The Clash, Dead Prez and Rage Against the Machine.

The group's music is characterized by aggressive, yet danceable bass-driven backbeats overlaid by humorous, hopeful, and often witty lyrics- with a bent towards the literary- that critique, observe, and lampoon capitalism, American politics, patriarchal exploitation, police brutality, romance, working at fast food places, and being at cocaine parties with rich people, among other things.