Music Blog

During my sophomore year of college, “Party Music” taught me, a fairly well off white kid from Connecticut, a number of valuable lessons. More from The Coup than any other artist, I realized that you should never apologize for your beliefs, and that you really can get a radical message out while making people bob their head, shake their ass, and in a number of cases laugh that ass off (e.g. “Ass-Breath Killers,” a funky, empowering manifesto against everything sycophantic). Boots and his posse are focused on affecting social change from a multi-race, multi-class point of view and sense of humor. Like most of The Coup’s five albums, Pick a Bigger Weapon is not an end-to-end masterpiece, though it contains plenty of unforgettable songs and hints that fifteen years, three corrupt administrations, several US military atrocities, and innumerable P. Diddy/50 Cent/Nelly/etc. albums down the line, The Coup only becoming more focused and more of a force to be reckoned with. Boots and Pam could care less about whether music has the capability to change things anymore. Whatever they’re aiming for, they’re hitting a target on some level.