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| AV Club |
 The Coup's exquisitely literate hip-hop humanism makes the everyday seem heroic and the heroic seem everyday. Not since Soviet lads and lasses sang passionately to their tractors has the proletariat been as nakedly idealized as it is on Pick A Bigger Weapon, the stirring fifth album from the Bay Area's beloved musical Marxist troublemakers....full text |
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| Entertainment Weekly |
| Oakland rapper Boots Riley has been making radically political, increasingly brilliant hip-hop since 1993's impressive Kill My Landlord. Probably his best yet, Pick a Bigger Weapon is a psychedelic funk and soul session with cameos by MC Black Thought (the Roots) and Tom Morello (Audioslave). Some bits —like the chorus imagining sex between political figures on ''Head (Of State)'' — are a bit much. But given the smarts, and truths, behind Riley's hyperbole, it's far more admirable than hip-hop's usual tall tales....full text |
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| PrefixMag |
| Revolutionary politics has an understandably bad rep in the music industry. After all, why would a business that values the System, the Power and the Man promote music that seeks to fuck, fight and overthrow these factors? The running theory is that the industry "learned its lesson" with Public Enemy and has since buried political sentiment in hip-hop, but this idea has also contributed to the marginalization of critical thought....full text |
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