Party Music

Party Music
Studio album by The Coup
Released November 6, 2001
Recorded 2000−2001
Genre Alternative hip hop, Funk, West Coast rap, Political hip hop
Label 75 Ark/Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records
75050
Producer Boots Riley, Tahir
The Coup chronology
Steal This Album
(1998)		 Party Music
(2001)		 Pick a Bigger Weapon
(2006)
Originally intended cover
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press8/10[3]
Blender[4]
Pitchfork Media7.9/10[5]
Spin9/10[6]
The Village VoiceA[7]

Party Music is the fourth studio album by The Coup, an alternative hip hop group based in Oakland, California.

The album was originally released by 75 Ark Records and has since been re-released by Epitaph Records after the group's signing in 2004.

Original cover controversy

Party Music was originally scheduled to be released in early September 2001, but the release was delayed until November of that year due to the cover art, which depicted Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress destroying the twin towers of the World Trade Center using a Covert-Labs digital chromatic tuner as a detonator.[8] The original cover was created in June 2001.[9]

In an interview with Seattle newspaper The Stranger, Boots Riley spoke about his fight to keep the album cover following the events of September 11:

“ There's been a whitewash in the media over the past couple days over what the U.S.'s role in the world is, and the fact that they kill hundreds of thousands of people per year to protect profit. Now how can I get to the point where I could be saying that on the world stage, and interrupt the lies that CBS, CNN, NBC, and everyone is saying? In my view, that [would be] by keeping the cover. Not because I think by looking at the cover you get all of this message that I'm telling you, but as a way to have a platform to interrupt the stream of lies that are being told right now.[10] ”

Track listing

  1. "Everythang"
  2. "5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O."
  3. "Wear Clean Draws" (featuring Guy Hubbard, Martin Luther)
  4. "Ghetto Manifesto" (featuring T-K.A.S.H.)
  5. "Get Up" (featuring Dead Prez)
  6. "Tight"
  7. "Ride The Fence"
  8. "Nowalaters" (featuring Kween)
  9. "Pork and Beef" (featuring T-K.A.S.H.)
  10. "Heven Tonite" (featuring Kween)
  11. "Thought About It 2"
  12. "Lazymuthafucka"

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews for Party Music by The Coup". Metacritic. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Huey, Steve. "Party Music – The Coup". AllMusic. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Coup: Party Music". Alternative Press (159): 91. October 2001.
  4. ↑ Mao, Chairman. "The Coup: Party Music". Blender. Archived from the original on May 4, 2006. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Pecoraro, David M. (January 3, 2002). "The Coup: Party Music". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Clover, Joshua (October 2001). "The Coup: Party Music". Spin. 17 (10): 125. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ Christgau, Robert (November 20, 2001). "Consumer Guide: Salaam". The Village Voice. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  8. ↑ CNN.com
  9. ↑ Wired.Com
  10. ↑ The Stranger
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