Released November 6, 2001 Producer Boots Riley, Tahir | Recorded 2000−2001 | |
Genre Alternative hip hop, Funk, West Coast rap, Political hip hop Label 75 Ark/Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records
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Party Music is the fourth studio album by The Coup, an alternative hip hop group based in Oakland, California.
Contents
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. The original cover was created in June 2001.
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:
Track listing
- "Everythang"
- "5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O."
- "Wear Clean Draws" (featuring Guy Hubbard, Martin Luther)
- "Ghetto Manifesto" (featuring T-K.A.S.H.)
- "Get Up" (featuring Dead Prez)
- "Tight"
- "Ride The Fence"
- "Nowalaters" (featuring Kween)
- "Pork and Beef" (featuring T-K.A.S.H.)
- "Heven Tonite" (featuring Kween)
- "Thought About It 2"
- "Lazymuthafucka"