Boots Riley of the Coup lays some truth on straightedge Chicago party rapper ShowYouSuck.
by Miles Raymer
For more than two decades Chicago native Boots Riley and his Oakland-based group the Coup have been sustaining hip-hop's revolutionary spirit, providing an alternative to apolitical pop-rap and to the type of conscious rap that in its eagerness to be thought-provoking ignores its party-starting roots. Over the span of half a dozen albums, beginning with 1993's Kill My Landlord, they've fused radical, intellectually rigorous Marxist theory and of-the-moment protest lyrics with house-rocking funk that's unapologetically fun.…[ Read more ]