Party Music is the fourth studio album by The Coup

The Coup

The Coup is a political hip hop group based in Oakland, California. It formed as a three-member group in 1992 with emcees Raymond "Boots" Riley and E-Roc along with DJ Pam the Funkstress. E-Roc left on amicable terms after the group's second album but appears on the track "Breathing Apparatus" on...

, an alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop

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 group based in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

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The album was originally released by 75 Ark Records and has since been re-released by Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records

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 after the group's signing in 2004.

Original cover

Party Music was originally scheduled to be released in early September 2001. Its release was delayed until November 2001 due to its original cover art, which depicted Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress destroying the twin towers of the World Trade Center

World Trade Center

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 using a Covert-Labs digital chromatic tuner

Electronic tuner

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 as a detonator. The original cover was created in June 2001.

In an interview with Seattle newspaper The Stranger

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, Boots Riley spoke about his fight to keep the album cover following the events of September 11

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Trivia

Boots Riley

Boots Riley

Boots Riley is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club.-Biography:...

 wrote the song "Wear Clean Draws" for his daughter.

The song "Pork and Beef" is featured in the 2007 comedy Superbad.

The song "Ride the Fence" is featured on the video game Skate

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Boots Riley

Boots Riley

Boots Riley is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club.-Biography:...

's other group Street Sweeper Social Club

Street Sweeper Social Club

Street Sweeper Social Club is an American Rap Rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The band primarily consists of guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocalist/emcee Boots Riley of The Coup. The band has been testing songs out during Tom Morello's...

 has recorded a cover of "Everythang" on The Ghetto Blaster EP

The Ghetto Blaster EP

The Ghetto Blaster EP is the first EP from the rap rock supergroup Street Sweeper Social Club, released on August 10, 2010. It features covers of "Paper Planes" by M.I.A. and "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J as well a remix of the band's second single "Promenade." They also cover The Coup...

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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-Kash)
5. "Get Up" (featuring Dead Prez
   Dead Prez
   Dead Prez stylized as dead prez is a hip hop duo from the United States, composed of stic.man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City, New York. They are known for their confrontational style, combined with socialist lyrics focused on both militant social justice and Pan-Africanism...
   
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6. "Tight"
7. "Ride The Fence"
8. "Nowalaters" (featuring Kween)
9. "Pork and Beef" (featuring T-Kash)
10. "Heven Tonite" (featuring Kween)
11. "Thought About It 2"
12. "Lazymuthafucka"