Steal This Album
- 艺人
- The Coup
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Dogday
- 发行时间
- 1998年11月10日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Steve Huey
Steal This Album is the Coup's masterstroke, taking the advances of Genocide & Juice to the next level and coming up with one of the most underappreciated hip-hop albums of the '90s. Down to a duo, the Coup officially becomes a vehicle for Boots Riley's observations, which it mostly was already; still, there's a greater focus simply from the fact that it's a product of one ambitious vision. Boots' impassioned political rhetoric is still in full force, but the main strengths of Steal This Album are its fleshed-out characters and witty, detailed, image-rich storytelling that would do Slick Rick proud. Its intellectual and emotional depth comes from Boots finding the humanity not only in his ideology, but in a much-maligned class of people, articulating their frustrations and analyzing the world they live in from both the inside and outside. His flair for the dramatic reaches its apex on the seven-minute saga &Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night.& It's a complex, cinematic story about a young man who loathes his father -- an abusive pimp who eventually beats his mother to death -- but can't help internalizing some of the same behavior. Equally touching is &Underdogs,& a heartbreaking account of the everyday reality of poverty. Boots' ironic wit is all over the rest of the record. The dark-humored &Breathing Apparatus& finds a gunshot victim with no health insurance pleading with his friend not to let doctors pull the plug. Elsewhere, the previous album's Repo Man returns (in the person of Del tha Funkee Homosapien) on &The Repo Man Sings for You&; and Boots acts out a gleefully provocative fantasy (on record, anyway) with &Piss on Your Grave,& which concerns slave owner George Washington. The whole album is strikingly consistent, managing to be smart, funny, touching, and funky all at once; it's nothing short of brilliant.
最新简评（共10条）
- @BOOM.(灵魂伴侣?)：y
- @都别和我臊皮了(咱们的口号是 AQA芭蕾...)：rip
- @姚记☮(memory lane)：在Genocide & Juice的基础上再一次前进！满满的政治辞藻充斥专辑，讲它提升到了更高的境界。在Slick Rick式的讲述之下，一个个形象越发丰富，在人性和思想的轮回下，将种种挫折和痛苦连接在了一起，里里外外的**了这个世界。Coup一如既往的幽默，智慧和不拘一格。Steal This Album，时时刻刻地提醒人们，乔治华盛顿不过是奴隶制的走狗，一个善于回购债券的小人罢了。
- @nasty boogie(动物凶猛)：嗯
- @迪斯忒斯：1
- @Zfy(我还没想好要写什么...)：
- @非正常采样研究中心(Wonky Jazz)：
- @danny ave(An elephant ...)：.
- @MINGER( )：。
- @瑞欧万(我还没想好要写什么...)：Liu