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female impersonator
nothin' but the frog in me
and theyve got a Really inconsistent discography imo so im gonna rank them rlly quick.
1 - party music
2 - genocide & juice
3 - the sorry to bother you soundtrack
4 - kill my landlord
5 - pick a bigger weapon
6 - steal this double album
7 - sorry to bother you (not the soundtrack.)
it's weird cause like... usually with a band i like, their discography will range from like. good to (at worst) kinda mid but tbh i did not like sorry to bother you at all! (the album. i fucking love the movie.) the coup has both good and bad qualities on all their albums but i think that one takes all their worst parts and amplifies them on an album that was already going in a direction that i just didn't really like at all. i think their more pop rock-oriented stuff panned out a little better when they could get like janelle monae and e-40 and shit on their stuff and that's kind of what allowed them to pull off the sorry to bother you soundtrack as well as they did (plus maybe the fact that they had to put it in a movie).
their very early stuff kinda sounds like they were trying to be communist NWA but i think they started to put their own little spin on things by the time they got to G&J and that really culminated with party music (altho i know a lot of folks like the former more than the latter). anyways i'm not trying to be too hard on them or anything, i really do like most of their stuff and i think they pulled off "communist rap group" better than anyone else who tried, but when you've got a 25-year-long discography there's gonna be some rough patches.
(not sure if anyone is gonna know what the fuck im talking about but.) honestly i think that might be the peak of the hellfyre club era for me? like i love dark comedy and things that happen at day/night as much as the next guy (provided that guy has specific music tastes) but i feel like perfect hair makes so much out of the vibe that indie rap had at that point in time that u rlly aren't gonna find on any other project? and also busdriver is a good singer and i love how far he goes in demonstrating that on the album... idk. its a specific album rooted in a specific time and place (and a specific person who was part a specific group of people) and i think it pulls that off very well!
i almost forgot..... anyways here's a brazilian afrobeat band ive listened to a little bit