I suffer from Expert Whiteboy Dialysis, which is where I can't like hippitty hoppitty shit that too many other white folks like. The Coup suffers from this, because Gin & Genocide was like a whiteboy Richmond in 1996 cokehead themetrack, so I heard it a bunch, to the point I hated it and everything it was perverted to stand for. Steal This Album is a great album, and the first one I think The Coup did without E-Roc, which took away any street twang and left them with nothing but Chomsky-ist povertyisms. I still dig this tape a lot though, the "Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night" is the most famous song, and a great one, but my favorite is easily "Cars & Shoes", mostly because I can relate, and also because I've forever since I heard it wanted to sample "in an '81 Datsun", because until I got my shitty '91 Volvo gunmetal colored stationwagon, an '81 Datsun 200 SX was my favorite car forever, so much so that I've still got it sitting in my front yard full of plastic bags of clothes to go to the Goodwill, should the car ever start again.
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