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80

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8.4

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  • Summary: The sixth release from the Oakland, California, hip hop group led by Boots Riley features guests such as Das Racist, Joe Henry, Jolie Holland, Japanther, Killer Mike, and Justin Sane of Anti-Flag.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Boots Riley has at his disposal a rich, seldom-tapped seam of scathing rhetoric and concrete metaphor and fleshes out leftist analysis with humanist muscle and poetic integument.
  2. Oct 31, 2012
    91
    It's a concept album, a bold provocation, a statement, a riot, and a hell of a party to boot.
  3. Nov 5, 2012
    88
    WAVIP closes the album with an anti-climatic "we are all V.I.P." chant, the only dud on an album that otherwise makes even the hardest-hitting messages sound care-free and danceable.
  4. Oct 31, 2012
    80
    It might take some time for older fans to adjust--its punk energy aims for the calves more frequently than the neck--but Sorry to Bother You contains some of the Coup's most vehement and focused output.
  5. Dec 6, 2012
    75
    With only a couple weak tracks, Sorry to Bother You is a better-than-solid effort; more hip-hop albums should be this ridiculously fun.
  6. Magnet
    Dec 4, 2012
    75
    It's a powerhouse collection. [No. 93, p.53]
  7. Oct 31, 2012
    60
    It's an admirably ambitious mix, often a bit too unruly.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Nov 5, 2012
    10
    Along with K.Lamar and Killer Mike, my favourite hip hop album of the year! Really good.
  2. Dec 14, 2012
    7
    Sorry to Bother You is a fantastic mix of Outkast and Public Enemy's style. Beautiful, engaging and fun. After twenty years of history of theSorry to Bother You is a fantastic mix of Outkast and Public Enemy's style. Beautiful, engaging and fun. After twenty years of history of the group, The Coup are still manage to surprise. Great! Expand