Editing The Coup (section)

== Cultural impact ==

===Literature===
*The 2001 novel ''Too Beautiful For Words'', by Monique W. Morris, was based on The Coup's 1997 7-minute opus "Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Grenada Last Night".<ref>{{cite news|author=AlterNet / By Jeff Chang |url=http://www.alternet.org/story/12194/the_new_coup_debut |title=The New Coup Debut |work=Alternet |date=2002-01-08 |access-date=2014-01-27}}</ref> Morris kept the original storyline and main characters of the song as the setting for her work. Some of the dialogue in the book is directly from the song as well. The title of the novel is from the refrain of the bridge in The Coup's song. Published by HarperCollins Publishers.
*[[Vijay Prashad]]'s 2002 book, ''Fat Cats and Running Dogs'' starts with a quote from The Coup's "Fat Cats and Bigga Fish".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twOwWfx_UpkC |title=Fat Cats & Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism – Vijay Prashad – Google Boeken |isbn=9781842772614 |access-date=2014-01-27|last1=Prashad |first1=Vijay |year=2002 |publisher=Zed Books }}</ref>
*The 2013 book ''Party Music'', by Rickey Vincent, was inspired by the concept of The Coup's 2001 album ''Party Music'' and discussions that the author had with Boots Riley about the subject. The book is a history of The Lumpen, the Black Panther Party's funk band. Riley wrote the introduction to the book.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hildebrand |first=Lee |title=Rickey Vincent's Party Music: The KPFA DJ's new book chronicles how The Black Panther Party used funk to spread its revolutionary message |work=East Bay Express|access-date=2014-01-27 |date=2013-10-23 |url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/rickey-vincents-party-music/Content?oid=3745240 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111004205/http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/rickey-vincents-party-music/Content?oid=3745240 |archive-date=November 11, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |title=RICKEY VINCENT, A Tribute "Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music" With Davey D, Blanche Richardson, James Mott and William Calhoun 
 |work=KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley 
 |access-date=2014-01-27 
 |url=http://www.kpfa.org/events/kpfa-radio-941fm-presents-rickey-vincent-tribute-party-music-inside-story-black-panthers%E2%80%99-ban
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140127044348/http://www.kpfa.org/events/kpfa-radio-941fm-presents-rickey-vincent-tribute-party-music-inside-story-black-panthers%E2%80%99-ban
|url-status=dead
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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
| edition = First
| publisher = Lawrence Hill Books
| isbn = 9781613744925
| last = Vincent
| first = Rickey
| title = Party music: the inside story of the Black Panthers' band and how black power transformed soul music
| location = Chicago
| year = 2013
}}</ref>
*''My Favorite Mutiny Zine'' is a zine named after The Coup's song of the same name. It was based in Wyoming and appears to have stopped printing in 2011 or 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Favorite-Mutiny-Zine/205173359520378|title=Welcome to Facebook – Log In, Sign Up or Learn More|work=Facebook|access-date=29 September 2014}}</ref>

===Music===

*The 1993 song "Practice Lookin' Hard", by [[E-40|E40]], has a chorus and a concept built around the lyric "I got a mirror in my pocket and I practice lookin' hard", from The Coup's 1993 song "Not Yet Free". Boots Riley performs the vocal in the E40 song, and performs in the video alongside [[Tupac Shakur]] and E40.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkToQqG1qw | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/avkToQqG1qw| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=E-40 – Practice Lookin' Hard |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-11-24 |access-date=2014-01-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*The 1998 song "Way Past Dark" was released as an exclusive track to the ICU (Ill Crew Universal) album "The Revival."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Ill-Crew-Universal-ICU-The-Revival/release/1927418 |title=Discogs |publisher=Discogs |date=1998-08-14 |access-date=2021-09-16}}</ref>
*The 2013 song "Romantisch", by Jel of Anticon fame, has a chorus which is a vocal sample of Boots Riley from The Coup's 1994 song "The Name Game".<ref>{{cite news|author=Ian S. Port |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-09-04/music/jel-anticon-label-15-years-hip-hop-weird/ |title=Unsettled: Jel and the Anticon Label Celebrate 15 Years of Weirdo Hip-Hop – Page 1 – Music – San Francisco |newspaper=SF Weekly |date=2013-09-04 |access-date=2014-01-27}}</ref>

===Film===

The 1997 film ''[[Money Talks (1997 film)|Money Talks]]'' starring [[Chris Tucker]], has exactly the same opening scene as the opening scene of The Coup's 1993 video for "Not Yet Free". In both, the protagonist is riding around in an expensive looking Mercedes-Benz, pulls up to the car wash to park and gets out. In both, it is at this time that we figure out that the protagonist merely works at the car wash. In both, the protagonist holds the keys out in front of the actual owner and feigns as if he's going to hit the owner.<ref name="youtube1">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-liNf9GEt8A | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-liNf9GEt8A| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=The Coup – Not Yet Free |publisher=YouTube |date=2007-02-11 |access-date=2014-01-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLz3uVmwNQ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217164757/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLz3uVmwNQ| archive-date=2014-02-17 | url-status=dead|title=YouTube |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2014-01-27}}</ref>