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In 2006, hip-hop group The Coup released their fifth album, Pick A Bigger Weapon. While a modest commercial success, it was one of the year’s best-received rap albums. Today, the project is more relevant than ever, but not because of its music: The group’s Boots Riley has written and directed I Love Boosters, a new movie based on the Pick A Bigger Weapon song of the same name.
This isn’t the first time Riley’s music and filmmaking have intersected. In the early 2010s, he completed a draft of a screenplay, for a film called Sorry To Bother You. In 2012, The Coup released an album o...
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