The soundtrack for Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s directorial debut, has been shared. The album is credited to his Oakland hip-hop group The Coup and has appearances from the film’s star Lakeith Stanfield, Tune-Yards,who scored the film, Janelle Monáe, Killer Mike, and more. Listen to it below. Sorry to Bother You is in theaters now.
Pam the Funkstress, member of the hip-hop group the Coup, has died due to organ failure, as the San Francisco Chronicle and Bay Area radio station KBLX report. Pam Warren had been hospitalized for over a month after organ transplant surgery. She was 51. She joined the Coup in the 1990s and provided scratches for their debut album Kill My Landlord.
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