Catbox for image also: - https://files.catbox.moe/9x3lya.png --- The original cover design predated the twin attacks on the World Trade Center by months. The CDs with the fiery World Trade Center image on them were set to be cranked out at printers on the day of the attack, but the label immediately called to 'stop the presses' in a sense when the events of that day started to occur. The album's release date was delayed until November of 2001 and it was given a new cover. >--- >Eerie Image Pulled From CD >https://www.wired.com/2001/09/eerie-image-pulled-from-cd/ >https://archive.ph/oE1Pz > >--- >The Coup Party Music: 9/11 A Decade Later >https://www.rapmusicguide.com/blog/the-coup-party-music-911-a-decade-later/ >https://archive.ph/z4w1D > >--- >The Coup >https://rapandhiphop.fandom.com/wiki/The_Coup >https://archive.ph/4Vaus#Party_Music_and_post-9.2F11_aftermath > >In 2001, The Coup released Party Music to widespread praise. However, in part because of distribution problems, sales of the album were low. The original album cover art depicted group members Pam the Funkstress and Riley standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions, and Riley is pushing the button on a guitar tuner. The cover art was finished in June 2001 and the album was scheduled to be released in mid-September. However, in response to the uncanny similarity of the artwork with the September 11, 2001, attacks, the album release was delayed until November of that year with the cover featuring a hand with a flaming martini glass. > >The attention generated concerning the album's cover art precipitated some criticism of the group's lyrical content as well, particularly the Party Music track "5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO." The song's lyrics includes lines such as "You could throw a twenty in a vat of hot oil/When he jump in after it, watch him boil." Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin cited the song in calling the Coup's work a "stomach-turning example of anti-Americanism disguised as highbrow intellectual expression."