Boots Riley

Person · Open Library

Works

5

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Film & TV

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Raymond Lawrence 'Boots' Riley (born April 1, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Sorry to Bother You (released July 2018), which he also wrote. In 2023, the streaming series I'm a Virgo premiered on Prime Video, which Riley…

Known for

• The Last Critic2026
• Hollywood Black — Self2024
• Fremont — Restaurant Patron (uncredited)2023
• I'm Charlie Walker — Bartender Ray2022
• When I See Them, I See Us2021
• Rope a Dope 2 — Mayor2015
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
• 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film — Self2013
• First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture2009
• In Prison My Whole Life — Self2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1971

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

217

Total plays

848

Boots Riley (born Raymond Lawrence Riley in 1971) is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club. In 1991 Riley founded the political hip hop group The Coup with fellow United Parcel Service worker E-roc. Pam the Funkstress, DJ for the group, joined in 1992. Boots was chief lyric writer and produced the music on the albums. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Boots+R

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Part of

The Coup

Given name

Raymond

Family name

Riley

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Occupation

screenwriter

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

political hip-hop

Instrument

voice

Record label

Anti-

Image

Boots Riley in a leather jacket.jpeg

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