It’s hard to overstate how much Kanye West changed rap. A holistic thinker with a technician’s ear and a filthy imagination, he may not have been the first hip-hop producer to think in terms of producing ‘songs’ and not just ‘beats,’ but he was the best at it; his experiments opened the genre up tenfold. Of course he’s the perfect anchor for Jay Z on “Takeover,” as Hov brags about turning Nas’ hot line into a hot song. The Coup closes out this set, with Boots Riley proving he was always a movie director on the cinematic “Jesus The Pimp.”