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Imani Coppola

Save the Bipolar Bears! Global Heart Warming Party

About Me

http://www.myspace.com/jiggyjeffreyIn an age when every self-tanned pop tart talks tough about Pushing Boundaries by ditching the Hanes Her Way and getting arrested, Imani Coppola is sitting back on a stoop in Bed Stuy and not giving a shit. A brash, biracial beauty with the voice of an angry angel and a truck-stop vocabulary, she’s more concerned with creating music that feels like having a line of coke blown up your ass. The release of her eighth studio venture, The Black And White Album, which drops in November 2007, marks a departure from the sound to which many of her fans have grown accustomed. The melancholic, sample-heavy soundscapes featured on albums like Chupacabra and Aphrodite have given way to a more anarchic, visceral noise that settles on no genre in particular. After touring with Ghettotech collective Peeping Tom and taking on experimental side projects like Little Jackie—a 6os ponytail group based on the Lisa Lisa song of the same name—Imani has emerged with her most eclectic and personal album to date. There was a lot of biography to mine: As a multi-racial kid growing up in the whitest of Long Island suburbs, Imani basically grew up neutral until she was 13—when hip-hop blew up and she could finally cash in all her black chips. (“Woke Up White,” a punk track off the latest album recalls a similar identity crisis, which hit her when she was walking through her brownstone—but not brown-toned—neighborhood in Park Slope and realized she needed to move.) While studying Violin Performance in SUNY Purchase, she briefly thought she might be Asian. But she was given little time to explore this new twist in her makeup, as she was swept up by Columbia Records freshman year and pushed into the studio to record an album for them. A lot of transformations followed, including a period of entrepreneurial poverty that saw her living in Staten Island and reciting lyrics into a Dictaphone, until she formed a record label of one and began producing albums independently. For The Black & White Album, she teamed with Ipecac Recordings. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she continues to write and produce tracks that she fully expects will blow your fucking mind.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2005
Band Website: imanicoppola.net
Band Members: Bipolar Bear Hopelessness

Bipolar Bear Far Fetched Immediate Goals

Bipolar Bear Confrontations

Bipolar Bear Promiscuity

Bipolar Bear Moodiness

Bipolar Bear Mania

Bipolar Bear Dementia

Bipolar Bear Desperation

Bipolar Bear Delusions of Grandeur

Bipolar Bear Aural Hallucinations

Bipolar Bear Excessive Drinking

Bipolar Bear Thoughtfulness

Bipolar Bear Lucidity

Sounds Like:
Record Label: Ipecac
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Smalls is my crystal ball

Plasma, force fields, superconductors, SmallsSmalls is my crystal ballnever mind the bunny angel!...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:58:00 PST

R.I.P Tarka

Tarka.... a touched, gifted beyond words, sensitive creature who wanted to go back home. We are so deeply saddened by your untimely departure. Thanks for all the beautiful songs you left behind. http:...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:24:00 PST

R.I.P Sean Bell

Citizen Cope"Friendly Fire" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7rVd2cTcU
Posted by Imani Coppola on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:02:00 PST

Check out "I Love Your Hair" Remix

http://www.myspace.com/hiredgoonsmusic
Posted by Imani Coppola on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:45:00 PST

Didn’t Need To Take Acid To Figure This One Out

I was at 6.7 on the treadmill at the Marriott gym in Austin...trying to outrun the chemical demons I’ve created by a 3 day drinking binge....and suddenly it hit me...Don’t just be in the m...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

Subway (not) fair increase

Ladies and gentlemen this Brooklyn bound F train will be turning into a motorcycle at Jay Street Borough Hall. Passengers wishing to reach their destination must transfer across the platform to the M...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

For the ladies

Ladies...If you find yourself fighting with a sensor toilet that KEEPS ON FLUSHING OUT OF TURN while you’re taking a piss or whatever your business is.... check this out:take a little square of ...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:06:00 PST

COPPOLA NIGHT AT SOUTHPAW

We Love To Play Southpaw! over and over and over and over and over.Well the residency is almost over. If you're gonna catch a show, this is the one. My artistic, talented, crazy, beautiful brothers an...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:29:00 PST

Stuff I dropped...Call it wisdom...Answer it acid.

To touch someone you must first touch yourself. This can be applied in a sexual manner but does not need to be interpreted in that way. Next I present to you the evolution and interpretation of the "3...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:43:00 PST

A Week in the Life..... Chasing Jack Rabbits With Bloody Marys

I talked to God, he talked back to me...I told him that I loved farting...he said, "I know"I closed my eyes and saw my third eye looking back at me. I said ,"shouldn't you be looking outward?" she sai...
Posted by Imani Coppola on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST