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prattleskidaddle 9 months
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Can't pick up no crown
Holding what's holding you down
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dunkzilladaddy 1 year
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Hi there 馃憢
5 and 40?
-pxnkgirlie 馃枻
wrestling ask game
Favourite finishing move?
do submissions count? i really love the koji clutch
Best theme music?
i fucked with baron corbin's theme for awhile but close your eyes (and count to fuck) is a banger theme
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anamelessfool 1 month
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Sometimes you wanna aggressively fold laundry and listen to RTJ2 by Run the Jewels all the way thru
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thisisderric 3 months
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brain vomit time
should i be listening to run the jewels at 10:45pm on christmas eve? probably not. though, one of the songs on their first album is "a christmas fucking miracle"
rtj2 is on now. "top of the morning, my fist to your face is fuckin' folgers" "and tell 'em fuck 'em, i never loved 'em, and salutations" killer mike likes (liked?) to have the crowd repeat this part a few times when doing blockbuster night pt. 1.
i wish i had more coherent thoughts to spell out right now. brain is all jumbled up and i'm just stream of consciousness posting because i need to get anything out of my head. i know i'll sleep easier after doing this at least.
it's past 11pm now so i guess i might as well stay up to midnight. merry christmas. may a christmas fucking miracle happen for you.
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sinceileftyoublog 6 months
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Run The Jewels Live Show Review: 9/28, The Salt Shed, Chicago
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Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike)
BY JORDAN MAINZER
Over the past several years, Run The Jewels albums have seemed primed for the time they came out. Run The Jewels 3 was released digitally in between the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Donald Trump's subsequent inauguration, El-P and Killer Mike's penchant for grand political statements and even cheeky conspiracy theories nestled alongside their statements of self-triumph. RTJ4 was released in 2020, two days earlier than planned in response to the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests of police brutality and institutional racism all over the world. Songs like "Just", featuring the unforgettable line, "Look at all these slavemasters posin' on yo' dollar," were both timely and ever-relevant. Reflecting, though, it's always been Run The Jewels 2 that's the duo's crowning achievement, where it felt like the potential of the collaboration reached its full potential. In 2012, El-P lent his dystopian production to Mike's southern fried R.A.P. Music, Mike a verse to Cancer 4 Cure standout "Tougher Colder Killer". 2013 saw the two realize the group for the first time with a self-titled album, which at the time was a welcome surprise and perhaps a victory lap. Turns out, it was just a warm-up.
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Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P)
That is, Run the Jewels 2 showcased everything you love about hip hop: MCs with distinct, but complementary flows and styles, unique production, and social awareness combined with a firecracker sense of humor, the potential to burn it all down, and unmistakably horny braggadocio. It was my obvious choice when deciding which of four nights to see RTJ perform an album in full, also knowing they'd cherry pick highlights from their back catalog in a second set. On stage at The Salt Shed last Thursday, Mike and El sounded as clear as ever without losing their bruising momentum, shouting words to a crowd who replied back every single one. (The two joked that playing this album in full was a bad idea, considering the amount of mushrooms they consumed when making it, fearing they wouldn't be able to remember their lines.) Trackstar the DJ rattled the stereo-busting bass of "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" and "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)" as the crowd jumped up and down and moshed. Mike likened himself to William "Refrigerator" Perry during "Blockbuster Night Part 1", successfully pandering to those members of the crowd who were fans of the Chicago Bears, aka didn't travel from all over the Midwest to see the show.
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Killer Mike
Though the first four RTJ2 songs are all-timers, it was the back half that shone brightest. Before RTJ performed nihilist anthem "Lie, Cheat, Steal", El-P remarked, based on the younger age of the crowd, that they'd have "a front row seat to the apocalypse," which put into perspective for a lot of us why we gravitated towards their magnum opus in the first place. When it came out 9 years ago, it foreshadowed the shit that would truly hit the fan a couple years later, providing a worthwhile soundtrack to said gradually looming apocalypse, all without being self-serious. The magic of the record is that a song like "Early", which Mike introduced by dedicating it to anybody who has been terrorized by the police and declaring that "the state should fear the people" as opposed to the other way around, is immediately followed by, in the duo's words, "two of the most ignorant songs we've ever written." By "ignorant," they really meant sexually charged tunes that provide necessary moments of levity. Specifically, when performing "Love Again (Akinyele Back)", the duo let the raunchy verse from the late, great Gangsta Boo, play uninterrupted, cementing her as the most important spirit in the room at that moment.
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Mr. Len
It's no secret that Run the Jewels in general have a diverse fanbase. Folks I spoke with in the crowd ranged from hardcore kids to hip-hop heads, as expected from the type of group that has Pharrell Williams rub elbows with Zach De La Rocha. For the old school fans, an unexpected gift was in store: an opening DJ set from Mr. Len of Company Flow, the hip hop trio where El-P cut his teeth before going solo. (According to El, Bigg Jus was also in the house, though he never came out on stage.) Mr. Len treated us to tracks from Company Flow, El-P produced tunes from Cannibal Ox, and classics from Goodie Mob, Gang Starr, and A Tribe Called Quest. Though it was a callback to a bygone era, I couldn't help but think how Run the Jewels--along with the Backwoodz Studioz and Griselda crew--are this generation's possible forebears to whatever comes next, whether that's 20 years of RTJ or something else.
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album-a-day-project 3 years
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2/4/2021
Run The Jewels
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Pitchfork had this really high on their list, but other than the Pharrell/Zack track it's not moving the needle for me. At least not in the same way as RTJ1 or RTJ2
5/10
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theeverlastingshade 11 months
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A few weeks ago Killer Mike announced his 6th solo LP, Michael (his first solo LP in 11 years), and he shared the record's 3rd single, Don't Let the Devil, featuring his Run the Jewels comrade, El-P, and thankugoodsir. "Don't Let the Devil" is one of the most immediately engaging songs that Mike has released since RtJ2. Opening to one of the lushest soul samples this side of Daytona, Mike barrels out of the gates snarling with purpose "The jewel runners, the product of many cruel summers/And the description was fittin', they say it's two gunners". Mike's rapping is propulsive yet economical, residing deep in the pocket yet bursting forth with fury "Catch me after Sunday service disturbin' the church's workers/Tell the deacon we ain't speakin', need money, his prayers fucking worthless/I can tell by my alertness he's worried about his purchase".
The tone and energy conveyed throughout "Don't Let the Devil" renders it a de-facto RtJ song in all but name. El-P delivers a succinct yet sharp verse midway through that matches Mike's example with aplomb "Be an AR, spray the radar down invaders/Fame destined, the piggy dissection connection/Put necks in, grip and afflict tension/Upper rope elbow to plexus". While the rapping is the obvious focal point here, the soul-flecked boom-bap beat is one of the richest, and most melodic instrumentals that either of them have ever rapped over. It's hard to say what Mike's impending solo (re)turn says about the future of RtJ, but thankfully "Don't Let the Devil", and the two preceding singles show that he's still as commanding and magnetic solo as he's ever been.
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warrenbritt 3 years
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Killer Mike, Gangsta Boo, and Andre 3000.
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eyeblogaboutnothin 4 years
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yowie-wowie 3 years
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Jewel runner bitch make the name stick not for sale but I'm takin payments
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welcome2creepshow 3 years
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asolitarylion 3 years
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dunkzilladaddy 1 year
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yeah sure i'd let him smash to rtj2
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kromdar 4 years
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May 2020 sounded like this for me.
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jaktheact 4 years
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killer mike x el-p are 4/4 on classic albums
kill your masters
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shzr 4 years
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Run the Jewel.
Written in Urdu.
One of my favorite rap duo. With all 4 dope albums RTJ1-4.
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