killer mike raps el-p produces "R.A.P. Music"

Or failing to

I think I agree but Run the Jewels just sounded awesome live so

Mike reigns in El's worst tendencies but El doesn't give Mike enough room to do what he does best so yeah it naturally ends up better than Cancer 4 Cure but not as good as R.A.P. Music. Still a fun album tho.

i like it fine while its on, but i dont really have the need to return to it much. i like the fact its just mike and el-p going back to back, but something about it just seems kinda samey after a while. like it gives you exactly what it should sound like, but not much in the way of anything else (i.e. surprise). but then i wasnt a huge fan of cancer 4 cure - my least favourite el-p album (though i should return to it just to make sure) and RAP music was cool, but a bit too knowing of its whole 'bringing political rap back' angle.

See, I know I'm in the minority here, but I'm more interested in RTJ for El than Mike. And I liked (but did not love) Cancer For The Cure and felt like Fantastic Damage was kinda slept on.

RAP music was cool, but a bit too knowing of its whole 'bringing political rap back' angle.

this is just a terrible thing to say. you kiss your mother with that mouth?

i know it sounds horribly cynical and maybe im just being challopsy. i didnt hate it, i liked a few songs on there quite a bit, but in general i liked it more in theory than how it sounded. part of me misses the killer mike of 'monster', stankonia or 'the whole world' even.

yeah, i just love that album (RAP music), listened to it so so many times last year

by "'bringing political rap back' angle" do you mean that the album had some political songs?

also even if y'all don't love their recent records you should still see them live b/c

AGREE!! I made it to the park in time yesterday to catch his solo set and the one with EL-P and Killer Mike is my new favorite person.

amateurist, i was at that show, killer mike's set was fucking powerful. it was fun to watch the rap show cops chewing gum and trying to act casual.

i never really checked out r.a.p. music but i'm gonna go back to it now.

(i liked despot's banter better than his songs, not that they were bad. he's rap game mitch hedberg for sure.)

R.A.P. Music wasn't anymore "bringing political rap back" than any other Mike album, it just got more press bc an indie kid-beloved producer laced it

jordan we should meet up one of these days, sorry i haven't been to one of your shows yet i'm like a fucking hermit these days

definitely, i think we know some of the same people! it's ok man, i'm terrible about going to shows that i'm not playing (this was the first one in a long time that i was really excited about).

i loved Mike when I saw him open for GZA last year. think I said it itt but he did an all acapella "Reagan" where he was basically HOLLERING "I'm GLAD REAGAN DEAD" over and over at the end, while the crowd was roaring.

was great hearing him do some of his oldest Monster era shit too.

i think we should all just agree to really like killer mike and maybe have our "friend" shelly give him a note

when i first heard them talking about run the jewels i thought they were saying "run to jewels" (a local grocery chain "jewel" +s, which is how lotsa ppl say it) and it was like LOL it's about going to Jewels but no
still, i got the free download and it's soooooooo goooooood
"get it" is my favorite so far http://vimeo.com/69520103

Seems like a good place to post this - El's old boy Nasa has a new solo album that I've been into this morning. This is the dude who worked on The Cold Vein, lotta Aesop and Co Flow stuff, etc, was sorta Def Jux's in-house engineer. Was also in The Presence, who did an apparently-very-slept-on 12" on Jux back in the day that I've never heard. Anyway, RTJ fans may feel this.

http://uncommonrecords.bandcamp.com/

lol at the "I'm Bad" reference at the beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_rwa4ZbKgA

http://i.imgur.com/4qQaES5.png

poster needs to work on his pickup lines, ain't gonna bring nobody back to the pad with wack game like that.

I'm feeling this album

DO DOPE FUCK HOPE

"get it" is still my jam

this is a badass EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye-w0RFasJ0

so good to hear El P say they are officially a group

Man that's such a joyous interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5rI461KNE

Goddamn. That's great and I hope it means they're recording new stuff.

that was on the album; it's advertising a remix disc

these are the best people on earth

<3

that was on the album

Wow, my memory is gone apparently. Well anyway, cool video!

Run the Jewels 2 is up there with my most anticipated albums this year and the teaser sounds great.
https://soundcloud.com/productomart/rtj2-blockbuster-night-part-1-snippet

link don't work

huh, was working a minute ago. soundcloud seems down all over.

okay, live now.

what's up with no one telling me that there are run the jewels instrumentals on spotify?
SO GOOD

I can't possibly fathom listening to Run The Jewels and wanting to isolate the El-P half of it.

i know, it's crazy -- and yet, i love it
it's like a totally different album!

"get it" is still my favorite but it's not the same without killer mike

the instrumentals are sick, can't wait for the new one.

gah me either!

agh i can't stop listening to these
what else sounds like this?

how wd you differentiate it from el-p's solo work

i don't know enough to say honestly -- is his stuff instrumental?

oh my absolute word

there are instrumentals of his stuff but he's also an excellent rapper - wordplay levels set to fiendish, spits legit &c

all three of his albums are brilliant but my favourite is the second one, 'i'll sleep when you're dead'

you owe it to yourself to investigate

there are also company flow/cannibal ox instrumentals but you shd really listen to those albums with aire/vordul involved coz they bring a lot of character & are also good rappers

i know he is an excellent rapper, i just wondered if he had more instrumental albums
i can't listen to rapping while i work -- too distracting! but these instrumentals are lending massive bounce to my otherwise headache-inducing day

i'll check it out -- cannibal ox?

he did an album with Matthew Shipp! it doesn't sound much like Run The Jewels though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Water_%28El-P_album%29

his beats are generally leagues better than his rapping imo