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

i'd like to point imago out of this thread so we can go back to talking about killer mike

:( i've not even rly been driving this welter of reccies, ppl are projecting their altrap peccadiloes onto me (not unwelcomely). basically the next RTJ needs to drop right now or this won't get resolved

cool, last one then: imago, try labor days a bit more as it actually reminds me of your posting style

like ace would totally rhyme "altrap peccadilloes on me" with "metal plated armadillos homie"

a recommendation that doubles as a zing! take 'em all i spose. also lol

no zing! i genuinely think you're kindred spirits!

copyright ruckus when u sample tarkus

ratking > clipping

alt rap vs atl rap vs al trap

atp rat

that's when you sit in a chalet taking pills listening to the vague echo of a de la soul concert

RUN THE JEWELS TOUR DATES

10/15 - College Station, TX - Hurricane Harry's %
10/18 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's %
10/20 - Little Rock, AR - Stickyz
10/21 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall %
10/22 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10/23 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City %
10/24 - Columbia, SC - Music Farm %
10/25 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm %
10/31 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts *
11/1 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
11/2 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater *
11/3 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
11/4 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
11/6 - Dallas, TX - Trees *
11/7 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/8 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's *
11/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom *
11/11 - La Jolla, CA - Porters Pub *
11/12 - Pomona, CA - Glass House *
11/14 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine +
11/15 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater *
11/17 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
11/18 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *
11/20 - Minneapolis, MN - First Line Music Café *
11/21 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre *
11/22 - Chicago, IL - Metro *
11/25 - Detroit, MI - St Andrews Hall *
11/26 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall *
11/27 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda *
11/28 - Boston, MA - Paradise *
11/29 - New York, NY - Stage 48 *
12/30 - Lorne, AU - Falls Festival
12/31 - Marion Bay, AU - Falls Festival
1/1 - Sydney, AU - Field Day
1/2 - Byron Bay, AU - Falls Festival
1/4 - Busselton, AU - Southbound Festival
1/7 - Sydney, AU - Enmore Theatre ^
1/8 - Melbourne, AU - The Forum ^
1/9 - Brisbane, AU - Hi Fi ^
1/10 - Auckland, NZ - Town Hall ^

% Red Bull Sound Select show
* with Ratking & Despot
+ with Despot
^ with Joey Bada$$

i got an email from RTJ this morning and 1) got my tix for the show, see you there assholes and 2) the new song is great and i listened to it 2x in a row

also i listened to clipping and it was alright, but not really electrifying to me for some reason

Is there anywhere to get the first RTJ record these days? This thread has piqued my interest.

i dunno, it's on spotify if that's your thing
probably youtube too
if you mean LP, i have no idea but the new ones are for sale

i loled a lot at the bonu$ packages, starting here

'I'm On The Fucking List, Asshole' Package: $7500
Run The Jewels will put you on the all access guest list plus 1 for any Run The Jewels show anywhere and up to 10 shows. You (and not your plus 1) will be welcome in our back stage before, during and after shows as well as be allowed to hang for soundcheck and load in if you find that sort of thing interesting, have full access to our backstage rider which includes a deli meant tray, various cheeses, a bottle of Henessey, grey goose and various energy bars. We will share our weed with you and let you yell at our tour manager. We will pretend to like you and will introduce you to our friends as our “friend”. Run The Jewels requires a half an hour before stage time to not have to deal with you and your fucking yammering in order to do our pre show stretches, vocal warm ups and crying.

RTJ2 4xLP
RTJ2 T-shirt
RTJ2 CD
Signed Poster
Stickers
1 of every merch item we are selling on tour
Tears
Deli tray
Yelling

there's also a package where you get to buy the album remixed out of cat sounds for 40k; that one comes with a disclaimer saying they have the right to just take your cash and not do it.

lolol
the one i posted was just the first one -- it gets increasingly funny from there

Is there anywhere to get the first RTJ record these days?

Record stores, or http://store.foolsgoldrecs.com/search?q=run+jewels

Huh first album and instrumentals just added to Spotify for the first time.

hearing killer mike say 'we here to eat the rich' is like seeing spider man use heat vision

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:56 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still v proud of this psot

imago, try labor days a bit more as it actually reminds me of your posting style

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ this

there's also a package where you get to buy the album remixed out of cat sounds for 40k; that one comes with a disclaimer saying they have the right to just take your cash and not do it.

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, September 15, 2014 7:47 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw (since this appears to be the thread where we talk about RtJ), somebody started a kickstarter that is now 2/3 of the way to paying for "meow the jewels"

I'm glad all that money saved from not having to buy albums anymore is going to good use

El is donating his portion though

Mentioned this on Twitter yesterday but how do these dudes get a free pass for "fuckboy"? Pretty clearly a homophobic term, they use it all the time, still get glittering press in Pitchfork etc. I know it's an issue in rap in general but seems especially glaring for RTJ who seem to have little to no audience outside the indie market.

didn't realize "fuckboy" was homophobic tbqh

i think a lot of people don't

yeah i see ~social justice~ people use it all the time in the #misandry vein

as far as i know, there's no evidence that fuckboy is homophobic beyond "it sounds homophobic"

It's a ghey area

I honestly was super stoked to hear "fuckboy" on RTJ because years ago there were a couple of loud drunken rednecks who lived a couple houses down from my wife's mother's place and they would be up late and yelling the word "fuck" all the time, and she started referring to them as "the fuckboys" and I like to think my 60 something small town mother-in-law was some sort of rap slang pioneer.

i thought it was prounced like fart-boys

pronounced

i wondering the same thing tbh, and i'm p sure it's at least historically homophobic (like 'punk') even though it seems now to just be generally derogatory (at least if urban dictionary is to believed, ~which it totally is~)

It's hard for me not to read it as a way to use homophobic language but with plausible deniability. There might not be specific evidence but it's not just they way it sounds, it's the way it's used and the context it's used in. But one good way to find out would be to actually ask El-P and Killer Mike about it instead of just not talking about it at all.

i mean, dudes also say things like "you punks is pussy proverbial pansy panty-holders" and "you can all run naked backwards through a field of dicks." They're about alpha male hardman shit and emasculating their foes in their art, which is a tradition that goes back to 35 years of recorded rap ("he's a fairy, I do suppose, flyin through the air in pantyhose") and beyond.

whoa i totally didn't know that

http://www.teabreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kermit-tea.jpg

they should build up not tear down

really wish rappers had kept going in on Superman

my take is, given that the entire genre of macho hardman battle-rap is vulnerable to these critiques, I'll take the rappers who use 'plausibly deniable' homophobic language, & do so in a creative way, over the ones who are about telling people to eat a bag of dicks on every other track

... & yes, I acknowledge my complicity in the societal power structures that create a desire for imaginary rap hardmen v_v;

dudes also say things like "you punks is pussy proverbial pansy panty-holders"

this sort of makes me want to do a Fake El-P thread but it would probably stop being funny half a joke in

it would be hysterical for longer than that but would still inevitably got bogged down in both people being like "lol omg def jux/backpacker shit was SOOO STUPID HAHA" and then former or current fans of that shit saying that nobody got it/gets it

what do you guys think of the new single tho

Its good there all good imma def jux dickrider

*duckrider, fuckin autocorrect

both the singles have been goddamn great. bit more down with "oh my darling don't cry" but by a small margin at best

i think old ILM can take some credit for this: https://twitter.com/ystrickler/status/520335503414267905

http://jezebel.com/a-brief-taxonomy-of-the-fuccboi-rip-1638331191