Run The Jewels - El-P and Killer Mike

xpost the trollsperation (troll desperation) will not be denied

run the jewels is not for children

http://tagthejewels.tumblr.com/

I lol a lot at

my business card says you're in luck
I do two things I rap and fuck

yeah I love that
so much better than "My name is El-P; I produce & I rap, too!"

RT always reaching for the next burn

trollsperating with anticipation

Really I never took El-P too seriously as a rapper until this, maybe will go back and listen to older stuff now

no need to go that far back... first side of Cancer 4 Cure is dope tho

actually now that I think of it, all of his solo albums have been half good-to-great, half tedious

Fantastic Damage might be the most consistent but it doesn't have anything as straightforwardly compelling as "Up All Night" or "Oh Hail No"

i think if you like this you'd like cancer 4 cure

one thing in whiney's article that's very OTM: Ghetto Extraordinary by Killer Mike is a straight up classic hip hop album that never got released.

is it floating around though?

i got it a long time ago, seems totally mastered/finished i'm sure it's around, i'll see if i can find it

the concept of an unreleased albums seems so weird today

uh, i would like a copy of Ghetto Extraordinary; I never found one back in the day. YSI?

i don't know if i can find the files...it may be on a potentially dead ipod :/

yes please

a good friend of mine put this together: http://tagthejewels.tumblr.com

xp :(

A lot of what I love about this is the vibe btw the two of them, contrasting styles, brooklyn v. ATL, on top of the beat vs. behind, constant back-and-forth short verses like "trading fours" in jazz, generally good chemistry

yeah samey puts the finger on the problem for me, not enough diversity between songs for me to keep attention. not surprinsgly, crown is my favorite track on this.

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i think the *textures* of the songs--the quality of the samples, etc.--are diverse, but the song structures are kind of predictable and samey. i hope that makes sense.

one thing i do think is very true is that mike and el-p have kind of pushed each other to even denser, more inventive rhymes... they benefit from the friendly competition, not that rappers are ever without a sense of competition.

Ghetto Extraordinary

http://www49.zippyshare.com/v/64165742/file.html

Thanks

"i think the *textures* of the songs--the quality of the samples, etc.--are diverse, but the song structures are kind of predictable and samey. i hope that makes sense."

this is totally right. every song seems like its been put through some preset kind of RTJ sequencer. it gets a bit mechanical by the end. i was thinking its like a mixtape, but without a dj shouting between songs. like the songs seem more or less like they should be blended, they *seem* to pretty much be all about the verses. i was in fact thinking that i might like the album more if it was mixed. the fact that its all so abruptly edited together just made me think that even more. the other thing the album made me think is that i would seriously LOVE some accappelas from killer mike over old el-p songs like deep space 9mm.

curious to hear what everyone who feels like this is a "samey" album will think about it when it's all cat sounds

it depends on how many breeds of cat are involved

you punks is pussies, proverbial persian panther posers

mewo

*meow

hey guys ghetto extraordinary could be yours! but i need to rescue a bunch of MP3s from an aged old school iPod is there a way to do that?

posted upthread already

Real music's gonna last, all that other bullshit, here today gone tomorrow.

aaahahahahahahahahahahaha oh man trolluki did you get that quote from it being sampled on pound cake/paris morton music or count bass D or are you gonna drop dat jazz knowledge cred on us, you are just the best

to quote the great desus nice "DIS SHIT DONT STOP"

http://www.theilsmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/F89-COVER_960.jpg

I have no idea who pound cake or paris morton is

aaahahahahahahahahaha so which source is it then? or are you gonna claim that you originated that phrase i mean honestly please do im fucking dying over here

begborrowsteal was where I first heard it

why?

stop feeding the raccoon, let him get his garbage from the can

sorry it was dwight spitz i think, maybe bbs too?

xpost ugh fine its just so much fun

Seriously you are letting one annoying sock hijack a thread on an album most of us really like, it's annoying. Just ignore him.

But it's cute. He sits up and uses his little thumbs to type.

you all must have missed the great "follow-up album" "debate" in the D'Angelo thread

D'Angelo - The New Album (2013? Please?)

Omg that is some stupidity

to be fair it's hard to make salient points when you're typing upside down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdccCD_6Gf8

RTJ2 is a follow up to RTJ.

Not every album/thing by the same artist is counted as a follow up.

My fellow jewel runners.

hey good piece whiney! that was sweet how they became besties and stopped doing drugs, had no idea re the level of their success btw

"El-P and Killer Mike individually are both fantastic and no surprise this album is. To me it's the true essence of Hip Hop, lyrical wizardry and some great beat production by El-P that occasionally sounds old School east coast style, El-P does more than deliver beats his flow and wordplay is equally good... Killer Mike delivers some great Southern accented (that'd be South US, obviously) rhymes whilst El-P has a New Yorker accent and they both seem to bounce off each other seamlessly and it makes for fresh introspective.

Recommended if you like pure Hip hop all about the rhymes and music, no women/money crap delivered. "

My Amazon review. 5/5.

I forgot to say how much I loved the zombie hands mixed in with the old skool hip hop gold chain in that ironic way, the clever thing is the other zombie hand isn't even holding a gun and doesn't even have an arm. Design is on some real ill tumblr shit.

Not every album/thing by the same artist is counted as a follow up.

"Today Artist X released her first new album since her last album, which is actually a follow-up to the album before that, as well as a sequel to her first album, which was a follow-up to all the albums she'd listened to before turning 20."

Is that from Pitchfork