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

The whole album is impressive, but I think the back half is stronger.

just getting around to hearing this. awesome stuff.

maybe my fave album this year

Yeah, it def has a shot at being my #1 right now.

"Willie Burke Sherwood" is my jam

I've deliberately avoided everything with El-P's name on since someone on ILM conned me into buying 'Fantastic Damage' 10 years ago and while I like this a lot there's something profoundly unfunky about most of the beats here. Obviously Mike himself slays and the production makes up for its clunkiness with sheer force but in practice I don't really want to go back to it that much.

it is kinda of cramped

it had really rapid diminishing returns for me, was initially really into it but already could not care less

'kinda of' ha whoops

i think this record is pretty inconsistent & wish i'd read what felt like a very honest piece on it because it also has some great songs

I will stand up for everything but Anywhere but Here

"Jojo's Chillin" for me.

aka the best song on the record

i think this record is pretty inconsistent & wish i'd read what felt like a very honest piece on it because it also has some great songs

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write it!

It's an impressive record that's short on replay value.

Yeah. I listened to it a lot for a couple of weeks, haven't felt any need to play it ever since.

i have similar feelings about it - something about the beats is just exhausting, too trebly, too harsh for headphones

get a hi-fi, man

I don't find it that trebly, (then again there's a fuckload of really trebly rap production from the last few years) and it packs a lot of punch. "Cramped" is the right word maybe. Kinda lumbering as well.

Production is just fine.

Y'all are using words like cramped and lumbering like it's a bad thing.

Seriously tho

oh noes this sounds like weird old noisy 80s rap records halp

not really

if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized. i don't want to make a big deal out of it though. just the way it seems to me.

and it doesn't remind me of the 80s at ALL. except maybe a little of jo-jo's chillin. i dunno, i guess i just don't like the beats all that much. still some great songs though. i love mike's rhymes and his delivery and sometimes the beats don't really get in the way. but it's not really all that "killer" to me. i can't think of any songs on here that you'd put on and the whole room would go "ohhhhhh shit" which is a shame!

this sounds like those weird old noisy sounds my butt used to make in the 80s

u weren't even alive in the 80s

oh, i was quoting whiney there

if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized

yeah it may be 80s in spirit but sonically? gtfo

can u guys stop this he means it sounds like public enemy or mantronix and it does, not "rappers delight"

Rappers Delight was from the 70s bro

lol

i wasn't even alive in the 80's cut me some slack

this does not sound like Public Enemy to me at all, this is not a sample collage record - it's a lot of compressed distorted guitars, synth washes, farting moog basslines, no drum loops all programming, etc. Mantronix eh okay maybe here and there.

I guess rapping about Reagan is pretty 80s

haha

to be real there's a few songs on here i think are awesome. just dont think its a slam-dunk classic record or w/e

jojos chillin is p dope

now that killer mike is calling himself the rap bill maher on twitter maybe folks will rein it in a bit

lol

clearly a slam-dunk classic record
or w/e

http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/13-music-videos/373-killer-mike-untitled-official-music-video/

The vinyl comes with a bonus instrumental LP, a free poster and what is most certainly the coolest download card I've ever seen--the flipside of the card is a picture of the sticker-covered ghetto blaster from the album art. This doesn't sound like much, but it made the already-cool experience of unwrapping the vinyl even cooler in this particular case.

Has there really been no discussion of Run the Jewels yet?! Both tracks I've heard have been great, especially loving the production on 36" Chain.

Excited for this.

ditto

full thing supposed to drop this month right? "get it" is excellent.

especially loving the production on 36" Chain.
yeah this song rules

Run The Jewels album now available for free download!

Loving this. These dudes are on fire.