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

Yea I'm in on this too

great

I like this most when it's straight up banging, the more grandiose productions kind of lose the vibe.

"get it"-- nothin novel, but beats by defibrillitor paddle. what i wanted right now.

finally getting to listen to this. Love the opener. Thunderous beat, love the trade-offs.

"now come over here and let me give you a tongue kiss on your hot pocket"

ahhh, Prince Paul

its good, all the way solid, el-p and mike sound great, but the beats arent quite as surprising as i wished they were, esp after playing this after yeezus. you kinda know what an el-p record will sound like now dont you? i guess thats not a bad thing, but as someone who used to love co flow and can ox and fandam, i hope that weird/fucked up/fuck what you think el-p comes back at some point, if only a little bit.

I hated the last one so much, there isn't enough room in my heart for this one.

yeah i like this

get it & no come down are bangers

love this. i think i prefer el-p in banger mode vs. weirdo mode.

"i sent they mom a little cash and a sympathy letter / told her she raised a bunch of fuck boys, try and do better / bitch"

i had no idea this record had even happened. amazing

I'm not really sure what a fuck boy is.

basically a "punk"

I'm not really sure what a fuck boy is.

― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte)

a boy you fuck

Spottie otm

show is incredible, mike solo set and despot set highlights (who knew despot could hold a crowd like that?)

kool AD about the definition of an "opener." low wattage, he's rapping more straightforwardly than on a lot of recent tracks (which to me is kind of a relief but also less interesting for being less divisive), no way this guy could come after anyone else.

anyway it's all about mike's solo set. he loves his own words, but he should. sometimes after a song he just keeps going and re-raps his favorite verse(s) a cappella. in other hands it would be pretentious but he earns it. the density (of sound and meaning) in that first verse of "untitled" is a thing to behold.

will catch them in a few hours

see u there boo

Wish I liked this more. I like Mike and I've been a fan of El's since Indelibles, but lyrically, this isn't hitting me at all. I mean it sounds fine, but it's not sticking with me after it ends. Maybe I need a third pass.

^^^
This is exactly how this album is hitting me

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