Run The Jewels - El-P and Killer Mike

such a great year for gangsta boo

I posted this in the Michael Brown thread but seriously watch this speech by Killer Mike last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQs7CWKHM9w&app=desktop

^^^
chills, seriously

killer mike for president

mike/el 2016

i look forward to the philip k dick-inspired campaign literature

I thought of Ferguson when I heard Early. Mike is such a mensch.

mike/el 2016

would buy a well-designed tshirt w/ this concept

tbrr i want to go to this show over and over again
seriously i danced the entire time and my feet hurt the next day
killer mike for president

oh wow you were there???

no, i was at the show in chicago on saturday, not last night!
i wish i had followed them to StL
also forgot to mention that they did "get it" just as i had hoped and it was awesome

I would like to give all thoughts and prayers to the people out there peacefully protesting. and I also give thoughts and prayers who could not hold their anger in, because riots are only the language of the unheard

straight out of church

OTM

going saturday, second time seeing them; first was as killer mike/el p in 2012 and was awesome
very psyched

a month later i may like this better than the first one!

Also:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/killer-mike-interview-ferguson

StillAdvance, the whole "these guys come from two different worlds" element that you think is the appeal got people to pay attention to R.A.P. Music MAYBE

If you don't think the appeal of the RTJ albums are more about what they have in COMMON, then i don't know what to tell you

― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 October 2014 15:17 (1 month ago) Permalink

this is very otm

sure. but its a bit like a buddy movie. two guys... from different backgrounds... who have come together to fight a common cause. think of run the jewels as being like a rap lethal weapon or 48 hours. ;)

Rap lethal weapon would have to star Iggy Azalea and Foxy Brown

in RTJ' case, both of them are 'too old for this shit'.

but my point is just that yes, they have stuff in common, ie being older than most rappers, being in love with the 80s/with PE, having similar views on 'what rap is meant to be', both have been underdogs in different ways, both are now experiencing bigger success for the first time together, etc etc, but in spite of all that, they are from v diff worlds and backgrounds (as that RS piece makes obvious), and honestly, their audience is def not blind to that, never mind the racial make up of the group. it gives el-p a certain street element which he hasnt had before (even allowing for the fact he appears as a typical new york hardass), and gives mike a certain indie cred, which he didnt really have before either. in other words, theyre the perfect rap couple.

my impression is that the RtJ audience is more of an expanded version of el-p's old audience than a real crossover with what had been the core of mike's audience. but who knows.

well yeah, the audience is mostly el-p's, but i think its a lot of people who previously didnt like def jux too, ppl who thought they were too nerdy or underground or whatever, and like el-p more now cos he sounds like straighter hip hop.

lotta ppl who would necessarily know about a p hardcore southern street rapper knew about killer mike because of how prominently he was pushed and featured on outkast though, and mike was already a bit more skewed towards traditional NYC skills type rapping anyway it's not like this is sage francis and lil' boosie formed a group

cant decide whether sage/boosie would be cool or awful, leaning toward at least half awful

i meant "wouldn't" necessarily know obv (xpost)

my impression is that the RtJ audience is more of an expanded version of el-p's old audience than a real crossover with what had been the core of mike's audience. but who knows.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:23 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Having spent a lot of time with dudes, I get the sense that the audience is like, some older Def Jux heads, some folks who built with Mike along the Pledge series, and mostly young people approaching both of them for the first time

Mike's first (and last) major label/OutKast-endorsed album was 2003. He spent the following decade slowly building an indie hustle

yeah good point i mean i'm sure lots of the audience wouldn't know funcrusher plus if it bit them in the ass

we are old, we forget this sometimes

that's true.

i was easily the oldest woman i saw at the show (still i think i fit in ok). on the el platform on the way home i saw this dude who looked like classic metal dude -- looooong wavy hair. rings on every finger, one of those faces/stances where you could tell he had to defend himself at some point and i saw a wristband from the show on his arm. i mean, you can try to pigeonhole an audience if you want, but i am def not a def jux dude or an atlanta rap dude or a metal dude or a dude at all or an idiot who didn't know what she was getting herself into and i felt perfectly at home at this show. i was standing next to a young (like early 20s) kid who looked like he could be one of my students. i made a joke to him about the missing verse and he didn't recoil in horror although i think he was embarrassed when he realized what i meant. haha. i was there with ilxor gr8080. i had intended to go with my friend from college who is mother of two beautiful young children. i like the unselfconscious diversity of their audience tbrr.

it is super weird to me that i am now killer mike's "old audience" but fuggit, i'll still mosh

just a fun-loving teacher, joking with the youth about missing clits

now i'm embarrassed
but that is not untrue
:-/

pretty great occurrence imo

that feature's really really great, whiney. it also made me pine for atlanta.

also, no one copy-edits at rolling stone, huh?

Part of the reason they have a big young audience is they are heavily promoted by adult swim

And I think that their music also feels like "a good fit" for that audience

No-one copy edits ANYWHERE anymore. Except for at the Onion, strangely enough.

well, the reason I ask is one of the many various freelance gigs that keeps my rent paid is sub-editing at rock mags much less prestigious than Rolling Stone, so I was surprised to see the odd typo and repeated word in there.

but my main point was to say, awesome piece of writing whiney. did this run in the print mag too?

Apologies if this was mentioned elsewhere but I just found out about it:

http://hiphopsince1987.com/2014/mixtapes/killer-mike-sunday-morning-massacres-mixtape/

honestly i hope that what tanuki is saying about one direction fans is true. after watching that video upthread, i think it would do this world a lot of good if one direction fans had killer mike available as a resource to apprise them on issues affecting the black community. can we get him appointed to that title? "czar of boy band outreach", or something?

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/28/366619092/killer-mike-rap-has-given-me-voice

They did an Ask a Grown Man session for Rookie

http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/01/ask-a-grown-man-run-the-jewels/

wow -- this long since the thread revive!

meow the jewels never came out huh

that rookie bit was actually p good i thought! i mean there was some "guys are like this girls are like this" stuff but otherwise p good idk

meow the jewels never came out huh

they're still on tour

Huh, I thought I revived this a few days ago with the Marvwl covers. Guess I forgot to submit post or something.

Marvel