Run The Jewels - El-P and Killer Mike

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

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/58091-run-the-jewels-get-marvel-comic-book-covers/

:/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGwI7nGehA
the fight sequence from They Live as modern dance through the prism of police state as mutually assured destruction

I really like this, even more than the song itself.

Provocative video from Run The Jewels. I am an old man who yells at clouds when it comes to most rap music, preferring the stuff of my youth to anything new, but I think I should investigate RTJ a little more.

https://instagram.com/p/169KV_y1Jw/

"Mike, Killer"

:D

Here we go:

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/run-the-jewels-meowrly-stream

Great Colbert intro

http://youtu.be/2vr3i8P0R8k

Meow The Jewels is way better than it has any right to be.

^^^ this

like these guys, like their music, happy for their success, sick of hearing about 'em :)

i think meow the jewels might actually be their best album. i was never totally sold on RTJ before, but MTJ is pretty incredible. i wish all their albums were made like this now (with guest producers).

First single from RTJ 3

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

:)

http://i.imgur.com/6dnklDZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6dnklDZ.jpg

i wish ill on these men

RTJ3 just dropped

Yessssss

i like it :)

This is my least fave of the three - too long and mostly quite monochromatic. There are some definite bangers but the songs are structurally and sonically indistinct from each other. More guests would have been a big help.

I'm digging this a lot

"Call Ticketron" is so great, love the radio sample & Mike mimicking JJ Fad flow :)

having Tunde Adebimpe and Trina as guests on the same album is very "Run the Jewels"

call ticketron is a banger

Rolls great, more depth than I anticipated, after I learned there was an RTJ3. I had forgot about RTJ.

my biggest disappointment was finding out that the "Boots" feature was not by Boots Riley but some boring guy stealing his name