So, 42 year-old El-P is now a Grammy-nominated rapper: Category 24 - Best Rap Song (A song must contain music and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)) • Bodak Yellow Dieuson Octave, Klenord Rapha...

I prefer Deaf Jokes era El-P personally, but I enjoy Killer Mike on this. I could only really get into the 1st RTJ as a whole album and that's the only one will any replay value to me so far.

#1 on the R&B, Rap, and Vinyl Albums Charts as expected, #3 on the overall Albums chart. They debut #29 on the Top 100 Artists chart (whatever that is), El-P is getting into car crashes with Jonah Hill and buying synths from Eddie Van Halen, 11 sold out shows in a row (213 tickets left for tonight's...

Like many others, I have enjoyed (some) RTJ, but would like to see a return to the solos, especially a Killer Mike R.A.P followup. But these guys are going to milk RTJ for all they can and I don't blame them. They just made the Billboard Top 40 on the album charts based mostly on paid downloads of a...

They announced their 2017 World Tour today. Looks their touring business made a nice upgrade. The one time I saw them I had to drive 2 hours to a 400 capacity bar. Now they are playing a 2000ish capacity music hall in my city and some House of Blues dates nearby. http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...

He's been involved in a couple crowfunding things and was apparently too busy to fulfill the one Kickstarter he did with some brass band, too.

He was featured on the Record Store Day 2015 "Bust No Moves" release, which was the #3 seller behind Jack White and Metallica. His name changed sometime in between that being announced and released because the credit changed from featuring SL Jones to Featuring "CUZ."

Looks like I missed them when they came through my area. They played the same bar where I saw El-P and Killer Mike pre-RTJ.

These dudes have three good songs, maybe, out of, what is it, two albums now? LOL @ a rich, ginger-without-a-soul donating all of the proceeds to groups that help victims of police brutality in order that he may dangle himself (:pause:) to the public as someone on the forefront of an issue that he'...

They're getting that festival money. And if you have to go to Canada, I guess you might as well hit up all the stops that will throw cash at you while you are there.

I guess I'm glad their Kickstarter failed.

I mean, weren't they just doing a Kickstarter a couple months ago that promised a new full-group album and full tour w/ "Go Golfing with Scarface" packages and shit?

one of the cat songs is playing via the rtj website, here's the link to the mp3 that's streaming in teh page http://cashmusic.s3.amazonaws.com/users/rtj/rtj_early_boots_remix_stream.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you can really only obviously tell it's cat noises in the very beg...

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He couldn't stand by and watch as The Ugly Ducklings, Atmosphere, and Aesop Rock took his money. So he decided to destroy the industry.

I saw El-P tweet that he was directly involved in 15 of top 100. I really don't remember the reception to Cold Vein as described in the article. It got a lot of praise in 2002 (and before). Wasn't really aware there was some decade long creep of revisited praise and new love for Vordul. I doubt I've...

http://www.stereogum.com/1711212/the-psyche-of-jaime-mikey-inside-run-the-jewels-2/franchises/cover-story/3/ That it’s the product of a black man and a white man working together makes it all the more potent. Imagine Public Enemy’s politically charged late-’80s frenzy with the black nationalist ele...

Some random thoughts: 1. I'm one of those fags who like El-P's rapping, too. Considering he sold a few hundred thousand solo units (and I don't think the majority were just for production) , that's not that rare. 2. I think I missed the whole "Top 50 Zach De La" thing, but I think I "get it" from th...

anybody know what was the first track these guys did together, im assuming its off of rap music??? If you mean the first time one was a guest on the other's tracks (since El-P produced all the tracks off their four 2012-present projects), I think "Butane?" Or Tougher, Colder, Killer? I think R.A.P....

Good read: Run the Jewels: How 2014's Brashest Rap Duo Came Back From Oblivion http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/run-the-jewels-how-2014s-hardest-rap-duo-came-back-from-oblivion-20141024" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Just came to post that. Pretty in-depth article. Near th...

So. Are you guys looking forward to the cat sounds remix album featuring production by Just Blaze, Prince Paul, The Automator, Alchemist, and all those guys?

And which one of you guys paid 2 grand to get on it?

yes. dre is rich because of the apple deal mac miller, macklemore, tech n9ne, wiz all sold lots of records outside of the traditional label model (even tho they weren't all 100% indie).. so they prob made significantly more money per album sold than most rappers I think they all average over 100 gr...

seagrams hotsauce wrote:I had always thought DUI penalties were way more loose than what's being said in this thread. Mandatory jail time for first offenses? Jesus. Might just be that I'm from a town of alchies though.

Varies by state law and income.

I came across a story in The Columbus Dispatch that said he had at least 5 OVI/DUIs, accompanied by several pics of him posing shirtless with his bronytail. I know that he had a video that supposedly used police footage of one of his arrests (apparently his 3rd or 4th) along with him rapping in a lo...

I think Mike has put out at least 3 SOLO projects since El-P had a label. Hell, El-P himself has put out at least 3 projects with 3 different labels since the last time he ran a label.

RZA might be out of touch, but what's the point of a Wu-Tang album that's just chasing trends and whatever hot producers are around? I don't know- I'm a fan of cohesive albums from one producer or production team when it comes to album projects. So that's where I'm coming from. I also don't want to ...

Is he rapping about anarchist political activism and republicans hijacking the Libertarian Party?

Hollywood movies don't make profits. Why do you think producers, authors of source material, and other profit participants are always suing? I remember the guy who wrote the Forrest Gump book sued and was told he didn't get royalties because the movie lost money- because in Hollywood accounting ever...

I am not a fan of Macklemore. I heard the name several years ago, but I've never listened to his music. I think the first mention I saw was in some bizarre interview or concert review when a rapper criticized his lame crowd by yelling at them and saying they were probably Macklemore fans or somethin...

Don't care to watch it, but I learned about its existence on Gawker of all places. So I guess she has some support out there on the non-small-time-hip-hop blogosphere. Then again, they also post about Run The Jewels.

Some (most?) of the best albums of all-time are 10 tracks or less, maybe 12 max. Most albums with more are loaded with filler and/or worthless skits and BS.