Killer Mike and El-P

[Brougham33]

Run the Jewels:

05-29 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05-31 Dublin, Ireland - Forbidden Fruit Festival
06-05 Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound
06-06 London, England - Field Day Festival
06-07 London, England - The Forum
06-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-14 Brooklyn, NY - Northside Festival
06-19 Dover, Delaware - Firefly Music Festival
06-26 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-27 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Flow Festival
07-02 Keflavik, Iceland - ATP Iceland
07-03 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-04 Tilburg, Netherlands - Woo Hah! Festival
07-05 Bavilliers, France - Eurockeennes de Belfort
07-11 Des Moines, IA - 80/35 Fest
07-14 Québec City, Québec - Festival D'Été De Québec
07-15 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Bluesfest
07-17 Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Music Fest
07-19 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
07-24 Barrie, Ontario - Wayhome Festival
07-30 Montreal, Québec - Club Soda
07-31 Montreal, Québec - Osheaga Fest
08-09 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival Katowice
08-13 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14 Helsinki, Finland - Flow Festival
08-15 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West
08-22 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest
08-28 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-29 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-30 Paris, France - Rock En Seine
09-02 Milan, Italy - Circolo Magnolia
09-03 Bologna, Italy - Zona Roveri
09-05 Pula, Croatia - Outlook Festival
09-13 Berlin, Germany - Lollapalooza Berlin
09-29 Tuscon, AZ - Rialto
09-30 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
10-02-04 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-03 New Orleans, LA - Republic
10-06 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
10-07 Tulsa, OK - Cain's
10-09-11- Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-12 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
10-13 Houston, TX - House of Blues
10-15 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee
10-20-21 Denver, CO - Ogden
10-22 Kansas City, MO - Midland
10-23 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-24 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall
11-21 Mexico City, Mexico - Corona Capital Festival

[zombie]

Again, I'm not exactly saying all soul samples are played, just the ones that sound like they're early 2000's Blueprint/Diplomatic Immunity rejects. It sounds lazy and old-fashioned to me. Maybe I'm in the minority...

damn you must HATE apollo brown

[ChaMerZ]

nice ...

[myself]

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[drizzle]

one of the cat songs is playing via the rtj website, here's the link to the mp3 that's streaming in teh page

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you can really only obviously tell it's cat noises in the very beginning

whoever produced this did a hell of a job flipping a purr though. this beat actually sounds pretty good

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

listenable but not good imo

[DLG]

cat beat is more interesting than 90 percent of his beats since ISWYD

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

cat beat is more interesting than 90 percent of his beats since ISWYD

dude is in his prime beatwise..

[wizeguy]

Here's the end credits song El has done for the new Fantastic Four movie. Kind of synth overload you expect from him, in the same vain as Tangerine Dream, Phillip Glass or that Moby shit from the movie Heat. I like it, though it's nothing groundbreaking. IMO he's more at home doing soundtracks than RZA.

[Neuro]

Nice

[myself]

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 ... stream.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

you can really only obviously tell it's cat noises in the very beginning

whoever produced this did a hell of a job flipping a purr though. this beat actually sounds pretty good

"Meowrly" produced by Boots

As far as quality of these songs, I'm going to keep in mind that this whole thing started as a joke, all proceeds go to victims of police brutality, and they recruited an all-star cast of producers to fuck with cat sounds.

[christian from austin]

damn now this dude totes a big hedonistic diabetic emotional crybaby civil rights protester oversized black t shirt connoisseur from atlanta around for street cred
sounds like its own special brand of hell
being stuck on a tour bus hearing #blacklivesmatter tv news 20 hours a day
killer mike rewinding himself on the dvr
"hey el-p, remember that time last week when i wore that huge black t shirt and went on the bill maher show and we gently yet intensely stroked each other with left wing political tenets? lemme show it to you"
outkast already hit that and quit that bro
any follower of the religion of pimp c wouldve said that means you want to suck outkast dick
its simple math really
as RTJ bounces happily over supposedly dystopian tracks with glaringly pedestrian mastubatory rhyme patterns
there is my run the jewels review

posterity
didnt want my rtj review to get buried in the company flow thread

[Rachel Hobozal]

Go suck your dick somewhere else, fatty. Nobody gives a fuck.

[cormano]

Anyone know where I can listen to WRTJ after it airs if I'm busy at 9 PM Friday night?

[Brougham33]

People have been uploading the episodes to youtube. Great show. Boots track they play at the end of episode 2 was fantastic.

[cormano]

Awesome, thanks.

[tomdervan]

I love that this thread was started in 2010. I had no idea how hard RTJ would blow up. Proud of these dudes

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

yeah mass appeal seems to have done big things for them

[tomdervan]

yeah mass appeal seems to have done big things for them

I feel like the public view of Nas also really shot up recently, and i'm guessing that's mass appeal?

I wonder who's next to blow up under these guys...

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

droog

[tomdervan]

droog

Did they spark up the whole "this is nas's alter ego" debate?

[Neuro]

im excited to see what nas' new album will be like since hes on mass appeal now

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

^save the conspiracy theories for the droog thread imo

im excited to see what nas' new album will be like since hes on mass appeal now

Produced by el p

Jk but a kmike feature would be dope

[Neuro]

wheres the run the jewels similies option?

[Employee]

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Banksy meets Run The Jewels: ‘The bravest artists have always been graf artists’

BANKSY: Thanks for agreeing to play my theme park. Have you ever played in a theme park before?

EL-P I have not yet had the pleasure of playing in a theme park, or enjoying one for that matter.

KILLER MIKE I have not played a theme park. My dream is to play [US theme park] Six Flags Over Georgia before I check out of life. Mostly because they used to have a teen nightclub called Graffiti’s; I was there when I was a kid and that’s where I heard dope music and danced with girls from the suburbs after we snuck in.

The clip of your speech at Ferguson after the verdict [when the jury decided not to charge officer Darren Wilson for the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown] made me cry. When did you last cry watching YouTube?

KM The last time YouTube made me cry was watching Dr John Henrik Clarke speak about Marcus Garvey. I was overwhelmed with pain for a great man that was abused and mistreated because he wanted to better the state of blacks globally. It is scary to think a system exists that wishes not to see all people live with human dignity and respect. I did, however, finish feeling encouraged that day will come.

EL-P When the two guys raised the lion and then set the lion free but they missed the lion and they visited it in Africa and the lion was now king of his tribe and had a wife and children but he recognised the two guys and ran up and hugged them and licked their faces. I wept like a baby.

When Kanye came to the UK recently, he played on a dairy farm and declared himself the greatest rock star in the world. Does he have any competition for that?

EL-P Absolutely not.

KM Kanye is amazing and may be the greatest rock star in the world but Rihanna is the new Tupac (in feminist form), and as much as I love rock, ain’t nobody do it like Pac! Ri-Ri rules in my book.

The magazine publishing this interview suggested the following conversation topics: pressure to conform, creative expression and corporate sponsorship, who are the bravest artists you know, what’s the future going to look like in your respective art forms? So yeah… what they said.

KM I’m a Banksy fan. I’m also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.

EL-P The bravest artists I’ve ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke. Whoever made Mount Rushmore was probably brave as well, assuming that rock-climbing equipment was not at its zenith at the time.

I like to ask artists this question: if you could choose only one, would you rather be thought of as a great artist or a nice person?

EL-P Interesting question. We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation. Being known as honorable is way more important to me. But being that my career is in the public and my personal relationships are ultimately private, I suppose, for the sake of the question, being considered a great artist publicly means a bit more than being considered a nice guy publicly. Although I like to think I am thought of in that way. Point being, I don’t get paid to be a nice guy, I just try to be one.

KM I don’t know what the hell the future brings. If I did, I would play the lotto and win the mega millions and buy toy cars, real muscle cars, sneakers and art. I cannot lie: as good as it feels to get my deserved props, the best part of reading social media after I meet folks is reading: “Mike was a nice guy”. I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

Run The Jewels appear at Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare, on 4 September

[Brougham33]

RTJ backed by TVOTR on Colbert tonight.

[ChaMerZ]

Run the Jewels:

05-29 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05-31 Dublin, Ireland - Forbidden Fruit Festival
06-05 Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound
06-06 London, England - Field Day Festival
06-07 London, England - The Forum
06-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-14 Brooklyn, NY - Northside Festival
06-19 Dover, Delaware - Firefly Music Festival
06-26 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-27 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Flow Festival
07-02 Keflavik, Iceland - ATP Iceland
07-03 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-04 Tilburg, Netherlands - Woo Hah! Festival
07-05 Bavilliers, France - Eurockeennes de Belfort
07-11 Des Moines, IA - 80/35 Fest
07-14 Québec City, Québec - Festival D'Été De Québec
07-15 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Bluesfest
07-17 Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Music Fest
07-19 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
07-24 Barrie, Ontario - Wayhome Festival
07-30 Montreal, Québec - Club Soda
07-31 Montreal, Québec - Osheaga Fest
08-09 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival Katowice
08-13 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14 Helsinki, Finland - Flow Festival
08-15 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West
08-22 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest
08-28 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-29 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-30 Paris, France - Rock En Seine
09-02 Milan, Italy - Circolo Magnolia
09-03 Bologna, Italy - Zona Roveri
09-05 Pula, Croatia - Outlook Festival
09-13 Berlin, Germany - Lollapalooza Berlin
09-29 Tuscon, AZ - Rialto
09-30 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
10-02-04 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-03 New Orleans, LA - Republic
10-06 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
10-07 Tulsa, OK - Cain's
10-09-11- Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-12 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
10-13 Houston, TX - House of Blues
10-15 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee
10-20-21 Denver, CO - Ogden
10-22 Kansas City, MO - Midland
10-23 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-24 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall
11-21 Mexico City, Mexico - Corona Capital Festival

lol @ coming to ontario and doing a concert in ottawa and fukkin backwater-ass barrie.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

those are both fair size festivals though. isn't wayhome toronto's bootleg osheaga?

[Employee]

https://soundcloud.com/massappealrecs/run-the-jewels-oh-my-darling-dont-meow-just-blaze-remix

[ChaMerZ]

those are both fair size festivals though. isn't wayhome toronto's bootleg osheaga?

Not sure I'm getting the reference - the Ottawa one maybe (cuz I had a friend who went this year and said its popping). I have no idea about the Barrie festival. I'll do some research cuz if its real poppin then maybe it's worth a trek up north. i have a friend who lives in barrie so it would be a nice excuse to visit him.