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Watch Run The Jewels Perform “Thursday In The Danger Room” On Colbert
After the day Kanye West just had, Killer Mike's NRA video doesn't seem so bad! It's been an eventful few weeks for Run The Jewels, the duo of Mike and El-P. They wrapped up their opening stint on...
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Bun B –“Myself” (Feat. Run The Jewels)
Ten or 15 years ago, if someone would've told me that there would've been a Bun B solo album with an El-P guest verse, I might've had a heart attack. But that's where we are. Different strains of...
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Run The Jewels –“Let’s Go (The Royal We)”
There's a new Run The Jewels song, "Let's Go (The Royal We)," featured in the post-credits stinger of the new Tom Hardy-starring superhero movie Venom. But that new song is actually based on a piece of...
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Stream Music Inspired By The Film Roma Featuring Patti Smith, El-P, T Bone...
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma is a fantastic movie, but it doesn't exactly seem like the type of film that would lend itself to the celebrity soundtrack treatment. But that's exactly what Music Inspired By The...
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El-P Announces Solo-Album Reissue Series
In recent years, skronk-rap mastermind El-P has been plenty busy with Run The Jewels. And by now, his late-'90s work with his Company Flow crew are an established part of the indie-rap canon. But for a...
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Danny Brown –“3 Tearz” (Feat. Run The Jewels) Video
Late last year, rap instigator Danny Brown released his excellent uknowhatimsayin¿ LP. The album didn't include a whole lot of guest-rappers. There's really only one all-star throwdown, but that one is...
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Run The Jewels Preview RTJ4 On Instagram
Although Run The Jewels do show up on the occasional Danny Brown song or superhero movie soundtrack, it's been over three years since RTJ3 came out. Last month, though, El-P announced that RTJ4 was...
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Run The Jewels –“The Yankee And The Brave (ep. 4)”
Yesterday, Run The Jewels offered up a preview of their new album on Instagram, and today they've released a whole new song. It's called "The Yankee And The Brave."
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Run The Jewels –“Ooh LA LA” (Feat. DJ Premier & Greg Nice)
At one point Run The Jewels promised RTJ4 would be out before Coachella. Thanks to coronavirus, Coachella is postponed, and the rest of the music industry is in chaos. Chaos, though, is RTJ's natural...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week (the eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight). This week's countdown is below, and you can listen...
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Run The Jewels Throw A Death-To-Capitalism Party In The Great “Ooh LA LA” Video
We were supposed to have RTJ4 by now. It was not to be. Run The Jewels, the brick-throwing duo of Killer Mike and El-P, are still sitting on their fourth album, which they'd promised before Coachella...
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El-P’s Debut Album Fantastic Damage Hits Streaming For The First Time Ever
In 2002, shortly after the breakup of his old group Company Flow, the New York rapper and producer El-P released Fantastic Damage, an album of broken and shattered and apocalyptic underground rap...
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El-P –“Mama’s Hurt”&“That Is Al That’s Left”
El-P scored the end credits of Josh Trank's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot. And now he's scored the entirety of the director's new movie Capone, a biopic starring Tom Hardy as an aging Al Capone. "I grew...
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Run The Jewels –“A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation)”
This weekend, Run The Jewels will release RTJ4, their hotly anticipated fourth album. The lead-up to the album release has been chaotic. RTJ have been forced to postpone their planned tour with Rage...
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Album Of The Week: Run The Jewels RTJ4
The first song on RTJ4 climaxes with a police standoff. “I got one round left, 100 cops outside,” Killer Mike raps. “I could shoot at them or put one between my eyes.” Over one of those controlled...
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RMR Has It
It was the giddiest kind of what the fuck: a black man in gold fronts, a ski mask, and a bulletproof vest, surrounded by peers wielding all manner of guns, passionately crooning about hating police and...
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The 50 Best Albums Of 2020 So Far
You’ve seen the memes. It’s only been five months and 2020 has already been a historical shitshow of a year. Thousands and thousands died while the rest of us slowly lost our minds in lockdown. And...
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Save Stereogum: An ‘00s Covers Comp
I started Stereogum in 2002 with a LiveJournal and a dream (to get free CDs). Seriously though, I started this site to discuss new music with strangers on the internet. Without all of you who comment...
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The 10 Best Run The Jewels Songs
Run The Jewels always made it easy to root for them. Two artists with very different backgrounds and milieus, joining together in their late 30s and, instead of functioning like a one-off or a...
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Travis Barker & Run The Jewels –“Forever”
Run The Jewels just released their monstrous, long-awaited album RTJ4 last month, and that should be enough Killer Mike and El-P verses to sit around and process for a while. But today, we get a couple...
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Run The Jewels’“Out Of Sight” Video Is A Heist Movie Starring 2 Chainz & The...
Run The Jewels just released their new album RJT4 earlier this summer, and now Killer Mike and El-P are back with a music video for the 2 Chainz collaboration "Out Of Sight." In addition to the music...
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Your Old Droog –“Pravda” (Feat. Mach-Hommy, El-P, Tha God Fahim, & Black...
Today is a great day to hear a whole bunch of motherfuckers just rap. You probably won't hear a better example than "Pravda," the new single from the Brooklyn rapper Your Old Droog. Droog just...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week (the eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight). This week’s countdown is below, and you can listen...
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We’ve Got A File On You: Nick Thorburn
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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El-P & Open Mike Eagle Are Doing A Podcast Together
Last year, Open Mike Eagle released an excellent album called Anime, Trauma And Divorce, and he also launched his own podcast network. The Stoney Islands Audio network has a bunch of shows, but its...
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45 Lost Albums We Want To Hear
Have you ever really stopped and thought about how intricate and difficult the process of making a successful album must be? There is, of course, the basic issue of inspiration. Every artist must wring...
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The Cold Vein Turns 20
Ask an ’88 hip-hop head steeped in Public Enemy and EPMD what rap would sound like in 2001, and even their wildest futurist visions would have a hard time anticipating what Cannibal Ox would accomplish...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
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Let’s Talk About The 2022 XXL Freshman Class
Rap is in a state of disorder right now. Everything is in a state of disorder right now, so rap music is not unique. But in a big-picture sense, the genre might be even more chaotic and centerless than...
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Watch Run The Jewels’ Stoic, Intense Colbert Performance
It’s been a little more than two years since Run The Jewels released RTJ4, their most recent album, but it’s not like the great rap duo has lost any relevance in that time. Right now, Run The Jewels...
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Hear Run The Jewels’ Theme Song For Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm
Run The Jewels recorded the opening theme song for Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, the upcoming film extension of the Adult Swim animated show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Plantasm is set to be released on...
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Watch Run The Jewels’ Ecstatic Kimmel Performance With Greg Nice & DJ Premier
Every once in a while, Jimmy Kimmel Live moves its whole operation from Los Angeles to Brooklyn for a week of shows. We’re in one of those weeks right now. Kimmel kicked off a Brooklyn week last night...
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Stream Westside Gunn’s New Album 10, Feat. Black Star, Run The Jewels, A$AP...
First off: It’s not called Hitler Wears Hermes 10. Thank fucking god. Buffalo rap overlord and Griselda leader Westside Gunn has been releasing mixtapes in his unfortunately titled series for a decade,...
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