“a modern protest classic and their best work yet”
“In 2012, El-P released Cancer for Cure and Killer Mike the El-P-produced R.A.P. Music. These excellent albums shared the kind of catharsis-fueled defiance that career no-sellout vets live and breathe. The MCs’ new collaborative record, Run the Jewels, is a distilled take on everything that made last year’s records such an event, with all the chrome ripped off and upholstery pulled out so it’ll run faster, louder, nastier.”
“In the Aughts, Killer Mike was a fiery maelstrom, the South’s answer to Ice Cube, and an Atlanta polemicist comfortable with both dope-boy fantasies and bruising Black politics. But it’s been eleven years since R.A.P. Music, a classic pairing with rapper/producer El-P that inspired the two to form the world-conquering duo Run the Jewels. On his sixth album, Michael, the rapper focuses on his perso”
