#rtj4

[bruhmanbeyond]

Let’s fucking go.

“Run the Dragon”

Run the Jewels x Bryan Danielson

Edited by: me

#bryan danielson #rtj4 #run the jewels #aew #all elite wrestling #pro wrestling #Daniel Bryan #wwe #aew dynamite #aew rampage #aew collision #pro graps #music #rap #killer Mike #el-p #American Dragon #roh #ring of honor

[eveshmeve]

your love never meant much to me

#god never meant much to me #run the jewels #rtj4 #song lyrics #skull art #tattoo design #my art #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #nb artist #queer artist

[dratacomet]

Anyone here like Run The Jewels?

#rtj4 #run the jewels #rtj

[earthghostpurrp]

new RTJ??

#killer mike #run the jewels #rtj #rtj4 #el p #hiphop #rap music #rapper #2022 music #music remix

[stillunusual]

RANDOM TRACK OF THE DAY

Run The Jewels - The Ground Below (2020)

This track samples a song called "Ether" by post-punk band Gang Of Four, from their 1979 album "Entertainment"....

#run the jewels #the ground below #rtj4 #gang of four #ether #sample

[runescapemum]

"Static in my mind, like sanity on borrowed time, like right and wrong can't be defined.

There's a grenade in my heart, and the pin is in their palm."

#run the jewels #rtj4 #run the jewels 4 #pulling the pin #Mavis Staples #tunes #thank u mama Mavis 🙏 #Spotify

[sinceileftyoublog]

Run The Jewels Live Show Review: 9/28, The Salt Shed, Chicago

Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past several years, Run The Jewels albums have seemed primed for the time they came out. Run The Jewels 3 was released digitally in between the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Donald Trump's subsequent inauguration, El-P and Killer Mike's penchant for grand political statements and even cheeky conspiracy theories nestled alongside their statements of self-triumph. RTJ4 was released in 2020, two days earlier than planned in response to the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests of police brutality and institutional racism all over the world. Songs like "Just", featuring the unforgettable line, "Look at all these slavemasters posin' on yo' dollar," were both timely and ever-relevant. Reflecting, though, it's always been Run The Jewels 2 that's the duo's crowning achievement, where it felt like the potential of the collaboration reached its full potential. In 2012, El-P lent his dystopian production to Mike's southern fried R.A.P. Music, Mike a verse to Cancer 4 Cure standout "Tougher Colder Killer". 2013 saw the two realize the group for the first time with a self-titled album, which at the time was a welcome surprise and perhaps a victory lap. Turns out, it was just a warm-up.

Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P)

That is, Run the Jewels 2 showcased everything you love about hip hop: MCs with distinct, but complementary flows and styles, unique production, and social awareness combined with a firecracker sense of humor, the potential to burn it all down, and unmistakably horny braggadocio. It was my obvious choice when deciding which of four nights to see RTJ perform an album in full, also knowing they'd cherry pick highlights from their back catalog in a second set. On stage at The Salt Shed last Thursday, Mike and El sounded as clear as ever without losing their bruising momentum, shouting words to a crowd who replied back every single one. (The two joked that playing this album in full was a bad idea, considering the amount of mushrooms they consumed when making it, fearing they wouldn't be able to remember their lines.) Trackstar the DJ rattled the stereo-busting bass of "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" and "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)" as the crowd jumped up and down and moshed. Mike likened himself to William "Refrigerator" Perry during "Blockbuster Night Part 1", successfully pandering to those members of the crowd who were fans of the Chicago Bears, aka didn't travel from all over the Midwest to see the show.

Killer Mike

Though the first four RTJ2 songs are all-timers, it was the back half that shone brightest. Before RTJ performed nihilist anthem "Lie, Cheat, Steal", El-P remarked, based on the younger age of the crowd, that they'd have "a front row seat to the apocalypse," which put into perspective for a lot of us why we gravitated towards their magnum opus in the first place. When it came out 9 years ago, it foreshadowed the shit that would truly hit the fan a couple years later, providing a worthwhile soundtrack to said gradually looming apocalypse, all without being self-serious. The magic of the record is that a song like "Early", which Mike introduced by dedicating it to anybody who has been terrorized by the police and declaring that "the state should fear the people" as opposed to the other way around, is immediately followed by, in the duo's words, "two of the most ignorant songs we've ever written." By "ignorant," they really meant sexually charged tunes that provide necessary moments of levity. Specifically, when performing "Love Again (Akinyele Back)", the duo let the raunchy verse from the late, great Gangsta Boo, play uninterrupted, cementing her as the most important spirit in the room at that moment.

Mr. Len

It's no secret that Run the Jewels in general have a diverse fanbase. Folks I spoke with in the crowd ranged from hardcore kids to hip-hop heads, as expected from the type of group that has Pharrell Williams rub elbows with Zach De La Rocha. For the old school fans, an unexpected gift was in store: an opening DJ set from Mr. Len of Company Flow, the hip hop trio where El-P cut his teeth before going solo. (According to El, Bigg Jus was also in the house, though he never came out on stage.) Mr. Len treated us to tracks from Company Flow, El-P produced tunes from Cannibal Ox, and classics from Goodie Mob, Gang Starr, and A Tribe Called Quest. Though it was a callback to a bygone era, I couldn't help but think how Run the Jewels--along with the Backwoodz Studioz and Griselda crew--are this generation's possible forebears to whatever comes next, whether that's 20 years of RTJ or something else.

#run the jewels #the salt shed #live music #gabe moskoff #run the jewels 2 #run the jewels 3 #killer mike #el-p #rtj4 #r.a.p. music #cancer 4 cure #trackstar the dj #gangsta boo #pharrell williams #zach de la rocha #mr. len #company flow #bigg jus #cannibal ox #goodie mob #gang starr #a tribe called quest #backwoodz stuioz #griselda

[yowie-wowie]

Don't doubt you put a ounce of that evil on me im flippin Ricky

#run the jewels #rtj4 #killer mike #el-p #Spotify

[a-mayan-joy-has-nuts]

1st Namorr an Wakanda Forever soundtrack an now the representation on RTJ Cuatro 🔥🤌🏽

#rtj4 #rtj cuatro #soundtrack to my life #420 nerd #420 #hip hop

[sirenrecords]

A few copies of the TOUR EDITION back in stock #runthejewels #rtj4 #hiphop #hiphopvinyl #killermike #elp IN STORE ONLY (at Siren Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cif4pglpTVL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#runthejewels #rtj4 #hiphop #hiphopvinyl #killermike #elp

[rosie-dear-rosie]

Killer Mike was one of the most progressive rappers out there, hell he went campaigning with Bernie Sanders! And now he’s supporting the republican running against Stacey Abrams and spouting homophobic lyrics???? What the fuck happened to you dude????

#rtj4 is one of the best rap albums of all time #and you would just go and ruin it like that???? #killer mike #run the jewels #hip hop

[facebass]

Follow me for more bass for your face. ooh la la (feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier) by Run The Jewels, Greg Nice, DJ Premier https://ift.tt/3Ds6Tkz

#currently listening #music #rap #hip-hop #hip hop #Run The Jewels #Greg Nice #DJ Premier #RTJ4 (Delu

[halfacupofmilk]

the problem w having a ton of weird shit on vinyl is that when I want to listen to a random album half the time my app tells me to listen to someth super esoteric girl that is not the vibe rn where are my shake ass albums

#can you tell I’m stoned rn #prob gonna play rtj4

[benihana-circumcision]

musical vocabulary: 'huh this gang of four riff sounds familiar - ohhhhh they sampled it in rtj4'

[0ceanplayground]

RTJ4 (2020) - Run The Jewels

#album #album cover #music #Spotify

[popmusicu]

A rant about politics how music makes us reflect of life, and one of my favorite albums.

Politics and rap music have been an important part of my life througout it, and rap duo Run the Jewels formed by el-P and Killer Mike is one of my favorite group of performers out of all of them, and their last album RTJ4 is in my opinion the finest of their work but rather than talking about its musical content itself, I would like to talk about the ideologic and political message it posseses.

RTJ4 is a sonically abrasive album, that assaults you sonically with powerful and wacky beats that mirror its content, but uses rather weird adlibs and samples that are similar to the delivery of said message. What I mean by this is the classic style of RTJ, they like to tackle rather hard and difficult topics but in a comedic way, not taking themselves seriusly but recognizing the seriusnes of what they are talking about, making their message easier to digest and more palatable for audiences that do not want to hear a lot about the harsh state of things.

The way the album is structured is also an interesting thing, it is a concept album that uses the framing devise of a made up TV show called "Yankee and the Brave" to tell its story, this show being about a couple of small time criminals that get framed by corrupt autorities for a big and violent heist so they have to go on the run, all of the song on the albums are being told on the perspective of these two characters (embodied by el-P and Killer Mike) in the context of only one episode of this show (this small detail being really relevant for the overall context of the album).

The album talks about a lot of hard hitting themes but the most poignant of them are opression and repression and their many forms, being religious, economic,political, social or in any case they may present, the duo makes a strong case for freedom that ranges from a funny quip about the mother of one of the characters not letting them go outside and an almost anarchist manifesto, the ideas presented from the start of the episode to the end of the same.

Some of the most hard hitting and important songs that serve to push the message are, "Walking in the Snow": Basically a call to arm, the song being about a scape (through the snow) of the two characters, talks about a conversation between the two of them, it likes to talk about lies, talking about how its easier to beleave self affirming lies than to admit hard truths it makes a beautiful critique to society with quotes like:

"Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group So when that cage is done with them and you're still poor, it come for you The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too"

talking abut how the grip of fascism takes hold or,

"All of us serve the same masters, all of us nothin' but slaves Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state"

making sharp remarks of institutionalized religion, and how in the mind of Killer Mike it on itself is anathema to Christianity.

"JU$T": with a stellar feature of Rage Against the Machine Zack De la Rocha, this song is a strong critique of neoliberal capitalism and the obsessiveness over capital it causes, making remarks on how we believe ourselves to be masters of many thing just because we´ve been told so, even going further with lines such as: 

"Look at all these slave masters  Posin' on yo' dolla"

Making a commentary on the idol culture of people of the past that while products of their time are not to be excused of their misdeeds.

"Pulling the Pin": This song explores the consequences of war and imperialism, delving into the human cost of conflicts. It critiques the military-industrial complex and questions the motives behind the perpetuation of warfare

"Holy Calamafuck": This track addresses media manipulation and misinformation, highlighting the role of the media in shaping public perception and perpetuating societal divisions. It challenges the mainstream narrative and encourages critical thinking

And the (in my opinion) best and important song in the abum "last words to the fire squad" the closing track on the album, the song is also the finale of the episode, with our heroes being bound and about to be executed they bare their harts, and the line between the characters and the songwritters blur, talking about their personal lives and experieces, and saying their final goodbyes to loved ones and sending their final curses to their enemies, from start to finish the delivery of the song is diferent, serius and without the jokes the group is acustomed to, the production also a more traditional (while no less intrincate) hip hop sound to signalize the truthfullnes of the transpiring song, riddled with metaphores and full on confessions of their feelings and strong lines, for me the strongest of them:

"This is for the do-gooders that the no-gooders used and then abused For the truth tellers tied to the Whippin' post, left beaten, battered, bruised For the ones whose body hung from a tree like a piece of strange fruit Go hard, last words to the firing squad was, "fuck you too""

This line being the last of the album symbolizing the mesage of the last song and the album as a whole, while the world is terrible and a hard place the ones to blame are not the abused but the abusers and those who help to uphold their rotten ideals, the fire squad being a metaphore along the full album an this track of those who while not makin the decision follow them and do knowing harm to their fellow humans, the duo ends this album on a literal bang after this line, with an outro explaining that the two outlaws escaped to live and fight another day, as we said at the start, this was just another episode, and while the might not have yet won, they for sure have not lost, and for long as they keep alive they can keep fighting as they should.

Christoher Galo