Chase Me – Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi (Baby Driver Soundtrack) June 23rd 2017 . A breezy, fun throwback to the 90’s heyday of rap movie theme songs, Chase Me delivers on all fronts. (Their music is decidedly not safe for work, by the way.).
Lorde – Supercut (El-P Remix) June 16th 2017 .
A thing I like about El-P’s production is it’s ability to be both darkly ominous and energetic. If you disagree with this as the #1 choice I understand, and this is probably not the best RTJ song, but it is my favourite. Easily.
The two came together in 2013 to release an outstanding self-titled album that was widely considered one of the best Hip-Hop albums of the year. If you’ve hated all the music in this list so far, I’d give Crown a shot. Even if you were unfamiliar with them at the start of this list, you can probably tell by now that RTJ are not known for their subtlety. Run the Jewels is one of my favorite rap groups, and I I thought I’d rank the best tunes from their first three albums. Later that year, El-P got stoned and dared people on Twitter to make a Kickstarter campaign to remix the album.
I’ve never heard someone rap so fast while sounding so… relaxed. As El says: Oh s*** what the hell have we done/ it’s alive and it’s hungry as f***.
A Christmas F***ing Miracle. The song goes far in explaining that the “f*** the system” lyrics in most RTJ songs come from somewhere deeply personal. Twisting a Field Hippies sample into the backbone of a frenetic beat, El’s production steals the show. One year later in 2014, they launched an even more brutal sequel, Run the Jewels 2. A One-On-One With Carlie Hanson: Inside The Rawness And Edge Of Her Astounding Sophomore EP 'DestroyDestroyDestroyDestroy', Going to Streamland with Glass Animals: Live In The Internet, YUNGBLUD Combines Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan” & Avril Lavigne’s “I’m With You” in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, Lucca Dohr Impresses with Debut EP “Norwich” : A Track-By-Track Analysis, Review: The Smashing Pumpkins, a New Song and an Animated Series. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Oh my Darling Don’t Cry, off RTJ2. I was not alone in being a fan of Legend Has It, and it was featured in the trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther, one of the most viewed movie trailers in Youtube history. In 2016, they returned once again and dropped “A Christmas F@cking Miracle” with Run the Jewels 3. For both of them, it appears to be rooted in anger.
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And his flow, my god.
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El: I’m running reds till I’m out of this town baby/ You want your money back?/ Chase me. verses. I also should shout the video, which is surprising and angry as hell. Lean and exhilarating, the rapper’s flow here is unparalleled, particularly El. It’s a different kind of Run the Jewels Song. You can read some of his past articles at sebbblog.wordpress.com. El: I deal in dirty work/ do the deed and then dash/ ditch ’em. With a killer hook, a great beat, and two fantastic verses, Lie Cheat Steal is a certified banger. Whether or not Mike knew the woman was pregnant is left out, and I wish the severity of what he did was more clear, but the verse is more emotionally candid than I expected from Mike, and I really like it. Even Mike’s weird-ass conspiracy theory about Donald Sterling can’t derail it. Is he talking about a gang? So they dedicated one song to reflecting on how far they’d come, and in doing so created their best track. Mike: A revoultionary bangin’ on my adversaries/ And I love Dr. King but violence might be necessary.
Mike and El both witnessed vast inequality growing up, be it related to race, class, or both. For those unfamiliar, RTJ is technically a supergroup, as both rapper/producer El-P and rapper Killer Mike worked independently for many years before joining forces. Yo, run the jewels, run the jewels, run the jewels. The duo were first acquainted on Mike’s fully El produced and critically-acclaimed 2012 LP, R.A.P. De La Rocha: My battle status is burning mansions in dallas/ and malibu/ check my resume/ your residence is residue.
Mike and El go wild on the beat, but make it all look effortless.
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If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. It’s unclear, but the way he describes the mind set of belonging to a dangerous group is super compelling. El: Brave men didn’t die face down in the Vietnam muck so I could not style on you/ I didn’t walk uphill both ways from the booth and back to not wil’ on you.
And it’s still one of their best songs. His verse sounds like he recorded it while leaning on a wall or something. Run the Jewels has released a lot of great songs since they formed in 2013, but rarely do they top their explosive title track, the first song on their first album. There are a few exceptions (some appearing later on in this list), but most Run the Jewels songs are collections of badass one liners. If you disagree with this as the #1 choice I understand, and this is … We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Keep 'em there It has a couple great rap verses that have little to do with the movie’s story, a video that awkwardly inserts the rappers into random scenes from the movie, and a hook loosely based around the movie’s title.
Though Legend Has It was the breakout single from the third Run the Jewels album, it’s Talk to Me that stands out as it’s best song. One year later in 2014, they launched an even more brutal sequel, Run the Jewels 2. Technically not a Run the Jewels song, but a Run the Jewels feature, this song was too good not to include. It’s got everything you want from a rap theme song. No track is safe with the combination of Killer Mike’s aggressive flow straight from the ATL and the lyrical backflips and dense production by Brooklyn son and underground legend El-P.
Former Rage Against the Machine front man Zach De La Rocha is the MVP of this track, providing a solid verse as well as a vocal sample that becomes the song’s killer hook. August 24th 2016 .
Despite the goofy video, it’s one of the aforementioned “serious songs”, and easily the best executed. El’s verse is a little more vague, as he describes joining some sort of group that eroded his sense of identity.
Mike tells an emotional story from his drug dealing days, when he sold cocaine to a pregnant woman, causing her child to develop brain damage. The name of the group is from the intro to LL Cool J’s “Cheesy Rat Blues”: Just throw your hands in the air Later that year, El-P got stoned and dared people on Twitter to make a Kickstarter campaign to remix the album. Enter Blockbuster Night Part 1, boasting the least subtle hip-hop beat I’ve ever heard, no hook, and a two and a half minute run-time. El: Don’t fret little man/ don’t cry/ they can never take the energy inside you were born with. In their respective verses, Mike and El address their rough childhoods, and explain their ethos in making music. It’s in this unholy union, known as Run the Jewels, that they have finally found mainstream popularity, and we are all the better for it. November 2nd 2018 . A record label? What makes RTJ special is the skill and persuasion in which these lines are constructed, and the brash energy in which they are delivered.
Legend Has It is probably their best song in this style, with Mike and El delivering at least one fantastic punchline in each of the songs 11(!)
This album displays Mike & El still dropping all of those crazy verses and dope rhymes as expected, but the third instalment is much more personal and touches on politics. I like Mike’s verse a lot, but El’s steals the show for me.
Each of RTJ’s albums have a couple “serious” songs, and Crown is one of the best.
Run the Jewels loudly and obnoxiously announced the groups arrival in hip-hop, and made it clear they weren’t messing around. At times he seems to be speaking directly to himself as a child, pushing himself to keep going. Though I like when Mike and El have longer verses, I’m a big fan of the tag-team style they dig out once and a while. Mike: Your life can end like in Godfather 1/You get the gun as I christen my son. They already sound like the soundtrack to a car chase.
Eventually, the remixed album was named Meow the Jewels (featuring, you guessed it, cat sounds) and it surpassed its goal of $45,100.
It’s not El’s beat work that steals Lie Cheat Steal however, but both rapper’s incredible rhythm. Mike: I’ve been redeemed/ I found in Christ/ Whatever it takes I hope you find it, Mike. And when you think about it, Run the Jewels was a natural choice for Baby Driver. This was the last song of the first Run the Jewels album, and I think both rappers could sense that this would be a major turning point in their careers.
Sounding like the soundtrack to a futuristic anarchist revolution, this is RTJ at it’s most propulsive, and that’s really saying something. The money from the campaign went to charity, and they released it for free like their previous albums and even pressed it on vinyl. The high quality lyricism of the two rappers of RTJ stays relatively consistent over their three albums, but El-P’s production just seems to get better and better with time.
El: My business card says “You’re in luck/ I do two things, I rap and f***”. The military? In growing up in systems so deeply unfair, burning them down just makes the most sense (this also explains Mike’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary). Singles . The theme is redemption, casting off the guilt of past mistakes in order to truly grow as a person.
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