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There are those Jagger/Richards, Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis, or DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince-styled collaborations that always seem fruitful. The music created by Killer Mike and El-P easily falls into this category, and is closest to that of Jeff and Prince's, not just because the duo fall under the same category of "hip-hop" but also because Run the Jewels 2, like its predecessor, comes with some joy baked in. It's a broken, ironic, and underground kind of joy as the hard-hitting "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" shows its pimp-hand with "You can all run naked backwards through a field of dicks" and also shows its business card because "You're in luck, it says I do two things: rap and fuck." This sophomore effort keeps the slanted spirit of the original, as mixing the attitude of N.W.A. with the weirdness of Adult Swim is both comfortable and fertile ground for the duo, but the "album" does try harder in the "serious" department. Paranoid androids like "Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1" benefit, as if Run-DMC embraced EL-P's compressed beatmaking and dropped the F-bomb whenever possible. "Early" is deadly serious with Killer Mike pleading "I apologize if it seems I got out of line sir, cuz I respect the badge and a gun/And I pray today ain't the day you drag me away right in front of my son," and that's right before things turn grave. "All Due Respect" with Travis Barker enters Death Grips' territory with punk, techno, and vicious rhymes all crawling up the spine, but this rebel music can still come with a smirk, as a stuttering Zach de la Rocha offers the infectious and weird hook on the wonderfully titled highlight "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)." If the first album was the supernova, RTJ2 is the RTJ universe forming, proving that Mike and El-P's one-off can be a going, and ever growing, concern.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance/ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)),Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance/ASCAP), Wilder Zoby (Eussicise Entertainment (ASCAP)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Trackstar the DJ (___), MusicPublisher - Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), MusicPublisher - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), MusicPublisher - Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance/ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Zack De La Rocha, FeaturedArtist - Michael Render, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jamie Meline, Composer - Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha, Composer - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Zack De La Rocha (Zack Word War Publishing (BMI)), Trackstar the DJ (___), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance (ASCAP)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Torbitt Schwartz, Composer - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jordan Asher, Composer - Jamie Meline, Composer - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), MusicPublisher - Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), MusicPublisher - Jordan Asher (Songs of Roc Nation (BMI) Administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.), MusicPublisher - Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance (ASCAP)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Boots, FeaturedArtist - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), MusicPublisher - Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), MusicPublisher - Jordan Asher (Songs of Roc Nation (BMI) Administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.), MusicPublisher - Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance (ASCAP)), MusicPublisher - Jaime Meline, Michael Render, Jordan Asher, Composer
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Travis Barker, FeaturedArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Little Shalimar (Money Makes Me Dance/ASCAP), Wilder Zoby (Eussicise Entertainment (ASCAP)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Gangsta Boo, FeaturedArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Diane Coffee, FeaturedArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Diane Coffee (Courtesy of Western Vinyl and Secretly Canadian Publishing (BMI)), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Michael Render, Composer - Jaime Meline, Composer - EL-P, MainArtist - Killer Mike, MainArtist - Run The Jewels, MainArtist - Jaime Meline (Definitive Jux Music /American Songs Sigma / Pulse Worldwide (SESAC)), Michael Render (Aniyah's Music (ASCAP)/ Royalty Network)), Torbitt Schwartz (Money Makes Me Dance/ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal
Album review
There are those Jagger/Richards, Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis, or DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince-styled collaborations that always seem fruitful. The music created by Killer Mike and El-P easily falls into this category, and is closest to that of Jeff and Prince's, not just because the duo fall under the same category of "hip-hop" but also because Run the Jewels 2, like its predecessor, comes with some joy baked in. It's a broken, ironic, and underground kind of joy as the hard-hitting "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" shows its pimp-hand with "You can all run naked backwards through a field of dicks" and also shows its business card because "You're in luck, it says I do two things: rap and fuck." This sophomore effort keeps the slanted spirit of the original, as mixing the attitude of N.W.A. with the weirdness of Adult Swim is both comfortable and fertile ground for the duo, but the "album" does try harder in the "serious" department. Paranoid androids like "Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1" benefit, as if Run-DMC embraced EL-P's compressed beatmaking and dropped the F-bomb whenever possible. "Early" is deadly serious with Killer Mike pleading "I apologize if it seems I got out of line sir, cuz I respect the badge and a gun/And I pray today ain't the day you drag me away right in front of my son," and that's right before things turn grave. "All Due Respect" with Travis Barker enters Death Grips' territory with punk, techno, and vicious rhymes all crawling up the spine, but this rebel music can still come with a smirk, as a stuttering Zach de la Rocha offers the infectious and weird hook on the wonderfully titled highlight "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)." If the first album was the supernova, RTJ2 is the RTJ universe forming, proving that Mike and El-P's one-off can be a going, and ever growing, concern.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:56
- Main artists: Run The Jewels EL-P Killer Mike
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Mass Appeal
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
(C) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive license to Mass Appeal (P) 2014 Run the Jewels, Inc. under exclusive licecnse to Mass Appeal
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