Run the Jewels 3
RTJ3 is essentially the Run the Jewels manifesto, an outpouring of rage and defiance that never loses sight of the objectives: rallying the troops, holding all accountable, and toppling oppression.
“You’re getting used to me doing no wrong,” El-P says midway through Run The Jewels 3’s first single “Legend Has It,” and he’s not kidding. Over the course of two decades, El’s been a sort of gravitational force for good in hip-hop, his industrial production seemingly refusing to age and his verses getting sharper…
Run The Jewels third album is another bar-raising collaboration from the most buzzed-over act in rap. Read the NME review
Killer Mike and El-P are on the top of their game on Run the Jewels' free new album RTJ3, released on Christmas Day.
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Killer Mike and El-P broaden their sound on 'Run the Jewels 3' with help from guests including Kamasi Washington and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe.
Titanic rap duo Run the Jewels returned with their third self-titled effort on Christmas Eve 2016.
Equal parts red-hot fire and cold hard reality, Killer Mike and El-P’s third album as Run The Jewels is a muscular call to arms.
If "bloody," "urgent," "enraged" and "heartening" were enough description to sum up El-P and Killer Mike's latest Run the Jewels album, this review could end here.
There's no denying that Run the Jewels' Killer Mike and El-P are a dynamic rap duo, but their new album, Run the Jewels 3, is also notable for the additional artists that they recruited to guest on some of these pummeling 14 tracks.
In an inevitably fruitless attempt to salvage the reeking turd of a year that was 2016, Killer Mike and El-P have decided to drop their follow up to
Run the Jewels 3 remains too entrenched in the grammar of the past to ever feel entirely fresh.
'Run The Jewels 3' by Run The Jewels, album review by Matthew Wardell. The full-length is now out via Mass Appeal/Red Distribution.
Run the Jewels has continued to rise to the occasion and deliver galvanizing political rap that is equal parts menace and message.
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 review: We a good crew to fuck with; better to love.