Run the Jewels 3

AlbumDec 25 / 201614 songs, 51m 35s
Hardcore Hip Hop
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8.6 / 10

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.

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“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…

8 / 10

Run The Jewels third album is another bar-raising collaboration from the most buzzed-over act in rap. Read the NME review

8 / 10

Killer Mike and El-P are on the top of their game on Run the Jewels' free new album RTJ3, released on Christmas Day.

9.3 / 10

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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.

A straight up cliff face of sheer imposing quality.

The xx, I See You

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.

9 / 10

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.

8.0 / 10

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.

7 / 10

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.

9 / 10

8.5 / 10

'Run The Jewels 3' by Run The Jewels, album review by Matthew Wardell. The full-length is now out via Mass Appeal/Red Distribution.

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Run the Jewels has continued to rise to the occasion and deliver galvanizing political rap that is equal parts menace and message.

4.1 / 5

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 review: We a good crew to fuck with; better to love.

8 / 10