Those moments can be grand in scope even in the smallness of it. It’s a photograph…a painting of that moment. Can you talk about how that song came together?Įl-P: I think we just wanted to show people that hidden connection. Which was very shocking when you make the connection between your verse and El-P’s verse. Killer Mike: Not only that, a mother is shot and killed. And then El-P has a verse in which he appears apathetic to the brutality going on around him… There’s a song on the new album called “Early” where Mike plays the role of a man who is being profiled, harassed by police and taken away in handcuffs in front of his wife and kid. I just want all Americas of every color to put the government back in its place. I don’t want people dead and bleeding in the streets. He said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” I don’t want there to be another riot. That’s why they are angry in places like Ferguson and that’s why there are riots. It’s just that the people on the bottom they feel it earlier. The track record is your Constitutional rights are being railroaded everyday and everyone is passively sitting around talking about what they are going to get on Black Friday for Christmas. The track record is police in particular can kill black men and no one would really give a fuck. The track record is we can kill American citizens and no one gives a fuck. Killer Mike: That hopelessness is based on the track record. When you look at what’s going on why is there this enormous sense of hopelessness? People there are really expecting the worst. I would be remiss, especially given Mike’s very strong and pointed comments about what’s been happening in Ferguson, not to bring up the grand jury indictment decision on the cop who shot and killed am unarmed Michael Brown. It became: how do we beat ourselves? Our expectations are always going to be higher than anyone else’s. How do you top dope? The only way to do that is to be super dope.Įl-P: It was a test for us. But what we found from doing this tour is that the kids were like, “Oh…this is a real group!” The pressure came from how do you make a classic follow-up? Because the first Run the Jewels is a classic. Killer Mike: Run the Jewels was in homage to the rap group, which has basically been gone from existence. We wanted to prove that this is a great group and not just a moment or some freak occurrence. But with this one we wanted to make this a real legacy. People just got taken by storm by the first Run the Jewels album. We didn’t even tell anybody that it was coming that hard. Like you said, the first album nobody knew what to expect. the first one? Was there more pressure to blow the first project out of the water?Įl-P: We just wanted to make a classic follow-up record, man. How different was your creative mindset going into the Run the Jewels 2 album vs. And then the shit blew people’s collective minds. The talk was why are these two guys, who seem to have nothing in common with each other, coming together for an album. Keith Murphy With the first Run the Jewels release there was kind of a mystery surrounding the project. VIBE caught up with Run the Jewels to discuss the group’s obsession with validating their out-the-box success their straight-no-chaser views on the pending Ferguson verdict how their current tour has restored their faith in hip-hop and why marijuana is a hell of a drug. Muni Long Releases "Horas Y Horas," Spanish Version Of Viral Single "Hrs & Hrs"
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