Run the Jewels 2

Run the Jewels · 2014

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What it is

The second album by Run the Jewels, the duo of the Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and the New York rapper and producer El-P, released free online. Heavy, distorted beats carry ferocious, funny rhymes and angry politics in "Oh My Darling Don't Cry", "Blockbuster Night Part 1", "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)", with Zack de la Rocha, and "Early", about a police stop.

Why it matters

Named the best album of 2014 by several publications. Its fury at police violence and racism landed in the year of Ferguson.

Listening to it

Length: 39 min.

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Producer or player
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out · Yo La Tengo · 2000
Run the Jewels 2 features James McNew of Yo La Tengo, whose And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out came before it.
Wikipedia, "Run the Jewels 2" (personnel)
Producer or player
Stankonia · Outkast · 2000
Run the Jewels 2 is by Run the Jewels, whose Killer Mike appears on Stankonia.
Wikipedia, "Stankonia" (personnel)

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