Genius Lyrics
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Run The Jewels – Run the Jewels
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[Intro: Killer Mike & El-P] / Run, run, run, run, run / Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy / [Verse 1: El-P & Killer Mike] / Oh dear, what the fuck have we here? / These
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Run The Jewels – A Christmas Fucking Miracle
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This song is about not selling out, both in music and in life. El-P and Killer Mike both touch on this in their verses.
El-P talks about the pitfalls of the urban jungle and a
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Read All The Lyrics To Run The Jewels’ New Album ‘RTJ 3’
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It features Danny Brown, Trina, and BOOTS.
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Run The Jewels – Jeopardy
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The opening track on the duo’s 2nd album interpolates Mort Garson’s Taurus – The Voluptuary. Lyrically the record is a boastful warning to the duo’s would-be enemies.
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Run The Jewels – Lie, Cheat, Steal
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This song starts as a display of Mike and El’s ability to lie, cheat, and steal on their own, but transforms into a meditation on the shady figures that really run this world and
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Run The Jewels & What So Not (Ft. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) – JU$T (Remix)
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[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams] / Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave) / Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave) / Mastered
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Run The Jewels – Talk to Me
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“Talk to Me” is the first release from Run The Jewels' third studio album, Run The Jewels 3, released via the Adult Swim singles program on the two year anniversary of the release
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Run The Jewels – walking in the snow
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“walking in the snow” features commentary from both El-P and Killer Mike on a number of different social issues, but mainly focuses on both police brutality and the system’s “
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JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown – Run The Jewels
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[Intro] / (You think you know me) / [Verse 1: JPEGMAFIA] / I feel like / I feel like boom (Fuck) / Two in the ride / Angry, short, willing to die (Willing to die) / Most my haters
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Gangsta Boo) – Love Again (Akinyele Back)
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A celebration of having insane sexual intercourse with someone who enjoys it just as much as you do. The song praises this from not only a man’s perspective but a woman’s too
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) – JU$T
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On “JU$T,” Run The Jewels teams up with Zack de la Rocha and Pharrell Williams for a meditation on money and justice. Specifically, the crew wonders how free anyone truly is when
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Run The Jewels (Ft. BOOTS) – Early
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The song covers the topic of police corruption and brutality. It’s extremely relevant right now with the incidents taking place in Ferguson and NYC 2014.
Not only have they
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) – JU$T (Toy Selectah Versión)
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[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams] / Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave) / Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave) / Mastered
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Joi) – Down
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“Down” opens the album with a powerful ode to the old Jaime and Mikey. Killer Mike remembers his old troubled circumstances dealing “dope.” But now, the group understands their
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Run The Jewels (Ft. BOOTS) – 2100
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Released the day after the 2016 Presidential Election was held, the song was meant to be a sort of calm against the negativity that permeated the country after Donald Trump’s
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Run The Jewels – Oh My Darling Don't Cry
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The second single from RTJ’s second album, RTJ2, “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” was released on September 15th, 2014 as the fifteenth track from the 2014 Adult Swim Singles Program.
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Run The Jewels – Call Ticketron
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Named after an automated concert ticket purchasing system, “Call Ticketron” is a classic Run the Jewels brag-fest. The chorus, in particular, imagines Run the Jewels performing at
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Run The Jewels – Call Ticketron
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Named after an automated concert ticket purchasing system, “Call Ticketron” is a classic Run the Jewels brag-fest. The chorus, in particular, imagines Run the Jewels performing at
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Big Boi) – Banana Clipper
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The Second single off RTJ, this blazing, powerful track exemplifies what makes this partnership great better than maybe any other song.
Anytime an excellent verse from Big Boi
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Run The Jewels (Ft. DJ Premier & Greg Nice) – ooh la la
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On February 24th, 2020, El-P teased a snippet of a new song on Instagram with the hashtags “#OOHLALA” and “#RTJ4.” The post has since been deleted. The track was later released on
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Run The Jewels – Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1
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This is the full version of the ‘Blockbuster Night Part 1’ following the snippet that was released by on July 29th, 2014. El-P posted the lyrics for the first three verses on his
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Run The Jewels (Ft. BOOTS) – Meowrly
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“Meowrly” is the first track of the remix album by Run the Jewels: Meow the Jewels. The song, a flip of the album track “Early” features boots and morphs a pretty standard “meow
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Run The Jewels – 36" Chain
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Track #3 from the 2013 El-P and Killer Mike collaboration album Run The Jewels.
Also make sure to watch the LL Cool J inspired music video (LL originally used the phrase “run the
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Run The Jewels – All My Life
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The fifth track on Run the Jewel’s second album, Run the Jewels 2, released on October 24, 2014.
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Run The Jewels – Get It
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Jamie and Mike put together a fast-paced head-nodder about, you guessed it, people getting murked!
Lyrics from the horse’s mouth
Official tour footage video
Fan Made Music video
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Run The Jewels – Sea Legs
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Track #5 of Killer Mike and El-P’s collaborative album Run The Jewels. One of the most heavily praised tracks on the album, Mike and Jamie both go H.A.M. over an El-P-produced
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Diane Coffee) – Crown
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Christopher R. Weingarten claims in Rolling Stone that Mike is actually rapping about himself in this song. Note the 6/8 time signature.
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Travis Barker) – All Due Respect
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Both El-P and Killer Mike go in on this track, with Travis Barker on the drums.
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Run The Jewels – Stay Gold
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RTJ is releasing Stay Gold IPA, a juicy New England-style IPA, in collaboration with Interboro Spirits & Ales, the head brewer of which, [Jesse Ferguson], co-founded Def Jux with
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Run The Jewels – yankee and the brave (ep. 4)
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“yankee and the brave (ep. 4)” is the first single from rap duo Run The Jewels' fourth studio album RTJ4. The song name draws upon the North/South imagery that embodies their
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Run The Jewels – holy calamafuck
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El-P and Killer Mike get braggadocious on this two part song featuring a prominent beat switch halfway through and singing by Jamaican Dancehall artist Cutty Ranks.
The first two
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Run The Jewels (Ft. 2 Chainz) – out of sight
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out of sight gives a big nod to The D.O.C.’s 1989 It’s Funky Enough. Both records have nearly identical drum tracks and use Foster Sylver’s Misdemeanor as the base sample (except
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Run The Jewels – Angel Duster
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In similar fashion to “A Christmas Fucking Miracle”, Run The Jewels ends the album with a passionate message both introspective and for the world at large.
It addresses the themes
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Danny Brown) – Hey Kids (Bumaye)
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Killer Mike and El-P begin their prevalent theme of killing their masters and revolting against the business yuppies and moguls that rule the world.
“Bumaye”, the hook, translates
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Until The Ribbon Breaks) – Job Well Done
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Track 6 off of Killer Mike and El-P’s collaborative album Run The Jewels brings in the avant-R&B singer Until the Ribbon Breaks to create a banging song about their position in the
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Run The Jewels – Oh Mama
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[Verse 1: Killer Mike & El-P] / Gun in the holster be / Right in the upholstery / Somewhere right close to me / Just in case the rollers be / Rolling on the G / My woman keep it in
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Run The Jewels – DDFH
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DDFH (“Do Dope, Fuck Hope”) is satire. In an interview with The Breakfast Club Mike says
It’s satire. Satire is what Mark Twain did; you guys look him up. ‘Do Dope, Fuck Hope’ is
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Run The Jewels – the ground below
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[Intro: Killer Mike] / RTJ, the God! / [Verse 1: Killer Mike] / The God killer, this Tokyo and I'm Godzilla / Playing blackjack versus death, gun on the card dealer / Just bought a
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Tunde Adebimpe) – Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost)
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On “Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost),” Mike and El-P imagine a sci-fi dystopian future, combining The Twilight Zone, a ghost that reveals truths about those who killed him akin to the
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Trina) – Panther Like a Panther (Miracle Mix)
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This was the first song officially released from the Run The Jewels 3 as part of the trailer for game Gears of War 4. The collaboration was released a day after it was teased on
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Run The Jewels – never look back
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[Verse 1: El-P & Killer Mike] / Eighty-one miles to the hour down road (Uh, uh, uh) / Never looked back, never ever went slow / Never look back, heard 'em say that before / Never
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