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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 – 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 – Don't Get Captured
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With themes of systematic poverty and corruption, El-P & Killer Mike deliver 2 contrasting verses from distinctive perspectives. Killer Mike starts the song with solutions towards
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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 – Mean Demeanor
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The download link for this new track first appeared in a Sept 29th, 2017 email to fans:
Guess who’s included in EA’s FIFA 18 soundtrack?!
You’ve been asking since last week’s
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Run The Jewels – Get It (Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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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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Run The Jewels – No Come Down
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The 7th cut on Killer Mike’s and El-P’s Run The Jewels, Mike and El paint very different but very vivid pictures of their experiences while tripping heavy on some drugs.
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Zack de la Rocha) – A Report to the Shareholders / Kill Your Masters
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“A Report to the Shareholders/Kill Your Masters” continues the powerful messages from the first RTJ track that Zack de la Rocha was featured on: “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck
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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. 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 – 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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Run The Jewels – Angelsnuggler
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[Verse 1: El-P] / A little toast to the no ones with a nod to the masses / To the ones with the riches, from the ones who the rags fit / A little smoke for the gone boys, a little
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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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Run The Jewels (Ft. CUZ Lightyear) – Bust No Moves
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This song appeared on Run the Jewels special record store day release on April 18th, 2015. It was the only new track on the 12" and features a guest verse from Arkansas rapper SL
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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 (Ft. Zack de la Rocha) – Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)
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“Close Your Eyes (And count to Fuck)” deals with the theme of police brutality against minorities. Mike (black) and Zack (latino) are both part of racial minorities that often face
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Run The Jewels – Legend Has It
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“Legend Has It” was released on December 1st, 2016, the same day the album artwork and release date was announced for Run the Jewels 3. The announcement and album details are here.
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Run The Jewels – santa calamifuck (Eva, Chucho, Yulian & Nick Hook’s Versión)
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[Intro: Cutty Ranks & El-P] / All them-a talk, them beat back them words / All them-a talk, them beat back them words / All them-a talk, them beat back them words / All— All— A
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Run The Jewels & What So Not (Ft. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) – JU$T (Remix)
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[Pre-Chorus: Pharrell Williams] / Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave) / Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave) / Mastered
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Big Boi) – Banana Clipper
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The Second single off RTJ, this blazing, powerful track exemplifies what makes this partnership great better than maybe any other song.
Anytime an excellent verse from Big Boi
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Run The Jewels – yankee and the brave (ep. 4)
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“yankee and the brave (ep. 4)” is the first single from rap duo Run The Jewels' fourth studio album RTJ4. The song name draws upon the North/South imagery that embodies their
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Run The Jewels – Talk to Me
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“Talk to Me” is the first release from Run The Jewels' third studio album, Run The Jewels 3, released via the Adult Swim singles program on the two year anniversary of the release
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Run The Jewels (Ft. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) – JU$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. 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 – Everybody Stay Calm
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[Intro] / Take it easy / [Verse 1: El-P] / Excusez-moi, bitches / I'm lit from the last of the gas, Mike twisted / No, no sleep for the vicious / Key up a cop car just to see
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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 & Aqua Teen Hunger Force – Opening Theme
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[Intro] / Get-get money / Get money / [Verse 1: El-P & Killer Mike] / You can get the Meatwad / Teeth get knocked, you gotta peep 'fore you rethought / Frylock, cock the Glock if
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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 – 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 (Ft. Gangsta Boo) – Snug Again
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Track 9 on the Meow the Jewels project, remixed by El-P’s co-pilot off RTJ2, Little Shalimar.
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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 (Ft. Gangsta Boo) – Stay Gold (Smiff & Cash Remix)
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[Chorus: El-P, Killer Mike, both] / Ay, I got a bad girl, I got a brain-with-an-ass girl (Stay gold) / She got a mean bop, I got a lean to the way I walk / And they get it like
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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 – 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 – 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 – No Save Point
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[Intro: El-P] / R-T-motherfuckin'-J / R-T-J / (Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, hey) / Ayy (Hey, oh) / Ayy (Oh, hey, oh) / Ayy / [Verse 1: El-P] / I swallow all my drugs 'til the pain
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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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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 – 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. 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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