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Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels Lyrics & Meanings
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Run the Jewels Lyrics & Meanings: Run, run, run, run, run / / Oh dear, what the fuck have we here? / These motherfuckers all thorn no rose / Egads what a bad dream, better not sleep, / Take a No-Doz, do some blow / Oh shit, what the hell have we done? / It's alive and it's hungry as fuck / Better hide all the snacks and the dough / It is out of my control, you are shit out of luck / I don't wanna be unfair but the pair we got beat that weak shit you got (true god) / Blew up the spot with that new bop / Crew drops, do up ya squad without nuance / I don't wanna sound unkind but the sounds I make are the sounds of the hounds that are howlin' / Under your bed, I'm here growling, / Same time under the blanket, you're cowering / / Cowering like cowards, cowering on concrete showers in Rikers Island / Victims, we the wolves that's whylin / We often smile at sights of violence / Acting brave and courageous ain't advantageous for health and safety / So when we say run the jewels, just run 'em baby, please don't dela
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Run the Jewels Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Run the Jewels - Talk to Me Lyrics & Meanings
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Talk to Me Lyrics & Meanings: [Verse 1: Killer Mike] / We return from the depths of the badland / With a gun and a knife in our waistband / Went to war with the Devil and Shaytan / He wore a bad toupee and a spray tan / So high now, hoping that I land / On a Thai stick, moving through Thailand / On the radio, heard a plane hijack / Government did that like they cooked crack / I move in a world of conspiracies / Obey no rules, I'm doing me / Smoke kush, transport to the airport / Customs found a joint in my passport / Pulled cash and I gave him what he asked for / Goddammit, it's a motherfucking miracle / Small bribe, made it back into America / Hit Uber and maneuvered out the area / Rhyme animal, pit bull terrier / Rap terrorist, terrorize, tear it up / Brought gas and the matches to flare it up / Militant Michael might go psycho / On any ally or rival / Born Black, that's dead on arrival / My job is to fight for survival / In spite of these #AllLivesMatter-ass white folk / / [Interlude] / This is spiritual
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Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) Lyrics & Meanings
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Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro: Zack De La Rocha] / Run them jewels fast, run them, run them jewels fast / Run them, run them, r-run them, run them, fuck the slow mo / / [Verse 1: Killer Mike] (EL-P) / Fashion slave, you protestin' to get in a fuckin' look book / Everything I scribble is like The Anarchist Cookbook / Look good (Posing in a centerfold of Crook Book) / Black on black on black with a ski mask, that is my crook look / How you like my stylin', bruh? Ain't nobody stylin', bruh / 'Bout to turn this mothafucka up like Riker's Island, bruh / Where my thuggers and my cripples and my bloodles and my brothers? / When you niggas gon' unite and kill the police, mothafuckas? / Or take over a jail, give those COs hell / The burnin' of the sulfur, God damn I love the smell / Like it's a pillow torchin', where the fuck the warden? / And when you find him, we don't kill him, we just waterboard him / We killin' 'em for freedom cause they tortured us for boredom / And even if some
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Run the Jewels - Love Again (Akinyele Back) Lyrics & Meanings
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Love Again (Akinyele Back) Lyrics & Meanings: Verse 1: Killer Mike: / Reminiscinin / On our time of innocence / When we drank that Hennessy / Ate on lamb and venison / Face fucked you in your kitchenette / Fucked you like we tusslin' / Do you fuck your husbaland / Like, do y'all be tusslin'? / Do you wear the muzzlin' / Do you ask him pretty please / Do you crawl on hands and knees / Like you used to do for me / Oh, you such a dirty girl / The world won't let you be yourself / I won't accept nothing else / I be having none of that / You be takin' all of this / Pleasure come from punishment / Your threshold astonishin' / I think I'm in love again / Found my perfect drug again / Feel better than heroin / You love my alpha arrogance / 2 Live Crew the narrative / There it is / / Hook: / I put that dick in her mouth all day / She got that (dick in her mouth all day) / She take that (dick in her mouth all day) / (She said she wanted my, wanted my) / Dick in her mouth all day, day / I get with that (dick in her mou
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Run the Jewels - Panther Like a Panther Lyrics & Meanings
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Panther Like a Panther Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro: El-P] / I'll flood the speakers with heat seekers / And keep sneakers cleaner than nunnery pussy evening of Easter / I'll leave my prints on her keister, I suck the clit and release it if it will please her / I'll kneel to her, best believe make a meal of her... / Thank you / (Yes, yes, brilliant) / / [Verse 1: El-P] / Told the preacher I love her, he said that God was her lover / I said if he really loves her then he would love that we're lovers / I walk around in a bubble, a fucking scoundrel in trouble / In every town, make a rumble, the venue ground into rubble / Give me a ten, and I'll double, I'll split your face like some aces / I got a fragrance I'm wearing called,
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Run the Jewels - Stay Gold Lyrics & Meanings
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Stay Gold Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro: Killer Mike, Mike's son] / Say,
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Run the Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry Lyrics & Meanings
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Oh My Darling Don't Cry Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro] / Oh my / Oh my / / [Verse 1: El-P] / Fuck them all, they can eat my dick, that's word to Pimp / (Hold on) / (Oh my) / (You are now listening to Run the Jewels 2) / Fuck them all they can eat my dick, that's word to Pimp / I don't fuck with or talk like all these fuckin' imps / Style violent, give a fuck if you deny it, kids / You can all run naked backwards through a field of dicks / Fuck the world, don't ask me for shit, that's word to B.I.G / I dreampt we owned the world, but I've woken up and it don't exist / Soak it in and need no assist. You can't slap my wrist, I don't owe you shit / Trust me, I'm a doctor / Doom oper, rate of my pulse won't raise a bit / / [Verse 2: Killer Mike] / Tip-toe on the track like a ballerina / Ski mask in a Pontiac Catalina / It's obese female opera singer / You can run the jewels or lose your fingers / Me and El-P got time to kill / Got folks to kill on overkill / He hangin' out the window, I hold the wheel / There's one
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Run the Jewels - Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost) Lyrics & Meanings
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Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost) Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro] /
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Run the Jewels - Jeopardy Lyrics & Meanings
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Jeopardy Lyrics & Meanings: Intro: Killer Mike: / I'm finna bang this bitch the fuck out! / You betta' -- You might wanna record the way you feelin' like history bein' made / This muthafucka put a mirror on the goddamn screen / Let's go, El-P! / Huh? Champ! That's what we're gonna do, Mick / / Verse 1: Killer Mike: / I'm up at midnight, I'm dippin' off in my Nizzikes / A gun and a metal pizzipe, a knizzife is to my rizzight / I'm lurkin' servin' on pussies who lack a purpose / I've got 'em filled up with frizzight like Mizzike is you all rizzight? / I'm lookin' lurkin' on bitches twerkin' for service / The bitch's bag is a Birkin, I'm yellin' screamin' and cursin' / I'm putting pistols in faces at random places like / Bitch give it up or stand adjacent to Satan / Bad man chillin', the villains is here / No Jesuses here, I hear the demons in my ear / And I want it, I need it, see it, I take it / Never fake it, wrap you motherfuckers up, leave you naked / The jewels runners, top tag team for two summers / Live
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Run the Jewels - All My Life Lyrics & Meanings
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All My Life Lyrics & Meanings: Intro: Killer Mike: / (Paul is dead) / One time for the pill and the reefer, man / One time for...One time for... / One time for the pill and the reefer, man / One time for the...One, one-one-one / / Verse 1: Killer Mike: / One time for the pill and the reefer, man / It's the young black leader to the people, man / If you're girl's fine, nigga might eat her, man / I'm talkin' middle of the mall like a pita, man / A Nigga sky high now like Jesus, man / And oh Lord this reefer so potent / Got an anti gravity, a Nigga stay floatin' / This nigga rob me, bitch you must be jokin' / Like pow pow pow leave your chestplate open / One half the best tag team ever / Them other fellas all right we better / Anybody disagree they jealous / And anybody don't just motherfucking yellow (just yellow) / Fuck a boss I'm the goddamn owner / And I smell like YSL and marijuana / Don Draper with the paper might pull a slick caper / Secretary told me fuck you. I told her you gonna / / Hook: / And I bee
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Run the Jewels - A Christmas Fucking Miracle Lyrics & Meanings
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A Christmas Fucking Miracle Lyrics & Meanings: [Verse 1: El-P] / That was me in BK on Atlantic / Never looked both ways, ran in traffic / Pops went away but I stayed, vagrant / Placed where the steel and cement became nature / Love what you did with the place, it looks gorgeous / Cityscape where the blood of good men courses / And the dreamers are bull trapped in porcelain / Take a knee to the gods and get horse shit / Wanna live for the thrill? They'll arrange it / Got a bevy of imps to spit hatred / Shit'll get in your head and cause panic / Have you desperately begging to get famous / Get your dignity dirty and left orphaned / Sanity on the fringe of distorted / Who are they to just take shit and hoard it? / Who am I that I don't get my portion? / The most impressionable minds get molested and informed by manipulating forces / Don't fret little man, don't cry / They can never take the energy inside you were born with / Knowing that, understand you could never be poor / You already won the war, you were bor
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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. 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 (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. 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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. 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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DJ Shadow (Ft. Run The Jewels) – Nobody Speak
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The second track and second single off of DJ Shadow’s album The Mountain Will Fall, released June 24, 2016. The official music video was released for the track on August 24, 2016.
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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 – a few words for the firing squad (radiation)
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As the last song of the album a few words for the firing squad (radiation) is a journey of recollection by both Killer Mike and El-P as they look at how each on has reached this
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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 (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 (Ft. Kamasi Washington) – Thursday in the Danger Room
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“Thursday In The Danger Room,” tells two stories, one of El-P’s friend whose death was caused by some sort of illness (most likely Camu Tao), and Killer Mike’s friend who died on
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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 – 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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