The Album That Couldn’t Feel More Timely (Or Necessary): Run The Jewels, RTJ4Run the Jewels 2, widely considered the most urgent full-length from the duo of Killer Mike and El-P, was released in October 2014, a little over two months after the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr.
and the resulting eruption in the Missouri city of Ferguson. That album -- full of bone-cracking beats, scathing social commentary and general rage (as well as actual Rage, as in Rage Against The Machine’s Zack de la Rocha) -- was needed then, and Run the Jewels 4, which arrives during national protests following the wrongful killing of George Floyd, is needed now.
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