By A.D. Amorosi In a world more like the one we knew four months ago, Killer Mike would have been promoting “RTJ4,” the new album from Run the Jewels, his group with El-P, this week.
But coronavirus, the death of George Floyd at the hand of Minneapolis police, and the ensuing violent protests across the entire country have changed all that.
Consequently, and in tandem with today’s “Blackout Tuesday” — the music industry’s self-imposed daylong shutdown in a statement of solidarity with the black community — Run the Jewels are declining to do any publicity for its new album until after June 5 (although El-P quietly dropped on of the songs from the album on Instagram Sunday).
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