El-P: Last News

Your Old Droog has assembled a murderer's row of lyricists for "Pravda," the latest single from his upcoming album Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition. El-P, Black Thought, Mach-Hommy, and Tha God Fahim all make mincemeat over a simple, nearly drum-less sample flip of a beat, the perfect humble backdrop for their dense bars.

Killer Mike has released a fiery new track, ‘Detonator’, which was produced by his Run The Jewels collaborator El-P – check out the track below.Last night (August 29), Killer Mike unveiled ‘Detonator’, a track written specially for the anticipated video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. The track also features Rock D The Legend, while El-P’s only created the beats on the track.Killer Mike raps on the track, urging Americans to acknowledge the “dire” state of the country: “The empire, we are led by them liars / Wake the fuck up right now, ‘cuz times is getting dire.”‘Detonator’ marks Killer Mike’s first release since he dropped the album ‘Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints’ earlier this month.

Zack de la Rocha joined Run the Jewels on stage in Los Angeles to perform a version of ‘Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)’ – watch the footage below. The Rage Against the Machine frontman took to the stage alongside the hip-hop duo at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday (October 12). It is the first time De La Rocha has appeared on stage since he tore his Achilles tendon while performing with the reformed Rage Against the Machine in Chicago in July 2022.

Killer Mike has announced plans to release a new album and has shared the first taster from the record ‘Don’t Let The Devil’.The LP ‘Michael’, which is his first since 2012’s ‘R.A.P. Music’, is set to be released on June 16.The first single from the record, which you can listen to below, features his fellow Run The Jewels cohort El-P.“[Run the Jewels] is the X-Men, this is my Logan,” Mike said in statement via Rolling Stone.

Run The Jewels have announced a series of residencies in the United States to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album.Killer Mike and El-P released their first joint album under the moniker, a self-titled effort, in June 2013. Three more albums – the following year’s ‘RTJ2’, 2017’s ‘RTJ3’ and a fourth LP from 2020 – have followed since.Across September and October this year, the pair will take up four-night residencies in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles.The tour will begin with a quartet of shows at Manhattan’s Terminal 5, before heading to the Midwest for shows at Chicago’s Salt Shed.Early October will then see the duo head to Mike’s hometown of Atlanta, before the residencies wrap up at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles for four shows from October 11-14.See the ‘RTJX’ tour dates below.