run the jewels

/ 23 December 2020

In a year beset by the most horrid and unusual circumstances, leave it to the hip-hop community to challenge our beliefs and voice our activism. The best records of the year served as rallying cries and made us reconsider the very genre itself.

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The 60 Best Albums of 2020

PopMatters Staff

/ 7 December 2020

Despite a global pandemic, an economic crash, and the shut-down of international touring, 2020 bestowed an embarrassment of musical riches upon us.

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Run the Jewels Return with ‘RTJ4’ When We Need Them Most

Max Totsky

/ 15 June 2020

Run the Jewels have always had a taste for action-movie hyperbole, but as they've powered through their careers, the lines between slapstick and real have almost ceased to exist.

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Run the Jewels – “Ooh LA LA” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 3 April 2020

Run the Jewels' "Ooh LA LA" may hit with old-school hip-hop swagger, but it also frustratingly affirms misogynistic bro-culture.

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Run the Jewels – “Legend Has It” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 6 April 2017

"Legend Has It" is particularly politically charged, and El-P and Killer Mike deserve all the praise they get as they throw down trenchant rhymes.

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Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3

William Sutton

/ 2 February 2017

Run the Jewels 3 is the sound of one hip-hop's most significant groups channeling their feelings of frustration, alienation, and rage into a radical call to arms.

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DJ Shadow feat. Run the Jewels – “Nobody Speak” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 13 September 2016

DJ Shadow's electronic beats add an extra layer of cinematic thrill to the track, giving us the no-holds-barred musical catharsis we all deserve for sticking it out through 2016.

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Panorama Peaks with Sounds of Silver

PopMatters Staff

/ 3 August 2016

Panorama closes out its first edition with the monumental return of LCD Soundsystem and an awkward performance by Sia.

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Run the Jewels – “Love Again (feat. Gangsta Boo)” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 2 May 2016

Run the Jewels is one of the best hip-hop groups of the 2010s, and "Love Again" is one of their best songs yet.

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Run the Jewels: Meow the Jewels

Adam Finley

/ 21 October 2015

The jewel runners go full Cheezburger, pointing claws and snatching collars in the finest feline-based album in the history of everdom.

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Run the Jewels – “Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 8 October 2015

I think most would be content to here Killer Mike and El-P rap the phone book at this point, but I for one am glad to hear a non-cat related Run the Jewels project come out this year.