I added “Delete Delete” by Beyoncé and Run the Jewels collaborator Jordan Asher “BOOTS” Cruz to my Spotify workplace playlist when it was released a couple of weeks ago and promptly forgot it existed. Then, last night, it dropped in the middle of a twelve hour graveyard shift and made[…]
It’s been about a year since rapper/producer El-P and his lyricist partner Killer Mike released their third self-titled project as Run the Jewels. My favorite track on the album was “Call Ticketron”, an almost frantically uptempo cut featuring booming 808s and throwback vocal samples familiar to anybody who watched New[…]
Animated avatars of rappers Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels get spooky in a stop-motion haunted house where the horrors on display are all too real in the video for “Don’t Get Captured”. “Don’t Get Captured” is from the duo’s third LP ‘RTJ3’ which has been out, via[…]
Holy shit, the CLANDESTINE TRANSMISSION lives! With the trauma of the election season over and the immanentization of the eschaton a few days away El Keter and Emeyesi return to play some tunes and explain our extended absence from your earholes. In this long-delayed episode they play a few meaningful[…]
The godfather of Trip-Hop himself, DJ Shadow, is back, and he’s brought El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels along, for the UN-shattering video clip for his newest single “Nobody Speak”! “Nobody Speak” is the first single from the celebrated turntablist and producer’s recently released fifth studio LP ‘The Mountain[…]
This week the Clandestine Transmission gets back on that Sunday schedule after a detour to Tuesday over the last few weeks. Listen as your hosts El Keter and Emeyesi drop nothing but BRAND ASS-SPANKIN’ NEW Hip-Hop joints for about an hour. They also get lost in a loop of innuendo,[…]
Never ones to shy away from the “hot-button issues”, El Keter and Emeysi dive into discussions about “dog baby talk”, noisy neighbors, “jail-mail” and their “no chicanery” pledge on this week’s brand new installment of the Clandestine Transmission! They also happen to play you some flavorful Hip-Hop cuts, some futuristic[…]
El Keter and Emeyesi have returned with another Clandestine Transmission! This episode finds us going back, way back, to a time of legend and mystery…all the way to that long-ago age known as 2014! We deliver an audio recap of our “Best of 2014” list which appeared here on the[…]
If I ever get the opportunity to make a film adaptation of Robert Shae and Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘ILLUMINATUS!’ I want El-P to play Danny Pricefixer. Think he’d mind playing a cop? Get his second self-titled collaborative effort with Killer Mike as Run the Jewels if you haven’t copped it[…]
El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels explain the way to win; just “Lie, Cheat, Steal”, in the new video for their song of the same name. The duo’s ‘Run the Jewels 2’, one of last year’s best albums, is still for sale via multiple formats from Mass Appeal.[…]
Now that 2014 has officially been put to bed I figure there couldn’t be a better time to take a moment to share my favorite records of the year. Make no mistake, these aren’t the only records I dug this year. And this list is in no way supposed to[…]
I watched El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels absolutely destroy the Paradise Rock Club in Boston last Friday. The entire place was vibrating from the nonstop bass assault they launched from the stage and from the crowd jumping up and down non-stop. My live Twitter feed looked something[…]
