Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (Discussion Thread)

What’s making this album even doper to me is how it is kind of a soundtrack to what’s going on in the world right now. Like you could play the album at the protests and it could be the soundtrack

kinda like the last Tribe album that came out almost the day Trump was elected and a lot of the album was about that

 

Agreed.

And this is the problem I have with most bruhs dissing saying “it’s not part of the culture” because they don’t like the beats, or El-p’s presence.

WHERE ARE BLaCK ARTISTS RELEASING MUSIC THAt COULD BE USED AS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THESE TIMES??

the 60’s and 70’s has James Brown, and marving Gaye and others dropping and providing the soundtrack to the times.

Guess we gotta just hold our breath until the next Kendrick or J.Cole drop since none of these new nikkas are capable

Edit: Lil baby just dropped a song/vid addressing the current situation and I respect it...

 

This the pay back, allow me to state that
All that forth back, we don't play that
You want beef, bruh, you just state that
And we steak that, fry and bake that
One time in the big ole south
Lived a lil chubby kid with a big ol' mouth
Lame writers gave him big ol' doubts
Now the same lil boy in a big ol' house
Look at him now in the big ol' cars
And the same folk hated pay big homage
One minute let me be candid
Used to stand by the garbage can hand to handin'
That dumb trap shyt, no proper planning
Seen ignorant shyt like geekers dancing
And rappers rap about it like it's so romantic
But I still can't seem to escape the panic
PTSD streets did the damage
Kept me in hammock, laid back with cannons
Get me fukked up, it be's calamity
I'ma come through and leave some damages
Got damn somebody call 'ambulams', or ambulances out of chances
fukk that weak shyt, you be bantering
You're a common cold and my flows are cancerous (I got)
Fire, fire, fire, hot fuego
Take that, mother

 

Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave)
Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave)
Mastered Instagram 'cause you can instigate a follow (shyt)
Look at all these slave masters posin' on yo' dollar (Get it, yeah)

Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it, yeah)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it, yeah)
Look at all these slave masters

 

Ain't no revolution teleVise
and DigiTize
you been HypnoTize
and TwitterRize
by silly Guys

....

 

Damn how am I just finding out about these cats now? This shyt is dope

I used to listen to el-p back in the day when I was a hip hop nerd stuck on shyt like def jux, planet asia and cage

 

You got so much to go through. All RTJs are straight up heat

 

That's nuts that you just got into them. El-P was the sickest producer in that scene, its dope that he got a second wind. Some of the guys he worked with like Cage and Can Ox weren't so lucky.

 

Yeah, actually u mentioned Cannibal Ox, I picked up a pretty much brand new copy of the Cold Vein (Instrumental version)
At the pawn shop for $4 last week. I was happy with that purchase

 

No doubt. It's an incredible album. Can Ox destroyed lyrically, its the greatest record in everybody involveds career.

 

Oxstrumentals. Good cop!

 

We the motivating, devastating, captivating, Ghost and Rae relating
Product of the fukkin '80s, coke dealing babies
Never regulating, bag accumulating, it would not be overstating to say they are underrating
The pride of Brooklyn and the Grady baby
We don't need no compliments or confidence
Our attitude and latitude is, "fukk you pay me"
Next summer leather bombers, dookie ropes and smokin' indica
Ain't a team as mean and clean as J Meline and Michael Render, bruh
TV got no temperature, even if it did
bytch, we cool as penguin p*ssy on the polar cap peninsula
Colder than your baby mama heart (Uh)
When she find out you been fukkin' with that other broad
And you ain't got that rent for her

 

Mashup I made inspired by Ooh La La.