Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (Discussion Thread)

[Amerikan Melanin]

Production on this is tooooo.........white! I can see CACs in mosh pits loving this.

I fukk with RTJ but I need more HipHop less rock.

 

[switchmemorylanes]

the group is safe AF compared to other rap groups that actually about what they say instead of revolutionary hustling

Drop your recommendations breh

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Drop your recommendations breh

RIP Pam The Funkstress

Bus Driver- Thumbs

Off the top of my head, these are the main albums that actually go on a unique take on social issues without the stigma of being tryhard .

Of course the occasional Dead Prez albums and even Paris

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

El-Ps old sample based production style was better. For example the stuff he did for Co Flow and Can Ox was really weird, dark NY grimyness.

I like some of what he does now, but it's usually unrecognizable as being the same producer who made shyt like this:

El during the Def Jux days was a man not to be fukked with on the boards.


Dude made those apocalyptic ass beats to wear a gas mask too, now it's like dude doing the most

Lets keep it a buck and say that El peaked at "I'll Sleep When You Are Dead"

 

[Zero]

If we're keeping it 300, on the boards, Aesop Rock is both who El-P was and is trying to be now

 

[Turbulent]

Listened to it. It's cool. Some tracks hit. It just feels like we are getting more or less the same album over and over.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Production on this is tooooo.........white! I can see CACs in mosh pits loving this.

I fukk with RTJ but I need more HipHop less rock.

Rock was created by black people...

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Rock was created by black people...

yeah and I don’t like rapping over rock music.

 

[Magnum P.I.M.P.]

His production doesn’t sound like anything people rapped over in the underground or anywhere else in 2007. That comment was completely dumb.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

yeah and I don’t like rapping over rock music.

fair enough RTJ always had that electronic/punk/rock/hiphop fusion vibe

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

just did a quick listen through. Enjoyed it pretty thoroughly, got exactly what I want from RTJ out of it.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

walking in the snow is fukking incredible

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

"rap music for people who dont like rap"

"el-p raps gibberish"

people actually want to be seen as ignorant here, that shyt funny

 

[the cac mamba]

always thought this RTJ shyt was awful musically, this tape confirms that. it's like it's trying to be rap, rock and techno but fails at all 3

walking in the snow made me bust out laughing

 

[Black Panther]

Honestly, I like El-P's raps. Most of the sh*t he says you won't catch the first time; his rhymes are dense with meaning.

"Back in the Bearenstein timeline zip no wins for the kid oh sh*t I got curved"

"In the Berenstain rift where my Biff so sick, when the clock is lit, the whip swerve"

Dude made a reference to alternate universe theory, the Mandela effect, and Back to the Future to talk about how he went from rags to riches... in two bars. It's only "gibberish" if you don't care to discern what he's saying.