Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:00 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Rap, Hip-Hop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Run The Jewels, the lauded duo of El-P and Killer Mike, release their feverishly anticipated new album, Run The Jewels 4. This eleven song, 40 minute powerhouse is their more ferocious and focused effort to date, and sports a lineup of all-star guests including Pharrell Williams, Mavis Staples, 2 Chainz, Zack de la Rocha, Josh Homme, DJ Premier and Greg Nice. Recorded primarly at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios and the iconic Electric Lady Studios in NYC, RTJ4 represents two years of intensive writing, recording, distilling and amplifying the most potent elements of their music. The result is a collection of wall-to-wall bangers illuminating the group’s unique ability to straddle the worlds of pointed social commentary and raw, boisterous fun.

In 2013, rapper El-P – the representative of independent New York rap (with Company Flow, then going solo and creating the label Definitive Jux) – joined up with Killer Mike, a solid street rapper from Atlanta who made a name for himself on OutKast’s debut album. Seven years and three albums later under the name Run The Jewels, the duo has not only become inseparable (and almost exclusive) but also an essential group on the contemporary rap scene.

On RTJ4, the two forty-somethings continue to carry the torch for a noisy and rebellious rap inherited from Public Enemy. While the influence of the Bomb Squad, which was tangible even from their first productions in the mid-90s, is more present than ever, El-P stirs up his own sonic revolution and sets fire to all kinds of things by sampling the post-punk group Gang Of Four (the ground below), distinguishing himself over dancehall riddims (holy calamafuck, co-produced by Dave Sitek from TV On The Radio), recording Native American saxophonist Cochemea (a few words for the firing squad (radiation)) and bringing together big names as diverse as Pharrell Williams, Zack de La Rocha, Josh Homme, Mavis Staples and DJ Premier.

Articulate and never overly wordy, the two rappers complement each other impressively in their timbres, their flows and their writing. El-P has retained from the golden age of indie rap a taste and talent for double entendres and witty punchlines, and Killer Mike, who in the civilian world has become one of the leading voices on the American left, alongside Bernie Sanders, manages the feat of putting social commentary back at the heart of rap. Being released in the midst of the public uprising in the United States following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, RTJ4 is like a real-time and inevitably icy autopsy of Trump’s America. – Damien Besançon

Tracklist:
1-01. Run The Jewels – yankee and the brave (ep. 4) (02:26)
1-02. Run The Jewels, DJ Premier, Greg Nice – ooh la la (feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier) (03:01)
1-03. Run The Jewels, 2 Chainz – out of sight (feat. 2 Chainz) (03:21)
1-04. Run The Jewels – holy calamafuck (03:58)
1-05. Run The Jewels – goonies vs. E.T. (03:03)
1-06. Run The Jewels – walking in the snow (03:55)
1-07. Run The Jewels, Pharrell Williams, Zack de la Rocha – JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) (03:25)
1-08. Run The Jewels – never look back (02:57)
1-09. Run The Jewels – the ground below (02:32)
1-10. Run The Jewels, Josh Homme, Mavis Staples – pulling the pin (feat. Mavis Staples & Josh Homme) (03:37)
1-11. Run The Jewels – a few words for the firing squad (radiation) (06:42)

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