Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 – VINYL 4LP

Description

RTJ4 begins at war with the police. The titular duo—Killer Mike and El-P—work to evade a swarming force of militant cops. They draw the mob in. They shoot back. They escape. It is a fantasy. The reality comes later.

“You so numb you watch the cops choke out a man like me/Until my voice goes from a shriek to whisper—‘I can’t breathe’/And you sit there in the house on couch and watch it on TV,” Killer Mike raps on “walking in the snow,” his voice urgent. The lyric is about Eric Garner. Now it’s about George Floyd, too. That these two unjust killings occurred under tragically, uncannily similar circumstances (out in the open; with other officers standing by; with a man being suffocated to death; on camera) nearly six years apart only underscores the unending flow of racist violence in America. The state of heightened rage such violence induces is untenable and corrosive. Yet love needs fury to fight hate. Clearly none of this is lost on the pair of indie, old head, no-fucks-giving, chain-snatching, self-professed menaces to sobriety behind this project. Their boisterous new album, RTJ4, makes time for trash-talking and chin-checking amid insurrection. […]

pitchfork.com

Tracklist

A1 Yankee And The Brave
A2 Ooh La La
A3 Out Of Sight
B1 Holy Calamafuck
B2 Goonies Vs. E.T.
B3 Walking In The Snow

C1 Ju$t
C2 Never Look Back
C3 The Ground Below

D1 Pulling The Pin
D2 A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation)
D3 Theme Music

E1 Yankee And The Brave (Instrumental)
E2 Ooh La La (Instrumental)
E3 Out Of Sight (Instrumental)
F1 Holy Calamafuck (Instrumental)
F2 Goonies Vs. E.T. (Instrumental)
F3 Walking In The Snow (Instrumental)

G1 Ju$t (Instrumental)
G2 Never Look Back (Instrumental)
G3 The Ground Below (Instrumental)

H1 Pulling The Pin (Instrumental)
H2 A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation) (Instrumental)
H3 Theme Music (Instrumental)