Speaking as an old fuck that witnessed the birth of hip-hop and what it became when it went mainstream Run the Jewels is the purest expression of hip-hop in this decade...the sick beats...the skill of the flow...the social commentary...and the humor...that is what hip-hop was...and now is again...Run the Jewels IS hip-hop epitomized...
I too am an old fuck, and I couldn't agree more, haven't listened to hip hop for years, but I heard these guys on Radio 6, and was hooked, absolutely awesome
Setlist: 1:25 - Run The Jewels 5:00 - Oh My Darling Don’t Cry 9:25 - Blockbuster Night (Part 1) 12:25 - Banana Clipper 15:50 - Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) 19:00 - Sea Legs 22:59 - Pew Pew Pew 27:08 - Lie, Cheat, Steal 31:06 - Early 35:15 - All Due Respect 37:08 - Get It 40:55 - A Christmas Fucking Miracle
Ben Milford As someone who loves his metal it pleases me to read this. If you're starting to explore hip hop then check out Never Better by p.o.s, especially the song Drumroll.
Wish they would keep a Christmas fucking miracle on their new set list, best RTJ song for me...In terms of sheer flow, El-P and Killer Mike at their best
El-ps mic needed to be boosted 20%. Dude smokes, and drinks, and is old, and is rapping next to killer Mike for fucks sake. Still makes me happier than almost any other concert recording ever. Two middle age buddies, disillusioned by the game, from opposite sides of the industry, bought together by chance, form the best rap duo since public enemy and really enjoy doing it.
Fuck yea RTJ change the music game for me. Was and still a metalhead but listen to everything now. Atleast the Jewels once a day. If not all day. DDFH!!!
1:23 Run The Jewels 💎 4:10 scratching (Run The Jewels) 5:00 Oh My Darling Don’t Cry 9:25 Blockbuster Night (Part 1) 12:25 Banana Clipper 🍌 15:50 Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) 19:00 Sea Legs 22:59 Pew Pew Pew 27:08 Lie, Cheat, Steal 31:06 Early 35:15 All Due Respect 37:08 Get It 40:55 A Christmas Fucking Miracle 🎄 lyrics: Run The Jewels, Banana Clipper, A Christmas Fucking Miracle Run The Jewels ============= [El-P:] Oh dear what the fuck have we here? These motherfuckers all thorn no rose Egads what a bad dream better not sleep Take a No-Doz, do some blow Oh shit what the hell have we done? It's alive and it's hungry as fuck Better hide all the snacks and the dough It is out of my control, you are shit out of luck I don't wanna be unfair but the pair We got beat that weak shit you got (true god) Blew up the spot with that new bop Crew drops, do up ya squad without nuance I don't wanna sound unkind but the Sounds I make are the sounds of the hounds That are howlin - Under your bed I'm here growling Same time under the blanket you're cowering [Killer Mike:] Cowering like cowards cowering on Concrete showers in Rikers Island Victims, we the wolves that's wilding We often smile at sights of violence Acting brave and courageous Ain't advantageous for health and safety So when we say run the jewels Just run' em baby, please don't delay me And that goes for a guy or lady The fam god damn we fuckin crazy I'll pull this pistol Put it on your poodle or your fuckin baby She clutched the pearls, said "What in the world!" And "I won't give up shit!" I put the pistol on that poodle And I shot that bitch [Hook:] Run the jewels...[x2] [El-P:] And the crowd chants "Get that paper!" And the mob says "Kill that witch!" This city get mad to the max Better wave bye-de bye to the high scrapes kids Get a tin foil hat for the rain, in Hot water from the roof to the basement I'mma smoke 'til the planet erases Build a white flag out of Zig Zags, wave it [Killer Mike:] Often I'm smoking coffin Sip lean on a bean like Boston My young bitch here fine like Pam Grier when she made that movie Coffy But when my wife's in town Ay Jackie Brown just stay up off me Cause if they don't somebody get shot And they gon' buy a coffin [El-P:] With the pull of a pin a grenade Get a crowd to they feet and a soul to its options I'm a fool for the win I been made To be loud while these other cats drowning in softness In a urn or the dirt get tossed in With a grin or a smirk get accosted I'm a sin on the verse like a kid in a hearse Or a nun in a cum shot (stop it) [Killer Mike:] Big beast in a cage with a heart Full of rage, it seems I can't behave You could try till you die, oh well You failed, it seems the world can't be saved These streets is full with the wolves That starve for the week so they after the weak In a land full of lambs I am And I'll be damned if I don't show my teeth Banana Clipper ============ [Killer Mike:] I move with the elegance of an African elephant I presented the evidence eloquent as the president Evident is the emphasis, I deserve me a championship But before I banana clip I'mma chill so my man can rip [El-P:] Little man against Hellion with the heart of an orphan I got the words of a murderer and an eye for distortion You take a slice of my portion, I'll take a piece of your profit I drive at illegal speeds, Keep an O.Z in my pocket [Killer Mike:] We run the jewels in your town, a quarter pound on my person I'm known for pounding the stage, I'm talking burning and cursing Producer gave me a beat, said it's the beat of the year I said "El-P didn't do it so get the fuck outta here!" [El-P:] You wanna hang, bring your throat, I got stools and a rope I'mma slang pope, haranguing the land with a man's flow A new edition to the art of the old code That's fully retarded and put a part in your bold dome [Killer Mike:] Ay El We the villains, we antagonist bad guys Mercy me, merciless me putting pain in they sad eyes It's time for Skywalker talk cause meet the true Darth Vader I hit your mom in '03, but a G ain't ate her So baby boy, you should tighten up and show some respect Before I Melvin on you Jody, put my arm on your neck Or worse yet be the reason your girl want a divorce Be at your crib with your kids saying "fuck your fort Lil' nigga!" [El-P:] The style is radiation leak at Mile Island Also known as Chernobyl talk, listen for the sirens For the green I'm a hoarder, you're the poor distorter Sorta morbid sonnin' these fuckin' whoredome explorers, I'm bored Enough of your bummy shit, it's numb to the core, sure You suck a good dick for the fame and couldn't resist getting played I fuck like I'm headed to war, I'm really not playing no games But tag me god damn it I'll kill the carrier mentions my name [Killer Mike:] Hey, I'm a soldier of fortune, a mercenary on beat I'm merciless, I'll torture emcees, tie up both of they feet If they refuse to run the jewels we beat the bottoms of feet I'm talking grip pliers, guys, to the top of your teeth Hey me and Jaime killed the competition, top of the heap Is where we staying when they corpses resting under our feet I sent they mom a little cash and a sympathy letter Told her she raised a bunch a fuck boys, next time do better Bitch [Big Boi:] We the old Atlanta, new Atlanta, future of the city Daddy Fat Saxx don't give a damn cause can't nann new niggas get with me Now it's true, niggas are simply simple minded simple Simons Being dumbed down by the local radio stations by designing But what I be rhyming, no payola is required My bank account obese as fuck while yours sits on a diet Nigga your lease is up, you're fired Quiet, that's how the boss talk Retain ownership on everything, every car bought And paid for, no neighbors cause I'm sitting on acres Went to Vegas, jumped the broom cause I wasn't trippin' on papers Or no prenuptual agreement for mama If we broke up and she took half I'd still be sitting on commas Eight figures nigga A Christmas Fucking Miracle ======================= [El-P:] That was me in BK on Atlantic Never looked both ways, ran in traffic Pops went away but I stayed, vagrant Placed where the steel and cement became nature Love what you did with the place, it looks gorgeous Cityscape where the blood of good men courses And the dreamers are bull trapped in porcelain Take a knee to the gods and get horse shit Wanna live for the thrill? They'll arrange it Got a bevy of imps to spit hatred Shit'll get in your head and cause panic Have you desperately begging to get famous Get your dignity dirty and left orphaned Sanity on the fringe of distorted Who are they to just take shit and hoard it? Who am I that I don't get my portion? The most impressionable minds get molested And informed by manipulating forces Don't fret little man, don't cry They can never take the energy inside you were born with Knowing that, understand you could never be poor You already won the war, you were born rich You can only take the energy you had Going back to the realm or the home where your lord is Whoever whatever that lord is couldn't Give a fuck if you ever made fortunes Fuck anyone ever trying to run that bum shit Send 'em to the flames where the orcs live Them and the lost minds thinking they're smarter than us Don't understand love's importance And we can weaponize that, bring 'em back to the truth Where the ashes and dust got formed in [Killer Mike:] The beat breaks and your teeth break Keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake It would seem your veneers just mere souvenirs Falling out your mouth and on to the landscape Me and El-P do the secret handshake Then I pummel punch a pumpkin head punk in his pimple face 'Till he's punch drunk cause he's sweet as a pound cake (Ain't he pussy, Mike?) Yeah, El, I'll say Into the wild, wildstyle ghetto child running wild Where the lions and the owls stay The powers that be even offered up reprieves Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees But they can give that to the kings and Queens and the worshipers of idols and followers of things Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages It's kill or be killed and I'm working with the averages My professor Emeritus say we been cursed being brought to the Americas How you raise a whole human single parent, no marriages no sense of heritage Planned Parenthood helping plan miscarriages But I'm lucky mommy already had a narrative Product of a teenage love, My arrogance to rise from the pride And the job my parents did Named Mike I was told it was godlike Even danced with the devil, came out alright OK, honor y'all? No way Still spell America with the triple K Word up to Spice 1 and O'Shea And any MC peepin' what I go through Real rap, my last line's so true Rest in peace to Pimp C and Camu too We do it for you
Speaking as an old fuck that witnessed the birth of hip-hop and what it became when it went mainstream Run the Jewels is the purest expression of hip-hop in this decade...the sick beats...the skill of the flow...the social commentary...and the humor...that is what hip-hop was...and now is again...Run the Jewels IS hip-hop epitomized...
UGK 2.0
these guys make me want to punch someone. Perhaps you...
These guys remind me of UGK as well, minus that purple drank.
SO TRUE
OBSESSED
I too am an old fuck, and I couldn't agree more, haven't listened to hip hop for years, but I heard these guys on Radio 6, and was hooked, absolutely awesome
Setlist:
1:25 - Run The Jewels
5:00 - Oh My Darling Don’t Cry
9:25 - Blockbuster Night (Part 1)
12:25 - Banana Clipper
15:50 - Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)
19:00 - Sea Legs
22:59 - Pew Pew Pew
27:08 - Lie, Cheat, Steal
31:06 - Early
35:15 - All Due Respect
37:08 - Get It
40:55 - A Christmas Fucking Miracle
+Nick Mobley UP
RTJ are the best thing to happen to hip hop in over a decade
@Rykwondo....couldnt agree with you more. RTJ absolutely OWN. Cant wait for RTJ3.
+Jordan Stephenson Not even rap fans. But both are GREAT!
Agreed man. Kendrick and RTJ are in a league of their own right now.
ThreeToesofFury yo RTJ3 is lit
K
I'm not even a fan of rap or hip hop but these guys are fucking awesome, metalhead being converted here 👊
or you
you are not alone.
Ben Milford As someone who loves his metal it pleases me to read this.
If you're starting to explore hip hop then check out Never Better by p.o.s, especially the song Drumroll.
I feel like there's a bunch of rap that can crossover into that world.
10:00 "Fuck what you're rapping - who produced you?" EL-P raises his finger^^
One of the best shows I've ever seen, an absolute pleasure. Run the Jewels for life x
13:05 the way El-P smiles when he realizes the crowd knows the lyrics from RTJ1
killer mike dancing is the best thing ever
Wish they would keep a Christmas fucking miracle on their new set list, best RTJ song for me...In terms of sheer flow, El-P and Killer Mike at their best
i cant help to think about Rob and Big every time i watch them preform.
2019 and I'm only finding this video......FML
Can't believe real hip hop is makin a come back!
13:05 though!!
#tagteammode
El-ps mic needed to be boosted 20%. Dude smokes, and drinks, and is old, and is rapping next to killer Mike for fucks sake. Still makes me happier than almost any other concert recording ever. Two middle age buddies, disillusioned by the game, from opposite sides of the industry, bought together by chance, form the best rap duo since public enemy and really enjoy doing it.
Amazing chemistry and thank you so much
this was amazing
1:05 is fucking majestic
From a socio-political standpoint they are the best thing to happen to Hip-Hop ever :) !!!
Run The Jewels come to BRAZIL!
Best hiphop nowadays!
A Christmas fucking miracle.
To be there would have been one of the greatest moments of my life.
too dope
chingo pura energy
Dank as HELL!
That was fukkn awesome
shiiiitt!! How did I miss that video :O
Can't believe i missed this shit! :(
Is there a verse in hiphop that goes harder than the first verse of Don’t Cry?
Other than the second verse of Don’t Cry I mean.
Fuck yea RTJ change the music game for me. Was and still a metalhead but listen to everything now. Atleast the Jewels once a day. If not all day. DDFH!!!
1:23 Run The Jewels 💎
4:10 scratching (Run The Jewels)
5:00 Oh My Darling Don’t Cry
9:25 Blockbuster Night (Part 1)
12:25 Banana Clipper 🍌
15:50 Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)
19:00 Sea Legs
22:59 Pew Pew Pew
27:08 Lie, Cheat, Steal
31:06 Early
35:15 All Due Respect
37:08 Get It
40:55 A Christmas Fucking Miracle 🎄
lyrics: Run The Jewels, Banana Clipper, A Christmas Fucking Miracle
Run The Jewels
=============
[El-P:]
Oh dear what the fuck have we here?
These motherfuckers all thorn no rose
Egads what a bad dream better not sleep
Take a No-Doz, do some blow
Oh shit what the hell have we done?
It's alive and it's hungry as fuck
Better hide all the snacks and the dough
It is out of my control, you are shit out of luck
I don't wanna be unfair but the pair
We got beat that weak shit you got (true god)
Blew up the spot with that new bop
Crew drops, do up ya squad without nuance
I don't wanna sound unkind but the
Sounds I make are the sounds of the hounds
That are howlin - Under your bed I'm here growling
Same time under the blanket you're cowering
[Killer Mike:]
Cowering like cowards cowering on
Concrete showers in Rikers Island
Victims, we the wolves that's wilding
We often smile at sights of violence
Acting brave and courageous
Ain't advantageous for health and safety
So when we say run the jewels
Just run' em baby, please don't delay me
And that goes for a guy or lady
The fam god damn we fuckin crazy
I'll pull this pistol
Put it on your poodle or your fuckin baby
She clutched the pearls, said "What in the world!"
And "I won't give up shit!"
I put the pistol on that poodle
And I shot that bitch
[Hook:]
Run the jewels...[x2]
[El-P:]
And the crowd chants "Get that paper!"
And the mob says "Kill that witch!"
This city get mad to the max
Better wave bye-de bye to the high scrapes kids
Get a tin foil hat for the rain, in
Hot water from the roof to the basement
I'mma smoke 'til the planet erases
Build a white flag out of Zig Zags, wave it
[Killer Mike:]
Often I'm smoking coffin
Sip lean on a bean like Boston
My young bitch here fine like
Pam Grier when she made that movie Coffy
But when my wife's in town
Ay Jackie Brown just stay up off me
Cause if they don't somebody get shot
And they gon' buy a coffin
[El-P:]
With the pull of a pin a grenade
Get a crowd to they feet and a soul to its options
I'm a fool for the win I been made
To be loud while these other cats drowning in softness
In a urn or the dirt get tossed in
With a grin or a smirk get accosted
I'm a sin on the verse like a kid in a hearse
Or a nun in a cum shot (stop it)
[Killer Mike:]
Big beast in a cage with a heart
Full of rage, it seems I can't behave
You could try till you die, oh well
You failed, it seems the world can't be saved
These streets is full with the wolves
That starve for the week so they after the weak
In a land full of lambs I am
And I'll be damned if I don't show my teeth
Banana Clipper
============
[Killer Mike:]
I move with the elegance of an African elephant
I presented the evidence eloquent as the president
Evident is the emphasis, I deserve me a championship
But before I banana clip I'mma chill so my man can rip
[El-P:]
Little man against Hellion with the heart of an orphan
I got the words of a murderer and an eye for distortion
You take a slice of my portion, I'll take a piece of your profit
I drive at illegal speeds, Keep an O.Z in my pocket
[Killer Mike:]
We run the jewels in your town, a quarter pound on my person
I'm known for pounding the stage, I'm talking burning and cursing
Producer gave me a beat, said it's the beat of the year
I said "El-P didn't do it so get the fuck outta here!"
[El-P:]
You wanna hang, bring your throat, I got stools and a rope
I'mma slang pope, haranguing the land with a man's flow
A new edition to the art of the old code
That's fully retarded and put a part in your bold dome
[Killer Mike:]
Ay El
We the villains, we antagonist bad guys
Mercy me, merciless me putting pain in they sad eyes
It's time for Skywalker talk cause meet the true Darth Vader
I hit your mom in '03, but a G ain't ate her
So baby boy, you should tighten up and show some respect
Before I Melvin on you Jody, put my arm on your neck
Or worse yet be the reason your girl want a divorce
Be at your crib with your kids saying "fuck your fort
Lil' nigga!"
[El-P:]
The style is radiation leak at Mile Island
Also known as Chernobyl talk, listen for the sirens
For the green I'm a hoarder, you're the poor distorter
Sorta morbid sonnin' these fuckin' whoredome explorers, I'm bored
Enough of your bummy shit, it's numb to the core, sure
You suck a good dick for the fame and couldn't resist getting played
I fuck like I'm headed to war, I'm really not playing no games
But tag me god damn it I'll kill the carrier mentions my name
[Killer Mike:]
Hey, I'm a soldier of fortune, a mercenary on beat
I'm merciless, I'll torture emcees, tie up both of they feet
If they refuse to run the jewels we beat the bottoms of feet
I'm talking grip pliers, guys, to the top of your teeth
Hey me and Jaime killed the competition, top of the heap
Is where we staying when they corpses resting under our feet
I sent they mom a little cash and a sympathy letter
Told her she raised a bunch a fuck boys, next time do better
Bitch
[Big Boi:]
We the old Atlanta, new Atlanta, future of the city
Daddy Fat Saxx don't give a damn cause can't nann new niggas get with me
Now it's true, niggas are simply simple minded simple Simons
Being dumbed down by the local radio stations by designing
But what I be rhyming, no payola is required
My bank account obese as fuck while yours sits on a diet
Nigga your lease is up, you're fired
Quiet, that's how the boss talk
Retain ownership on everything, every car bought
And paid for, no neighbors cause I'm sitting on acres
Went to Vegas, jumped the broom cause I wasn't trippin' on papers
Or no prenuptual agreement for mama
If we broke up and she took half I'd still be sitting on commas
Eight figures nigga
A Christmas Fucking Miracle
=======================
[El-P:]
That was me in BK on Atlantic
Never looked both ways, ran in traffic
Pops went away but I stayed, vagrant
Placed where the steel and cement became nature
Love what you did with the place, it looks gorgeous
Cityscape where the blood of good men courses
And the dreamers are bull trapped in porcelain
Take a knee to the gods and get horse shit
Wanna live for the thrill? They'll arrange it
Got a bevy of imps to spit hatred
Shit'll get in your head and cause panic
Have you desperately begging to get famous
Get your dignity dirty and left orphaned
Sanity on the fringe of distorted
Who are they to just take shit and hoard it?
Who am I that I don't get my portion?
The most impressionable minds get molested
And informed by manipulating forces
Don't fret little man, don't cry
They can never take the energy inside you were born with
Knowing that, understand you could never be poor
You already won the war, you were born rich
You can only take the energy you had
Going back to the realm or the home where your lord is
Whoever whatever that lord is couldn't
Give a fuck if you ever made fortunes
Fuck anyone ever trying to run that bum shit
Send 'em to the flames where the orcs live
Them and the lost minds thinking they're smarter than us
Don't understand love's importance
And we can weaponize that, bring 'em back to the truth
Where the ashes and dust got formed in
[Killer Mike:]
The beat breaks and your teeth break
Keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake
It would seem your veneers just mere souvenirs
Falling out your mouth and on to the landscape
Me and El-P do the secret handshake
Then I pummel punch a pumpkin head punk in his pimple face
'Till he's punch drunk cause he's sweet as a pound cake
(Ain't he pussy, Mike?) Yeah, El, I'll say
Into the wild, wildstyle ghetto child running wild
Where the lions and the owls stay
The powers that be even offered up reprieves
Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees
But they can give that to the kings and
Queens and the worshipers of idols and followers of things
Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages
It's kill or be killed and I'm working with the averages
My professor Emeritus say we been cursed being brought to the Americas
How you raise a whole human single parent, no marriages no sense of heritage
Planned Parenthood helping plan miscarriages
But I'm lucky mommy already had a narrative
Product of a teenage love,
My arrogance to rise from the pride
And the job my parents did
Named Mike I was told it was godlike
Even danced with the devil, came out alright
OK, honor y'all? No way
Still spell America with the triple K
Word up to Spice 1 and O'Shea
And any MC peepin' what I go through
Real rap, my last line's so true
Rest in peace to Pimp C and Camu too
We do it for you
Killer Mike 2020
El-p for vp
Zach de la Roche for Director of The Office of Management and Budget.
What is the intro song for BBC? The first 3 seconds
Jeppe Grand royal blood - little monster
They should get A.F.R.O or R.A on a few tracks
Was there was mint
As if I was there that year and didn't see these guys wtf. I had literally no idea >:(
21:25
STRAIGHT FIRE>>>>>
wow
What's up with EL-P microphone? Or is it just his voice?
+dimitris bright You mean, how he sounds so sexy? That's all him baby.
+dimitris bright No idea, it wasnt whistling live. It must be how they recorded it
+CheesyBeens you were there? how was it? i saw a crowd gradually gathering outside.
It was really good, very hyped towards the middle, but a good amount of people were just waiting for Limp Bizkit
+CheesyBeens Waiting for Limp Bizkit in 2016 is really really sad...
Song at around 25:00 please?
pew pew pew by run the jewels
@@slothbro2740 thanks a lot!!
@@AbstractMan23 you're welcome
@@slothbro2740 well no shit it's from Run The Jewels
Track around 12:44 ?
+torYxx Banana clipper, off their first album. Big Boi guests on the album track version.
this is Austin City Limits...
No it isn't, they literally say they're in the UK in this video
No, it's not. It's in the title.
21:24