Run the Jewels Encapsulate the Zeitgeist of America on the Brink with ‘RTJ4’ | Album Review

June 12, 2020 Jesse Ducker

The fourth album by the team of Killer Mike and El-P couldn’t have arrived in a more timely and topical manner. It’s raw, politically charged, aggressive, and confrontational.

Uncompromising ‘Run the Jewels 3’ Finds the Dynamic Duo in Their Rawest Form | Album Review

December 30, 2016 Jesse Ducker

El-P & Killer Mike’s latest LP reaffirms that the pair have managed to capture their audience’s passion like few hip-hop acts have during this decade.

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Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.