Chris Daly used to hide new VHS releases behind workout videos It’s not often a song snippet is going to get mentioned here, but it’s not all that often that Run The Jewels drops a single teaser via Twitter, either. Out of seemingly no where, El-P tweeted that the next album, creatively named RTJ2, “is […]
| Shots Fired, Episode 59: An Afternoon with El-Producto (El-P) | January 17, 2014 |
No introduction necessary. The cat-loving gentleman who makes beats harder than carpet bombs came on the latest episode of Shots Fired. We talked about pop star cyborgs, running an indie-rap label, the greatness of Bell Biv Devoe, his Run the Jewels partnership with Killer Mike, the early years of Company Flow, and much more. Rap […]
| The Corrections: El-P’s Fantastic Damage | August 12, 2013 |
Max Bell wrote his own eulogy with cocaine hands. While the attacks of 9/11 aren’t mentioned explicitly, El-P’s Fantastic Damage might be the only N.Y. hip-hop album from 2002 that sonically captures the horror of the terror alert era. Though there’s really not much competition. Cam’ron’s Come Home With Me dropped the same day (May […]
| Question in the Form of An Answer: An Interview with Run the Jewels (Killer Mike + El-P) | July 25, 2013 |
There might not be a more dynamic duo in rap music right now than Killer Mike and El-P. Responsible for two of last year’s finest releases in R.A.P. Music and Cancer4Cure, they’ve returned as Run the Jewels with a new full-length and a massive, summer-long tour with Despot and Kool AD. That’s one hell of […]
| Run the Jewels (Killer Mike + El-P) – “36′ Chain” | June 7, 2013 |
Nothing says Friday afternoon like some “Riverdance on your Face with cleats music.” My favorite part of this song is the end when they start trading bars and you realize, oh shit, they have become a group and are not just two respectively great solo artists rapping. They are basically making people sit up and […]
| El-P & Killer Mike Get It | April 29, 2013 |
Remember that thing earlier where I said that Fantasy Draft rap collaborations rarely work out. This Run the Jewels cut from El-P and Killer Mike is pretty much the exact opposite of that statement. If anyone wants to finance my screenplay about these two winning congressional races and going to Washington D.C. to teach the […]
| Video: Aesop Rock, El-P, Slug & Immortal Technique Freestyle | February 22, 2013 |
Had YouTube existed when I was in college, I would have memorized every single word of this cypher. At least, the El-P, Slug, and Aesop verses. I was never a big fan of Immortal “WARFARE IN THE JUNGLES OF GUATEMALA” Technique. There’s no tape date here and no concrete location, other than that they are […]
| The Top 50 Albums of 2012 | December 24, 2012 |
On a Previous Episode of the Passion of the Weiss: The Top 50 Albums of: 2011; 2010; 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 50. House Shoes – Let it Go [Tres] No best album list is complete without something from Detroit. Nowhere else is as no frills and unvarnished. It operates as a palate cleanser to remind […]
| The 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2012 (W/ Zip File) | December 19, 2012 |
Now with ZIP File. Download: Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012: Part II (#50-26) (Left-Click) Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012: Part I (#25-1 ) (Left-Click) Previously: Passion of the Weiss Top Hip Hop Songs — 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 Novelty Bonus – “Hot Cheetos […]
| The 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2012 (#25-1) | December 18, 2012 |
Previously: Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012 (#50-26) Passion of the Weiss Top Hip Hop Songs — 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 25. Azealia Banks – “1991” As much as Azealia Banks’s Twitter is the worst thing on the internet and the blogosphere’s obsession with her Twitter is the second […]
