Interview: Run The Jewels
In 2012 New York's alternative hip-hop supremo EL-P produced the album R.A.P Music for outspoken Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. That same year, Mike returned the favour by guesting on EL-P's solo album Cancer 4 Cure. As it turned out, they had a lot more in common than just a shared love of wall-of-noise Bomb Squad style hip-hop production, which led to them recording and performing together as Run The Jewels.
At the end of the month, Killer Mike and EL-P will release their second full length album together via Nas' label Mass Appeal Records. And come early January, the dynamic duo will return to New Zealand for two shows alongside hotly tipped young NYC talent Joey Bada$$. In anticipation of these two events Martyn Pepperell spoke with them for Under The Radar...
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