Review: Run The Jewels - RTJ2

When Run the Jewels' first self-produced record was unleashed upon the world as a free download last year, modern hip-hop grew another limb. While Kendrick Lamar was busy reviving a bygone West Coast scene and the East Coast continued to honour its past heroes, Run the Jewels announced themselves as something vastly different. The ultra aggressive hip-posturing and puerility of producers El-P and Killer Mike was as low brow as it got, but there was an inventiveness amongst the brashness which resonated....

Click here to read Paul Larsens' full review of RTJ2 and stream the album in full below

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