Shaky Knees 2021 Lineup: Stevie Nicks, The Strokes, Run the Jewels to Headline By Scott Russell | 11:32am.Danger Mouse and Black Thought Team Up with A$AP Rocky and Run the Jewels for "Strangers" By Jade Gomez Aug| 1:00pm.Run The Jewels Return to Colbert to Perform "A Few Words For The Firing Squad" By Jade Gomez Aug| 12:10pm.The 10 Best New Songs By Paste Staff Aug| 2:00pm.It also addresses how the media is ill-equipped to frame instances of police brutality, which only furthers the racial divide. One of Killer Mike’s verses on the album’s opening track illustrates a sad reality-that our criminal justice system is so deeply flawed that many minorities, particularly Black people, would rather die by their own volition than face a system that is so historically stacked against them. ”I got one round left, a hunnid cops outside / I could shoot at them or put one between my eyes / Chose the latter, it don’t matter, it ain’t suicide / And if the news say it was, that’s a goddamn lie” (“yankee and the brave (ep. There’s so much great, nimble wordplay on this album, but we wanted to shine a light on the socially-conscious lines that should be scrolled on protest posters and shouted on the streets. Run the Jewels made an album that our grieving, angry country desperately needed, and in honor of its brilliance, we’re sharing some of its most biting lyrics. Killer Mike and El-P wrote and recorded the album back in 2019, but many social media users were so shocked at its prescience that they speculated whether the album was amended after the tragic killing of George Floyd and subsequent nationwide protests. The album, which features appearances from Mavis Staples, Pharrell, 2 Chainz, Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de La Rocha and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, spans themes of systemic oppression and personal struggles, and though that’s nothing new for the group, these songs hit especially hard right now. Stay safe and hopeful out there and thank you for giving 2 friends the chance to be heard and do what they love.” “The world is infested with bullshit so here’s something raw to listen to while you deal with it all. “Fuck it, why wait?” they said in a press statement. This week, rap duo Run the Jewels released their first album in four years, RTJ4, and due to the present explosive tension in America, they decided to share it two days early.
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