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    Quote Originally Posted by wizfan View Post
    The weird thing is, Def Jux still seems to exist in some legal sense. It is listed as a "publisher" on the RTJ3 credits.
    Yeah, it's probably the name EL once chose for all things publishing and hasn't changed since.

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    The Trina hook is one of the most baffling features on the album. You'd think a rapper who's been around as long as she has would think of something a bit more clever. But, no, she merely repeats "I'm the shit, I'm the shit, bitch". Lazy. Gangsta Boo had proven she was the shit on RTJ2. I always prefer the singer/instrumentalist guests on RTJ records. Kamasi, Boots and Tunde were brilliant. And if you listen closely to some of the tracks, you will find some ultra-deep melodic basslines. I'm picking up chord progressions I didn't notice the first time around. The musicality is still there, it's just a better kept secret under the thundering beats and the comically devious lyrics. It's definitely a grower, @neorev .

    And, yes, I love The Cold Vein. Iron Galaxy was one of the best tracks on Tony Hawk's Underground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wizfan View Post
    And, yes, I love The Cold Vein. Iron Galaxy was one of the best tracks on Tony Hawk's Underground.


    you all should like, listen to this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbie solo View Post


    you all should like, listen to this.
    I call and raise you his most brutally honest song to date.

    & his best collaboration ever.

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    cannot STAND Aesop Rock, but the El-P track posted is great, obviously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbie solo View Post
    cannot STAND Aesop Rock, but the El-P track posted is great, obviously.
    Just out of curiousity, why don't you like Aesop Rock? He's one of my absolute favorites and I've never heard anyone have a strong preference against him before.

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    cuz hes not rapping. Hes talking. Almost always off-beat.

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    Aes never really grabbed my attention as a rapper (or talk-er?), but I like his beats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbie solo View Post
    cuz hes not rapping. Hes talking. Almost always off-beat.
    Sorry, but that's ridiculous. That may be true for his music of the early 00s, but then again EL didn't particulary rap on beat then either, did he?

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    early 00's is when I gave up. Never bothered with him after that. Think I heard him on some Mr. Lif stuff and kept eyerolling.

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    Run The Jewels will be playing Summer Camp 2017. Based on the first wave of annoucements, I'll definitely be waiting for single-day passes to go on sale.

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    RTJ is so fucking fire it's insane

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    I just wanna know when that ELP/ZDLR album is coming out. Digging For Windows was a beast of a song.

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    Li-Li-Li-Li-Live from the Garden

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    The mixing on that feels off for some reason -- Mike and El's vocals compete really harshly and the music feels muffled to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kleiner352 View Post
    The mixing on that feels off for some reason -- Mike and El's vocals compete really harshly and the music feels muffled to me.
    To be honest, that's how most live performances on TV sound to me these days. I'm guessing there's some rule about how sound is mixed for broadcast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRoswell View Post
    To be honest, that's how most live performances on TV sound to me these days. I'm guessing there's some rule about how sound is mixed for broadcast.
    Yeah but the NIN ASL performance sounded normal tho.

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    I don't know. I love EL-P's work, his production especially, but RTJ somehow doesn't do anything for me. Compared to EL's solo stuff it all seems a bit too melodramatic and simple and it also doesn't help that I can't really get into Killer Mike and the way they carry their "wokeness" around with them.

    I get though why they pursuing this so strongly. They both seem happier then ever before as artists and they also enjoy a popularity they never before had in their careers. So as a fan I'm not mad at them. I'm just hoping for another EL-P solo record sometime in the distant future.

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    Done bought it.






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    New track from Venom finally out and it beats Eminem out of the water, as exptected!


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    Per the RTJ Twitter:

    @therealELP has teamed up with
    @fatpossum records to reissue his solo catalog, starting with 2007's 'i'll sleep when you're dead'. The album is available to stream now for the first time since its release, with physical editions coming in 2020.
    https://el-p.lnk.to/IllSleepWhenYoureDead

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    Fantastic Damage or GTFO

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    Pumped to finally get FD and ISWYD on vinyl for a reasonable price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SM Rollinger View Post
    Fantastic Damage or GTFO
    https://twitter.com/therealelp/statu...87182769741825

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