#rtj3

[bababooeyeternal]

current album I'm looping:

Run The Jewels 3 by Run The Jewels

Favorite song: Thursday in the Danger Room (ft. Kamasi Washington)

[asailorsdrunkeneulogy]

Run The Jewels || Thursday in the Danger Room (feat. Kamasi Washington)

[osidius-el-enfatico]

been thinking about this the past few days so here it is despite no one asking:

NICO'S TOP 5 RAP ALBUMS

this isnt the best albums ever, these are my favorites

Childish Gambino - Cul-de-sac

technically a mix tape and not an album but whatever. gambino's bars havent aged particularly well, but this is the album that made me dive into rap instead of relying on mtv, which still played music at the time, it was my first real exposure to instrumentalized rap, dude had a grizzly bear sample in there.

2. Run the Jewels - RTJ3

my favorite songs from run the jewels are actually from rtj2 (lie, cheat, steal and close your eyes and count to fuck) but i feel rtj3 hits harder as a complete album. mike and elp are just fun to listen to, you can feel the friendship coming from their songs. mike is a shitlib tho

3. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - King Cobra

these two are everything people think killer mike is. pure seething hatred for the system and those in power, distilled through a filter of horror core sometimes and funk beats other times. incredible delivery from ennals in the bars

4. Wale - The Mixtape about nothing

wale was seen as one of the candidates to take the crown of rap before kendrick came along, but he chose to stay low and do weird shit musically and host wrestling viewing events. he's fucking great. this samples seinfeld bits so ofc i was gonna like it, but its just geniunely a good album (techinicalle a mixtape again)

5. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

das racist were everywhere in the early 2010s. the collabed with both mr. mothafucking exxxquire and boots riley which is an insane spectrum. they were the darlings of internet rap. they are mostly known for combination taco bell and pizza hut, but they were great musically, equal parts poignant and funny. they werent meant to last tho. heems went on to have a cool album or two. dont know what kool ad is up to nowadays

shot outs: tha powers that be by death grips and i lie here buried with my rings and dresses by backxwash, i chose to not mix industrial in this top but they have an argument to be here.

[cannibal-nightmares]

🐻 🎼 🌊

Ask date: May 17th, 2024 // From this Artist Ask Meme

Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort? Fr.. Franken Stein… Professor Franken Stein from Soul Eater (ily anon) More specifically, I tend to draw him/characters experiencing whatever it is I am trying to process, whether that be something so elaborate like a psychedelic horror, or something as small as trying to decide what to eat. I was pretty vague about it, but it's what I was referencing briefly in the description of this piece. It helps me think.

Your favorite music to draw to right now? I answered with "Doppelganger" by Fall of Troy (alt math rock) last time I answered, but… These past couple weeks I have been sitting at my computer, trying to put anything on to draw, and either having trouble falling into a groove or feeling as though everything I listen to is dangerous somehow. Keeping tabs on that… Listen, I listen to a lot music. Here's what I keep turning to try: - "RTJ3" by Run the Jewels (hip-hop, their best damn album) - "Pictures at an Exhibition" Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (kings of prog rock, iyam…) - "Fatalism" by Polaris (metalcore) - "K-12" by Melanie Martinez (art pop) - "A Saucerful of Secrets" by Pink Floyd (concept psych)

What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? I could have sworn I answered this already, but I can't find it back, so I may be repeating myself here. I love drawing shoes, but theyre tricky at different angles. Faces/heads looking straight down or straight up. I need to work on drawing ladies, too, iih ;o; Feminine faces is something I struggle with.

thank you for your patience <3

[haikumixtape]

Run The Jewels - Hey Kids (Bumaye) (feat. Danny Brown) | From The RTJ3 A..

Eat? No, burn the rich

turn the ashes to ammo

rebel fingers twitch.

[arnesia]

listening to rtj3 in honor of killer mike getting arrested. legend has it is such a….legendary track

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favorites Shows

Judge John Hodgman - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (2/7)

Fever Ray - The Wiltern (11/3)

Nick Cave - The Orpheum (10/29)

M83 - Shrine Auditorium (10/10)

Run the Jewels play RTJ3 - Palladium (10/12)

Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie - Hollywood Bowl (10/13)

The Walkmen - The Fonda (10/3)

Wilco - Ace Hotel (10/6)

US Girls - Teragram (9/7)

Sigur Ros - The Greek (8/28)

Tegan & Sara - Bellwether (8/14)

Big Thief - Hollywood Forever (8/9)

Taylor Swift - SoFi Stadium (8/5)

Kilby Block Party - Salt Lake City (5/12-14) - The Strokes, Pavement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Run the Jewels, Japanese Breakfast, The Walkman, Jean Dawson, Indigo De Souza, Deerhoof

Sunset Rubdown - Lodge Room (4/25)

Sharon Van Etten - Troubadour (3/19) - Angel Olsen special guest for "Like I Used To"

[theviewfromthebooth]

The Mighty Mojo tracks of 2023: The Bubble List

Being ahead of schedule is a rare treat in any aspect of my life, and for that reason I am embracing my decision to release the Bubble List so soon into December, and so far ahead of the Top 50 that will still be released on New Year’s Eve. Some traditions die hard.

In past years I’ve taken my obsession with capturing the year in its entirety to unnecessary lengths. The speed of other actual publications to crown the year’s best everything was always looked on with disdain, as I scoured my regular channels for new music like a desperate man scanning his phone for dealers at 4am. The thought of missing a banger by going too early disturbed me, in large part to ‘The El Camino incident’, in which my favourite album of 2011 dropped in the first week of December. When RTJ3 appeared on Christmas Eve 5 years later with no warning, it seemed to confirm that I was right and everyone else was wrong. Well, this year, the darndest thing happened. 

I realised that NO ONE ELSE CARES. I have yet to have someone call me up for a song appearing on my list in the wrong year, in the 13 years I’ve been putting this thing together. I need to chill the fuck out. And so I have.

The other handy element to releasing the Bubble list now, is that it comes hot on the heels of Spotify Wrapped, and the annual debate around streaming royalties. I say annual because that’s when everyone gets involved, but there’s been a steady undercurrent throughout the year of artists rebelling against the system to speak out. I have always been supportive of their stance - it’s disgusting to see the disparity in profits between the people who own the platform (and due to many undiscussed deals, this includes most of the major labels) and those who literally power it with their artistic endeavours.

And yet, I’ve always remained within this crooked system, simply because I believed it to be the only place to find the depth of music I was looking for. Last I heard, Tidal was still quite specific, and a lot of the others were only marginally better. And then there was the library of playlists that I’ve built up over the years, an encyclopaedia that I lean on heavily on a day-to-day basis. There’s a playlist for nearly every scenario my mind could possibly imagine, and that has a worth beyond currency.

I can’t ignore the fact that Spotify’s algorithms have also been responsible for exposing me to many of the people on this list. The sheer amount of Aussies that feature is testament to that, and again that’s only possible due to the buy-in of the music community. There are ways that Spotify is helping young artists. But it’s just not enough.

It’s still a bit of an eye-roller to announce your departure from something, but in this instance I’m going to indulge myself. I’m looking at other options, and I suggest you all do too. If you want more detailed info on the reasons why and the best action to take, follow United Musicians and Allied Workers on socials https://linktr.ee/umaw 

*Steps down from soapbox* So, the music then. I really went deep into it this year, racking up over 120 songs in the long list by September. The best part of that is that it meant that I had a long time to live with these songs, sort them in my heart and allow the cream to rise naturally to the top.  Aside from the Aussie invasion there’s no real trends - except more of a push to the extremes of comfort in sound. There’s some mad bits in here, and some initially jarring sounds that eventually connect, and when they do it’s all the more thrilling having taken you to the edge. With so much to choose from it was easy to stay within the hardest boundary of the bubble list - outside the odd superstar feature, these are underground/new artists that aren’t widely known or available. In the wake of the streaming debate it feels more important than ever to shine this little light in their direction.

The full Twitter (Some traditions die hard) thread with links to socials and places to buy music/merch will come next week, and you’ll have the benefit of the whole of December to absorb it all before the next hit. 

See you in a few weeks.

[digitalblindfold]

#copping of uppers and downers get done

#im in a rush to be numb

[thisisfreakscene]

5 years old today

[andreasettimo]

El-P

[whatapunk]

A wise man once said:

We all dead, fuck it.

[kromdar]

May 2020 sounded like this for me.

[jaktheact]

killer mike x el-p are 4/4 on classic albums

kill your masters

[shzr]

Run the Jewel.

Written in Urdu.

One of my favorite rap duo. With all 4 dope albums RTJ1-4.