12 Years and Still Running: Run The Jewels’ Legacy of Disruption
Run The Jewels wasn’t an obvious combination. On one hand, you had a ginger-haired, Brooklyn-born paranoiac making beats on stolen Area 51 hardware and rapping as if Philip K. Dick were alive to see the towers fall. On the other hand, a member of Atlanta’s storied Dungeon Family, issuing socio-political sermons and candy-painted flex raps that settled on resplendent Southern grooves and trunk-rattling trap beats like thick weed smoke. But when the needle drops on “Big Beast,” the first track […]