Run the Jewels

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Run The Jewels is an American hip-hop super duo that features the talents of Brooklyn rapper/producer El-P and Atlanta emcee Killer Mike. This week, they sit down with us to talk about the labels the media has placed on them (7:15), the value of dreaming (16:16), the inner-workings of how they create together (21:35), their philosophies on the purpose of rap (28:00), why the night of November 24th, 2014 changed them (32:17), their role in this precarious moment (38:20), and, finally, whether they believe RTJ was destiny (47:38).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam for Gossa. Welcome to the show. And Hey everyone. Today I am pleased to sit with Run the Jules. They are a hip-hop duo created by Killer Mike and L.P. They have recently released their fourth record
0:47.4	titled RTJ 4. For the uninitiated, here's a preview of that album the song is called Never Look Back. 81 miles to the aisle down road never look back never ever went slow never look
1:09.8	back heard him say that before never look back back, never stare at a go.
1:13.0	Okay Air when a summertime show.
1:15.0	It's shit live at the drums.
1:17.0	Oh no.
1:18.0	No, no. Go on the smoke, grab another pack, go.
1:20.0	Pop smoke, too, we'll play a piano.
1:22.0	Pop time, you was's funny how that go.
1:24.0	Mom, you too, I never can drink slow.
1:26.0	Never look back.
1:27.0	Heard I say that before.
1:28.0	Sound like the type of advice I ignore.
1:30.0	Funny how time feel all ticked
1:32.0	top. You think a death beat a clock shot never smoked sad I heard that's a thought
1:36.4	Got 44 bucks on the smoke what you got got my mind on a mission on the road to
1:40.3	tradition crime in the crime I admitted it, I'm with it.
1:43.0	Must a love crime for my mama right titt it
1:45.0	because if Dollar May sends no question, she was wig.
1:47.0	She was queen-pin and independent when I was a kid it.
1:49.0	Uncle Luke don't stop, get it, get it.
1:51.0	Mommy told me never give a niggled. Mommy told me never get these bitches, my love.
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