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Run The Jewels, ‘Run The Jewels’

mreeves August 10, 2013 No Comments 2013ATLEl-PKiller MikePolitical Rap

Run the Jewels may be the first time NYC rapper/producer El-P has abandoned his perfectionist’s streak for the exhilaration of immediate results. There are no…

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El-P, ‘Cancer for Cure’

mreeves January 19, 2013 No Comments 2012El-PFuturismIndie RapNYCOn the Boards

El-P occupies a singular perch. The Brooklyn rapper-producer has never sounded quite like anyone else, not even in the late 1990s, when the Sasquatch thumps…

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