Run The Jewels have confirmed RTJ4 for release on June 5th.
The duo spent most of their recording time at Rick Rubin‘s Shangri-La studio in California and Electric Lady in New York, inviting collaborations with the likes Pharrell Williams, Josh Homme, Zack de la Rocha and Mavis Staples, as well as Greg Nice and DJ Premier who both appear on the recent Ooh LA LA single whose video was unveiled last month.
“We shot this video only a few weeks before the pandemic hit with no clue as to what the future held,” they said. “The fact that we got the chance to do it is damn near miraculous in hindsight. In conceptualizing the video with Brian and Vanessa Beletic, we imagined the world on the day that the struggle of class was finally over. A day that humanity, empathy and community were victorious over the forces that separate us based on arbitrary systems created by man.”
“This video is a fantasy of waking up on a day that there is no monetary system, no dividing line, no false construct to tell our fellow man that they are less or more than anyone else. Not that people are without, but that the whole meaning of money has vanished. That we have somehow solved our self-created caste system and can now start fresh with love, hope and celebration.”