Run The Jewels’ Killer Mike releases new solo track Run


Killer Mike Run




Killer Mike has teamed up with Young Thug and Dave Chappelle.

Killer Mike has released RUN today, his first slice of solo material in over a decade.

The track comes with a video directed by Adrian Villagomez, and is the long-awaited follow-up to R.A.P. Music; the 2012 album which soon sparked a collaboration with El-P, itself leading to the pair teaming up as Run The Jewels, the now hugely successful duo last active in 2020 with RTJ4.

“There are villains here – racist police, pseudo Christians, the big corporations which have been allowed to become beyond morality – but the set ups are not of the pantomime kind,” our review reads.

“Here on Ju$t, the subjects enslave themselves by embracing a rigged system offering the illusion of equality, while the stain of invisible plutocrats haunt ‘pulling the pin’: ‘These filthy criminals sit at the pinnacle/Doing the typical/Keeping us miserable/Taking the most and providing the minimal’.”

“One of the most poignant moments comes on ‘walking in the snow’, Mike hacking out: ‘And you so numb you watch the cops choke out a man like me / Till my voice goes from a shriek to whisper, I can’t breathe’. Depressingly, the words are not about Floyd’s death but that of Eric Garner in similar circumstances in 2014.”


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