Line #25 Music/RunTheJewels


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''The Yankee and the Brave'']]
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4	->''"Me and El-P got time to kill\
5	Got folks to kill, on overkill\
6	He hangin' out the window, I hold the wheel\
7	One black, one white, we shoot to kill"''
8	-->-- "Oh My Darling Don't Cry"
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10	Run the Jewels (also known by the initials RTJ) is a hip-hop super-duo consisting of Brooklyn-based rapper[=/=]producer Music/ElP and Atlanta-based rapper Killer Mike. The duo's name is taken from a lyric in Music/LLCoolJ's "Cheesy Rat Blues".
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12	In 2011, Killer Mike was introduced to El-P by a Creator/CartoonNetwork executive (of all people). Before Run the Jewels was formed and after the two had met, El-P had produced Mike's 2012 album ''R.A.P Music'' and was followed by Killer Mike's appearance on the track "Tougher Colder Killer" from El-P's 2012 album ''Cancer 4 Cure''. Because the two albums were released weeks from each other, the two opted to tour together. The success of that tour eventually led to the formation of Run the Jewels.
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14	!!Discography:
15	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Run the Jewels]]'' (2013)
16	* ''Run the Jewels 2'' (2014)
17	* ''Run the Jewels 3'' (2016)
18	* ''[=RTJ4=]'' (2020)
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20	!!You want these tropes back? CHASE ME!
21	* AllLowercaseLetters: The song titles in ''[=RTJ4=]'' are styled like this.
22	* AntiChristmasSong: "A Christmas Fucking Miracle."
23	* ArcSymbol: The group's calling card is an image of two hands: one in the shape of a gun pointing at a closed fist. This appears on every one of their albums, always in a different art style.
24	* BookEnds: Done with RTJ 4's intro and ending songs "yankee and the brave (ep. 4)" and "a few words for the firing squad (radiation)," both of which contain a portion of a tv-show style outro for a fictional, in-universe show titled, of course, ''Yankee and the Brave.''
25	* CurseCutShort: Done at the end of Verse 6 in "Legend Has It," where the voice of El-P's wife cuts off the tail end of his rather egotistical and vulgar brag with a blunt "Stop."
26	-->''You wanna kick it, I'll give you the rocks\
27	You kiss the wood chipper blade if you bark\
28	I'm fuckin' magic, in fact I'm a warlock of talk\
29	I got a unicorn horn for a-- (stop)''
30	* DarkerAndEdgier: While all of their records have at least one dark song, [=RTJ4=] is considered to be the darkest of the bunch, as it covers powerful and controversial topics of police brutality and white inaction, and has no fun songs to ease up the tension like the previous three albums. The fact that it was dropped during the numerous Black Lives Matter protests/riots in response to George Floyd's death at the hands of a police officer is just icing on the cake.
31	* EitherOrTitle: In spades. Examples include: "Hey Kids (Bumaye)", "Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost)", "a few words for the firing squad (radiation)", and "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)."
32	* GratuitousFrench: There's some quick instances of this in some songs. They're made by El-P, generally.
33	* IntercourseWithYou: Occasionally referenced in their songs, but it's especially prominent in "Love Again" off of RTJ 2. Prince Paul's character Chest Rockwell also gets pretty crude on "Twin Hype Back."
34	* MoodWhiplash: Done at the end of "a few words for the firing squad (radiation)," transitioning from a melancholy instrumental break after several rather heavy verses to a comedic, tv-show style outro that also serves as a call-back to the album's intro song "yankee and the brave."
35	* MushroomSamba: The subject of Killer Mike's verse on "No Come Down." Referenced in the music video for "yankee and the brave (ep. 4)," and in El-P's second verse in "holy calamafuck."
36	* NumberedSequels: Every single one of their records is the shares the title of their debut record, just with a number next to it.
37	* OriginalPositionFallacy: Discussed on "walking in the snow", which touches on how people who support policies that harm marginalized groups will one day face that same harm if they're in a similar economic or social status.
38	* PoliceBrutality: A very common subject in their music, and what arguably makes the group so popular in the first place. It helps that Killer Mike's father was a cop as well.
39	* RemixAlbum[=/=]SillinessSwitch: ''Meow The Jewels'', which sees every beat from ''2'' remade using only sounds made by cats, with the songs re-titled as cat puns (e.g. "Close Your Eyes And Meow To Fluff"). As a parody of crowdfunding rewards, RTJ offered various joke "deluxe editions" of ''2'' for large sums of money, with the cat remix album being one of the more affordable options at $40,000 - after a fan campaign actually raised well over that amount, the group made the album a reality, releasing it for free and giving the money to charity.
40	* RecurringCharacter: Or rather, Recurring Musician. Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's Zach de la Rocha has been a guest star on every Run the Jewels album since the second album.

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