Tag: Run The Jewels
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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Fleetwood Mac vs Radiohead & Run The Jungle
In a long running series of ‘why can’t I mash up every Fleetwood Mac track EVER’ – here is a mashup I started and pretty much finshed in 2021 for a Crumplbangers Challenge and never released. I rediscovered it yesterday on my backup MP3 player and went ‘why did I never release this?!’ It’s not…
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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RTJ Cumbia Ooh La La
Loving this new remix of Run The Jewels – Ooh La La, real Cumbia/Mariachi/Mexican flavour and introduced me to Santa Fe Klan aka Ángel Quezada, the rapper and singer wielding an accordion in the video. Now, accordions are like instant bait to me, so I had to check out Santa Fe Klan’s other videos –…
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Walking In The Snow
Who needs Toy Story when you have Run The Jewels? Excellent animated video reflecting as much 2020 and the Black Lives Matter and police brutality protests as the lyrics of the song. Some quite sobering moments especially thinking about all this craziness and how it will affect children….and what 2021 will bring, and that we…
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Look at all these slave masters posing on your dollar
RTJ4 has been busy with the videos, including this amazing animation for JU$T with Pharrell and Zack De La Rocha. So cool yet so current. I was reminded of this by Ian of the Lloydbrary posting this video from Travis Barker’s channel of his new RTJ collab, Forever: