Early (feat. BOOTS) by Run The Jewels
“Theme: Best of 2014 Rap is at it's most powerful when it gets political. If I were to compare this to old school (because I'm 41) Killer Mike's flow borrows from Run DMC's Walk this Way but the lyrics hit like Public Enemy or KRS-One. EL-p's production had an omnious West Coast tone.”
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Theme: Best of 2014 Rap is at it's most powerful when it gets political. If I were to compare this to old school (because I'm 41) Killer Mike's flow borrows from Run DMC's Walk this Way but the lyrics hit like Public Enemy or KRS-One. EL-p's production had an omnious West Coast tone.
Truth is truth when denied or not
Only just got obsessed with this album. Man, the lyrics to this song...
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#Top31Tracksof2014: This is basically the song of 2014 from the album of 2014. Killer Mike's verse feels especially poignant given the rise in coverage of unprovoked signs of aggressive force on young black men by law enforcement officers, whilst El-P's verse cleverly makes him complicit in this systemic problem by relegating Mike's story to simply an unimportant footnote in his own miserable day - a man who sees the truth for what it is but has given up trying to fight back against it, letting the realisation of such a worthless endeavour crush him. Truth be told, this probably should be higher - and would have been, "RTJ2" has hit me HARD these past two weeks, it taking a few months for me to realise just how outstanding this album is - but it absolutely deserves to be on this countdown, regardless of where it ended up. #bestof2014
Heard this and loved it!
Superb animation, beats & rhymes, - DOPE!
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