I saw El-P perform live for the first time in 2013. The stage, situated under the I-65 overpass at Louisville, Kentucky’s Forecastle festival, sat a stone’s throw from both the Ohio River and a decoratively beached yacht, so it felt preternaturally appropriate when El stood next to his partner in rhyme, Killer Mike, and rattl...

Before Killer Mike and El-P teamed up as the fearsome rap duo Run The Jewels last year, El produced all of Mike’s great 2012 album R.A.P. Music. And today, for whatever reason, Mike has given us the video for the rumbling album track “Ghetto Gospel.” In directors Trevor Kane and Carlos Haynes’s clip, Mike ...

YouTube comments are a murky water to wade through, but Killer Mike & El-P have decided to address some of the ones people left on their video for the incredible roundhouse kick of a track “36 Chain.” Considering that these two have the best bromance of any rap duo right now, it’s fun to watch [...]

The twitchy Portland/New Zealand skewed-pop trio Unknown Mortal Orchestra aren’t exactly the first indie-pop band you’d expect to line up remixes with guest raps, but it’s happened anyway. The Canadian rap producer Black Noi$e has taken on the band’s lithe and graceful single “So Good At Being In...

The parallel is both obvious and ludicrous, and I kind of hate myself for making it, but just bear with me for a minute. Two years ago, a ferocious veteran rapper and a boundary-smashing, synth-addicted rapper/producer, two guys who’d been friends and collaborators for a long time, got together, as a duo, to make an [...]