Run The Jewels were in the studio with Massive Attack yesterday, as Pitchfork points out. “So… no big deal or anything. not bragging a lot. just talking here,” El-P tweeted. Killer Mike followed that up with a pair of Instagrams of the two duos working together. “In studio with @massiveattack vibe&#821...

Meow The Jewels started as a goof, and now it’s gonna be an album. It’s still a goof, obviously — you can’t watch this trailer and expect otherwise. Same goes for the new video of El-P “auditioning” cats at Brooklyn’s BARC Animal Shelter: “No? Nothing? Do you like ra...

One of the magical things about Run The Jewels, the free-online album that El-P and Killer Mike made together last year, was how sui generis it was — two snarling rap dudes with disparate backgrounds but similar ideas coming together, shutting out all outside influences, and coming up with some of the meanest and funnest [...]

Killer Mike has a great history with Williams Street, the production company behind Adult Swim. In fact if it wasn’t for them giving him the creative freedom to make an album any way he wanted then he never would have hooked up with BFF El-P and the world would be a much gloomier place. Now [...]

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...