The young Georgia rapper Scotty ATL will release a new Scion-sponsored EP called OTR2SJ later this month, and its first single, “Pray Alone,” has guest verses from two of his city’s most furious rappers: The guttural livewire Trouble and the badass elder statesman Killer Mike. I don’t know if this is a cor...

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...

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 ...