Run The Jewels

Released: December 24, 2016

Songwriter: Killer Mike El-P

Producer: El-P

[Intro]
Take it easy

[Verse 1: El-P]
Excusez-moi bitches
I'm lit from the last of the gas, Mike twisted
No, no sleep for the vicious, key up a cop car just to see mischief
I, I'm a nut punch wizard
Speed bag your ball bag, leave none in it
We-- we got one ambition
Re-up and puff 'til the month go missing

[Verse 2: Killer Mike]
Big, big, big black fellow with a four-fifth in the back, backpack fella
I, I rumble don't stumble young fellow
Got a stinger in the '69 bumblebee yellow
I mean, I mean stunner, big titty bank teller had my wife here with her so a hater can't tell her
Presidential suite, got a fuck boy jealous
I'm the Nelson Mandela of Atlanta dope sellers

[Verse 3: El-P and Killer Mike]
I, I'm a goddamn savage
Eat with no hands I don't even use napkins
Mug says #1 Bastard, show up in jorts with a hatchet laughing
Hey El, the AR's an option for any asshole wanna talk and pop shit
Quit playing pussy or the pistol will pop off
And get your whole face pushed back or knocked off
(Yikes)

[Hook]
Take it easy partner
Ain't no chilling in the land of the villains
Ain't no chilling, ain't no chilling

[Verse 4: El-P]
They fucked up and paid us, made us dangerous
Too old to change, I'ma stay with paper
Poor folk love us the rich hate our faces
We talk too loud, won't remain in our places
Smoke by the acre, a brain escapist
Smoke anymore and my brain is vapor
I don't do meek anymore, guy, save it
The laughing is done now, time to cry later

[Verse 5: Killer Mike]
Tell them haters and bitches we bang big shit, but yeah you should mind your business
You can't pause or shun this, physical fitness, bitch we run this
Paraplegics, you don't run shit, fuck you even, get the gumption
Think you stylin', think you stuntin'
I'll smack the fuck out ya' ass for frontin'
That seems a little aggressive

[Verse 6: El-P]
Oompa-loompas, I'll shoot a tool atcha medullas
I'm cool as a rule but I'll scalp a ruler
I'm new to this town, I'm a stranger passing
I see your bum crews, I don't get the hoopla
(The world got rules they say) That's a rumor
Benign, nah I'm lying it's a tumor
They ain't even tryna' buy that we cryin' goodbye
We got dying to do, dude, the design's ruthless

[Verse 7: Killer Mike]
One-two, one-two
I done read books by Sun-Tzu
Learned from beautiful women who rolled my joints too
The opposite of humble and my swag on kung-fu
No admission for the cool, I just kick it and come through
Hurry up we got liquor to run through
Bales to inhale, lies to not tell
She told me let her go and then I can exhale
I left her with a pound of dro and a Nextel

[Hook]
Take it easy, partner
Ain't no chilling in the land of the villains
Ain't no chilling, ain't no chilling

No track is safe with the combination of Killer Mike’s aggressive flow straight from the ATL and the lyrical backflips and dense production by Brooklyn son and underground legend El-P.

The duo were first acquainted on Mike’s fully El produced and critically-acclaimed 2012 LP, R.A.P. Music. The two came together in 2013 to release an outstanding self-titled album that was widely considered one of the best Hip-Hop albums of the year. The name of the group is from the intro to LL Cool J’s “Cheesy Rat Blues”:

Just throw your hands in the air

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