Run The Jewels

Released: May 25, 2016

Songwriter: El-P Killer Mike

Producer: El-P

[Verse 1: Killer Mike]
Bitch we be that shit, that's right
Number two boo-boo straight caca (yeah)
I smoke ganja with a dreadlocked rasta
Move like Frank you will die like a hassa
Move like Jesus die like a martyr
Hell of a choice when you're riding on the MARTA
Trying to get some hoes in the hot car
How far is we away, man? Not far
The greatness they claim, not all
Are not, we are those juggernauts
Me El, we hail
Like a young Che Guevara and Fidel
Castro, cash flow, car full of females
Bad hoes, we in the DR
Any fuck rapper boy gettin' out of line
I pray the preacher beat him to the goddamn ER
I spit them country rap tunes like Hee-Haw
Cocaine flow fishscale no re-rock
Take a snort for yourself shawty, see
"He raw... (sniff) See he raw!"
That’s you shawty go on snort your nose off
Then put the news in the street Tom Brokaw
Cause of you shawty met a bad snow bitch out of Brooklyn
And that Brooklyn bitch straight got broke off
Yeah she called her homegirl from the BX
Freaky lil 'Rican brought X and we sexed
Couple months later brought 'em down to Atlanta
And let 'em style on the 'bamas that's right yeah we flex
Heard she got a baby daddy and a nigga acting aggy
Runnin' round talkin' 'bout yeah he plexed
Nigga better pray for a ho like he Tebow though
Cause right now he stay losin’ like The Jets

[Hook: El-P]
And I walk around like I got a 36" chain
And I walk around like I got a 36" chain

[Verse 2: El-P]
Bitch we be that shit that's right
Light a flare put your thumbs in the air high five
I came for the stash box gimme that
I been waitin' for this all my life
3 AM and I'm still not right
Still awake still away from fading
Crazy, Psilocybin, why the ride so hazy
Dribble this spit till the street gets wavy
The bliss and pure shit magician, get to skipping
Not too tall dark and handsome man
But I talk dark for ransoms man
Spend grands of those zombies, folded origami
Yes I bag the clams
Anyone object to the styles, get a smile and a backwards hand
Peep that, venomous face in the place of an angel
Bringing that buckshot back to the table
Been a veteran, earthbound hellion
Try to say grace get a face full of staples
Woke up and the city air smelled like maple
If you come straight from New York you relate
If you come straight from another place, stay tuned
Me and Mike got the whole map held safe

[Verse 3: Killer Mike]
Be it NYC or the ATL
From the ceilings of heaven to the gates of hell
We murder death killed every stage we step
Homicide times two better warn yourself, El

[Verse 4: El-P]
Anybody looking for some trouble better self med
We could double dutch in a minefield, hell gets
Just the right temperature, break beat minister
Riverdance cleats on your face for the finisher

[Outro]
Great

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”:

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