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, the duo deliver their agit-rap gospel with the spry fire of a band making its debut. When they first got together forin 2013, RTJ seemed like a bit of an odd couple. But thunder-voiced Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and Brooklyn avant-rapper-producer El-P have gelled like loose-cannon partners in a great buddy-cop movie, with Mike’s left-wing politics a perfect counterpoint to El-P’s explosive beats and dystopian paranoia on three excellent RTJ LPs.
, which the band rush-released a few days ahead of schedule, is laser-focused, as if Mike and El-P are trying to outrun the apocalypse. “Pass the shit, Mike, I have to insist it/Reality sucks dick/Now, how’s that for wisdom?” El-P offers over the Godzilla-fart drones and slow-drip snare cracks of “Holy Calamafuck.” They’ve responded to an unglued world by updating the war-dance attack of Public Enemy and Ice Cube for an even grislier political age. Fascism slaps, and they slap back.
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