“[Run the Jewels 2] is inching ever so close to completion while I am inching ever so close to an unrelated nervous breakdown,” El-P wrote on Twitter recently. “I kid! It’s related.”
Well it now appears the rapper/producer’s second record with Killer Mike—the one Zach de la Rocha and Travis Barker worked on—is a day away from being mixed. Here’s the first byproduct of its final sessions, along with our El-P cover story from a couple years ago…
Run the Jewels tour dates:
7/31 Salt Lake City, UT – Pioneer Park
8/2 Chicago, IL – Double Door
8/3 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
8/8 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
8/9 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
8/11 Victoria, BC – Sugar Nightclub
8/12 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
8/13 Calgary, AB – The Republik
8/14 Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
8/16 Portland, OR – Tom McCall Waterfront Park
8/17 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge #
8/22 Englewood, CA – Fiddler’s Green Ampitheater
8/23 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Festival
# El-P solo