Even though Run The Jewels is a relatively new group in the pages of Hip Hop history, together its members have a combined decades of experience making music. From El-P’s beginnings with Company Flow in the ’90s and Killer Mike’s work with Atlanta’s elite before releasing his debut solo album in 2003, to DJ Trackstar’s masses of mixtapes, the group’s members all led separate but parallel lives that ultimately fused together to create the growing juggernaut they are today.
Now HipHopDX, with Beats 1, dives into the dates of some of Killer Mike, El-P and DJ Trackstar’s career milestones to show how the individual members combined into a team, as well as how they paired up with Apple Music for their Beats 1 radio show We Run The Jewels.
Scroll down to follow the timeline, and hear all the episodes of We Run The Jewels on Beats 1.
Catch every episode of We Run The Jewels on Beats 1 radio and check out RTJ’s albums on iTunes below.
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Killer Mike / I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind II (2008)
Killer Mike / Pl3dge (2011)
Killer Mike / R.A.P. Music (2012)
El-P / Cancer For Cure (2012)
Run The Jewels (2013)
Run The Jewels 2 (2014)
Meow The Jewels (2015)
Run The Jewels 3 (2016)
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rtj is cool i like it but sometimes i miss solo el-p at fantastic damage-i’ll sleep when you’re dead era.
In other words: how El-P helped Killer Mike from being a southern rapper to a rapper recognize in the whole underground scene worldwide & how Killer Mike helped EL-P to get recognition outside the underground backpack scene
Didn’t Killer Mike do another album after Monster when he was still down with Purple Ribbon? I forgot the name of it but I had it at the time, it had a song with Three 6 Mafia called “Get ’em Shorty” and another called “My Chrome”. The latter was a really dope song as I recall.
Interesting read, but a lot of details are left out, like how El produced every track on the Cannibal Ox album, which often means it would be included in his releases, or how he had Cage, Mr. Lif, and the great Aesop Rock on Def Jux, or how he once had beef with 7l and Esoteric and the Demigodz crew. For Killer Mike, they didn’t include the Underground Atlanta compilation he released or the aforementioned sophomore album, which now that I think about it may have been shelved and released as a free download a few years later.
RTJ is the s**t! Next to E40 & b.o.b. SO UNIQUE- rough, yet articulate. Of course Kendrick, Pappoose and NEW Eminem spitting the CLEVER & QUICK freestyle. True battlerap. LYRICISTS 4 REAL! Seems spiritually based? Where’s HOV?
What about all the other stuff El did in his career? producing The Cold Vein, putting out 3 instrumental albums, a jazz album, scoring movies, etc…. I mean I get that it’s simplified, but he did a lot more in that time than release two solo albums, and there’s a lot of blank space there..