YouTube comments are a murky water to wade through, but Killer Mike & El-P have decided to address some of the ones people left on their video for the incredible roundhouse kick of a track “36 Chain.” Considering that these two have the best bromance of any rap duo right now, it’s fun to watch [...]

The recently relaunched rap-and-stuff magazine Mass Appeal has a pretty great idea for a recurring web-video series: Rhythm Roulette, in which rap producers will blunder blindfolded into record stores, grab three records at random, and then have to make a beat by sampling them. The first test-subject of the series is El-P, a great choice [...]

The parallel is both obvious and ludicrous, and I kind of hate myself for making it, but just bear with me for a minute. Two years ago, a ferocious veteran rapper and a boundary-smashing, synth-addicted rapper/producer, two guys who’d been friends and collaborators for a long time, got together, as a duo, to make an [...]

Well, this has been an exciting couple of minutes! At pretty much the exact same moment that the Supreme Court was declaring the Defense Of Marriage Act unconstitutional, paving the way for federally-recognized gay marriage, super-intense headknock rap buddies El-P and Killer Mike released their feverishly anticipated free collaborative Run The ...

We’ve already heard one thing from Killer Mike today: A snippet of “Banana Clipper,” a track from Run The Jewels, his new team-up with El-P. Mike is in more conventional mode on “Villain,” a new song from the soundtrack of the forthcoming DC Comics-themed video game Injustice: Gods Among Us. The ...