El-P produced two of last year’s best rap albums: His own Cancer For Cure and Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music. El and Mike are good friends and frequent collaborators, so the team-up didn’t end there. They’ve now formed a duo called Run The Jewels, and they’re working on an album together, one both of...

Killer Mike has always been an absolute animal of a live rapper, and he’s usually done it with a minimal mic-plus-DJ setup. Last night on the Late Show With David Letterman, though, a full live band, including hook-singer Scar and Mike’s buddy El-P on button-mashing duty, turned up to help turn the R.A.P. Music track [...]

In assembling the remix for his awesomely ignorant Juicy J/Danny Brown drug-rap throwdown “Piss Test,” dance-rap baron A-Trak recruited a deep, wide, and fascinating lineup of collaborators. In director Shomi Patwary‘s new video for the remix, almost all of them show up, looking blitzed out of their minds on one sub...

Earlier this year, A-Trak released his single “Piss Test,” a dance-inflected drug-rap banger that featured Danny Brown and Juicy J. And now, on the Fool’s Gold compilation Loosies, A-Trak gives us the remix. It keeps Juicy J’s hook intact, gives the best a tense and squelching workover from production duo ...

The one proper album released by Cannibal Ox — 2001′s The Cold Vein — stands as one of the best hip-hop albums of the aughts, and maybe the best album ever released on El-P’s Definitive Jux label. (I’d put it at No. 2 after El-Producto’s own I’ll Sleep When You’re De...