RUN THE JEWELS
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El-P and Killer Mike is such an explosive combination, it’s almost too good to be true. We glimpsed it with El-P’s production skills on Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music but their combined lyrical genius on Run The Jewels cements theirs as one of the most exciting collaborations in hip hop. Full stop. Each has a unique vocal quality and flow, yet they complement each other entirely and the crunching electronic production is so satisfying pumping through your speakers. Run The Jewels also walks the line between clever lyrical nuance, and out and out crass content expertly with some truly immense lines throughout.
Observe –
The company of women with opinions and fat asses
That’s my list of demands
There will be no respect for The Thrones
No master mastered these bones
Your idols all are my rivals
I rival all of your idols
I stand on towers like Eiffel, I rifle down all your idols
Niggas will perish in Paris, niggas is nothing but parrots
I move with the elegance of an African elephant
I presented the evidence eloquent as a president
‘Banana Clipper’ features a guest turn from Big Boi who slots cleverly into this dynamic and a skit-driven turn from Prince Paul adds yet another facet. But really, all you want to hear is Killer Mike and El-P bouncing off each other in glorious rap unity.
Kanye’s album is interesting but this is out and out bangers. Download now. For free.
Winegums
Flip’s gold medal machine came good this week with another first place prize at the Big Air comp in Munich. Check this footage of Flip’s Bob Burnquist with a switch 540 ollie over the gap plus a monstrous quarter-pipe assault and take in the gargantuan feats on both. This sort of mammoth shit is not to be sniffed at.
Reports yesterday ran online stating that a 9 year old boy was unfortunately stabbed at skate park in West Yorkshire, it is said that he is in a critical condition. 
You have to pay to play. Brendon Villanueva battled with a lip slide on this 20 stair hand rail. Watch the pain and realise how much it takes to get a video part down.
Death’s wizard pro from Down Under Richie Jackson is back with his fifth installment of his online series. The past is revisited with a peep into retro skateboard factories and he pulls apart Caballerial Flips with a wax ball. Not fakie full cab, Cab Flips.
PIXIES fans are literally in meltdown right now. On Friday they issued a brand new track called Bagboy that flew round the internet and it’s a peach too. No let down’s, no mention that they are over it by anyone who has good ears for music – the only bad news is that Kim Deal has left the band. It sounds like she is singing on this though. Deal has been replaced by Kim Shattuck who has played played bass for The Pandoras and guitar for The Muffs in the past. 
