Run The Jewels 3
by Run The Jewels

From HazeyTwilight TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/25/2016 15:36 | #180971 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

There were a tale of three wise men who each brought gold, frankincense and myrrh. But, none have spoken about the other two very wise men who JUST DROPPED RTJ3, MOTHERFUCKERS

I don't, AT ALL, understand why this album is ranked so low. It's a must listen for hiphop fans. The flow of this album is ridiculous, you're in the next song before you know it, without them all sounding too much alike or certain songs not feeling fleshed out enough. I don't know how they did that. The chemistry between them is top notch, they hit the Beastie Boys level of comradery. The lyrics are at times funny, politically engaged and deep on a personal level, with especially Mike sharing some real introspection.
It is consistent, but it also has certain high points where you're just in awe of how good and inventive the flow of words is. Example: the way Mike says 'I refuse to play humble, like my dick ittybitty, I got banana dick, yo' bitch go apeshit if she hit it' on Panther. Aside from the wordplay with bananadick and apeshit, there's contentwise not much to these bars, but they sound so fantastic and are so much fun to say.
I keep mentioning Mike, but El shines on this as well, he's no longer really in Mike's shadow rapping-wise, and his production is soo bad ass here.
I love this album, it's not my favorite of the year or anything, because look at this fucking year, but goddamn do I love coming back to this and it never fails to fill me up with energy. It's the duo's best imo, and I don't for the life of me get why it's ranked as their lowest. I realise it came out at the very end of a full year (for hiphop in particular with ATCQ, Danny Brown, Anderson. Paak, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West dropping stuff that was great in descending order, Kanye's being a mixed bag with moments of genius, overall not his best work to say the least) so maybe that's why people forgot to put this on their year lists. Still a scandalous oversight and I hope time will do this wonderful wonderful piece of art justice.

From slurpdurp 01/03/2017 05:34 | #181575 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Killer Mike and El-P demonstrate their phenomenal chemistry with aggressive and hard-hitting inspired raps about all types of modern and relevant social issues.

Based on the comments so far I am probably in the minority here. My favorite RTJ album was their first followed by their second album. I like a number of the songs on this album most specifically ticketron and hey kids. Don't get me wrong this is still one of my favorite albums of the decade, I just prefer the other two albums

From travelful 12/19/2017 14:16 | #203561 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This album is insanely good. More tracks than RTJ2 and yet more consistent and more creative. As great as RTJ2 is, they definitely were able to top it here. Excited to see what Killer Mike & El-P do next!

Highlights: Down, Talk To Me, Legend Has It, Thieves, Thursday In The Danger Room, Report To The Shareholders/Kill Your Masters