Run the Jewels talk new album, Atlanta hip-hop history on Rick Rubin podcast
Run the Jewels recently chatted with Rick Rubin for his “Broken Record” music podcast to discuss their upcoming album, which Rubin produced.
Atlanta’s Killer Mike and partner El-P recorded “RTJ4” at Rubin’s Shangri-La recording studio and, during the podcast discussion, Killer Mike mentions a song on the upcoming album that contains an incorrect Outkast reference. “But it’s DOPE,” he said, “and I do not want it changed because it’s so dope!”
Killer Mike also shares that he doesn’t think rapper Shawty Lo receives enough credit (“He underwrote a genre of music”) and feels the same about Gucci Mane (“He really has propelled a lot of careers”).
About 10 minutes of the podcast focuses on the history of Atlanta hip-hop, according to Killer Mike.
Check it out here, as well as Apple and Spotify podcast sites.
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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
