Watch: Run the Jewels Get Political With “Early” Video
Animated Video Tackles Racism, the Police, and Protests
May 15, 2015
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels (aka El-P and Killer Mike) recently teased their third album, but today they’ve released a new video for Run the Jewels 2 track “Early” (which features Boots). The animated video takes directly from the song’s lyrics, illustrating a black father being arrested by the police in front of his son and the protests that follow (which is timely considering recent events).
El-P tweeted today about the video:
me and @KillerMikeGTO have been waiting for the right time to drop this. then we realized that it is (sadly) always the right time. so…
— el-p (@therealelp) May 15, 2015
Bug & Sluzzy produced the “Early” clip. Check it out below.
Yesterday El-P posted a 15 second snippet of music to Instagram of a song they are working on for Run the Jewels 3, which likely won’t be out in 2015. Check that out below as well.
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