Stereogum — Killer Mike and El-P have taken their collaboration as Run The Jewels and turned it into a force of nature. Aside from the fact that RTJ2 was the best album of 2014, lately they’ve become role models we look to for cultural commentary. From their A... more info

Stereogum — Rookie’s Ask A Grown series, in which celebrities answer teenage girls’ advice-column questions, is a consistent delight, especially when the celebrities in question are cool. Killer Mike and El-P are perhaps the coolest motherfuckers in the univ... more info

Stereogum — Killer Mike has written an op-ed for OkayPlayer in honor of Martin Luther King Day, reflecting back on King’s legacy and urging people to continue spreading his message and mission. “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Revolutionary, simple and plain. ... more info

Stereogum — Up until today, the Game’s 13-minute, 25-rapper “One Blood” remix has been the final word in absurd, overlong rap posse cuts. But now Noisey has outdone it by putting together the 42-minute, 36-minute “The Rap Monument.” The new track has v... more info

Stereogum — Killer Mike and El-P barely wasted any time between finishing their first Run The Jewels record and commencing work on the second one. It seems they’re keeping that work ethic strong: NME reports that during a fan Q&A Tuesday at Rough Trade East in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Royce da 5'9", who maybe you recently heard with a bunch of other Detroit rappers on Eminem's "Detroit vs Everybody," teamed up with legendary producer DJ Premier for a collaborative project called PRhyme and the duo released... more info

Stereogum — Anyone can do something once. The early announcements on rap blogs, like this one from HipHopDX, were innocuous enough: “After the critical and commercial success of 2012′s R.A.P. Music, Atlanta, Georgia’s Killer Mike and Brooklyn, New York’s... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Killer Mike w/ Run the Jewels @ Stage 48 11/30/2014 (photo via @charlesforde) Beginning today, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing Elonis v. U.S., a case regarding Anthony Elonis, a Pennslvania man convicted of making threatening statements abo... more info

Stereogum — Killer Mike already penned one powerful op-ed this year, opining on the Ferguson crisis for Billboard. Now he’s teamed with University Of Richmond assistant professor Erik Nielson to write a piece for USA Today about the use of rap lyrics in crimin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Q-Tip leading protests in Times Square last night (photo via @alphajada) Last night it was announced that the grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson, MO police Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting and death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.... more info