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Run the Jewels

January 2023

  • ‘Commanding’ … Gangsta Boo performing with Run the Jewels in 2015.

    Gangsta Boo: Three 6 Mafia member and southern rap trailblazer dies aged 43

    Musicians from Missy Elliott to Questlove have paid tribute to the trailblazing female rapper, who was 15 when she appeared on the Memphis group’s cult classic debut Mystic Stylez

July 2022

  • Killer Mike in London in 2019.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I will never be against the second amendment’: Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike on rap, racism and gun control

    After almost a decade of working alongside El-P, the rapper is releasing a solo single. He talks about the chaos and loss that inspired it, his friendship with Bernie Sanders and the ‘racist’ twisting of lyrics

March 2021

  • ‘The time is now to start respecting and appreciating the vital role women, and their music, play in the British music industry’ ... (L-R) Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks, Celeste

    Brit awards nominations 2021: Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste lead improved field for women

    Women dominate British album category, while more than half the nominees in key categories are non-white

December 2020

  • A Swayze and the Ghosts.

    Observer critics' review of 2020
    Music: Kitty Empire's 10 best of 2020

  • Fiona Apple

    Best music of 2020
    The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list

July 2020

  • Jia Tolentino,

    On my radar
    On my radar: Jia Tolentino's cultural highlights

    The New Yorker writer and essayist on bittersweet TV, the ‘album of the revolution’ and her favourite gathering place in Brooklyn

June 2020

  • Run the Jewels

    Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 4 review – a remarkable hit rate

    Run the Jewels’ inventive beats and political bite are more evident than ever on their major label debut
  • Killer Mike and El-P … ‘We have some action to do now.’

    Run the Jewels: ‘I want the oppressors to know they haven’t created complete hopelessness’

    After Killer Mike’s impassioned speech about the death of George Floyd went viral, he and his partner El-P explain why a mix of serious politics and surreal goofiness makes their music perfect for our times
  • Jay-Z – Billie Eilish – Travis Scott

    Billie Eilish, Jay-Z and more voice solidarity with George Floyd protesters

    Rappers Travis Scott and Gunna join pop singers including Halsey and Ariana Grande in condemning police brutality

January 2020

  • An art installation at Coachella 2019.

    Coachella 2020 announced with headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean

    Lana Del Rey, Calvin Harris and 21 Savage to also appear at California event that kicks off festival season

July 2019

  • Killer Mike (right) in Trigger Warning.

    Cities from scratch
    How Killer Mike reinvented Thomas More for the 21st century

    The rapper’s utopian attempt to secede from the US, as documented in his Netflix show Trigger Warning, is more than just clever TV

February 2019

  • Trigger Warning with Killer Mike

    Trigger Warning With Killer Mike: finally, a satirist for our times

    From selling ‘Crips and Bloods cola’ to using porn to teach carpentry, the Run the Jewels rapper’s activist-comedy stunts are unlike anything else on TV right now

March 2018

  • Killer Mike speaks at a campaign rally for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Atlanta, Georgia, February 2016.

    Run the Jewels's Killer Mike apologises for NRA interview

  • Abba

    Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full

September 2017

  • J Hus, Joyce DiDonato, and Taylor Swift.

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017

    Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs

June 2017

  • Britain's opposition Labour party Leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses the crowd from the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England on June 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFFOLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images

    Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity in Glastonbury speech

    Labour leader urges Donald Trump to build ‘bridges not walls’ while addressing huge Pyramid Stage crowd, while telling the Guardian it was his campaign’s spirit of hope that chimed with young voters
  • Run the Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P.

    Pass notes
    Run the Jez! The hip-hop duo playing Glastonbury with Corbyn

    After cancelling last year, the ‘hero of the hour’ politician will make his Pilton debut introducing Run the Jewels. But Killer Mike and El-P need no introduction to the Labour leader
  • Jeremy Corbyn, who will appear on Glastonbury’s main Pyramid stage.

    Jeremy Corbyn to appear on Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival 2017

    Labour leader to introduce political US rap duo Run the Jewels on the main stage as Michael Eavis hails him ‘the hero of the hour’

May 2017

  • DJ Shadow

    DJ Shadow: 'Music has never been worth less, and yet sampling has never been more risky'

    In Australia for a ‘block party’ curated by the Avalanches at the Sydney Opera House, the pioneering DJ spoke about the evolving challenges of his craft

April 2017

  • A rallying cry for unity … Killer Mike and El-P of Run The Jewels at the Roundhouse, London

    Run the Jewels review – a political awakening beneath the jokes

    Killer Mike and El-P are US hip-hop’s clown princes, but their serious message gets the last laugh
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