Why the gap?EL-P:We really haven’t stopped moving since me and Mike met.
We were running and gunning the whole f—ing time.
We needed to chill for half a second and not rush the process.
“We’re here to tell the truth and shame the devil,” says Killer Mike (born Michael Render). “That’s the beauty of our music.".Timothy Saccenti
I love the first album but it was really just us spitting and having fun.
The second was us bringing in a little more of our souls.
For the third, we reacted off the turmoil of the times.
“It does help to have a boogeyman in the room driving you, and our boogeyman is always, ‘Are we doing the best record we could do now?'” says El-P (born Jamie Meline).Timothy Saccenti
Mike calls it our “blue record,” which I think is appropriate.
This time we wanted those moments of introspection to come when they were needed but not permeate the record.
That’s the beautiful thing about being in this group.
We’re constantly trying to outdo us.
The “Yankee and the Brave” ending piece was so silly and stupid.
Because we’re not!
Me and Mike don’t give a st about any of that.
If you go, they’re gonna do an epic eulogy for whoever’s lying there.
I like that about us.
Our audience has allowed and encouraged us to be full human beings.
I think it’s the rawest production we’ve done.
I’m not one of these people who thinks hip-hop peaked in the ’90s.
There’s no way of saying that any other way.
It’s angry, raw, funny, nasty st.
But that’s the energy we need, man.
It’s been amazing, and also scary, to witness.
Sometimes you’re saying incendiary st and wanna go under the radar.
Mine and El’s friendship is not a political friendship but is a very real human connection.
But if you never talk to your neighbors, you’ll never have that real solidarity.
And that is exactly what me and Mike attempt to do in terms of our friendship on these records.
That’s it, no room for negotiation.
That’s coming from a dude who’s trying to get rich!
We say that on this record.
We’re not saying we’re communists, we don’t want to be fing broke.
I married a very frugal woman.
That verse is him inhabiting this character who is going mad because of the injustice around him.
To me that is the balance that is execute the Jewels.
We’re here to tell the truth and shame the devil.
That’s the beauty of our music.execute the Jewels 4 is out June 5
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