Hip-Hop duo Run the Jewels have dropped their first song from their upcoming third album, on the second anniversary of the release of their second album, Run The Jewels 3. The song was initially premiered at the group’s Coachella performance in April, but the track was then titled “Scenes.”
The song follows Killer Mike and El-P contributing the song ‘Panther Like A Panther (I’m The Shit)’ to the soundtrack to Gears of War 4. However there is not yet any news as to whether this song will be on the tracklist for Run The Jewels 3. El-P took to twitter at the end of September to let the expectant fans know that the album was very nearly completely finished.
every word for #RTJ3 has now officially been recorded. the album is almost finished.
— el-p (@therealelp) September 27, 2016
The recording process for this third album has been underway since as far back as the early days of Run The Jewels 2, when both members took part in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, but in the two years since the only release from the duo has been the charity, cat-inspired album Meow The Jewels, released a year ago.
The album was apparently “halfway finished” as far back as March, with El-P posting song snippets on his Instagram, and Killer Mike told discussed the album’s progress and potential features to Hip-Hop Wired, with a potentially “big” feature in the works. “We got a feature idea in mind and we’ll see how it turns out. If it’s not that, it’ll probably be no feature,” suggesting a more self reliant album, as well as a “darker, harder, meaner [and] angrier” project. When pushed and asked whether that one feature was a singer, rapper, rock star, Mike simply replied: “artist.”
Whilst there is no official release date for RTJ3, the album is still slated to have a release by the end of the year. In the meantime, over the summer, El-P has initiated a competition on Twitter amongst the group’s fans, challenging them to remix the instrumentals from the popular Pokemon games, following his comments against recent phenomenon Pokemon Go!
best poke-man remix get a free t shirt and hoodie https://t.co/k4W3wMhJcu
— el-p (@therealelp) July 9, 2016
