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All up, I didn't like Run the Jewels 1 so much. I love Killer Mike, I really like El-P's vocal rasp and the production is truly fan-fucking-tastic. It's no wonder why they released the instrumentals separately. But in concert, I feel like those three things are like oil and water. I'm eating this production up, but the vocals take away from it - like how I love the beat on Eminem's Godzilla, but feel like Eminem is the worst part of the track.

And the unfortunate reality is that I'm gonna be comparing Run the Jewels' music to Nobody Speak, because that song might be close to perfect. I don't understand how that song is so close to perfection, but the same building blocks in RTJ1 fail to create something as compelling.

I'm a bit of a nerd, but I'm not super well versed in like music terms and shit - so take it with a grain of salt when I say that the issue I'm having may be with the mixing on this record.

In total, I like the potential of Run the Jewels, but in practice I'm very much on the fence.