Welcome to Week 5 of our Book (Album) Club! This weeks album is R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike. Please give the album a fresh listen and give us your thoughts, opinions and possibly hot takes.
Doesn’t matter if this is your 100th time listening to the album or you listen to the album the first time right before posting!
October 24th: AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted by Ice Cube
October 31st: There Existed an Addiction to Blood by clipping.
November 7th: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
November 14th: The Blueprint by Jay Z
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I was giving this album a fresh listen this morning and I kept thinking that this felt like an RTJ prequel.
I have heard this album before today but the only track I really remembered was Reagan. To me that track is an iconic “conscious rap” track and it remains my favorite on the album.
Others that stuck out to me today were Don’t Die and Butane. Don’t Die is just another awesome angry socially conscious track. And I personally like El-P’s rapping more than Killer Mike’s so I knew I would like Butane before I even heard it again.
Unlike last week, this week I went in knowing that this is one of my favorite albums. Killer Mike is better known as half of Run The Jewels I think but this album is my favorite thing he has done. It almost feels like a preview of RTJ, with Mike on the mic and EL-P on production.
I don’t want to just sit here and gush about the album but this is damn neat a perfect album for me. Everything I love in rap is here. The politics, the fast paced beats, the hard delivery, it is perfect. Not every song is perfect, Southern Fried could be better. But with highlights like Big Beast, Butane and Reagan it just doesn’t matter. Especially Reagan.
Worth mentioning, the music video for Big Beast (NSFW: Topless women/fake gore) is one of my favorite music videos, even if it isn’t a great way to listen to the actual song. The entire vibe just makes everything on the track hit harder.