How Run the Jewels Made the Perfect Protest Album 

thank you for this, man. thank you for getting us.

“A Few Words for the Firing Squad” is one of the most emotionally powerful hip hop songs I’ve ever heard.

It's called Yankee and the Brave cause ElP is from New York(home of the Yankees team) and KM is from Atlanta(home of the Braves team)

I can't even put into words how much I love the editing style, it's just captivating

No doubt about it now: Run The Jewels will go down as one of the greatest rap groups in history

Nothing like the smell of a new polyphonic video in the morning

I'm not usually great with keeping up with new releases, but I listened to RTJ4 as soon as I could, and it's definitely become one of my favourite new albums.

how crazy is it that this is an instant protest classic and just classic in general... and it's not even their best album? like, this is a huge 10 and it will be remembered for so long and 2 and 3 out do it so much? fr RTJ are the best duo in the history of rap

This may be your best work on RU-vid yet when it comes to the animation. Thank you for analyzing this masterpiece!

This is the most underrated channel ever. I've been trying to find a channel that breaks down music and art. This is amazing. I fucking love you.

I had only listened to RTJ briefly but this album was something very powerful to me and I couldn't get enough. Thank you for covering this! The editing is amazing and I enjoyed the aesthetic in the imagery

JU$T playing in the backround is smooth

Went and listened to the whole album after watching this. Though I am not a big fan of heavy rap and heavy music in general, I love the album. From the messages to the sound of the songs themselves. Most definitely putting Run The Jewels on my 'artist to remember' list.

Evey time I see a new video notification. I get a sudden jolt of joy. Especially when it's on my favorite rap group.

I was having a hard time getting into this album, but I'm going to give it another look after seeing this. They're real lyricists. You gotta pay attention, I guess. Thank you.

Zach de la Rocha's verse might be the best one of his career.

You've really levelled up the graphics - such great collage work!

this is why i love this channel so much. You watch a video and your taste of music changes because you found something so good! I love this. Lately I learned a lot about subcultures and music history and what I will forever remember is that all characteristics of a subculture are somehow tied together by a spirit. Music is politics just as fashion is. It’s the statements that I love so much about all of this.

A great video that doesn't hold back about the messages and themes from the best Album of the year thus far (at least for me)

I never miss an episode. The visuals are amazing and the insights are brilliant.

The editing and motion graphics in this are GORGEOUS! Good job man.

Kinda hoping you dive into RTJ and Mike's & EL-P's solo stuff a bit more. They're both fantastic artists who have always been refreshingly honest about where they write from & what they fight for

Dude, I haven't been interested in a NEW album in years. I love this album so much.

Don’t mind me. Just here to help the algorithm.

WALKING IN THE SNOW IS THE BEST SONG TO COME OUT IN 2020

Thank you for referring to Eric Garner’s death as a murder. ❤️💕🤟

Rtj 4 is what eminem wanted bad meets evil to be

I don't know why this didn't got recommended to me before, great video! The editing, narration, and everything is on point.

"A Few Words For The Firing Squad" and "Never Look Back" are my two favourites hands down. Great album.

Your editing on this videos is killer. Keep it up man, your doing great 👍

I believe rap is at its best when they slap the system in the face

Oi, this video has to be one of your best yet. Incredibly powerful, fitting for an album of such quality, and just bloody brilliant. Keep it up man.

There's nothing like protest music. Always hits the hardest

This is a beautiful video. Love it. Put the whole album into a wider perspective for me. Thank you.

your editing and you narrative are really something special. the way you see music and are able to explain it is in itself a virtue. Thanks for all the inspiring and informative essays!

ABLUM OF THE YEAAAAAAAR

Very incredible video! Absolutely loved the production and formatting

By far the best visuals in any of your videos! Great work!

amazing video, great editing and insightful lyrical breakdowns

This video is just exceptional. The best one I've seen on this channel. Thank you so much, it's been a true joy to listen to such a deep album review accompanied with amazing graphics.

so the way i watch your videos is: 1. put on whatever song/album/etc that the video is about and just vibe b. watch ur video 3. listen to the song w/e again now with the new context and shit I didn't pick up before it's incredible man thank you

Always schooling me and I love it. Tour videos are always 🔥

amazing video! great breakdown of an album that I was long expecting and instantly loved!

This is maybe your best vid yet, Nice job

The more videos I watch from this channel, the more thankful I feel for the amazing content you deliver! YT needs more stuff like this! Thank you so much

I'm definitely looking into this group more!

Thank you. Just thank you so much. I’ve introduced friends to so much amazing music using your videos and breakdowns. Thank you. Much love. 💕

i’m so so so happy you started making so many videos on black history in the real world and the world of music without having to make a huge statement you just kept doing what you’ve always done. make videos about music you love and i can so easily see you really lvoe everything about the artists you cover

If you made a video on Doom and Death Grips. I'd be the happiest camper.

I needed this. Thank you!

This video is seriously so good, insane motion graphic work, great production, and super underrated. Deserves more views.

Honestly, if i can remember i watched a video and i want to go back and watch it again on youtube, its a very good video, like, very, very good. Congratulations

Such a great video man love this type of style keep it up 👍

This is THE BEST album breakdown I've ever seen. Great job man 👉👊

amazing video dude !!

This style of editing is literally perfect for the tone of the album would love for them to make a lyric video with the style

I really hope you're going to do more rap albums in the futur your content is really awesome and shed new light and framing to albums so I hope it's going to be more common in the futur

i didnt even know they made a fourth

gorgeous album and video, best i've seen from polyphonic

Just got done walkin in the snow.

Thanks for giving me another couple of artists to listen to

The editing style in this video is great

Thank you. I really need to check this out,

Good job on this

I've been an El-P fan since the company flow days and I'm beyond hype hes found mainstream success after grinding for so long. He deserves all the success, and KM deserves it too.

I love rtj4. My favorite album this year so far

Thanks for this.

I just got goosebumps while watching this

A few words for the firing squad is one of those songs that will always give me goosebumps and pump me up at the same time

This album was so timely and there’s not a single skip on it either. Walking in the snow and a few words for the firing squad are my favorite songs, so deep and very needed

Incredible video, the best music content on the internet

I just want to say, thank you you one of my inspiration to start a music blog, right now only on Facebook I can send you a link but it solely in Hebrew

Great animation and review

awesome video! can you work on making your audio bit louder? its bit too lower than songs

Rtj4 was one of my favorite albums of 2020 to this day I always go back and relisten this one of the best albums in the decade

Never did I think I would see the day you would talk about RTJ, but this is definitely something worth talking about

This is your best video. Good job 👏

The quality of your videos is unparalleled

You still do your own graphics? Crazy good these days man.

Well done, well said. Cheers brother.

God, I love this channel so much. Perfect work! Big love!

Excellent visuals & incite on RT4. Video seems like an extended Ju$t video. Kudos man

“The ground below” might be the hardest song I’ve ever heard.

So far this is still number 1 favorite album of 2020.

I just love how you format your videos! Amazing vid on RTJ, dude! If I could make a request, I would love to hear your take on The Caretaker's "Everything at the End of Time."

That reference to strange fruit was great

GREAT video

This is so good

good to get to know new music awsome vid

no war but class war ✊🏴

I found RTJ a few years ago. Enjoyed the hooks, but when 4 came out...whoa. it was something else. Maybe it's because I missed the first few albums, but man. Timing and theme really immortalized this one.

So sick! Great work. Have you ever used the “posterize time” effect? Can often really sell that collage stop-motion effect if you set it to like 12 or 15

This album isn’t great it’s too important to just be great. This video hits on the genius of it and it’s timely nature but, more importantly, it hits the personal aspect that makes RTJ iconic. Seriously great video here, about a seriously necessary album. 👏👏👏

One of your best videos by far...

I think most importantly their music sings to the notion that you need to be careful about identity politics and "choosing the lesser of two evils" mentality, that the entire concept of "choosing sides" is just a ploy by powerful groups to keep the common man pitted against each other. It's in EVERY album. And listening to them speak outside of their music, you can hear just how honestly they really feel that way. Mike BELEIVES in the truth and promise of the constitution as a guiding principal and the American Dream, but also believes that it isn't fulfilling its promise and that we need to work together as one to make that dream come true. and Jamie BELEIVES in the power of art and music to permeate barriers and break through our notion of what is and isn't acceptable as expression and self. Their music and their friendship is one colossal middle finger to false ideology of separation and the sheer lie that we, as Americans and as human beings, can not get along. Or as they put it, "Not from the same part of town but we both hear the same sound coming. And it sounds like war. And it breaks our hearts".

Early literally broke me, RTJ is now my warband.

Amazing video

I this album. Born & raised in S. Minneapolis, I heard the track, JU$T a day or 2 after George Floyd's murder was televised & protests had just errupted. Meanwhile, the beginning of covid quarentine had gone into effect. I was stuck@home & just listened to the track, JU$T, on loop like it was church. It blew me away & embraced the emotions & ideas that were swirling in my head & heart. When I got around to listening to the rest of the album, the rest was also sooo cathartic. GOOD ANALYSIS. THANK U!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Hands down best album of the year so far

Fantastic video. RTJ4 is easily in contention for album of the year, and I always love seeing Polyphonic cover more hip-hop. The visuals in this one are top-notch as well. Stupendous ob with the editing.