only a few decades after the message

i love it man lmao

Same, every time.

The family portrait shots get me

It's Mike in that wig for me!

Can’t just be out here giving away secrets, son!

...its a rap... a chirtsmas miricle not a carol...fuck face

@@kevinhall2794But is it 'miricle', really?

*mundane 9 to 5 wants to know your location*

@@kevinhall2794 the fuck is a miricle

Run The Yules!

True. Very moving.

"Who am I that I don't get my portion? The most impressionable minds get molested and informed by manipulating forces. "

It's tough passing this message and not making it corny, props to el

The struggle is truly harsh Might as well make it bars

Mike's is shit. Sound like every rap song ive heard in my life "im tough and i punch people"

Lol

Sweater Mike

His verse in this one is straight sacred dawg

@@eric108 Yes

@@LawrenceAkim ellll peee .... like the guy that made tony worth your time lol

Well fucking said

@vengefulretreat 1 year ago I always loved the structure of this song. No bridge, no 3rd verse or chorus. Essentially just two extended verses from two different perspectives both lyrically and sonically that have such a strong thematic middle ground. noted

2 verses and a solo is a great song structure

Everything you said is facts but even better than that is the title. I imagine someone saying "A Christmas FUCKING Miracle!" in a Rick Ross type voice and I love it.

I love this song the song gives me goosebumps it and rages me one moment I have tears in my eyes the next but that's not what I want to talk about The thing that wears me out nowadays is the lyric about the hoarders and my portion and my question has been your portion of what this is the problem with our society nowadays you want your portion of someone else's shit if that person and when I say that person not talking about Jeff bezos dick head Zuckerberg Elon musk and some of the other billionaires that people say they make too much money and they're not giving their fair share giving their fair share what you know in the black community we call it counting other people's money but now we have a whole society that sit back and they count someone else's money or in the white community they call it pocket watching My thing is make your fortune but then people were like no the world is not fair they make it impossible they make it unfair well I hate to be the party pooper but nothing has ever been fair this is probably the fair is time in history shit do you know how hard it was during the industrial revolution but even before that after that way back no one was ever given anything we talk about women's rights equality how women didn't have a chance to do things back in the day and that's true nobody had a chance to do anything back in the day people had the audacity to just do shit if you look back through history there's always been standouts there were always women maybe not a bunch of women but there were always a fabulously wealthy woman somewhere in the world that went against convention some of these women few hundred years ago they even had men as fronts that took care of shit for them and some just had the audacity to do it out in the open there were black millionaires during slavery The point I'm trying to make is that it was always hard it was never easy ever never ever and people had more of an attitude of going out there taking what they needed what they want it it's just weird to me that people sit around talking about they want their share and my thing is and I know some of you were going to drag me for this but your share of what you want your share of someone else's shit you don't have a divine right to someone else's wealth unless I guess you take it that's what our history our civilization is all been about taking resources from one group distributing it to someone else you know I'm not even mad anymore of about the women's movement how they talk about they want to change shit to make it fair they want to take shit well they're actually just practicing warfare on another level you know they're actually breaking down barriers and taking shit without firing a shot it's the same thing that's been done throughout history you know there's no people on this planet except for maybe the Aborigines and Australia that hasn't used some type of warfare against another group of people to take their shit people act like the darlings of the Americas where the American Indians or what we call now native Americans shit those motherfuckers were taking each other's shit you know so the shit doesn't phase me I'm a descendant of slavery but there's always been slavery there's always been as long as there have been men walking this earth figured out a way to exploit another group for their resources and their labor is a resource but let's not go off on tangents here let's talk about our modern civilization what are the things that people seem to forget about when we sit around and we whine and yes I whine too I'm not immune to the great affliction called whining bitching moaning but if you look around these great cities that we live in it was industry that built these places I'm sorry to say for all of the snowflakes that think that this shit just sprang forth from the earth it did not it was industrialist that decided to set up shop usually close to a river because at one time that was the mode of transportation for goods I'm in Ohio actually Cincinnati Cincinnati was an industrial Mecca because the number one the Ohio River number two because of the Erie canal so everything here originally was because of goods coming in and going out industry I should have just said you know this city was actually built on I like the joke and say beer and sausage but there's a lot of industry here this is actually a blue collar city it's so wild compared to where I grew up at which is Columbus how there are still factories and residential neighborhoods here you actually go through Cincinnati and you have an appreciation for where the fucking wealth comes from and I'm not talking about the wealth in people's bank accounts their pockets I'm talking about the wealth of the urban society here everything here was built because of industry if you take the industry away the civilization goes away people came here and drove from the country during the industrial revolution actually Cincinnati's kind of a famous place for runaway slaves runaway slaves could come to Cincinnati and get fucking jobs you know so that goes back to you want your share of what motherfuckers always want their share of somebody else's shit but I guess that's just a human thing you want what you did not earn and then you whine and say you were not giving chance they don't pass chances out you cannot go to the chance tree and pick the chance fruit That's not the way it works you have to have the audacity you have to be audacious I won't go into my history but I work at a company I couldn't even believe I have a job here working in aerospace My track record from the early part of my life is fucked up you know but instead of whining about shit and all of the stuff that I have been involved in I went out and had the audacity to at one time start two different businesses when I was told that I wouldn't allowed to do that because of my track record maintain a full-time job and I know that it's not that easy for some I do realize that it breaks my heart to know that there are people that no matter how hard they try they can't catch a break I see some of these people on a daily basis and I hear people talk shit about them like they're just standing around congregating not doing shit what some people don't know is some of these people have been out putting in applications it's not that easy for some and others it is you know it's sometimes the luck of the draw but that still doesn't mean that you get your share of someone else's shit That's a mentality that we need to break we need to get out of that I want my share of your shit you know so I guess I'm saying that shit just makes no sense at all That's like if you work and you start a small business and then you got neighborhood people telling you they want your shit they want a share of your shit they want their share of what you've earned what you've made well that's the same thing with these billionaire industrialists you know it turned my stomach during COVID when Richard Branson was talking about going to shelter in place in his multi-million dollar yacht a lot of people took issue with that and I was like what the fuck he's a billionaire this is one of his homes it's his goddamn yacht what's the big deal and I realize that people were just mad because they don't have a billion dollars plus they don't have a yacht they don't have a state people are mad at Jeff bezos and Elon musk because their hobbies are playing in space but you got to realize that these are fucking multi-billionaires they do fucking multi billionaire shit their hobby is not playing cards it's not building a muscle car in their garage it's not breeding show dogs in the backyard That's what people that make $50,000 a year dude people who make $100,000 a year do people who have billions they have billion-dollar fucking hobbies like I guess what I'm saying is people get a goddamn grip your portion your portion of what you want your portion of somebody else's shit wake the fuck up or do what so many others have done before and create a mob and go take some shit That's something else that humans are really good for and I think I touched on that like earlier anyway sorry for this being so long-winded but I feel like instead of talking about shit be about shit you ain't never going to talk a billionaire out his shit these motherfuckers sit around and they're laughing at people talking about coming for their shit

AAAAAND WE'RE BACK FOR MORE

+sammeboy11 Quit your fucking job man

+sammeboy11 WANKERS!

that sucks man. mine did.

HAHAHAH is that a POKEBALL on you're profile pic !!

work for your self

He's one funky homosapien.

***** interesting point of view... i think they help each other equally. Theyre very different.

El-P's aren't cryptic, but they are profound.

PanicFox What I mean by cryptic is that the lyrics have more properties that make them inaccessible on the first few listens. His lyrics contain more metaphors than Mike who paints clear images. Having more metaphors isn't better than being clear (of fucking course), but it does make the song more "cryptic"; as in, the song will take longer to decode to get a clear picture of what the artist is trying to say and do. Unless you think Nabokov is as easy to read as a Wikipedia page, you should agree. I'll defend my word choice to the death on this one.

You're selling Mikes verse short there IMO, whilst it isn't as cryptic as El-P's verse it still has some lines in there that a lot of people won't clock the true meaning of. The stuff about Mike being God Like/Fighting the Devil is genius, and unless you were aware of the Hebrew meaning of Michael you wouldn't get it without researching the line. Normally I'd feel that I'm reading too much in to it but not with RTJ, haha.

It's amazing. I get chills listening to it after not hearing it for a while.

Agreed G. His drops MAJOR 💎 💎 💎

Killer Mike's verse is wayyy better

One of the most important verses of all time... Next to Tupacs last verse on Me Against The World and a few others. Truly incredible

Bruv, heard this and played it like 50 times. Played crown and jeopardy 49 times. Rtj 2 sickest shite ever. Days not over-going for 100.

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Happy xmas ,merry new year...dont forget the idol sandwiches & poisin punch 😨😵😧

Dylan Davis “ASK about Ebenezer mofo!” Lollll

Amerikkka!

Wait you don't

Frank Walline the best break than your teeth break. Fucking heroic

Frank Walline *beat not best

The killer always comes in with savage bars. Oh my Darling is another great example. TIPTOE ON THE TRACK LIKE A BALLERINA

Frank Walline it kills me every time. It inspired me to make a ring out of my abusive ex boyfriends tooth. I managed to knock out one. I escaped with a broken jaw, 8 missing teeth that are being rebuilt, and a bitchin new ring.

tibicen linnei Badass, I hope you're in a better situation now

Chills

@Granpda Corey YES. secrets indeed.

Adrenochrome.

Makes me tear up every damn time.

@@wjhall7754 Love that stuff

Totally underrated right!?

Agreed, breaks my teeth every time...

Worshipers of idols and things...purrty much...

That guitar solo rip right too

I agree but at the same time I feel like his verse was out of place. El-P's was much more of a social commentary and had an actual message whereas Killer Mike's seemed to be more like the usual rappity-rap.

yeh lol boxing

Epic choon

*jewel

“knowing that, understand you could never be poor you already won the war, you were born rich!”

I’m late too but I’m glad I found this gem

Same here bud. This track is some 🔥

You guys arent too late! More RTJ love is great!

I'm late too bruh but they right on time

Bruh I just found this song like 3 days ago

Good shit homie

Thursday in the danger room definitely makes me cry. I lost my father, and grandmother and I always think of them when I hear that song. Sometimes when I need a cry I'll listen to it. Basically I understand needing to hear this more than oncs

Crying to good music is therapeutic. The only cleanse I truly believe actually does anything for you.

Mt gaming best el-p is Delorean with aesop!

I feel its from nobody speak

my brother gave me a ps2 and THUG and it was so weird hearing a childhood game that had EL P's voice on iron galaxy by cannibal ox

Can't believe it's that time of year again. This year flew by.

Spread the good word sir :D

Check out Company Flow. El-p's original group !!

The cold vein may be my most prized piece of vinyl. No longer have a turntable, but I kept that album.

Out now 😉

Whaddya think??

No. Underground rules.

Skatemaster3000 FUCK THAT SHIT. DON'T YOU WANT RUN THE JEWELS TO BE WELL KNOWN

Sonic the Hedgehunk nope. Only a few folks will understand why...

Skatemaster3000 I understand, but i just want them to get really popular, not be mainstream. They'll still be with Mass Appeal so they won't change

Skatemaster3000 Tell us why and we'll all understand. I guarantee you the guys in run the jewels would like more people to listen.

Mike's opening bars are some of the hardest ever written imo

@@schuylersousa3399it might be one of his best verses ever honestly

Absolutely!

+Make art not war 74 Best christmas-theme hip hop song ever (along Christmas In Hollis)

naw flatbush zombies and the underachievers been droping amazing music lately

+Indigo Ism When this came out this definitely was he best Hip-Hop song I've heard in in a long time.

+Meechaveli G59 even asap rocky is better than flatbush

they both did

In a good or bad way?

@@cheeblerelf8223 In a good way.

Agree! Maybe my favorite rap verse of all time.

Run jewels did

It isn't often you come by rap this hard with a solid message. El-P and Mike just crush every track they touch and still keep surprising.

Killer Mike and El-P are real and great

I dunno, clearly he's Scrooge in this video, and I think it fits. (before the change)

@@sadboysolari4891 point taken. can't fail to see him as more though. And i don't think he'd repent. He makes others repent lol. ofc along that line Doom is doom already. and he fits that too.

Hey, I know it's been one year, but I think it's spelled MF DOOM. You know, all caps.

Because people.

Not everything is about views. fuck sake.

Their moms have other stuff to do than refresh the page all day.

it does now lol

8 million views is a whole lot mate

Well this song is actually from their first album, not RTJ2, but I agree, this song and RTJ2 are fucking incredible.

When killer mike says his first lines....genius

i was hoping you would see this edgar.

BUT, the lyrics too. "They can never take the energy inside you were born with...knowing that understand you can never be poor you were born rich" Metaphysical. You gotta check out the music video for "EL-P - Deep Space 9mm" The visual metaphors going on in it are crazy.

Edgar Mirth yea i commented on that one. its my second favorite.

odiumimbues whats weird is i just noticed you commented on this a year ago. but i found LP on my own with some other album. minds think alike i guess.

Oh, yeah. I saw that right after I posted and I was thinking you do good research. If you really like El-P, also check out Company Flow, that was his first start I believe.

lfg

iReima EVERYTIME! XD

Reima I know it's stupid, but can somebody please explain that line to me and why it's so funny?

It's censored to keep it a secret

Nightman!

nah, it's censored cause handholding is lewd

Better than a sweater

who are they to just take shit and hoard it? who am i that i don't get my portion?

@@voyagerwitch Not everyone is inherently entitled to a portion.

@@krow9681 must take a lot of nerve for a cop to show up on a RTJ song

@@voyagerwitch hahahaha. You're in for shitty life that you blame everyone else for your own problems.

Luca Ludwig This is fucking true kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecmbqcmXnczae5c.html

The were in Poland? Cool

+Natalia Galaxy they were at Off Festival 2015

I have also shed tears to it as well... And I never cry lol. Strong stuff

I agree with you homie! This always gets me going.

Cause it's gospel.

This song has a lot of tough love ❤️😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾😞😞😞😞😞

Chi Acolyte Last I knew the love of money was the root of all evil. Mega churches, millionaire televangelists and churches where I live vie for money and wealthy patronage for personal gain, untaxed, and use that money to further their political agendas. The point here is that your deity doesn't care if you're rich or poor. Your church might.

Jason Hardin well said.

Jason Hardin if only more people thought like this.

New International Version Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." New Living Translation I'll say it again--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!" English Standard Version Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” Berean Study Bible Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Berean Literal Bible And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." New American Standard Bible "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." King James Bible And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Holman Christian Standard Bible Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." International Standard Version Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God." NET Bible Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God." New Heart English Bible Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." Aramaic Bible in Plain English “And again I say to you that it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” GOD'S WORD® Translation I can guarantee again that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." New American Standard 1977 “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Jubilee Bible 2000 And again I say unto you, It is easier to put a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. King James 2000 Bible And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. American King James Version And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. American Standard Version And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Douay-Rheims Bible And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Darby Bible Translation and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to enter a needle's eye than a rich man into the kingdom of God. English Revised Version And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Webster's Bible Translation And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Weymouth New Testament Yes, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." World English Bible Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." Young's Literal Translation and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

Beunibster wtf was that lol

People with a brand promo pic for a profile should be banned from commenting on rtj vids

Word up to Spice1 and O'Shea (Ice Cube)

So tight,

They’re laughing all the way to the bank

On some 47 shit

So what ? We live in a society.

There is a lot in this video I didn't notice the first viewing, too good

Depositron why is it censored? is it just for the line saying it's secret?

I.M da maxter they don't want anyone knowing their secret handshake duh

thanks pal

Yes, ma friend! Thanks, and you the same. Annus mirabilis 21

Merry Christmas and hope y'all are safe.

I'm at the end of my rope, friend

We gotta weaponize Love.

THANX

"My arrogance derives from the pride in the job my parents did"

Thank you.

Thanks bro much love. 🐐🐐🐐👾👾👾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥

it's a christmas fucking miracle

Fredrich Fernando 🔥🔥🔥

Fredrich Fernando Merry fucking xmas back😎

Yah i know, agreed. Although i was sort of paying close Ttention to the part where Mike says (not gonna repeat right warnin): my professor emeritus says we been cursed by being brought to the Amerikus, how you raise a single family with no parents... Etc... Still spell amerikkka with the triple k". Ahh I love that last line, triple Kkk, so defiant, like "klu klux klan" is who those American slave ship owners were really. Anyways, side track there sorry, point is Mike is the one in the main frame and I observed closely and he looked serious in the one clip. But ha interesting how this music video is ironic to the lyrics, it reminds me A LOT OF TIM AND ERIC and also that love able doctor dude, seems like they were literally imitating it. Some user on here mentioned cryptic in regards to nyc white guys lyrics, well maybe there is something "cryptic" about the music video itself too. .

+Natalia Galaxy That's a reference to Ice Cubes Amerikkkas Most Wanted album (word up to Spice 1 and Oshea).

Christmas, the consumer holiday masquerading as holy and Scrooge, traditionally the white rich man, is played by a black dude. This video is genius.

+GodTheBear I didn't even peep it from that perspective. You just put me on game, dawg. Bless Up

Thank you, Cant believe that didnt cross there mind first...

I feel like every RTJ track I'm listening to is my favorite until the next one comes on

Cyka blyat

что-то обсудить "Realness" и быть реальным, верным и преданным себе

Same. Legend Has It is a close second, but this is my personal favorite.

Damn close to one of mine as well!

damn bro, why you a top comment with 22 likes?

One of my favorite RTJ joints, even when it's not christmas.

Agreed!

TSZ FUKKIN AWES0M333~

i found a video on here one time where they blindfolded el-p and made him pick 3 random albums to make a beat, it turned out awesome. took him like 5 minutes.

Damn straight man

beating your meat doesn't count, poo drizzle.

and i am a fairly hostile person, i probably would've smacked you like a bitch if you said some stupid shit while standing in front of me. i don't make beats, i beat fakes. thats just how i roll, playboy.

it was today.

For sure. 2:45 would make a worthy t-shirt as well lol

Ben Tomlin hahahaha for real

I think their run the yules shirt has that face on it.

Shut up and take my fucking money

YESSS!

Damn heather

Sheeesh Heather

i feel the same way. i am mad at myself

That was very reasonable of you to say.

Jay Hill like ive never heard that one. lol

EL-P IS THE SHIT!!!!!!!!!

Cant wait to work them one day.

Matt Levick yes and no.

Kno from CunninLynguists is one the best producers ever IMO Aesop is dope on the boards too

7L kills beats.

Carbonated Beverage 7L + Esoteric = bars for weeks

Lurch685 7L+Esoteric+Inspectah Deck= Bars for infinity

They already are, their music isn't mainstream but they're recognised by all the biggest music blogs and industry veterans & artists, RTJ2 was named best album of the year on a lot of blogs. :)

+shipmaker14 It's a shout-out to Camu Tao. A dear friend of El (and genius rapper by his own merit) who passed away from lung cancer.

Madvillainy91 let’s not forget the PIMP C, R.I.P.

Camu RIP!!!!! Weathermen and Nighthawks for life