In another turn of “what on earth is going on here then?!”, Run The Jewels have responded to an upcoming Kevin Hart film which has gone by a remarkably familiar name.
Yeah, they’ve called it Run The Jewels.
The response of El-P and Killer Mike seems to suggest that this may have come as a bit of a surprise…
When pointed out to him over Twitter, El-P responded “excuse me while I go starve a savage pack of lawyers for 7 days” whilst Killer Mike seemed equally as bemused by it all,
https://twitter.com/therealelp/status/745402241494835201
https://twitter.com/therealelp/status/745405217286430720
https://twitter.com/therealelp/status/745454268321136640
WTH 😳
— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) June 22, 2016
So either they went ahead with the film and name knowing full well what they were doing, or they haven’t heard one of the most exciting hip-hop groups of recent times (the latter is probably worse – Ed).
‘Run The Jewels 3′ is expected to drop later this year, with Killer Mike stating the record will “be done real soon”.