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Rap’s middle-aged everymen return, trash talk in tow

When not bragging about their skills, Killer Mike, left, and El-P rap about society’s most intractable ills

WHEN HIP-HOP VETERANS JAIME “El-P” Meline and Michael “Killer Mike” Render came together to record their first mixtape as Run the Jewels, they weren’t expecting much out of the side project beyond fraternal

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