Editor’s Notice: This story was initially revealed in October 2020 and has been up to date for comprehensiveness.
Again in October 2020, Run the Jewels launched the animated video for his or her newest single, “Yankee and the Courageous Ep. 4,” from their album RTJ4. The video was directed by Sean Solomon and animated by Titmouse, the award-winning animation studio liable for Grownup Swim reveals like Rick & Morty, Large Mouth, Black Dynamite, and extra.
The video options El-P and Killer Mike on a chaotic high-speed chase, keeping off robotic Nazi cops and crashing a backroom card recreation alongside the way in which. “I believe this [should] be a present,” Mike wrote on Instagram.
“Killer Mike and El-P would fuck up some robotic cops in actual life,” Titmouse founder Chris Prynoski mentioned in an announcement. “So I think about this animated music video for ‘Yankee and the Courageous’ a documentary – that paperwork the longer term. The prophecy of Run The Jewels has flowed by way of the Titmouse animators’ hearts and into their pencils. You’ll be able to watch it earlier than it occurs as magical, shifting drawings.”
The group drops this video on the heels of their ‘Holy Calamavote’ profit present, the place they carried out their newest album in its entirety, and Killer Mike receiving the inaugural Change Maker award on the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.
The observe has since been reinterpreted by way of a strong Latinx lens in 2022’s RTJ Cu4tro. That album not solely broadened the duo’s musical horizons but additionally earned them a Libera Award in 2021. The total-length remix undertaking was created totally by Latin American artists, and the the “Yankee y el Valiente” remix made RTJ the one act to have received the award twice.
Mike additionally launched a digital banking platform referred to as Greenwood Banking, focusing on Black and Latinx purchasers. The financial institution will embrace 30,000 ATM areas, offering financial savings and spending accounts with no charges for withdrawing cash.
You’ll be able to stream “Yankee and the Courageous Ep. 4” on all main digital streaming platforms.
