El-P Working With Zack de la Rocha Again, Run the Jewels 3 in the Works

Photo via Killer Mike’s Instagram from earlier this year

Former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha made a memorable appearance on Run the Jewels‘ Run the Jewels 2. Now, El-P has revealed that he and de la Rocha are working together again. According to NME, El-P said the following at an in-store event at Rough Trade East in London on Tuesday:

In 1999 I spent a month in my apartment in Brooklyn with Zack de la Rocha just before he split Rage Against The Machine, working on music that will never see the light of day. I can’t speak about his future but I will say that I’m going to LA to spend another month with him in January.

When Killer Mike was pressed on future RTJ plans, he said, “Run The Jewels 3. We start work in January.”

Update: El-P has backtracked slightly on the Zack de la Rocha news:

please understand the ZDLR thing is not at all %100. y’all gonna fuck it up by jumping the gun on that one. bad luck. BAD LUCK I SAY.

— el-p (@therealelp) December 11, 2014

or maybe I’m lying about it not being confirmed. hard to tell, really. not sure i even know if i know.

— el-p (@therealelp) December 11, 2014

Read our recent feature on the making of Run the Jewels 2 here. Watch an episode of Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under” with El-P and Killer Mike:

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