Jeff Tweedy’s Son Spencer Reviews Run the Jewels 2

Spencer Tweedy, who is Jeff Tweedy’s son and one-half of the eponymous Tweedy, has written a review of Run the Jewels‘ Run the Jewels 2 for the Talkhouse, the website where musicians write about other music. His review begins with quite the hook—”Neil Young is an out-of-touch motherfucker”—and goes from there. 

Young’s out-of-touch-motherfuckerness is contrasted with Run the Jewels’ relevant politics, which the young Tweedy is a fan of. “Run the Jewels is our antidote. They’re the gangster rappers who actually give a shit,” he writes. “They make enlightenment look cool, and make all the other guys who glamorize ignorance look like fuckboys. They are a modern face of protest and I’m A-OK with that.”

When it comes to rap, Tweedy says “my knowledge about the genre comes via my little brother Sammy’s speakers, blasting Gang Starr and Geto Boys from his bedroom next door.” But he says Killer Mike and El-P first grabbed him with Mike’s 2012 album, R.A.P. Music (which was produced by El-P), lauding it as “strident.” (He even shouts out Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under” feature on the two.)

He says he loves El-P’s verses on “Lie, Cheat, Steal”, the nuance of “Love Again (Akinyele Back)” (“The most socially conscious song to ever have a chorus that goes ‘Dick in her mouth all day’? I think yes”), and number of times “vagina” is rapped in the album.

Read the whole thing here. 

Read “Last Rappers Standing”, David Drake’s feature on Run the Jewels. 

Watch that “Over/Under” video here:

Watch Tweedy’s “Low Key” video:

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