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Run the Jewels released a rugged new single titled “Let’s Go (The Royal We)” on Thursday. The song appears in the new Marvel film Venom.
The beat is the star here — the instrumental is nasty, patient and buzzing. Run the Jewels’ El-P and Killer Mike take turns rapping tightly wound verses that skim over the top of the droning bass line. Their lines are as ominous as the beat: “Death in the air, we relish the smell,” Killer Mike raps. “We are the hand of the lord/ We are the hand with the sword… we are the sealers of fate/ We are the fangs of the snake.”
Run the Jewels are in good company on the Venom soundtrack: Eminem also recorded a song for the film. Killer Mike and El-P have done well with music supervisors of late — in addition to theVenomplacement, they landedsongs in ads for Black Panther and on the Baby Driver soundtrack.
Venom enjoyed its wide release earlier this month and set an October opening-weekend-box-office record. It has grossed $225 million worldwide to date, according to Box Office Mojo. However, the film has largely been panned by critics.
Run the Jewels’ last album came out in December 2016.
