With their first two albums safely canonized as massive sleeper hits and 4 as the fuel to get us through a summer of rage, RTJ3 is the closest El-P and Killer Mike have gotten to dropping an overlooked gem. El’s blood-and-guts production continues to rep the Eastern Seaboard from NYC to ATL, and both he and Killer Mike maintain the wake the fuck up intensity on the mic that puts the festival circuit a distant second behind street demonstrations as their ideal venue. The ideal soundtrack to the “what the fuck just happened” stock-taking at the end of a nightmare 2016.