Album Info Hide Show Artist: Killer Mike Album: R.A.P. Music Released: Worldwide, 2021 Tracklist: A1 Big Beast A2 Untitled A3 Go! A4 Southern Fried A5 JoJo’s Chillin A6 Reagan B1 Don’t Die B2 Ghetto Gospel B3 Butane (Champions Anthem) B4 Anywhere But Here B5 Willie Burke Sherwood B6 R.A.P. Music Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Killer Mikes R.A.P. Music landed on May 15, 2012 via Williams Street Records, and it still feels like a siren tearing through traffic. The title spells it out as Rebellious African Peoples Music, and Mike treats that as a mission. The Atlanta stalwart had years of fire under his belt already, but pairing him with New York producer El-P for a full album changed his orbit. El-P handled every beat here, building a jagged, futurist backdrop that somehow snaps perfectly into Mikes Southern cadence. That unlikely chemistry sparked a friendship that would become Run the Jewels the very next year, but it starts here, loud and clear. You hear it from the jump on Big Beast, a wrecking-ball opener with Bun B, T.I., and Trouble. Its a full city-block of a track, all sirens and synth squall, the kind of beat that makes a trunk rattle even with the engine off. Mike roars through it with that preachers bark he saves for lines that need to stick. Then Untitled drops the tempo into a darker space, and you can feel El-Ps drums carving out room for Mike to go heavy on mortality and purpose. The sequencing is smart. It moves like a set, not a playlist. Reagan is the pole star. Mike pulls apart the myth of the Reagan years and spells out the cost in communities that looked like his own. No cheap shock, just clear receipts and fury. Its the song people still bring up at shows, the one that turned casual listeners into evangelists. Dont Die picks up the baton with a thumping warning about police abuse, the hook punching like a slogan on a protest sign. Then JoJos Chillin does what great rap albums often do around the midpoint, it loosens the grip and lets the storyteller have fun. Mike spins an almost sitcom-tight caper tale, funny and tense at once, proof he can do charm as easily as thunder. Butane, subtitled Champions Anthem, is where El-P steps into the booth with Mike. You can hear the future Run the Jewels template clicking into place as they trade bars, one voice serrated, one booming, both competitive and grinning. Willie Burke Sherwood plays the counterweight, a dedication to Mikes grandfather that folds family history into civic pride. By the time the title track rolls around, the album has laid out a full worldview, part street-corner sermon, part policy critique, part block party. The production is a time capsule from an underground that was about to go overground. In the same spring El-P dropped his own Cancer 4 Cure, and the pair hit the road together, bringing this sound to clubs where you could feel the sub-bass in your ribcage. Critics heard it too. The record drew wide acclaim and showed up on a bunch of 2012 year-end lists, the kind of consensus that rarely meets a record this abrasive. That balance is the trick. R.A.P. Music is confrontational, but it is also generous with hooks, details, and those punchline bars Mike honed since the Dungeon Family days. On vinyl, the album breathes. The low end on Big Beast and Butane sits deeper, while the high-end grit in El-Ps synth work on tracks like Reagan separates in a way that flac files never quite manage. If you are crate-digging for Killer Mike vinyl, this one is the anchor. R.A.P. Music vinyl pressings tend to disappear fast in shops near me, so if you need to buy Killer Mike records online, do not hesitate. Fans who are building out a hip-hop shelf with Killer Mike albums on vinyl often start here, then slide over to the Run the Jewels catalog. I have even seen a couple copies tucked in a Melbourne record store while traveling, proof that the albums reach stretches far beyond Atlanta and New York. If you are hunting from afar, plenty of retailers shipping vinyl records Australia-wide will list it when a re-up hits. Twelve years on, the record plays like a line drawn in thick ink. It is Southern and New York at once, scholarly and rowdy, personal and public. It made a veteran sound reborn and introduced a producers universe to a new audience. If you care about what rap can do when it marries fury with craft, this is essential. Drop the needle, let the sirens in, and give it the full side A to settle. Then flip it, because the second wind is even meaner. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review