Date 2020-05-06
Category Lyrics, Music Video, New Music
Run The Jewels are known to be a maniacal partnership, akin to a pair of evil geniuses’ engaging in a high-stakes scheme-off. With their upcoming drop Run The Jewels 4 set to arrive in the imminent future, El-P and Killer Mike have come through with a brand new video for the recent single “Ooh La La,” featuring Greg Nice and the legendary DJ Premier. The clip itself is rather simplistic in essence, appropriately mad in true Jewel Runner fashion.
Taking to the streets in a state of revelry, both Jamie and Mike proceed to host a public bonfire, one no doubt influenced by The Dark Knight’s Joker. As the money pile smoulders, our heroes unleash barrages of hard-hitting rhymes, clearly having the time of their lives while doing so. It’s clear that this was filmed long before any pandemics, having been shot at the onset of March, and RTJ opened up about the concept in an accompanying press release:
“We imagined the world on the day that the age-old struggle of class was finally over. A day that humanity, empathy, and community were victorious over the forces that would separate us based on arbitrary systems created by man. This video is a fantasy of waking up on a day that there is no monetary system, no dividing line, no false construct to tell our fellow man that they are less or more than anyone else. Not that people are without but that the whole meaning of money has vanished.”
Run The Jewels – Ooh LA LA (ft. Greg Nice & DJ Premier) (prod. El-P, Wilder Zoby & Little Shalimar)
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[Intro: El-P]
Uh, ayy (Oh, shit)
[Chorus: Greg Nice & El-P]
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Let’s go)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Go, go, go, go)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Go, go, go)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui
Ooh, la la
[Verse 1: El-P]
Lookin’ for Ms like I lost a friend
Jump out of my bed like, “Where the bread”
You gon’ hold a egg, waiter bring the check
When we talk, we Kalashnikov, keep us in your thoughts
Fully dressed at the crack of dawn, weapons letting off
I can hear them from the block, see them creeping through the fog
Season’s greetings, now feeding season can start, oh my God
Look alive, lookin’ like I live life on the crooked line
Doin’ fine, you want maximum stupid, I am the guy
[Verse 2: Killer Mike]
First of all, fuck the fuckin’ law, we is fuckin’ raw
Steak tartare, oysters on the half-shell, sushi bar
Life a bitch, and the pussy fish, still fucked her raw
I’m a dog, I’m a dirty dog, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Ol’ Dirty Bastard, go in your jaw, shimmy, shimmy, ya
Got the semi in the hemi, go and gimme, gimme, ya
Pugilistic, my linguistics are Jeru the Damaja
And I rap it pornographic, bitch, set up the camera
[Chorus: Greg Nice, El-P & Killer Mike]
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ah, oui oui)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Mon cheri, mon cheri)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Mon cheri, mon cheri)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (I need a bottle of Moët, ho, come on)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Garçon)
[Verse 3: El-P]
You covet disruption, I got you covered, I’m bustin’
My brother’s a runner, he’s crushin’, it’s no discussion
I used to be munchkin, I wasn’t ‘posed to be nothin’
Y’all fuckers corrupted or up to somethin disgustin’
My pockets are plump for the season, I love to cuff ’em
I’ma afraid of nothin’ but nothingess, ain’t it something
Warmongers are dumpin’ a pointed click at your pumpkin (Look out)
Y’all suck with instructions, so put your kids in the oven
[Veres 4: Killer Mike]
Fuck a king or queen and all of their loyal subjects
I’ll pull my penis out and I piss on their shoes in public
People, we the pirates, the pride of this great republic
No matter what you order, muhfucka, we’re what you’re stuck wit
(Sorry) I used to love Bruce, but livin’ my vida loca
Help me understand, I’m probably more of a Joker
When we usher in chaos, just know that we did it smiling
Cannibals on this island, inmates run the asylum
[Chorus: Greg Nice & El-P]
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la, ah, oui oui (Ayy)
Ooh, la la (DJ Premier)
[Outro: Greg Nice & DJ Premier]
Ooh, ooh, ooh, la la
Ooh, ooh, la, la-, la, la
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, la la, ah, oui oui
Ooh, la, la, la, la, la
Ah, oui, ah, oui, ah
Ah, ah, ah, oui, oui