Killer Mike R.A.P. Music (Vinyl LP) * * *

R.A.P. Music, the breakthrough fifth studio album by rapper Killer Mike, was originally released in 2012 and is finally back in print! Production was handled by rapper and producer Jamie "El-P" Meline; the album was the first collaboration between Killer Mike and El-P, who would later form the critically acclaimed duo Run the Jewels. Snares crash like abandoned buildings being blown up. Synthesizers ooze with a diseased glow of something dying in a toxic water supply. The effect is like a futuristic junkyard come to life. In the midst of the decay of post-industrial New York, Killer Mike, hip-hop inferno, pours fuel on the already inflamed. R.A.P. Music received widespread acclaim from music critics and landed on numerous Year End Best Album lists.