“Legend Has It” by Run the Jewels

"Legend Has It" arrived in 2016 as the third single from Run the Jewels 3, and it hits like a door kicked in. El-P produced it, with Little Shalimar and Wilder Zoby as co-producers and Joey Raia on the mix, and he and Killer Mike rap over a track built around a sample of "Knots" by the English prog band Gentle Giant.

Critics ate it up: Pitchfork heard the duo at their deadliest and funniest, and Rolling Stone singled out the wobbling, sci-fi textures of the beat. The video puts the pair in a police lineup, tripping while cops lean on a witness to pick them out, with numbers flashing across the screen that track the rise of mass incarceration in the United States between 1980 and 2010. The RIAA certified it gold in December 2019.

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