Song · Run the Jewels
“Nobody Speak” by Run the Jewels with DJ Shadow
Released 2016 With DJ Shadow
“Nobody Speak” by Run the Jewels with DJ Shadow appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2017. It was first released in 2016. Its best result is #54 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #252 alternative song of 2017.
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DJ Shadow built "Nobody Speak" as the lead single for The Mountain Will Fall, his fifth studio album, and handed the mics to El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels, whose voices he reckoned suited the track better than anyone's. The song first surfaced in April 2016 in the duo's Record Store Day release: a cardboard virtual-reality viewer that came with a download code.
Shadow produced and arranged it and mixed it with Mikael Eldridge, laying a funky bass-and-drum groove and guitar loops under a real horn section: Tim Burns on trombone, Graham Pike on trumpet and Jake Telford on tenor and baritone sax. There's a sample of Caterina Valente's "Ol' Man River" in the mix, plus a lyric lifted from Audio Two's "Top Billin'". The video followed on August 24, 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 54 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
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