'Venom' Credits Song: Hear Run The Jewels' "Let's Go"
There’s a new Run The Jewels song, “Let’s Go (The Royal We),” featured in the post-credits stinger the new Tom Hardy-starring superhero movie Venom. But that new song is actually based on a piece music that El-P wrote for another big movie, as the rapper and producer revealed during an interview on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show today.
“The essence the music actually came from a trailer that I submitted for the Blade Runner 2049 trailer, that ultimately they didn’t use,” El-P explained. “I just loved it so much that I was like, ‘I have to use this.’ So basically, I had spent some time working on that, to kind try and transform it into a beat for essentially Run The Jewels 4, because me and Mike both loved it, and we just thought it was nasty.”
But instead, they ended up using it for Venom. “We got a call that they wanted us to write a record for it, and we were like abso-damn-lutely we will write a record for Venom,” Killer Mike added. “My man Nate in high school introduced me to the Venom character, and I’ve loved it ever since. Just the duality trying to do righteous, and this rogue is just fighting with you from the inside. I thought it was a perfect match up with the Run The Jewels spirit, so the record turned out dope. It gave us a primer for what I think is going to be a dope next album.”
And that’s not the only thing El-P’s been working on. “In the midst Jaime getting prepped to be married, and scoring a movie — he scored a movie that’s coming out about Al Capone — it came down to the wire,” Mike said. “He pulled it f like the super-producer/rapper that he is. He comes right out scoring a movie, is in the middle planning the details his wedding, and he pops up and sends me this amazingly dark crazy beat, and I immediately jumped down, and we go in FaceTime, and we put it together. This is the first Run The Jewels record that we put together not in the same room.”
Listen to “Let’s Go (The Royal We)” and read what El-P and Killer Mike have to say about the upcoming RTJ4 record below.
On RTJ4:
El-P: I think this was a nice little chance for us to kind get back into a vibe and it’s a decent starting point. I’ve been collecting beats and we’re just going to kind try and make the grimiest, rawest record we possibly can.
Killer Mike: But in terms all that’s going on and reflecting with the music, I’ve decided to put more it into whatever music is coming, because trying to communicate and talk, you kind get polarized and tried to be made into a political figure, and I’m not. I’m a raw-ass rapper who, when asked my opinion, will give it. My opinions, instead saying them over radio or television, where I can argue with stupid people who get paid to give you a side, I’m simply going to put on record to mash on those fools circa Eazy-E, Uncle Luke, Ice Cube, the Geto Boys and, just like rap is supposed to do, to give people good music to push through this bullshit.
El-P: We always really were just about making nasty rap records, man. At the end the day, I think that one the purest political statements to make is being honest and being raw and being genuine. We never were the type people who were looking to make records that were addressing specific political situations. If it happens, it happens, and it does on occasion, but we’re not Public Enemy. What we’re trying to do is be two guys in a friendship from different places having the time their lives and making something that everybody can make the scrunchy face to when they hear.