Run The Jewels Animate ‘Rubble Kings Theme’
Run The Jewels premiered the animated visual to their lead track ‘Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)’ for the forthcoming soundtrack of the documentary film ‘Rubble Kings‘.
The story about the notorious NY gangs of the 70’s, previously depicted in the cult classic film ‘The Warriors’, has been chronicled by director Shan Nicholson.
The animated video also directed by Shan Nicholson, was inspired by the Rubble Kings documentary and the works of Brooklyn raised animator Ralph Bakshi. Justice in 1970’s South Bronx was played out with a rumble in streets and its animated into the story of the character “Little Nina”, who’s violently attacked by a rival gang, which leads to an all out rumble between the fictional gangs the “Rubble Kings” and the “Javelins”.
Mass Appeal will be dropping the soundtrack in January 2016, including tracks from Bun B, Killer Mike, Tunde Adebimpe, Ghostface Killah, Roxiny as well as the Run The Jewels lead cut.
