#1555 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

How would I rate this if I hadn't heard RtJ2 already? Hard to say, but this doesn't hold a candle. Rapping's knotty and hard-hitting, the production rough-edged and fizzy, but nothing here has that fire, that full-on spark, that heartracing hurtle towards a brick wall that made its follow-up worth hearing. This is inert by comparison, a maze of rhymes without much prize at the middle 3/5