Zack de la Rocha sightings are rare.
But Run the Jewels fans got to see the rap/rock legend in person during an RTJ set in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
Wearing a jacket and knit hat, the former Rage Against the Machine frontman rapped his way through the destructive final verse of "Close Your Eyes (And Count To F---)."
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker — also featured on the recently released Run The Jewels 2 — stepped in to perform his typically impressive skins routine.
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The Rage camp has been silent for years, but blink are expecting to drop a new album in 2015.
"I am hoping that we can get this thing out by summer, but we will see," singer Tom DeLonge recently told The Wondering Sound.
The band hasn't produced an LP since 2011's Neighborhoods.
"We actually have our very first big writing session coming here in the next few weeks where we'll get together and lay down our first tracks," DeLonge said.
The singer also looked back at one of pop-punk's greatest releases: blink's Enema of the State.
"I just knew it was our best record," he said. "I didn't think it was gonna do anything crazy. I remember we went on tour, on the Warped Tour, and Eminem and us were on tour. I wouldn't have thought that either of us would have gotten as far as we did, you know? In retrospect, you look back and think, 'Oh, I get it. I get why.' But at the time? A white rapper from Detroit and three ugly kids from San Diego that could barely play - I mean Travis could always play, but it didn't make any sense."
