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Mike said no at first, according to T.I.: "Absolutely not" and "It's not our motherfucking job" - but T.I. wore him down over the course of an hour, and Mike felt duty-bound to support his friend. Here's Killer Mike's platform: He would insist that a city that is more than 50 percent Black, like Atlanta, do more than 50 percent of its business with a Black-owned bank and create incentives for graduates of Atlanta public high schools to go to the city's historically Black colleges. But he's also backed democratic socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders, who, Mike has said, operates in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Killer Mike says he has "love and respect for police officers", but on songs like "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)", from Run the Jewels 2, he rhymes, Where my thuggers and my Crippers and my Blooders and my brothers? "If you talk to Mike, he'll call himself a mobilizer", says El-P, "because Mike very much takes his ability to have a voice seriously. [Extracted from the article] |
