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Killer Mike

July 2024

  • Killer Mike at the BET awards on Sunday.

    Killer Mike will not face charges after Grammys arrest

    Rapper was booked for misdemeanour battery over altercation with security guard, but will not be charged after completing community service

February 2024

  • Killer Mike with his Grammys at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on 4 February.

    Killer Mike releases statement following Grammys arrest: ‘I have confidence I will be cleared of wrongdoing’

    Rapper alleges ‘overzealous’ security guard was involved in incident that saw him arrested by Los Angeles police and booked for misdemeanour battery
  • Alexis Petridis

    The breadth and depth of female dominance at the Grammys is heartening

    Alexis Petridis
    The likes of Taylor Swift and SZA were expected winners – but women also picked up wins in the traditional male bastions of rock, remixing and more
  • 66th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles<br>Killer Mike poses with the Best Rap Album award, the Best Rap Performance award and the Best Rap Song award at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 4, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Killer Mike arrested at Grammys moments after winning three awards

    The 48-year-old Run the Jewels rapper was handcuffed and escorted out of the ceremony by Los Angeles police after an alleged physical altercation

June 2023

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    Killer Mike: Michael review – killer hooks and swaggering, tender introspection

    The celebrated Atlanta rapper gets personal on an album concerned with Black masculinity and the women in his life

July 2022

  • Killer Mike in London in 2019.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I will never be against the second amendment’: Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike on rap, racism and gun control

    After almost a decade of working alongside El-P, the rapper is releasing a solo single. He talks about the chaos and loss that inspired it, his friendship with Bernie Sanders and the ‘racist’ twisting of lyrics

June 2020

  • Killer Mike and El-P … ‘We have some action to do now.’

    Run the Jewels: ‘I want the oppressors to know they haven’t created complete hopelessness’

    After Killer Mike’s impassioned speech about the death of George Floyd went viral, he and his partner El-P explain why a mix of serious politics and surreal goofiness makes their music perfect for our times

July 2019

  • Killer Mike (right) in Trigger Warning.

    Cities from scratch
    How Killer Mike reinvented Thomas More for the 21st century

    The rapper’s utopian attempt to secede from the US, as documented in his Netflix show Trigger Warning, is more than just clever TV

February 2019

  • Trigger Warning with Killer Mike

    Trigger Warning With Killer Mike: finally, a satirist for our times

    From selling ‘Crips and Bloods cola’ to using porn to teach carpentry, the Run the Jewels rapper’s activist-comedy stunts are unlike anything else on TV right now

March 2018

  • Killer Mike speaks at a campaign rally for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Atlanta, Georgia, February 2016.

    Run the Jewels's Killer Mike apologises for NRA interview

    The rapper had also disparaged school walkouts against gun violence. In a series of tweets, he said his interview was ‘used in the wrong way’

February 2016

  • Musician Michael "Killer Mike" Render reacts after introducing U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders at the Annual Oyster Roast and Fish Fry in Orangeburg<br>Musician Michael "Killer Mike" Render (R) reacts after introducing U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders at the Annual Oyster Roast and Fish Fry in Orangeburg, South Carolina February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

    Run the Jewels' Killer Mike says conscience wouldn't let him vote for Hillary Clinton

    Speaking at a Bernie Sanders rally, the hip-hop star criticises Clinton after her response to a Black Lives Matter protest at a recent event

January 2016

  • Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders

    Killer Mike spins for 'Beastie Bernie' after Sanders and Clinton debate

    Run the Jewels rapper tells political stiffs that Vermont senator is ‘of the Beastie Boys lineage’ to challenge authority

August 2015

  • Killer Mike and El-P AKA Run the Jewels.

    Run the Jewels' Killer Mike: 'I’m an American because of a riot'

    As Ferguson marks the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing, Killer Mike and El-P talk about the power of protest

June 2015

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    Killer Mike endorses Bernie Sanders for president

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    Nas and Killer Mike demand action in wake of Charleston murders

  • Killer Mike and El-P on stage as Run The Jewels

    Killer Mike leads the pack of rappers-turned-politicians running for office

  • Killer Mike performs onstage during the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park on July 21, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

    Killer Mike plots political agenda ahead of Georgia state election

April 2015

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    Killer Mike to hold lecture on race relations at US university

    His presence as a public speaker continues as the Run the Jewels rapper appears at Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week to hold a talk entitled Race Relations in the US

February 2013

  • Killer Mike – review

    Mike's politically charged show is enlightening, moving and funny, writes Mark Beaumont
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