Killer Mike has teamed up with Young Thug and Dave Chappelle.
Killer Mike has released RUN today, his first slice of solo material in over a decade.
The track comes with a video directed by Adrian Villagomez, and is the long-awaited follow-up to R.A.P. Music; the 2012 album which soon sparked a collaboration with El-P, itself leading to the pair teaming up as Run The Jewels, the now hugely successful duo last active in 2020 with RTJ4.
“There are villains here – racist police, pseudo Christians, the big corporations which have been allowed to become beyond morality – but the set ups are not of the pantomime kind,” our review reads.
“Here on Ju$t, the subjects enslave themselves by embracing a rigged system offering the illusion of equality, while the stain of invisible plutocrats haunt ‘pulling the pin’: ‘These filthy criminals sit at the pinnacle/Doing the typical/Keeping us miserable/Taking the most and providing the minimal’.”
“One of the most poignant moments comes on ‘walking in the snow’, Mike hacking out: ‘And you so numb you watch the cops choke out a man like me / Till my voice goes from a shriek to whisper, I can’t breathe’. Depressingly, the words are not about Floyd’s death but that of Eric Garner in similar circumstances in 2014.”