Killer Mike

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Killer Mike sues security firm over Grammys arrest, alleging ‘public humiliation’
Rapper alleges assault, false arrest and more when he was detained shortly after winning three awards at 2024 ceremony, but security firm claims ‘zero involvement’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

04, Feb, 2025 @10:09 AM

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‘A Renaissance man’: Jimmy Carter remembered for contributions to arts
Musicians and actors pay tribute to three-time Grammy-winning former US president, who died on Sunday aged 100

Edward Helmore

30, Dec, 2024 @5:40 PM

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Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints review – hard-won life lessons
The Run the Jewels rapper follows up last year’s Grammys-sweeping Michael with an album addressing a tumultuous few months

Kitty Empire

03, Aug, 2024 @1:00 PM

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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

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

02, Jul, 2024 @8:44 AM

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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

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, Feb, 2024 @8:54 AM

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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

Alexis Petridis

05, Feb, 2024 @12:31 PM

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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

Kitty Empire

18, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM

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‘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

Ammar Kalia

04, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

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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

Alexis Petridis

02, Jun, 2020 @6:23 PM

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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

Henry Barnes

12, Jul, 2019 @9:00 AM

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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

Jack Seale

08, Feb, 2019 @1:00 PM

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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’

Laura Snapes

26, Mar, 2018 @10:11 AM

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