Killer Mike: 12/2/14

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Note: This bonus episode was produced and aired by Grantland in December 2014. This week on The Moment we revisit Brian’s conversation with Killer Mike which took place in November 2014. Killer Mike is one half of the Run the Jewels duo along side El-P. Coming off an emotional night in Ferguson, where he played to a crowd after the verdict was announced in the Michael Brown case, Brian talked with Mike about his duties as an artist and being an ambassador for his community. Since this conversation, Killer Mike has appeared on numerous shows including a recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. Topics this week: “R.A.P. Music” album “Run the Jewels” album “Run the Jewels 2” album “PL3DGE” album Stage 48 - New York City Morehouse College Adrian Peterson child abuse case “I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind” album “I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind Vol. 2” album Killer Mike in Ferguson Avatar “A.D.I.D.A.S.” – Killer Mike Brooke Baldwin Interview with Killer Mike L.A. Confidential Sound Opinions from WBEZ “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” album One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future a book by Ben Carson Pimp: The Story of My Life a book by Iceberg Slim Man’s Search for Meaning a book by Viktor Frankl Guns, Germs, and Steel a book by Jared Diamond People this week: Killer Mike Run the Jewels El-P Outkast Alice Johnson Blowfly Quentin Tarantino Lloyd Banks Jay-Z Dave Chappelle MC Hammer Big Boi Dick Gregory Chuck D Eric Holder George Wallace Clarence Thomas Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @briankoppelman Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Brian. This is a bonus episode or you could say it's a catalog episode that we're putting back up of my conversation with Killer Mike and Killer Mike Render. Mike Render, Mike is, I'm sure you know this, Mike is one of the sort of great thinkers and
0:21.1	speakers of our age. He's also one of the most important hip-hop artists in the
0:26.7	world. His band run the jewels has just exploded over the past a couple of years, but
0:32.2	he's doing this a long time. has just
0:35.0	a couple of years, but he's doing this a long time.
0:34.0	And when we recorded this episode,
0:37.0	it was just in the shadow of the Ferguson riots,
0:40.0	and Mike was just finding himself really in the spotlight
0:45.8	as more than a hip-hop artist,
0:48.8	but as a community leader and organizer.
0:51.3	Since then, he's appeared on many shows.
0:55.0	He's led, he's been speaking at the best colleges all across the country.
0:59.4	He's been really leading a movement.
1:01.8	And I saw him last Friday night on Bill Maher's show
1:05.2	and was so touched by what he did and moved he'd been wanting to get on that show for
1:08.8	seven years he'd been wanting that platform and I thought he handled it so elegantly and with such wit and
1:15.7	such intelligence that I was blown away.
1:20.6	And for those of you new to my show, I just feel like this episode is one that you should hear.
1:28.0	I get more positive feedback from this episode of the moment than almost any other and often it's from people who say
1:35.1	I never heard a killer Mike so if you've never heard a killer Mike this is your chance to get to know
1:40.4	him and if you have heard of him I think you have a chance here to get to know him. And if you have heard of him, I think you have a chance here to get to
1:43.4	know him in a way that maybe you haven't before. So here's my conversation with Kilmike
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