Killer Mike of Run the Jewels on Allyship, Equity, and Apocalypse Preparation
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu
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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
You’re going to walk away from this week’s Politically Re-Active, happier and smarter after listening to our conversation with Killer Mike of Run the Jewels. From equity, to allyship and building political power, Killer Mike rallies us to think big and do better. This may take learning how to survive the zombie apocalypse, which Killer Mike shares some insights on too. And in this week’s episode we yet again gain a new term to add to our vocabulary, “the big three.” So get ready to learn and laugh a whole lot.
But it’s not all politics, we also talk to Killer Mike about his new album with El-P, “Run the Jewels 3.” To check-out their albums and tour dates visit www.runthejewels.com. You can also follow them on Twitter @Run Jewels, @Killer Mike, and @The Real El P.
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Check out Hari’s tour dates and albums at Harikondabolu.com and for all Kamau’s project check out wkamaubell.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this was recorded on Saturday July 22nd. |
| 0:04.0 | Tavis smile, he said, so Mike what religion are you |
| 0:07.0 | because he's assuming a Christian? I say I'm whatever black people were the day before |
| 0:10.5 | a Muslim Jew or Christian stepped in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | Whatever we were that day, that's me before the religion, the big three star recruiting |
| 0:19.0 | that's where I am. |
| 0:22.0 | From Topic and Airwolf, this is politically reactive. I'm W. Kamal Bell. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Dapul of Dast Races, older brother, Harikun De Bolu. |
| 0:32.0 | Those two years when he was more famous were absolutely terrible and I hate bringing it up. |
| 0:37.0 | You're still bitter about that. |
| 0:39.0 | I was an unfortunate time in this nation's history that a Ponzi scheme was that effective. |
| 0:44.0 | Dast Races was a Ponzi scheme. |
| 0:47.0 | They defrauded the American public. |
| 0:51.0 | The show where two comedians try to make sense of politics in America. |
| 0:55.0 | I guess by building a time machine, we're going back in time to make sense of it. |
| 1:00.0 | Well today we have some help making sense of politics in America. |
| 1:03.0 | Today we're speaking with two of Hip Hop's finest MCs, Killer Mike and LP. |
| 1:07.0 | One of them, we're speaking to one of them. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, that's right. |
| 1:12.0 | LP couldn't make it. |
| 1:13.0 | Even though we were part of witnessing that Ponzi scheme together for that two years we both suffered |
| 1:19.0 | through a national tragedy together but he wasn't able to make it. |
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