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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Killer Mike, Part 2

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Michael Santiago Render, aka Killer Mike, is one of the most vital figures in the worlds of both hip hop and progressive activism. Best known as one half of the acclaimed rap duo Run The Jewels, Render gained notoriety in the political realm as a prominent backer of Bernie Sanders and a fierce advocate for Black economic empowerment. In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Render delivered a tearful televised plea to protestors not to torch his beloved home city of Atlanta; the video went viral and earned him a new legion of admirers around the country. A few days later, Run the Jewels released its fourth album, “RTJ4”, which captured the anger, despair, and calls for racial justice echoing from coast to coast and was widely hailed as the dystopian soundtrack of 2020. In this first-ever two-part episode of Hell & High Water, Heilemann and Render discuss race and police violence, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Georgia's outsized role in the 2020 election, Ice Cube, Kanye West, Dave Chappelle, and much, much more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 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

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1:00.2

Hey, everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Helen Highwater,

1:02.6

my podcast about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon.

1:06.4

It's a determined, if dubious, committed if cuckoo for cocoa puffs, often wrong but rarely in doubt

1:12.6

exercise in elevated gas baggery that neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the toxic

1:20.3

rantings of the Nuthouse Right, a president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election and

1:25.2

staged an auto coup complete with an armed insurrection at the United States Capitol,

1:29.3

nor more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly,

1:33.1

the capture of a decent-sized chunk of our political, social, and civic spheres

1:36.5

by a cadre of incoherent, insidious, conspiracy addled, autocracy craving,

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