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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Killer Mike, Part 2

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 47 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. 





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Hey everyone, John Hylman here and welcome to Helen Highwater my podcast about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon. It's a determined if dubious committed if Kuku for Coco puffs often wrong but rarely in doubt exercise in elevated gas bagry.

1:21.0

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Not without fail because you know hashtag epic fail is one of our many models around here but certainly without a pause.

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We've been doing that for more than two years haven't had a break all of which is to say that I am plum shagged out and desperately in need of some R&R.

2:26.0

And with the midterm election now comfortably in the review mirror in our democracy amazingly if I will admit a little unexpectedly still intact it seems like a suitable time for the Hellenhy water home office to give itself a fucking break.

2:42.0

And so for the next few weeks that is exactly what we are going to do and we'll see you back here on the other side of the holidays, TAN, RESTED, REFRECH, REVITALized and RARE NETGO ready to get back to cranking out more tasty content.

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In the meantime, don't despair. We're not leaving you entirely in the lurch for these weeks to the contrary. Every Tuesday morning per usual you will find a hopefully unfamiliar episode of the podcast doing the backstroke in your feed.

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Drop there by the able AI fact totems will be mining the store while we're away and while these episodes come over the next few weeks may not be fresh or strictly speaking new they will be piping hot.

3:27.0

A carefully curated series of Hellenhy water golden oldies which those of you who've been around from the start may remember.

3:35.0

I hope fondly and those of you who came along sometime later may never have encountered at all. Give it our focus on politics these past few months and our desire not to take a dump on your mood of holiday inspired good cheer we've decided these encore presentations will avoid that topic like the plague and focus instead on culture entertainment technology and such with a run of some of our most favorite guests in those realms over the past two years including this beauty right here which whether or not you've heard it before you will not want to miss.

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So with that we leave it to it with a hearty and heartfelt namaste.

4:19.0

Hey everyone John Hyalman here and welcome to part two of a very special double stuffed XXL edition of Hellenhy water my podcast from the recount and I heart radio.

4:27.0

Our guest today is Michael Render aka Killer Mike frontman of the raging righteous apocalyptic and politically essential hip hop duo run the jewels outspoken activist for racial justice fierce advocate for black entrepreneurship high profile surrogate for Bernie Sanders and tireless booster of his hometown Atlanta where he owns and runs the dopest barbershop in the country the swag shop on Edward Avenue.

4:49.0

Over the course of a couple hours recently Mike and I went deep on a wide array of topics race and police violence covid and urban America Democrats and Republicans Biden and Trump the Georgia Senate races stacey Abrams rock Obama and Dave Sheppell and also run the jewels is blistering record from earlier this year R.T.J. 4 which got absolutely incomprehensibly robbed the other day when the nominations for this year's Grammys came out and R.T.J. 4 got wait for it none.

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