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I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

Killer Mike

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Killer Mike
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: April 20
Activist
Actor
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Atlanta
Georgia
Michael Render
Michael Santiago Render
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I would just encourage everybody to just talk your opinion more, allow other people and fight for other people to [express theirs].
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I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has gotten better. I started dope, so I've just gotten doper and doper and dopest and super dope.
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Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me, as much as it's like, I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid.
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If I go all the way politicized, I become a zealot who's not allowed to have fun with the people and the community that raised me. But if I go the other way, I become an ignoramus who isn't properly qualified to speak on my community's behalf.
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My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.
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My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that`s what I`ve been doing.
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I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat.
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The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.
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I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos.
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I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.
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I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.
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The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.
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The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that he deserves or that Hillary Clinton has. He has not had the ability to connect with black people in the mass way.
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When Bernie Sanders came along, and I liked his tweets and I read more about him, researched him more, I decided I like him and his policy, even more than just I like another guy in the Democratic Party, I really believed in it. And when you believe in something, you get out and work for it.
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With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me.
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I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.
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I`m lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I`m Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.
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I can't expect rappers to be politicized when Americans are not socially motivated enough to care about their own lives and public policy as much as they were even 20 years ago. But I'm compelled to make the music I make regardless.
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I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.
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