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  See Killer Mike Cuddle Up to 'Letterman' After Intense 'Untitled' Performance

  March 19, 2013 – Not just anyone who raps can get away with calling an album R.A.P. Music. As if Killer Mike didn't show enough on that record, one of 2012's best, why he's the guy he can do it, the Atlanta MC made it thrillingly clear last night on Late Show With David Letterman. …
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  The 5 Best Things We Saw at SXSW Thursday: Killer Mike, Mikal Cronin, Chance the Rapper

  March 15, 2013 – See all our best live photos from SXSW 2013 here 5. Chance the RapperGatsby’s, 5 p.m. SXSW is full to the brim with "personalities" hoping to score attention, but Chance the Rapper's oddball set at Red Bull's 120 Hours party — curated by Chicago rap blog Fake Shore Drive — felt genuine. …
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  Sample Sweet Valley's 'Jenova' Christmastime Beat Tape With Appropriately Festive Teaser

  December 20, 2012 – Shortly before he shared the new Wavves song, "Sail to the Sun," Nathan Williams let Facebook know his Sweet Valley project has got a fresh full-length coming as well. Now, thanks to the teaser trailer above, we know that the third installment in his and brother Kynan's instrumental rap project will be called Jenova, due out via Fool's Gold Records on Christmas day. …
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  Sea Change: Photos of the S.S. Coachella's Maiden Voyage 2012

  December 20, 2012 –  …
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  President Obama (and Jay-Z) Defeat Hip-Hop Apathy

  November 8, 2012 – The only time I have ever felt afraid at a rap show was when Killer Mike performed at this year's Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina. It wasn't because of some vague but palpable criminal element often present at hip-hop events. And it wasn't the swarthy-bougie frat bros from nearby Chapel Hill using Mike's onstage energy as an excuse to knock some nerds around, either. …
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  Killer Mike on Marijuana Laws and Our 'Blood Oath'

  October 22, 2012 – My grandmother took me to the polls when I was literally at her knee. I remember standing in line and looking at the pretty ladies with the pretty legs and stockings sticking out from the curtained booths.I was a little pervert. That was part of the bonus for going to vote. You got to see legs.When we would leave the polls, I would ask my grandmother: "What were we doing? Why were we voting? …
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  Killer Mike Overthrows the Illuminati in 'Reagan' Video

  October 3, 2012 – There's a reason that Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music is a SPIN Essential, and a song like "Reagan" exemplifies that reason. Over a crunchy dystopic El-P beat, the Atlanta MC, in the words of our own Christopher R. …
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  Coachella Cruise Confirmed: Pulp, Hot Chip Hitting High Seas

  July 17, 2012 – Instead of launching a third weekend of its annual Indio fest, Coachella will take its increasingly wild party to the high seas. Today organizers announced (ahead of its previously scheduled 6 p.m. PDT deadline) via Twitter the inaugural S.S. …
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  Louder Than Bombs: Death Grips and Killer Mike

  June 23, 2012 – Hip-hop's first 20 years were built on decibels. A Bronx-bred arms race over speaker size, rocking without a band, "my JVC" vibrating the concrete, pumping up the volume, sampling "The Big Beat" and "Angel of Death" and Skull Snaps, and cars that go boom doing donuts on your manicured lawn while blasting the Aerosmith breaks stolen from the water-tower party. …
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  Friday Five: The Gipper Gets Got by Killer Mike, and One Funky-Ass James Brown Book

  May 25, 2012 – I've been meaning to talk about RJ Smith's The One: The Life and Music Of James Brown for a few months now. I guess it's a biography of James Brown, though it's more like a very long essay about J.B. …
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