Killer Mike is one of the few Hip-Hop artists who hasn’t become dismayed with the rap listeners despite the shift in the music industry’s support for his type of underground rap soundtrack. That’s prA’li because Killer Mike has the attitude of perspective of the traveling griot who would go anywhere to deliver a parable to the people. Killer Mike is more prophet than profit.
Killer Mike’s latest CD ‘R.A.P. Music’ comes to us with no fanfare or propmotion. If you know what’s good for you then you know it’s out here. I had to post this track with Bun B and T.I. because it is so damn hard. Plus Bun B merc’ks that shit by putting ‘onomatopoeia’ in his verse. Who does that in rap music in 2012?
Killer Mike feat. Bun B, T.I. and Trouble – ‘Big Beast’
Killer Mike’s album was produced entirely by the incomparable El-P, who himself is dropping a brand new project called ‘Cancer 4 Cure‘. It sounds like El-P’s studio is the nexus for the hottest underground rap music dropping post-2010.
I didn’t start fuxing with El-P until I heard him rap on the Das Racist album ‘Relax’. Ain’t that some shit how I came to listen to this legendary producer and emcee from left field rap? That’s how it be sometimes tho’. You ain’t late as long as you get there.
“to the mother of my enemy, i just killed your son
he died with his face to the sky and it can not be undone
he didn’t die hard, in the end he just grinned and bowed
made him dig his own grave at the point of a gun while he laughed to the gods out loud”
El-P featuring Killer Mike and Despot – ‘Tougher Colder’
Copped that Killer Mike and definitely want to get that El-P…It surprised me when I saw El-P and Killer Mike at your BYOBBQ last year…Now it all makes sense…
I feel ya on EL-P, I’m kinda the opposite tho, I always kinda wrote off Killer Mike because he came into the Outkast Camp on songs like “The Whole World”, which is basically when I stopped listening to them. I copped this album cause of EL-P and my jaw was on the floor over how hard Mike was comin with it, bout to go back and start from scratch with his stuff and see what I missed
I think they both expanded their audiences with this one, Just hearing TI over an EL-P beat makes me think I’m in Bizzaro world, lol
gotta listen to that cannibal ox album entitled “the cold vein” EL-P’s instrumentals are seriously dope on this album
Gotta listen to Company Flow’s Funcrusher Plus- classic indie Hip Hop album…paved the way for a lot of artists…