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Killer Mike deeply infuriates me. He's obviously a pretty knowledgeable dude, and yet his critiques of capitalism and white supremacy seem totally out of line with that knowledge. He's pretty tuned into black radical tradition but at the same time seems pretty plugged into liberalism in the very literal sense. He seems to believe that the system of liberalism need to be replaced.... with Afro-liberalism.
If you listen to his interviews and longer discussion you are left with one of two opinions on the guy.
1.) He's smart of enough to understand the system but uses that knowledge for personal gain
OR
2.) He's not as smart as he appears to but instead is just the near perfect artist under capitalism. He makes profitable art. Not exactly profits from his art, but art that is profitable.
(I don't know if wording that correctly but I mean to say he's seeking profit/capital gains first and foremost and happens to make art that people buy. Not to say that artist shouldn't make profits from their art. It's weird and complicated)
It kinda reminds of Cipher from the Matrix. I mean to say Killer Mike is smart of enough to get out of the Matrix, but is either unwilling or unable to transend it.
Killer Mike deeply infuriates me. He's obviously a pretty knowledgeable dude, and yet his critiques of capitalism and white supremacy seem totally out of line with that knowledge. He's pretty tuned into black radical tradition but at the same time seems pretty plugged into liberalism in the very literal sense. He seems to believe that the system of liberalism need to be replaced.... with Afro-liberalism.
If you listen to his interviews and longer discussion you are left with one of two opinions on the guy.
1.) He's smart of enough to understand the system but uses that knowledge for personal gain
2.) He's not as smart as he appears to but instead is just the near perfect artist under capitalism. He makes profitable art. Not exactly profits from his art, but art that is profitable.
(I don't know if wording that correctly but I mean to say he's seeking profit/capital gains first and foremost and happens to make art that people buy. Not to say that artist shouldn't make profits from their art. It's weird and complicated)
It kinda reminds of Cipher from the Matrix. I mean to say Killer Mike is smart of enough to get out of the Matrix, but is either unwilling or unable to transend it.
This track goes hard regardless.