He’s a landlord and thinks the job crisis in black communities can be solved if more black people went to trade school. And told protesters to go home during the biggest uprising in this nation in decades. That’s about all you need to know about Killer Mike
He does have some jams though.
Can confirm I saw HMM when Rob Sonic was an incredibly round boi
His music completely fucks with you once you know his politics though.
He's talking about killing your slave masters and shit and then you hear him in an interview and he's telling you to learn to be a welder and get a job at the Exxon plant
Slave masters hate it when you upskill and then come and work for them for a wage.
What happened to this guy?
He woke up one morning and realized which class he belongs to.
He's said to have been a marxist a long time ago. who knows what happened though
If people haven't realized this yet, lots of people claim to be Marxists. It's still got cultural cache
I think socialists and communists should spend some time studying the political culture of Atlanta. It is thought of, quite explicitly by PMC black people, as a sort of black utopia. It's one of the last remaining hubs for a black petite bourgeoisie. And there's a big class divide in the city between the rich black media and business figures and the black working class, who are getting pushed out into the suburbs as neighborhoods are gentrified.
You want to talk about examining the intersection between race and class? This is the place to do it.
It's not shocking that Killer Mike's politics are nonsense. He's a perfect representation of the city.
Because he's trying and failing to square radical politics with being a capitalist
I skipped the Ice Cube episode and I'll do the same with Killer Mike. Don't get me wrong, Killer Mike has his moments with JU$T and Reagan but I saw his interview with Bernie before talking about black capitalism. I just am not interested in hearing these big names spout incoherent and contradictory political ideologies. That said, Killer Mike is an incredible artist and the RTJ performance I saw years ago was absolutely wild.
he's always been about black capitalism really. if we all find people to exploit we will all rise! somehow
What American exceptionalism and 0 class consciousness does to a motherfucker
Dude was literally sharing PragerU graphs and shit on twitter.
https://twitter.com/EUGENEDABS2020/status/1110667015981797382?s=20
I mean bad faith is a super lib podcast lol, idk what you’re expecting. The only good episode so far was the one with all the law professors
Bad Faith could be recorded in a dark room while they execute the super wealthy and I wouldn't know it cause it's too fucking boring to listen to.
The guests they bring on are usually super lib, but I wouldn't describe either Virgil or Briahna that way.
they both are super invested in electoralism and have not expressed much beyond their Electoral Dem-Soc beliefs
They both didn't vote for Biden, which is an act of treason punishable by death to a liberal. I'm not saying they are hardcore tankie leftists, but they definitely aren't libs.
Virgil literally had to take a break from chapo bc of post Bernie primary depression lol
BJG has been talking about working with the Green Party or with "the people's party." Lol. Not even DSA.
She is a lib.
Investing so much importance into liberal elections that something that matters as little as casting a vote for the president in a state like New York can be treated that seriously is fundamentally a liberal position
honestly, thats many americans. they have no idea what it is they believe
Okay I wasn't the only one who was feeling really confused during that. I think only kept listening because somehow the man has a fuckin' flow while just talking.
I'll just make sure to only think about RTJ and "Reagan" when it comes to him.
That would have been dope. Though I was pretty bummed to see the only show in Southern California was going to be at Coachella lol
