REVIEW: Atlanta rapper Killer Mike offers impressive empathy and vague politics on ‘Michael,’ his first album in eleven years.
, and an Atlanta polemicist comfortable with both dope-boy fantasies and bruising Black politics. But it’s been eleven years since, a classic pairing with rapper/producer El-P that inspired the two to form the world-conquering duo Run the Jewels. On his sixth album,the rapper focuses on his personal life, particularly his late mother and grandmother, with uncharacteristic empathy and restraint, even as he continues to utilize his uniquely brusque vocal style.is a collaboration with No I.D.
All these celebrity guests, spiritual uplift, and florid old-soul samples may be anathema to hardcore rap fans who already bristled at Run the Jewels festival-rocking antics and miss the onetime Grind Time Gang leader who once gleefully imagined murdering a Griselda Blanco-like drug lord on 2008’s “Good-Bye .
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