Killer Mike has been heavily criticized on social media after participating in an interview with the National Rifle Association’s 24-hour network. The backlash turned the Run The Jewels MC into a trending topic on Twitter on Saturday (March 24) and prompted him to address his critics.
The interview became a lightning rod for controversy after the NRATV published a clip on Saturday, which coincided with the gun control-advocating March For Our Lives protests. Mike’s statement about the recent school walkouts to protest gun violence were specifically highlighted by NRATV’s Twitter account.
“I told my kids on the school walkout, I love you, if you walk out that school, walk out my house,” he said. “We are not a family that jumps on every single thing an ally of ours does because some stuff we just don’t agree with.”
Mike spent hours on Twitter defending himself, responding to critiques about being a pawn in NRA propaganda and his stances on gun ownership. According to the veteran rapper, he was willing to use the NRA platform if his message could reach just one black member.
“I think CNN & Fox are view point propaganda machines,” he noted. “I have appeared on both. My concerns are with the Blacks in America living under domestic terror that no one seems to wanna address.”
Outside of the controversy over appearing on NRA TV, Mike made it clear he was against gun control. In his mind, the issue was a matter of black Americans being able to defend themselves.
While prominent activists and regular Twitter users alike expressed disappointment and condemnation, some Hip Hop artists spoke out as well. Vic Mensa directly challenged Mike on the issues of AR-15 rifles. JPEGMAFIA lambasted him for allowing the NRA, which has come under fire for its lack of response to the deaths of black gun owners like Philando Castile, to push “faux diversity.”
Killer Mike played himself with that NRA interview. No doubt about it.
Why? Because he didn’t blindly follow what everyone else is saying? Are you sure you even know what “played himself” means, bc it sure sounds like he did the exact opposite.
If you align yourself with the NRA and the NRA uses your message and tries to sell it as “black support”, you played yourself. I have no problems with Mike talking about gun rights, but he is in a video talking about fake allies who don’t care about black people, when the NRA is silent when it comes to black people getting killed by cops. In fact, the NRA blames black folks for everything even if they do say something and make tons of money in the process.
Yeah? The NRA is silent about white people getting killed by cops too, and cops kill MOSTLY white people. I never understood wh you cops killing black people is the biggest topic, when it’s less than 250 deaths annually, and most of them are justified killings during a shootout. Black on black murder is the worst. A young black man is most likely to die at the arms of another’s black man. Not a car. Not a white man. Not drugs. White people are most likely to die at a young age from drugs or accidents, not other killers. Why do black people kill one another’s so often??? I swear, it’s the only raven that destorys each other.
Man, get outta here with those “whataboutisms.”
Whataboutisms are called facts and nuance.
He played himself because he went against the very thing he preaches against, on one of the networks that represents the opposite of what he preaches… How are you gonna get mad at all the black youth dying over guns and then go on the network that caters to the very same armed white people who kill our youth and who bring the guns into this country… on top of the fact the killer mike is supposed to be informed enough to know that these people who are marching are not trying to get rid of guns all together. That’s why he played himself.
Any person who believes that his should be taken away ate either ignorant or just jumping in the bandwagon. The best way to terrorize and control a nation of people is to render them defenseless. I support gun ownership. In my opinion a lot of these school shootings happen because of bullying.
For the 7,844,578th fucking time: Nobody is trying to take people’s rights to own guns. Nobody is trying to get rid of a second amendment… All people are saying is there should be NO fucking reason an 18 year old kid or some crazy ass white boy can buy an automatic weapon easier than they can buy Supreme. It’s not that hard to understand, you fucking idiot.
Look at gun stats. The VAST majority of murders by firearms are committed by people with handguns. Not AR’s. So while you feel good about yourself “standing up for a cause,” you’re missing the point entirely. Is the goal to protect the most lives? Because if that’s the case, then you would want to ban handguns, too. So when someone like Killer Mike or any other law abiding citizen is skeptical when do-gooders want to limit their right to protect themselves, I completely get their point.
But factually, weren’t all more likely to be killed by a pistol… and even more so by a hammer… and even more so by a car. Why not have strict ownership on hammers then?
Only a jackass would think gun laws would stop criminals from killing people. FYI, killers break laws jackass.
That’s because I doubt you can commit mass murder with a hammer you fucking simpleton. It doesn’t change the fact that an 18-year-old kid who’s mentally fucked in the head shouldn’t be able to buy a semi automatic weapon easier than it is to buy some fucking spray paint from Walmart… You’re saying that because handguns kill more people that it doesn’t make sense to ban semi automatic weapons or bump up the age to purchase them? So your logic is it that if we can’t prevent at least SOME deaths, we shouldn’t prevent any at all? Lol…. Shouldn’t you be happy that they’re not going after handguns if you love guns so much? I don’t get it, it sounds like you’re complaining. Lol your whole argument is flawed, idiot.
That is correct. I saw I statistic from 2016, people were killed with knives four times more than rifles. The numbers were skewed though because a lot were of cases were unknown. We do know that handguns are used in way more murders than semi auto rifles.
Why does it have to be so black and white. Why can’t we keep our 2nd amendment rights and have gun control at the same time. Rednecks and apparently killer mike think that if we ban ar 15s and keep guns out of mentally ill people, then that means we are abolishing the 2nd amendment. They support keeping guns out of the hands of felons, but if you are a mentally ill loner, fucki it, go get an AR you little fucking weirdo. Thus country is so fucked, I gave up hope.
Liberals: “Its okay to have an opinion as long as you not disagree with us”.
That must sounds better in Russian. Your English is terrible.
He left a word out, and your grammar was incorrect. Get over yourself.
Shlomo will soon have him blackballed for this. he is opposing the JWO agenda!
Go eat a pigs ass you fucking shaygetz
Rappers talking about gun control. Oh, the irony. Next they’ll be talking about equality for women.
Fans of Mike should know his stance already, I too disagree with Mike I feel like the police killed more black people without guns than with one so what’s the point, and since if you kill a cop that’s life in prison with lethal injection. There’s no win-win in that case.
What the he’ll does gun ownership have to do with cops? Whats the number one killer of black people? Other black peoples, not cops….
Damn, Killer Mike. Now I gotta delete all my RTJ albums. I’m down to 2 rappers Kendrick and Macklemore lmao
RTJ and Killer Mike are my shit! I don’t think any less of Mike for this, you guys are too sensitive. I don’t agree on the stances of every artist I listen to, doesn’t make me dislike them.
Him using this format is not different than all these Black leaders using FOX as their format. How many times have we seen Black leaders going at it with Orielly on his very own show?
Why are the Hip Hop fans surprised? Ice-T has very similar thoughts, as does T.I. and A LOT of rappers. Killer Mike has had this stance for years.
T.I. has been back and forth about it recently. Whenever he’s asked bout it he give a “Well…” kinda answer. He’s no where near and absolute and unequivocal as Killer Mike was in this interview. Don’t know bout Ice-T but the fact is just cause A LOT of rappers express a certain belief and think a certain way doesn’t mean we should expect every single one to think the same way. Think we’ve become too accustomed to overgeneralizing rappers.
In regards to the individual Killer Mike, I think certain people are surprised his stance on guns is so firm and hasn’t changed in light of recent events.
Shut your Uncle Tom ass up. What kinda pud defends Fox News and the NRA when they despise people of your color. Your etchnicity is the very reason they push for guns so hard, feeling they need to defend themselves against real criminals. Fat, sell out ass. The only way you’re going hunting is if they bring the animals to you. Your ass would get winded putting your camo on.
Only thing I tell people is to look at the people who are pulling the strings behind this hole charade. You really think that any of these Super Wealthy people give a damn about politics, rights, or poor people? Poor people meaning those whose money has a highlighted number and net worth. Rich and powerful people don’t have names, addresses, nor number limits to their wealth. Think about that. Keep being distracted. Oh and Fat Mike played and got played. Dummy!!!
Holy hell lol, can’t believe how many people in the comments aren’t against gun rights. America raised a generation of soy boy pussies.
Also, what demographic exactly is the most violent in this nation Mike lol?
White people are the most violent of course. The media paints blacks as savages but truth is
White Savagness:
1. Destruction and displacement of Indians
2. Slavery
3. Jim Crow Laws
4. Systematic Racism and oppression throughout the years
5. Media propaganda that paints blacks are savages
We all know who the real AmeriKKKan savages are.
hey retard, u realize blacks commit about 50% of crimes every year yet only represent 13% of the population? you are black and you are fucking stupid. stfu retard.
Or more accurately, blacks and other minorities get ARRESTED and DETAINED which amounts to about 50% of the prison population. There is a significant difference. Crimes are committed at relatively the same rate. Arrests however are incredibly uneven. Especially regarding drugs, which what the majority of people are locked up for. The overwhelming majority of people in Jail are still AWAITING TRIAL. Meaning more than half of people sitting in those cells are potentially innocent despite being incarcerated. An important distinction to remember when making the BS claim of “blacks commit about 50% of crimes”.
You really need to read a world history book, rather than just American history. White people are not the only race in history to find a land and conquer it. As much as we all wish it hadn’t happened to violently, the idea that black people, Asians, or Arabs don’t have en equally violent history is plain ignorant. Africans used to (still do actually) go to war with rival tribes and the winners would enslave the entire village population of the losing side. Europe entered the African slave trade in the 1400s, after it had already been going on between Africa and the Middle East for hundreds of years. All European nations passed a resolution to end slavery in the 1700s, and then America had the Civil War to end it in the 1860s, effectively ending slavery in white owned nations. Meanwhile, slavery continued in various African countries legally until the last one made it illegal in the 1970s. But it still continues illegally in Sub Saharan Africa to the tune of an estimated 6 million people currently enslaved, with another 30 million in India. The idea that white people are the worst offenders of violent coercion in the history of the world is plain ignorant. That’s not at all to diminish the downright grotesque nature of what they did, but to generalize all white people as the most violent race is just inaccurate, they are probably the least foul offenders on a worldwide historical scale, contrary to popular belief in America.
this is what happens when you get you degree in jail
Why don’t you say why he said those words? Fake ass DX you’re just as much a fake ass bitch as Fox and CNN pushing a narrative instead of giving the facts. #FakeNews
If you need to defend yourself with an ar15 you are clearly in over your head or did something real bad. Sure knives and hammers and cars kill people but its the action of a person behind it. Everybody has the right to become a doctor but they dont just hand you a scalpel and say start cutting. Also guns dont kill people, bullets do. Maybe check who your giving ammo to and for what.
Killer Mike explained how the left equates gun control with progress and observed, “[They are] going to progress us into slavery.”
In the lead-up to the March 14 school walk out for gun control, Killer Mike said he told his kids, “I love you, but if you walk out that school walk out my house.”
“You can’t continue to be the lackey,” the Atlanta-based rapper and business owner said. “You’re a lackey of the progressive movement because you have never disagreed with the people who tell you what to do.”
“Celebrities often don’t know what to do. They’re told what to do,” Killer Mike said, explaining how a famous rapper, who’s a friend of his, felt pressured into doing an anti-gun promo. Killer Mike told his friend that he’s very pro-Second Amendment” and that it is about the children for him — after a shooting on his daughter’s college campus (Savannah State University); “I talked to my wife and daughter after that, the decision was we’re going to go to Savannah, she’s going to get a gun and train more.”
“We’re raising a generation of kids where everyone gets’ a trophy. But in real life, everyone doesn’t get a trophy,” Killer Mike said. “In real life, the cops don’t come on time.
NRA helped liberate black slaves. #Facts
hahaha Nope. Not a fact. Prove it using more than some meme you read on social.
Anyone who thinks these ‘gun violence restraining orders” they’re screaming for won’t be used to maliciously disarm blacks and the poor are clueless. Those restraining orders, the way the laws are being set up completely bypass due process. An officer can surreptitiously ask a judge for one without any prior interactions or notifications to the person who is being targeted. You have no knowledge of it until the police are actually at your door forcing their way in. And then after that the only way to contest it is to wait for a court date and when you get to court the burden of proof is on you, not the officer. And isn’t it weird that they accuse all these mass shooters of mental illness to take their guns but as soon as they end up on trial the prosecution rejects their insanity pleas so they can seek the death penalty. They’re doing it to that Parkland shooter right now. The state goes on national television to rant about how mentally ill the guy is, but then turn right around and announce they’re gonna go for the death penalty. So which is it insane or not? Or is this all a ploy so that the state can disarm non-criminals without having to go through due process? Every single time law enforcement demonstrates it’s systemic incompetence they just blame it on not having enough power to ignore people’s civil rights.
when innocent children lost their lives to gun violence not just in schools on city streets across America something needs to be done about assault rifles the NRA controls the republican party and they are to afraid to speak out but let one of their own get blown away by some derange coward wit assault rifle wit a bump stock on it, somethings I can agree wit killer Mike on but this one I disagree with him on, who knows the NRA could have paid him off? killer mike wants to go into politics and trust he is in a devil control music industry and we all know in order to rise in it you must take the oath im not buying his line of bull
That dyke kid really got you imbeciles wanting to appeal this gun law lmao. Responsible people shouldn’t have to suffer because of 1 idiot. All you gotta do is ban bump stocks and change the age requirement to 21. Stop blaming guns as the cause when you parents don’t even talk to your children to find out if they are mentally stable smh every government building is protected by armed police. Why are they guarded and children aren’t? When I went to high school I was able to skip everyday and nobody was guarding any doors and half the coaches were fucking the students. Clearly wasn’t a gun problem. It’s a security problem with cops sleeping on the job. Maybe we wouldn’t need guns if police did the job they were paid to do out of our tax dollars ??♂️
Thank God for people like Killer Mike. People need to wake up, first it will be the Ar-15, next it will be handguns, and pretty soon it will be all guns. Guns like the ar 15 are necessary to defend ourselves from a totalitarian like government. Controlling guns is not the solution. Mental health needs to be addressed now!!
Fam if you think your little gun collection is gonna be enough to hold back THE most powerful and technologically advanced military on the planet?…? ? ? Just stop yo. Stop the nonsense. You are propagating a false narrative.
I’d rather have them, then not have them when the time comes…
Alright. I’m willing to ignore your hypothetical Rambo scenario where you die in a blaze of bullets against the Feds. Paranoia aside, as a gun owner wouldn’t you be in support of stricter gun laws, so responsible gun owners like yourself aren’t lumped in with the crazies? Instead of taking such a simplistic view of “THEY’RE TAKING OUR GUNS AWAY?!” in favor of “Hell yea, make restrictions, because I have nothing to hide, I’ll pass any requirements, so that its easier to distinguish me from some nutball shooting up a kids school.”? Surely you don’t condone mass shootings right? YOU wouldn’t do that right? That’s what this debate is about. Stopping THEM. Not stopping YOU.
Salute. Killer Mike and DJ Paul too.
Everybody knows 90% of legal gun owners are old scared white men that fear a race war
Most illegal fire arms are in the hood and unaccounted for.
Its pretty simple
Guns dont kill people
People Kill People
Guns dont just randomly jump up and start going off guns need a human to make them operate. Im against all this school shooting shit also.
Im just sayin a gun is only as safe as the person who has it.
Jevvs want to take away the guns so they can finish their agenda of white genocide.
Man STFU and GTFOH with that bullshit conspiracy retarded shit
Killer Dike sold out. Blacks are victims of gun violence at a disproportionately high rate. And this fat greasy POS wants to side with the organization most responsible for making guns so easily accessible to any Tom, Dick & Harry?