Killer Mike Gets U.S. Senators Elected

K-Sera caught up with Killer Mike to talk about his activism to protect black art and black performers from having their lyrics used to convict them in court. Catch K Sera everyday 12-5pm on CADA.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Back it up. The best moments from the week on Cato.
This is me going in with Killer Mike talking about
Atlanta and the use of rap lyrics against artists in
court cases. Run it the white flag in the video
clip that represents where young thugs should have been. Obviously,
we're all purely aware of what's happening there the case.
What does it the white flag say?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It says protect black art. And what we have going
on in America right now is the First Amendment in
the United States Constitution promises you that the ability to
have free speech without yelling fire in a crowded theater.
You can't be so free of speech that you cause
other people to harm themselves that they're locked in a
in a small theater. You just yell fire. It's not one.

(00:43):
But if you have an opinion on the politics, if
you have an opinion, or you have a suggestion, or
you have something you wish to communicate to the world,
you are free to say that. And those things should
not be as an artist used against you if you
happen to be in a court of law. So I'll
give you an example. Right now as we speak, there's
a white woman in a mayor who was arrested and
locked up for killing her husband, and she also wrote

(01:05):
an article on how to kill your husband. In her
court case, the judge said, you cannot use this article
because this article is protected under freedom of speech. So
you're gonna have to find another way to convict this murder.
And what they did was they use her insurance claims
and things of that nature to convict her. But what
they could not use was the opinion, the art and
the article that she wrote. And what I'm saying is,

(01:27):
if that's fair for every American, including this white woman
who really did kill her husband, it has to be
inclusive of black artists who make up a world of artistry.
And in this world. Sometimes the world is perfect and
nothing's wrong. Sometimes this world is seeing in grimy, But
we create characters. Michael Rinder is a human being. He's
the child of an unconventional floorist and the police officer. Right,

(01:47):
but Killer Might is a superhero. Killer Mike fights badass
things going on and run the jewels. And yet when
I separate myself from that my art, I'm just a
naa of Tony Malik's and Mikey's dad. I'm shameless husband,
I'm you know what I mean. I wouldn't want Michael
to be convicted by the words of Killer Mike, who
is just a character I made up to using my art.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, absolutely, and I obviously we've seen what's happened with
Jay z And in New York and they've actually had
to get they've actually got some some legislation to stop that.
Is that coming anytime soon to Atlanta or the South.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, it's a representative I think, hey Johnson, and there's
another representative john also who I helped get elected at Georgia.
Their pastor protect the essentially protect rap Lyrics bill. They
put put it on on the floor recently. I think
it passed. Was about the past in which our First
Amendment rights to be protected. So I've been fighting this
fight with a guy named doctor Eric Nelson for a

(02:44):
few years now, and I'm gonna continue to do so because,
more so than the artists who have financial bathroom from
making for Creation Tour already have a fan base. By myself,
I think that this law is needed for kids that
are just rapping, for young men and women that are
in the country, in my country, expressing themselves, I think
that they need to know they have that protection, and

(03:04):
I think they need to know that there are people
on the other side of.

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