GEORGIA — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta with local leaders and hip-hop artist Killer Mike. (Scroll down for video)
After meeting with the senator Monday at Atlanta’s Busy Bee Cafe in a conversation that reportedly lasted five hours, Killer Mike became the first in hip hop to throw his full-throttled support behind Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders’s run for president.
BET News reports: “He took to the stage in Atlanta yesterday, but this time it wasn’t with El-P and he wasn’t performing the songs we’ve come to love from Run the Jewels over the past few years. Instead, Mike — an Atlanta native — was there opening for the Senator and Democratic candidate as a speaker.
Killler Mike is known for his oratory, both in his music and on the front lines in Ferguson, among other communities stymied by racial injustice. Him being there and his endorsement only made sense for the type of agenda Sanders has pushed over the last 40 years as a mayor, U.S. Senator and now presidential candidate.
But unlike other rappers who’ve been called upon by higher politics to musically entertain those at a major rally, Mike was there to moralize everything he’s been fighting for all these years.”
