{"id":58354,"date":"2015-11-25T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=58354"},"modified":"2015-11-25T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:51:04","slug":"going-viral-rapper-killer-mike-delivers-fiery-endorsement-of-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/going-viral-rapper-killer-mike-delivers-fiery-endorsement-of-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"GOING VIRAL: Rapper Killer Mike Delivers Fiery Endorsement of Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

GEORGIA — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders<\/a> held a rally at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta with local leaders and hip-hop artist Killer Mike. (Scroll down for video)<\/p>\n

After meeting with the senator Monday at Atlanta\u2019s 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\u2019s run for president.<\/p>\n

BET News reports: “He took to the stage in Atlanta yesterday, but this time it wasn\u2019t with El-P and he wasn\u2019t performing the songs we\u2019ve come to love from Run the Jewels over the past few years. Instead, Mike \u2014 an Atlanta native \u2014 was there opening for the Senator and Democratic candidate as a speaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

But unlike other rappers who\u2019ve been called upon by higher politics to musically entertain those at a major rally, Mike was there to moralize everything he\u2019s been fighting for all these years.”<\/em><\/p>\n