Michael “Killer Mike” Render has done everything from work with Outkast to touring the world. Fresh off of winning Best Rap Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards, he’s hitting the road for shows across North America and Europe this summer. While he’s showing no signs of slowing down musically, he has hinted at the possibility of pivoting into the world of politics at some point.
“When I’m done singing and dancing, I’m probably gonna do something. But I ain’t done singing and dancing for at least another decade. Winning these awards, I’m on tour right now, I’ll be in Canada for the next 10 days, then I’ll be in Europe for the rest of the summer, and I’ll be in America [in the] fall,” he told Audacy V-103’s Big Tigger.
“So I got a lot of work before I get to working on those polls.”
In the meantime, he’s encouraging others to vote. More specifically, he’s encouraging others to vote down the entire ballot.
“I’m gonna have my ballot in my hand,” he said.
“I’m gonna vote for who runs the land, but more importantly, I’m gonna be voting down. I think it’s important to understand that you know, no matter if you agree with every case she does or not, Fani Willis is gonna be fighting some tough competition. So you gonna have to say to yourself, ‘Man, do I want the person that I can talk to that I can get? Or do I want this hard-line Republican that’s running against her?’ I think that we have some people who really tried in terms of the preliminaries that didn’t get in, but they should be listened to on the ground… But I want to just say if there’s a local politician you like, get out and fight the fight for them, because on a local level we need to make sure that the people who are over us are who have our best interests at heart and are not simply toeing the line for the National Party.”
