Future Black History Month: Killer Mike's Crucial Voice

Fuse is once again celebrating an extended Black History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Black History before our very eyes. Today we've got Atlanta's/Run the Jewels' Killer Mike, who's been at this for more than 15 years but in the last few has become one of hip-hop's loudest voices for social action.

Debuting on the Outkast track "Snappin' & Trappin'" in 2000 and shortly after winning a GRAMMY for collaborating with the duo on "The Whole World," Mr. Michael Render dropped his first LP, Monster, in '03. In 2012, the year after part three of his I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind album series, Mike had Brooklyn producer/rapper/fellow born-in-1975-er El-P serve the beats for the entirety of R.A.P. Music, an acronym for Rebellious African People Music. It was far from his first political moment, but it was the first time we heard this: