Killer Mike released his debut album, Monster, in 2003. The album's lead single was "Akshon (Yeah!)", it featured OutKast on guest vocals, and was included on the soundtrack to the 2004 version of EA Sports popular video game Madden NFL. He even made a Madden '04 remix of "Akshon (Yeah!)" for the game. Following the release of his own material, he appeared on "Flip Flop Rock" and "Bust" on the Speakerboxx half of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. He also appeared on "Southern Takeover" with Pastor Troy on Chamillionaire's CD The Sound of Revenge. His second album "Ghetto Extraordinary" has had its release date pushed back several times due to disputes between Big Boi and Sony Records.
He collaborated with underground legendary producer and MC EL-P on his album R.A.P. Music in 2012. Mike and El-P went on to form the famous hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, releasing their debut self-titled album in 2013, RTJ2 in 2014, and RTJ3 in 2016, with RTJ4 planned for a release in 2019.
Killer Mike has also performed as a voice actor. He plays a rapper/actor, turned President of the United States, named Taqu'il in the Adult Swim cartoon Frisky Dingo. According to an article published in the June 2007 issue of XXL, Killer Mike addressed why he left the Purple Ribbon roster. He stated that he felt as if Purple Ribbon was the equivalent to the "Clippers," while he wanted to join the "Lakers."
Discography
Albums
Monster (2003)
I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind (2006)
I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II (2008)
Ghetto Extraordinary (2008)
Pl3dge (2011)
R.A.P. Music (2012)
Singles
* 2001: "The Whole World" (OutKast featuring Killer Mike)
* 2002: "Land of a Million Drums" (Outkast featuring Killer Mike & Sleepy Brown)
* 2003: "Akshon (Yeah!)" (featuring OutKast)
* 2003: "A.D.I.D.A.S." (featuring Big Boi & Sleepy Brown)
* 2003: "A.D.I.D.A.S. (Cool N Dre remix)" (featuring Jermaine Dupri & Amil) (promo only release)
* 2005: "My Chrome" (featuring Big Boi)
* 2006: "The Juggernaut"
* 2006: "That's Life"
* 2006: "All That Jizz" (as Ta'Quil; from the show Frisky Dingo)
* 2006: "Bad Day, Worst Day" (featuring Ice Cube)
* 2007: "My Chrome" (featuring Big Boi)
* 2007: "Get Em' Shawty" (featuring Bubba Sparxxx & Three 6 Mafia)
* 2007: "Blam Blam" (Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres Colon Soundtrack)
Appearances
* DarkBrown & Dru - "Ridin' Chevy's" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "Kryptonite (I'm On It)" (featuring Big Boi, Blackowned C-Bone, Killer Mike, and Rock D)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "Body Rock" (featuring Lil' Co, Killer Mike, and Donkey Boy)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "My Chrome" (featuring Big Boi & Killer Mike)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "Claremont Lounge" (featuring Bubba Sparxx, Killer Mike, and Coool Breeze)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "Ain't No Love" (Killer Mike freestyle)
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "Kryptonite (Remix)" (featuring Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Bubba Sparxxx, Remy Ma, Busta Rhymes, & Killer Mike)
* Bone Crusher - "It's On" (featuring Killer Mike & Trick Daddy)
* Bone Crusher - "Never Scared" (featuring Killer Mike & T.I.)
* Bubba Sparxxx - "Miss New Booty (Remix)" (featuring Big Boi & Killer Mike)
* Bubba Sparxxx - "Sinners" (feauring Killer Mike, Bone Crusher & David Banner)
* Kool G Rap - "Real OGs" - (Featuring Killer Mike & Bun B)
* Jay-Z - "Poppin' Tags" (featuring Big Boi, Killer Mike & Twista)
* Chamillionaire - "Southern Takeover" (featuring Pastor Troy & Killer Mike)
* Talib Kweli - "Tryin' to Breathe" (featuring Midi Mafia & Killer Mike)
* Lil' Jon - "Back Off Now" (featuring Killer Mike & Papa Roach)
* Lil' Jon - "Da Jump Off" (featuring Killer Mike & 404 Soldierz)
* 8 Ball & MJG - "Runnin Out of Bud" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack - "Blam Blam"
* Jagged Edge - "Pour Out A Little Liquor" (featuring Killer Mike & Sosa)
* Paul Wall - "Dat's What Dat Is" (featuring Bun B, Killer Mike & H.A.W.K.)
* Youngbloodz - "Hustle" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Gucci Mane - "Black Tee (Remix)" (featuring Killer Mike, Jody Breeze, Bun B, Lil Scrappy, & Young Jeezy)
* No Doubt - "Hey Baby (Remix)" (featuring Outkast & Killer Mike)
* Ying Yang Twins - "What The F***!" (featuring Killer Mike & Bone Crusher)
* Ras Kass - "Put Ya Glass Out" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Lil Flip - "We Ain't Playin" (featuring Killer Mike, Baby D, & Pastor Troy)
* Da Backwudz - "Gettin 2 It"
* DJ Kay Slay - "Coast 2 Coast Gangstas" (featuring Sauce Money, Killer Mike, Bun B, WC, Joe Budden & Hak Ditty)
* Roccett - "LA 2 ATL" (featuring Killer Mike)
* BPT - "Dragon Ballin" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Balboa - "Hard" (featuring Akon, Killer Mike & Jody Breeze)
* Kavious - "In The Yo" (featuring Killer Mike)
* M.O.P. - "Push Back" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Young Buck - "Welcome To The South (Remix)" (featuring Bun B, Killer Mike & David Banner)
* Stat Quo - "More Problems" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Big Boi - "Oh No" (featuring Killer Mike & Bubba Sparxxx)
* SL Jones - "Superhead" (featuring Killer Mike, Gangsta Boo & Nario)
* Sly & The Family Stone - "Runnin Away" (featuring Big Boi, Killer Mike & Sleepy Brown)
* Trina - "Look Back At Me" (featuring Killer Mike)
* Bun B- "Some Hoes" (featuring Chino XL, Killer Mike & Bulletproof)
* Rehab - "Sleeping Giant" (Feat. Killer Mike)
Blow
Killer Mike Lyrics
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Imma talk
Imma talk about 'em
Imma talk about 'em
Imma talk about 'em
God damn it dude!
I'm in to risk it
If a bitch is giving ranks
I'm giving lobotomy
If I'm a thin a hole
Woman, pardon me
I was talk to burps and pee
By sluts and freaks
I was breed in the gutter
And schooled in the streets
By murderers mother fuckers
That rots in keep
And I'm an unrefined savage
Stalking your city streets
And I'm plain blowing parlor
Hold 20 end street
And in the name of a dollar
I'll for go sleep
Fuck napping in the trap
There's snort and pee
In fact take it in reverence
Nigga fucking with me
The name Killer Mike
The hood AEV
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want 'em
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
She go gobbler, gabbler
Jenny the jizz, I'm the follower
Feed that bopper JMC
I've been here a holler
Rottweiler on the dick
Keep your bitch cuffed and collared
She'd then grass hopped
Every nigga and then baller
You the type who cut her grass
And then change the chick her tyre
I went to piss on a tong
If my mouth was on fire
Last night she gave me brains
Today she went on main
That dude giving hints
He don't even know it mate
Well anyway
God love children fools and lames
From the marathon
Man women comes in running games
Let sugar papa purchase Prada
I'm tryin' to get crown
Tap that ass and dip like tomorrow
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want 'em
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
More time for my niggas
Smoking kansas dicks
They'd be turning these
Mother fucking crumbs to bricks
Only Ocona and I got shits for six
Ready to make you blood
In them harlem tips mix
'Cuz that all we know
So what that's how I go
Imma to sweet for my toes
To get corners with you hoes
Damn folks Imma continue to
Smoking my dro drinking my liquor
Putting it down for all my niggas
And all my bitches go low
Get me all my witches plus smoke
Rocky he did hard core
Beat the score
That shit said Rocky did show
I gotta whip like Jonny Dip
So here's to continue flow
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want 'em
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down
Damn it get down with these boys
In these grounds
Slammin' doughs in eight town
We got what you want 'em
Exactly what you need
By the pound, that's straight
Mother fucking blown
So get it now bounce
The lyrics of Killer Mike's song Blow are a graphic depiction of his life growing up in the streets and the realities of urban poverty. He tells his story with rawness and explicit language, describing the various aspects of his life from drugs to women to violence. He talks about his past experiences of being bred in the gutter and educated in the streets by "murderers, motherfuckers that rot in keep." He openly admits to being an "unrefined savage" who walks the streets of the city and "plain blowing parlors."
Killer Mike's lyrics portray a man who is not afraid to admit to his past and who is not ashamed of where he comes from. He is proud of who he is and what he has done, and he doesn't shy away from telling his story in a brutally honest and graphic way. He acknowledges that not everyone may be able to handle his stories, but insists that those who can handle it should get down with him and his crew in the streets.
In conclusion, Killer Mike's song Blow is a blunt and unapologetic depiction of life in the streets. Through his lyrics, the rapper exposes the harsh realities of urban poverty and the struggles that he and those around him have faced. Despite the explicit language and graphic description of drugs, sex, and violence, the song reflects a raw honesty and authenticity that is rare in hip hop.
Line by Line Meaning
Imma talk about 'em
I'm going to speak about something or someone that I want to draw attention to.
Imma talk
I am going to speak with a purpose.
God damn it dude!
An exclamation of frustration or anger.
I'm into risk it
I'm willing to take risks for potential rewards.
Sex who hoes can swallow me
I have no respect for women, and see them only as sexual objects for my own pleasure.
If a bitch is giving ranks, I'm giving lobotomy
If a woman is asserting her power or authority, I will do everything in my power to take that away from her.
If I'm a thin a hole, woman, pardon me
If I come across as rude or disrespectful to women, I apologize.
I was talk to burps and pee, by sluts and freaks
I learned inappropriate behavior and language from people who lacked proper etiquette and moral character.
I was breed in the gutter, and schooled in the streets
I grew up in poverty and learned life lessons through experiences in dangerous environments like the streets.
By murderers mother fuckers, that rots in keep
I was influenced and taught by dangerous individuals who are serving time in prison.
And I'm an unrefined savage, stalking your city streets
I am a crude and uncivilized person who wanders the city streets without any purpose or direction.
And I'm plain blowing parlor, hold 20 end street
I am engaged in illegal activities such as selling drugs and making money by any means necessary.
And in the name of a dollar, I'll for go sleep
I am willing to sacrifice sleep and health for financial gain.
Fuck napping in the trap, there's snort and pee
I don't want to rest in a dangerous environment because there is a risk of drug use and dirty surroundings.
In fact take it in reverence, nigga fucking with me
Be respectful and cautious when interacting with me, because I am dangerous and won't hesitate to retaliate.
The name Killer Mike, the hood AEV
I am known as Killer Mike in my community, and represent the struggles and values of my neighborhood.
All I'm sayin' if you ain't down, damn it get down with these boys in these grounds
If you're not supportive of our group and our neighborhood, then get out of our way.
Slammin' doughs in eight town, we got what you want exactly what you need
We make a lot of money in our neighborhood and can provide whatever supplies you need.
By the pound, that's straight mother fucking blown, so get it now
We sell drugs and other illegal substances in bulk (by the pound), and we want to make sure you know we're serious about it and demand immediate action.
She go gobbler, gabbler, Jenny the jizz, I'm the follower
I have no respect for women and refer to them using crude and vulgar terms.
Feed that bopper JMC, I've been here a holler
Give that woman some drugs (JMC), because I have been looking for her.
Rottweiler on the dick, keep your bitch cuffed and collared
I am aggressive and possessive when it comes to women, and suggest that you keep them on a tight leash.
She'd then grass hopped every nigga and then baller
She would cheat on you with any other man who has more money or power.
You the type who cut her grass and then change the chick her tyre
You are the type of man who tries to impress women by performing mundane tasks for them, hoping to earn their affection.
I went to piss on a tong, if my mouth was on fire
I did something completely unnecessary (like urinate on a lamp post), and wouldn't care about the consequences even if they were painful.
Last night she gave me brains, today she went on main
She performed oral sex on me last night, and today she's out in public like normal.
That dude giving hints, he don't even know it mate
That guy is giving me clues (perhaps unknowingly) that I can use against him.
Well anyway, God love children fools and lames
Regardless of how we feel about each other or the world, we should remember that God loves us all (even those who are foolish or weak).
From the marathon, man women comes in running games
In life, people (both men and women) are always trying to outdo each other.
Let sugar papa purchase Prada, I'm tryin' to get crown
Let wealthy men buy fancy things for women, because I'm focused on achieving success and power for myself.
Tap that ass and dip like tomorrow, more time for my niggas
Have sex with a woman and then leave immediately, so that I can have more time for my friends.
Smoking kansas dicks, they'd be turning these mother fucking crumbs to bricks
We are smoking drugs and making a lot of money by selling them in our neighborhood.
Only Ocona and I got shits for six, ready to make you blood in them harlem tips mix
We are the only ones who have the high-quality drugs (Ocona), and we are ready to fight anyone who tries to take them from us.
'Cuz that all we know, so what that's how I go
We don't know anything else besides this lifestyle, so this is how we continue to act and behave.
Imma too sweet for my toes, to get corners with you hoes
I am too good for these women who are seeking attention from me.
Damn folks Imma continue to, smoking my dro drinking my liquor
I will continue to consume drugs and alcohol without any concern for my health or well-being (or anyone else's).
Putting it down for all my niggas, and all my bitches go low
I am representing my group and putting on a front (probably through drug dealing), while the women I associate with take on submissive roles.
Get me all my witches plus smoke, Rocky he did hardcore beat the score
Get me all of my female followers and drugs, because the rapper Rocky accomplished great things and I aspire to be like him.
That shit said Rocky did show, I gotta whip like Jonny Dip
Rocky had a successful concert, and I have a nice car like the actor Jonny Depp.
So here's to continue flow, so get it now bounce
Let's continue doing what we're doing (probably drug dealing), so make a move or get out of our way.
Writer(s): Reddick Nsilo Kharonde, Sherwood Nicholas W, Render Michael
Contributed by Caden A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Joel Johnson
on Reagan
BROOOO THIS SONG IS SO GOOD! I mean, it's catchy, so true, and also Ronald Reagan was an actor, not a real factor. #BlackLivesMatter. No one should be discriminated against because of their identity.