In late November, rapper Killer Mike of Run the Jewels gave Bernie Sanders a firey introduction before an Atlanta rally, telling the crowd, “I am here as a proponent for a political revolution.” On Tuesday, he released a six-part, highly watchable interview with Sanders, conducted after that rally in his barbershop, the SWAG Shop.
Sanders has had a difficult time, relative to Hillary Clinton, connecting with black voters; it’s most of what he’s been trying to do this week in Iowa. Some of the Killer Mike interviewed centered around Sanders’ activism history with civil rights.
“You organized with SNCC,” Mike said admiringly, referring to the Student Nonviolent Organizing Committee, one of the biggest civil rights groups in the ‘60s South, and the one that led lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides protesting bus segregation. “On some rap language, that’s some bomb shit.”