Killer Mike
Killer Mike was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on April 20th, 1975 and is the Rapper. At the age of 48, Killer Mike biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Michael Santiago Render (born April 20, 1975), also known as Killer Mike, is an American rapper, actor, and activist.
He is the creator of Grind Time Official Records, which he introduced through the SMC and Fontana Distribution.
Mike made his outt's debut on "Snappin's Trappin" from OutKast's 2000 LP Stankonia, and later appeared on "The Whole World," a single from Outkast's greatest hits album "Big Boi and Dre Present...Outkast.
He has since released five full-length albums as a solo artist. Mike signed T.I., a fellow Atlanta-based rapper, in December 2008. Grand Hustle Records are available.
He first appeared on R.A.P. in 2012. El-P., an American rapper and producer, is the sole producer of music.
Killer Mike and El-P formed a pair in 2013 naming themselves Run the Jewels; the pair was signed to Fool's Gold Records and announced their self-titled debut in June of that year. Killer Mike is also known as a social and political activist, focusing on topics such as racial injustice, police brutality, and systemic racial profiling.
In addition to addressing issues of racial and police brutality in his music, he has given numerous lectures at colleges and universities, written about social justice issues for publications such as Billboard, and been the subject of televised and published interviews regarding police misconduct and race relations.
During Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, he was a strong and vocal endorser of Bernie Sanders and refused to help Hillary Clinton after Sanders left the field. In the films 20 Funerals, Idlewild, Baby Driver, and ATL, Killer Mike has been prominent.
In January 2019, Mike Hunter's Netflix documentary series Trigger Warning: Killer Mike premiered.
Early life
Michael Render was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 20, 1975, the son of a policeman father and a florist mother. Since his parents were young at the time of his birth, he was partly raised by his grandparents in Atlanta's Collier Heights neighborhood, and he will attend Douglass High School.
Personal life
In 2006, Mike married Shana, his wife. He has four children.
Career
In 1995, Killer Mike briefly attended Atlanta's Morehouse College, where he met producers The Beat Bullies and eventually Big Boi of Outkast. His music debut was a feature appearance on OutKast's "Snappin' & Trappin'" from the 2000 album Stankonia, followed by their 2001 single "The Whole World", which won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. He was featured on several other tracks that year, including "Poppin' Tags" from Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2.
In 2003, Killer Mike released his debut studio album, Monster, while being managed by Dayo Adebiyi and Al Thrash of Own Music. The album's lead single was "Akshon (Yeah!)", which featured OutKast on guest vocals. A remix of "Akshon (Yeah!)" was included on the soundtrack of EA Sports' video game Madden NFL 2004. The album's second single was "A.D.I.D.A.S.", featuring Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, which peaked at number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is Killer Mike's highest-charting single to date as a lead artist.
Following the release of his own material, he appeared on "Flip Flop Rock" and "Bust" on the Speakerboxx half of OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below double album. He also appeared on "Southern Takeover" with Pastor Troy on Chamillionaire's CD The Sound of Revenge. Killer Mike appeared alongside T.I. on the song "Never Scared" by Bone Crusher in his album AttenCHUN!. It peaked at #26 on the Hot 100, becoming Mike's second top 40 hit ("The Whole World" being the first). The song was also used on the Madden NFL 2004 game soundtrack and by the Atlanta Braves for their 2003 season.
What was to be his second album, Ghetto Extraordinary, had its release date pushed back several times due to disputes between Big Boi and Sony Records. Originally recorded in 2005, the album was eventually self-released as a mixtape in 2008.
Killer Mike's second official album, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind, was released on his own Grind Time Official label in 2006, followed by I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II in 2008.
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." T.I. later announced that he and Killer Mike had been in talks about bringing Mike to his Grand Hustle imprint on Atlantic, and Killer Mike confirmed that he had signed in December 2008. He released his fourth official album, PL3DGE, on Grand Hustle in 2011. His fifth album, R.A.P. Music, followed in 2012.
In 2013, Killer Mike announced that he was working to release two albums in 2014, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind IV and R.A.P. Music II, both of which were to feature production by EL-P. Although neither album was released as planned, 2013 and 2014 did see the release of two Run the Jewels albums, both collaborative efforts between Killer Mike and EL-P.
Killer Mike also announced in 2013 that his next solo album would be titled Elegant Elephant, a project he described as his "Moby Dick". He did not specify a timeline for its release.
Killer Mike was introduced to rapper/producer El-P by Cartoon Network executive Jason DeMarco in 2011. The following year, El-P produced Mike's album R.A.P. Music and guested on the song "Butane (Champion's Anthem)". That same year, Killer Mike guested on El-P's album Cancer 4 Cure. When R.A.P. Music and Cancer 4 Cure were released within weeks of each other, the two rappers decided to tour together. The success of the tour eventually led to the decision to record as a duo, which they named Run the Jewels.
Run the Jewels released a free eponymous album on June 26, 2013. The next year, on October 28, 2014, Run the Jewels released their second free album, Run the Jewels 2. On September 25, 2015, the duo released a re-recorded version of Run the Jewels 2 made entirely with cat sounds, titled Meow the Jewels. A third album, Run the Jewels 3, was released on December 24, 2016. Their fourth album, RTJ4, was released on June 3, 2020.
On July 4, 2022, Mike released a solo single, Run.