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Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints review – hard-won life lessons


The Run the Jewels rapper follows up last year’s Grammys-sweeping Michael with an album addressing a tumultuous few months

Earlier this year he won three rap Grammy awards – a clean sweep – for his most recent album, Michael(2023), a hard-hitting yet vulnerable romp around hot topics in southern Black masculinity. The internet was alight with outraged bafflement from younger rap fans, not at Killer Mike’s arrest, but wondering who the hell this random was, beating Travis Scott. We’re rarely not in church, giving praise for redemption and multiple chances – a residency that lends a little credence to the younger generation’s impatience with dad rap’s war stories.

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