"And she went as Marilyn, and what I had to understand from that experience was for her as a young woman, one of her first definitions of beauty are going to be these superstars. You didn't tell him to be Malcolm or Martin or Frederick.' And I just looked at her and said, 'I like the wig.' I gave it to her, and she turned and looked at me and she said, 'But Dad, Pony Boy is Freddy Krueger. "I gave her the litany of why you should want to be Zora Neale Hurston and Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. I'll never forget saying to my older daughter, 'Why do you want to go to a Halloween party as Marilyn Monroe? You couldn't think of another woman to be?' My daughters made me believe in a thing called karma. "I have four children, and I was a terror. I'm blessed to have grown to this point for a big reason, because I have a woman that has challenged me now and I have two daughters that challenge me constantly to rethink these things." I don't see women as lower class or lower than I see them as partners and equals, and that's beginning to come into fruition into my music. I can still be a bigoted, hard-headed, sexist man, but what I'm not is a misogynist.
I have matured as a man to understand where my suspicion of women comes from, and how that has everything to do with me and nothing to do with them. I have two daughters now that I'm trying to grow with - not just one daughter I'm trying to feed. "I have not done that at points, but I'm growing, I'm being somewhere else now. On celebrating women, especially in his song " Untitled"
What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because music was taken out of schools? What's more American than making something out of nothing? What's more gospel than rap music?" Gospel got secular and turned into blues, and blues got faster and became rock 'n' roll and became funk and became soul and R&B. But, in terms of the black people who were directly descended from Africa and brought here a few hundred years ago, that voice began in the fields as wailing, which turned into gospel.
"First of all, all humanity is from Africa, and i think we've been trained to put color on it.
You can hear a portion of the show's interview with Killer Mike at the audio link, but keep reading for more. "I said, 'Yo, i'm naming my next album that.' " "He just put it up randomly: 'Rap music is supposed to be Rebellious African People,' " Killer Mike told Morning Edition. The album's title isn't about hip-hop, per se, but refers to an acronym tweeted by another Georgian, a critic named Maurice Garland, two years ago. Music.Ītlanta rapper Michael Santiago Render, known professionally as Killer Mike, released his sixth album this month. Killer Mike's new album, his sixth, is called R.A.P.
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