Killer Mike

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Issue 159

I skipped breakfast the day I went to interview Killer Mike because we were meeting at midday and lunch was half mentioned the day before. We did not have lunch, unless you count half a bottle of bourbon as lunch, which I almost never do. Mike told me he only drinks with people he has a level of respect for, which I took as a massive compliment considering how sunburnt I was. And the fact that he’s been one of the best rappers in the world for the last 20 years, who this month puts his life story into his first solo album in 11 years, simply