Killer Mike has always been an absolute animal of a live rapper, and he’s usually done it with a minimal mic-plus-DJ setup. Last night on the Late Show With David Letterman, though, a full live band, including hook-singer Scar and Mike’s buddy El-P on button-mashing duty, turned up to help turn the R.A.P. Music track [...]

Artists join line-up for February 2013 shows

“Reagan” was the track on Killer Mike’s excellent El-P-produced album R.A.P. Music where Mike vented furious spleen at targets that included the last five presidents and Mike himself. The song now has an animated video that plays like a political paranoiac’s ecstatic fantasy, complete with giant killer rob...

One of the many, many highlights of Killer Mike’s El-P-produced album R.A.P. Music was “Anywhere But Here,” a tough and dystopian track that features the singer Emily Panic. There’s a new version of the song floating around today. This one is unchanged except with an added-on appearance from Chamillionaire...

In director Benjamin Dickinson‘s video for Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music track “Untitled,” Mike, hook singer Scar, and — in one memorable case — producer El-P reenact various famous works of art, most of which involve blood. I don’t know nearly as much about art history as I do a...