During a Run the Jewels concert in St. Louis, the rapper cried as he slammed the jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown last summer.
- November 26, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Killer Mike continued showing support for Mike Brown's family after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson. The rapper expressed his outrage during a Run the Jewels concert at the Ready Room in St. Louis, only a few miles from Ferguson, hours after the decision was announced.
Mike got emotional as he delivered a four-minute speech before the show began. "No matter how much we do it, no matter how much we get s**t together, s**t comes along that kicks you on your a** and you don't feel like a champion, so tonight I got kicked on my a** when I listened to that prosecutor," the Atlanta rapper told the crowd.
"I gotta tell 'em: You motherfu**ers got me today. You kicked me on my a** because I have a 20-year-old son and I have 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them," he continued while holding back his tears.
"You motherfu**ers will not own tomorrow. We will not live in your fear, we will not accept your pain, we're not going to keep playing that race card 'cause we know you don't value my skin and we know you do value his," he added while pointing his partner El-P. "But you know what, we're friends, and nothing is gonna devalue that."
"It is not about race, it is not about class, it is not about color, it is about what they killed him for. It is about poverty, it is about greed, and it is about a war machine. It is us against the motherfu**ing machine!" he declared before starting the performance of "Run the Jewels".
Following Brown's death in summer, Mike talked about the tragedy in an Instagram post and in a Billboard op-ed in addition to in an interview with Brooke Baldwin on CNN.
