With a name like Killer Mike, you’d expect Michael Render would find it difficult to make friends, but his rap career to date has been built largely on partnerships. In 2003, he won a Grammy with his very first appearance on a single, guesting with his fellow Atlanta rappers Outkast.
That year, his major label solo album, Monster, sold unspectacularly next to another hip hop album released around the same time: 50 Cent’s nine-times platinum Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and he has fared better in the years since as half of the duo Run the Jewels with Jaime “El-P” Meline.
