Killer Mike, "Motherless" and "Don't Let The Devil"
Killer Mike dropped two emotional new videos that touch on the loss of his mother and grandmother – one for the previously released song "Don't Let the Devil" featuring El-P and thankugoodsir and another for "Motherless" ft. Eryn Allen Kane. The songs appear on his forthcoming album, MICHAEL, due out on June 16.
“When I first played Dion (No I.D.) the album he said two things—one of which was that I was essentially holding something back and that was the song ‘Motherless,’” Mike said in a statement. “It was the last song made for the album because I hadn’t uttered these words [“my momma dead”] out loud since her transitioning. When I tell the story of my mother the tales told include one when I walked in on her attempting to take her own life—it gets to the heart of how deeply sensitive an artist and human she was. She survived, was diagnosed bi-polar and depressed; she fought that until the day she died. She lived a beautifully rich outlaw of a life and I am honored to show her as the total beautiful badass she was.”
Watch below.
