A.D. Amorosi Known for their ideals, activism, bleak humor and bruising sound, Run the Jewels — a.k.a. hip-hop veterans Killer Mike (Michael Render) and El-P (Jaime Meline) — were preparing for the June 5 release of “RTJ4,” when a white police officer killed an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, and America was set ablaze.
The murder of George Floyd, along with the recent slayings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the protests across the country and the world, have actually had an effect: Cities across the U.S.
are at least rethinking the structure of their police forces. Render jumped into the fray, appearing with fellow Atlanta natives Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and T.I.
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