Killer Mike performed an arresting live version of ‘Motherless’, a tribute to the rapper’s late mother – check out the video below.The Atlanta rapper went on Jimmy Fallon last night (October 5) and brought Robert Glasper and vocalist Eryn Allen Kane to perform with him.
The song was dedicated to both Killer Mike’s mother, Druzella Denise Clonts, and Glasper’s mother, Kim Yvette Glasper.‘Motherless’ is taken off Killer Mike’s sixth solo studio album, ‘Michael‘, which was released September 15.
The album featured collaborations with guests such as André 3000, Young Thug, and Future.Clonts passed away in 2017; Killer Mike has previously opened up about the process of making the song for ‘Michael’. “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.
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