Killer Mike chatted with Billboard’s Carl Lamarre on the red carpet of the 2024 BET Awards.
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00:00Billboard, Billboard, we are here with three-time Grammy Award winner, Mr. Killer Mike.
00:07How you doing man?
00:08We won three back in February, won 20 years ago, so hopefully we load up the shelf with
00:13some more man.
00:14I love that.
00:15We are here for Culture's Biggest Night.
00:17How do you feel to be at the BET Awards tonight?
00:18Very happy to be at the BET Awards.
00:20Black entertainment television has been instrumental in my life.
00:23I don't care if you talk about Teen Summit to 106 and Park, it's all made sense and it's
00:27all helped me as an artist, as a fan, connect closer to the artists I love and I'm just
00:31proud to be here and be nominated.
00:33It's crazy when you think about your album, Michael, man, and the acclaim that it got
00:36a year later looking back at that album.
00:39How do you feel about it?
00:40Oh man, I mean, we just getting going.
00:42It's a baseball season.
00:43It's a long, so with a year, people still discovering it for the first time.
00:47It's nominated for album of the year here.
00:49We're still dropping videos for it.
00:51I got some other cool stuff coming, so I'm from the days of OutKast where every two years
00:56man, they drop a record.
00:58Just know that I'm going back to work very soon on what's next.
01:01You know what I'm going to ask you, but Dad, are you going to go back to work, UNLP, Run
01:05the Jewels 5?
01:06Yeah, man, I want Run the Jewels 5 as bad as all of us do.
01:09I'm just waiting on my man to hit me and say, hey man, I'm sending some beats, let me know
01:13what you think because that's the way it always starts.
01:15He's traveling the world.
01:16He's going to UFO conferences.
01:18He's hopping islands and stuff, taking care of his puppies, but the minute we ready, and
01:22he sent me something last week I jumped on.
01:24It's not for RTJ5, but it's something that's dope.
01:27You know I'm ready to do it.
01:28I'm looking forward to that.
01:29Man of the hour, your brother, Atlanta representative, Mr. Usher Raymond.
01:34Usher!
01:35I'm so proud of him.
01:36Is in the building, so I've got to pose you this question, your favorite Usher record
01:39of all time?
01:40These are my confessions.
01:41That's it.
01:42Why confessions?
01:43Oh man, that's because every man been there.
01:46That is a fact!