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Footage from Killer Mike’s MIT lecture emerges online

Run The Jewels member delivered a lecture, titled ‘Race Relations in the U.S.’ on Friday 24th April

Footage from Killer Mike’s MIT lecture emerges online

This past weekend, Run The Jewels member Killer Mike was invited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to deliver a lecture, titled ‘Race Relations in the U.S.’

During the two-and-a-half hour discussion, Killer Mike highlighted issues with cultural appropriation, race relations in the music industry, as well as calling for more minority-owned record labels to challenge the majors. HITPmusic.com documented some of Killer Mike’s lecture, which is available to watch below.

As reported yesterday (Monday 27th April), Killer Mike was also invited to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on behalf of Huffington Post on Saturday evening, documenting his trip via social media. Read more on that here and watch the footage from Killer Mike’s MIT lecture below.

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