Atlanta rapper Killer Mike burst onto the scene as a musical scion of Outkast on 2000's space-age snare slapper "Snappin' and Trappin'". He launched a solo career in the mid-'00s, and 2006's roiling, organ-driven "That's Life" captured his approach: bold, confrontational, politically minded raps rooted in community. When Mike joined producer/rapper EL-P to form Run the Jewels in the early ‘10s, he found a complementary rhyme partner whose aggressive, distorted beats on cuts like "Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1" were a perfect match for his pointed bars and bald sense of humour.