Killer Mike has addressed the feedback made by streamer Kai Cenat after the rapper gained Finest Rap Album at this 12 months’s Grammy Awards.
On February 4, the Atlantan took dwelling three Grammys, together with the aforementioned award for final 12 months’s critically lauded ‘Michael’ album. He gained over different commercially profitable information reminiscent of Travis Scott‘s ‘UTOPIA‘, Drake and 21 Savage‘s debut collaborative LP ‘Her Loss‘ and Metro Boomin‘s star-studded ‘Heroes & Villians’.
Cenat was livestreaming his response to the Grammys and when Mike gained Finest Rap Album, he stated: “Who determined this motherfucker? Who the fuck determined this motherfucker [over] ‘Her Loss’? ‘Utopia’? Metro Boomin?”
Kai Cenat’s response to Killer Mike profitable the Grammy over UTOPIA 😭 pic.twitter.com/Wii0Z1Yf2y
— TRAVIS SCOTT FAN PAGE (@RodeoTheAlbum) February 5, 2024
Whereas showing on The Breakfast Membership radio present final Wednesday (February 14), Mike joked concerning the 22-year-old’s transient rant: “Don’t be afraid to personal it. Like I made the most effective rap album final 12 months. I do know my man Kai was upset, man.”
He then immediately addressed Cenat, saying: “Hey man, I didn’t know who the fuck you was both. However hear, now that I do know my n****, let me deliver a brush via ya room, participant! See if we are able to put it collectively. I wanna see you win. I wanna see it occur. I’m sorry your boy didn’t get it – nicely no I’m not as a result of I gained.
“I’m simply right here to inform Kai, as you develop – since you’re a pacesetter. You’ll lead a group, you bought a bunch of cash now,” he added earlier than stating that the report can be extra relatable for the younger streamer later in his life. “As you develop into your management, this album’s gonna be increasingly more related to you. As you matriculate extra into maturity, since you’re a younger man, this album is gonna imply increasingly more to you.”
On the 2024 Grammy ceremony, Mike gained Finest Rap Track and Finest Rap Efficiency for ‘Scientists & Engineers’ – his collaboration with Eryn Allen Kane, Future and Andre 3000 from ‘Michael’. Afterwards, he was arrested for an alleged bodily altercation contained in the occasion venue and booked on a cost of misdemeanour battery. Mike was launched the subsequent day.
Mike sat down with NME to speak concerning the album to which he revealed the report was the primary of an album trilogy. When requested how lengthy followers can count on to attend for the opposite instalments, he informed NME: “I’m not gonna wait 10 years – I’ll be again to work in about 60 days. I need to march into the Grammys and march out with a trophy or two. We’ll see how that goes. However it doesn’t matter what occurs, I’ll be again to work earlier than the top of the 12 months.”
The Run The Jewels rapper additional defined at a panel speak curated by Apple Music final weekend that he desires to “lower deeper” and that he “simply wanna work and create artworks that’ll be round lengthy after I’m gone.” Watch the total reply under.
Mike didn’t verify any plans or launch dates for the opposite two instalments within the ‘Michael’ franchise.