Shortly before he dropped his now critically-acclaimed I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind II [click to read], Killer Mike gave a very lengthy interview to HipHopDX [click to read]. But having always a lot to say (but always saying a lot), we couldn’t fit all of Mike’s statements into his DX feature piece.

So below are Killa Kill’s thoughts regarding the generational gap between the Civil Rights generation and the Hip Hop generation that has recently made headlines courtesy of Jesse Jackson [click to read], why black voters need to back Obama with the same fervor that women voters supported Hillary during the presidential primary season, and maybe most notably Mike shares his knowledge of scripture to explain the similarities between Obama and the Biblical prophet Aaron, as well as why if Jesus were walking the earth today he’d be in the trap.

Always insightful and sometimes controversial [click to view], Mike’s comments are always worth checking out.

On past [click to read] and present suggestions [as on “Pressure”] that black folks who don’t vote for Obama are essentially race traitors:

"Race traitors [are] the police who killed an innocent black man. That was what I called the black police who killed Sean Bell. I call them race traitors. [But with voters], you’re an American; you have the privilege to vote for any fucked up political candidate you’d like to vote for.

[But] when you sell people 40 years of we shall overcome – and I say sell because you got jobs out of this shit - do not get mad when they wake the fuck up and decide they overcame! Do not tell them what they have decided – [that] we have overcame…do not fuckin’ tell them we know better for you. Because we been in this struggle with you, muthafucka! We been suffering with you! We’ve suffered through bad policy from white and black politicians. We’ve suffered through this shit, and we believed everything you muthafuckas sold us. Our grandparents and parents bled blood for it, boycotted, integrating schools, [and] now once someone comes along and fulfills the fuckin’ prophecy, move the fuck on.

See that’s why God allowed Moses to get… The story of Moses is great for black people to study. We been studying the book of Job a long time – be patient, through all your suffering look to God…and that’s what we’ve done. Now, we’ve been talking the book of Moses; we’ve been talking coming out of Pharaoh's land. Okay, so if God made them run around for 40 years…for 40 years they was in the wilderness, they were dying off, the old people who were used to being slaves… Then you had a new generation of Israelites. You had a new generation that was ready to go into the promised land, and God told Moses you gonna see the promised land, but you’re not gon’ enter. Aaron is gon’ take them into the promised land. So what I’m saying is for all our Moses’, now that we’ve seen the promised land, like the good Dr. King told us – the greatest black man to walk the earth since Christ…like he told us, now that we’ve seen that, give Aaron… And I’m not saying Obama is Aaron, I’m saying the voice of the people is Aaron. You’re people are ready to be more than former slaves. You’re people are ready to be more than a romantic story for America’s progress. You’re people are ready to be a nation of people that decides for itself, that moves with their [own] economic dollar, they’re ready for productive change. Get with your people, or get out of they way.

And that’s [addressed] to my personal mentors. Anyone who knows Michael Render knows I’ve been mentored by the people I’m talking to! If you opened up my album cover you’ll read a dedication to Reverend James [inaudible], who was a lieutenant with Dr. King – right next to Hosea Williams, right next to Andrew Young, right next to Ralph David Abernathy, right next to these people. He was a grassroots organizer. He supported Obama. And he marched with King, so don’t tell me that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Because you’re at home watching TV clips, or you on blogville, [but] I know Andrew Young. I know John Lewis. [But] I don’t agree with [that] they chose to support [Hillary Clinton]. I knew James Orange – the late, great James Orange – and he supported Obama. I know Reverend Joseph Lowery, who also was a lieutenant with Dr. King. [And] he supports Obama. So don’t tell Killer Mike he wrong [for supporting Obama]."

On his remark from “I Gotcha” that “A black man can’t even run for president fair.”:

"I mean, c’mon man, if we had took our eyes off the television for one day you know they woulda gave that thing to Hillary, let’s not be naive. [And] I wrote [“I Gotcha”] when it was the thick of Hillary [saying], 'I’m not leaving.' I saw in one news broadcast, I saw them say, 'Women are going to come out and support Hillary.' And that’s a good thing, right? I heard the same people then say they felt it was wrong if blacks only voted for Obama because he’s black. And I’m thinking to myself: 'So women can vote their self interests but black people can’t?” Like, where’s the fairness in that? I see disparity, [but] I don’t see fairness in that. Continued on page 2 »