Glasses Malone was able to score a Kendrick Lamar feature on his politically-charged record, "Thuggin," and now it's become long-awaited first collaboration between K. Dot and Killer Mike. Ever since Lamar's "Killer Mike would be Platinum" line from "Hood Politics," rap fans have fantasized about the rappers working together, and "Thuggin" seems like a good place for the two emcees to overlap.
Mike takes the opportunity to call out a bunch of news personalities for their irresponsible skews of the headlines, tying in well with Kendrick's similarly skeptical bars. The track is set to appear on Malone's upcoming LP, GH2: Life Ain't Nuthin' But.
Quotable Lyrics:
I'm a thug, the conditions I'm living
It's got me condition for prison, the condition for killing
The condition that we put kids in, often poverty stricken
And even they're education becomes a pipeline to prison
Simply a tool used for mass incarceration
Call it the new plantation, call it new era slavery
Call the court system racist, call it just what it is
A plot and plan for paper that punish the poorest kids
O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Geraldo know what it is
But they be on that fuck boy shit, blaming your kids
Don Lemon too, Wolf Blitzer three
I often wish I can have a sit down
With every C and every B
And help them see we not enemies
And that includes fraternities with their college degree
I'm part drug kingpin mixed with Booker T
I'm whatever Blacks need me to be