After winning three Grammys, including Best Rap Album for Michael, in February, Killer Mike was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. Last night, the rapper took home the BET Award for Album of the Year, and also dropped a new song addressing the arrest. ‘Humble Me’ arrives with a black-and-white music video, which you can check out below.
“Technically, I was not supposed to be here,” Killer Mike said during his Album of the Year acceptance speech at the BET Awards. “I was put in handcuffs, and I was marched out of this building, but I want to tell you, look at God because I’m back, baby! I’m back and I’m winning. I want to tell Black people that, because of BET, I’m back. Not ’cause of no white person calling nobody. A Black man runs this business, a Black company put this show on, and they got my Black ass back in here. Thank y’all.”
In a press release about the new song, Mike commented: “I was in the studio the very next day. I’m as inspired as ever and I’m just following the music at this point. All my heroes have been cuffed and mishandled in some way. I just thanked God in that moment of being Daniel in the lion’s den. I came out of the jailhouse in the pouring rain to my wife waiting for me, lit a joint, celebrated a bit and then woke up and got the news about my son’s kidney. I believe that humility and worship granted me God’s grace in the face of that test, and I believe my son receiving his kidney was a blessing from God.”
