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Biography
 Rap music is often categorized as the Black CNN with its tales from the hood, true to life realism and poet laureate anchors. As artists continue to paint the pictures that create and shape their reality, Killer Mike looks to step to the forefront giving a voice to the often forgotten, with his latest Ghetto Extraordinary on Purple Ribbon/Sony Urban Music.
The Grammy Award winner, rhyming with seminal group Outkast on "The Whole World," picks up where his 2003 debut Monster left off. Many things changed for Killer Mike both personally and professionally in preparing to make Ghetto Extraordinary, and according to the southern-playa, being ghetto extraordinary is "about having nothing and doing everything with it."
A true home-town, team player, Killer Mike represents the south to the fullest on his latest installment. While his first album received a lot of great response due to its high energy, this time around, Killer "wanted to bring back the cool aesthetic to the south music. [Ghetto Extraordinary] speaks to southern hip hop culture in its purest form." As one of hip hops most articulate chroniclers, Killer Mike wants to give his fans music "that at the end of the day was relevant outside of who you imagined yourself to be as a hustler or player. I wanted to get to the grit of it."
The passionately written and produced disk contains purpose driven tracks that not only drive the listener to pay attention to what is being said, but to get crunk to as well. Over a fast paced synthesized drum pattern and rich horns, the first single, "My Chrome," produced by former Earthtones 3 duo Mr. DJ, featuring Outkast member and Purple Ribbon visionary Big Boi, let's us know that the party doesn't have to stop down in the A (Atlanta).
Inspired by the anthems of the east from his hip hop predecessors and peers, Killer Mike created "N***as Down South" featuring UGK member Bun B. "No matter where I go in the south, certain things are happening," proclaims Killer of his favorite song. "Dudes are really getting their money. They are really providing for their families. They really taking care of their elders. They really taking care of their kids. They really getting to it." As the beginning of the chorus states, "n***as down south stack cheese man," Killer Mike dedicates the ghetto street anthem to Pimp C, 8Ball/MJG, J Prince, 2 Live Crew and the other southern representatives who laid the foundation for the south to have a voice and recognition. "I made this record for all them towns that ain't from a major city in the south but they still taking care of their business."
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