{"id":345039,"date":"2011-03-28T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/killer-mike-pledges-allegiance-to-chuck-taylors\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:31:28","slug":"killer-mike-pledges-allegiance-to-chuck-taylors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/killer-mike-pledges-allegiance-to-chuck-taylors\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to Chuck Taylors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboombox.com\/2011\/03\/26\/killer-mike-pledges-allegiance-to-chuck-taylors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nTheboombox<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n Atlanta rapper and Adidas enthusiast Killer Mike is best known for his work with OutKast and his 2003 album &#8216;Monster.&#8217; After signing with T.I.&#8217;s Grand Hustle label, Mike made some changes to his name and began working with his hip-hop big brother, Big Boi.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper sat down with Spinner at SXSW to discuss his affinity for Chuck Taylors and his newest project &#8216;PL3DGE.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supporters still call me Killer Kill or Killer Mike. And that&#8217;s fine, but you know I do a lot of high-school work and I like to do work with &#8230; U.S. soldiers and stuff,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1731-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/148533.php\" title=\"Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to Chuck Taylors\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to Chuck Taylors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta rapper and Adidas enthusiast Killer Mike is best known for his work with OutKast and his 2003 album &#8216;Monster.&#8217; After signing with T.I.&#8217;s Grand Hustle label, Mike made some changes to his name and began working with his hip-hop big brother, Big Boi. The rapper sat down with Spinner at SXSW to discuss his affinity for Chuck Taylors and his newest project &#8216;PL3DGE.&#8217; &#8220;Supporters still call me Killer Kill or Killer Mike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to Chuck Taylors - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/killer-mike-pledges-allegiance-to-chuck-taylors\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Killer Mike Pledges Allegiance to Chuck Taylors - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta rapper and Adidas enthusiast Killer Mike is best known for his work with OutKast and his 2003 album &#039;Monster.&#039; After signing with T.I.&#039;s Grand Hustle label, Mike made some changes to his name and began working with his hip-hop big brother, Big Boi. 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