Killer Mike gives details on three upcoming projects.
Killer Mike released his R.A.P. Music album last year, and is already gearing up for not one, but three more releases. One will be a follow-up to the just mentioned R.A.P. Music. The rapper also has plans on dropping the fourth installment in his I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind album series, and finally, he's working on The Elegant Elephant.
While talking to XXL Killer Mike spoke on each project. First he described I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind IV, which will have production from Harry Fraud and El-P. â[I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind IV] is gonna be what Pledge is â motivation music. Anybody whoâs listened to Pledge knows that,â Mike said. âIâm motivated to lose a little weight, so hopefully Iâll be smaller when Pledge IV comes out. The Pledge series has always been about setting goals; itâs been about dope music, but theyâve become almost like research papers with thesis statements. When started PL3DGE with âSo Gloriousâ â you know, âMy story is so glorious/Fat fly boy, young Notoriousâ â it was just my whole description of what I had been through, and Pledge II started with this speech that people loveâ¦and Pledge I was about leaving Purple Ribbon and leaving a major label and becoming this new thing on my own, so Pledge has always been about defining who I am at that moment and where me and my supporters can go togetherâ¦Pledge IV is gonna be more of that over bigger, deffer beats. Harry Fraud is gonna be on that, El-P is gonna be on that.â
Mike Bigga is planning to drop the Pledge IV in 2014, as well as R.A.P. Music II once again with collaborative producer El-P. Killer Mike remained more tight-lipped when discussing the latter album and The Elegant Elephant. He shared his plans for the creative process of R.A.P. Music, âFor R.A.P. Music II, me and El are gonna do shrooms, smoke weed and go back in a do it againâ he said.Â
As for the long-awaited The Elegant Elephant, the Atlanta native says, âFor The ElegantElephant, that is my Moby Dick. Iâm the captain of a ship on a fuckinâ boat chasing that whale. Iâm supposed to evolve into whatever The ElegantElephant is going to be, and I canât honestly tell you the sound, except for itâs going to be musical and itâs going to be big and itâs gonna be soulfulâ¦[but] Iâll definitely have R.A.P. Music II and Pledge IV finished and ready for 2014.â