#1230 - Killer Mike

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:00)

, we're in the building.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Four, three, two, one, boom. So I took a four and a half hour ride down to San Diego, because my friend Brendan was filming a Showtime special.

And it was Run The Jewels the entire way down and back.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:17)

Thank you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It was awesome.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:18)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Woo.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:20)

I wish I could work out as hard as people work out to our music.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Seriously, man.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:25)

I've lost 31 pounds, but I'd be 90 pounds out easy now.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

That was one of the things that I was saying. This is workout music.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:31)

Yeah, it is. It is. And Eldon and I are chubby as two fat little bears.

But.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Well, you were saying you lost 31 pounds.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:38)

Yeah, 31 down.

I may be picked up three over the holiday, but I'm on my path. I really am. Shouts out to Al Claiborne, who's from out here, who's a hell of a trainer. If I had his discipline, I'd already be 100 pounds down, but the goal is 100 in the next 18 months. You can do it. Yeah, I know.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

100%.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (0:54)

I mean, just eat bad and got lazy.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Yeah, but you know what, man? You could turn, it's one of those things where you just, if you could stick with it for 90 days, it'll become a part of your life.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (1:03)

Well, that's the goal. That's the goal. You know what I mean? And I'm about it. Cause I like meat, so I still get to eat meat, and I like green stuff, and I don't like salad dressing. So I think it's gonna be relatively easy for me.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Yeah, like olive oil and vinegar does not taste bad.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (1:17)

Bro, I don't even use that. Like when I have a salad, when my wife makes salad, she literally will make the salad. She may add a little goat cheese or not.

She'll throw some chicken or some steak on there. But if it's fruit in the salad, I don't need any salad dressing. Just throw some strawberries or some apples or something. Something to just give me that spry of juice and I'm good.

Now, if I could figure out doing that three to four times a day, versus the one meal I'm with my wife and then eating like trash in the studio, I'll be great.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

That's the problem is when the temptation rolls in, you see burgers and fries, you just go fuck it. You see a Coca-Cola.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (1:48)

Yeah, that really is it for me. I had to quit sodas.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

They're the worst.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (1:54)

Which brings me to Crip-A-Cola.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Yeah, so what is Crip-A-Cola? You gave me two bottles of it, but I wanted to keep it in the refrigerator. I want to enjoy it, and it's perfect temperature.

Michael Render (Killer Mike) (2:01)

Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, RC-Cola, anything with Cola, right, has probably killed more Americans than anything else in the world, right? So anything that's Cola, because Coca-Cola's provided tons of jobs in my hometown. I won't want to diss them. They might promote a concert of mine, right? But we know that sugary drinks aren't good for you. Right.

Yet we don't have an aversion to, we don't criminalize sugar. And my doctor literally told me, Michael, sugar is poison, right? I want you to work it out of your diet.

But these kids that are members of these little punk ass street fraternities, essentially gangs, we criminalize and villainize a bunch of teenagers who simply don't have anything to do. They don't have jobs, they don't have skills, they don't have organization, they don't have police athletic league like they used to, they don't have people engaging them in academics or sports the way they used to. So they just kind of, you know, mess off, fuck off. Sometimes fuck up and violence happens, right? If you could take those same kids with entrepreneurial spirit that'll sell you water on the side of a highway, and you add it to something the public already wants anyway, Cola, you create something like Cripple Cola and B-Pop.

And essentially what you're doing is creating the same sugary shit that we all go buy and drink and we shouldn't.