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B. Dot Miller

He argues this in the rooms where the culture is actually made. When Killer Mike told him Black people should go back to Ethiopia, he agreed, and then told him why.

Who he is

Brian "B. Dot" Miller. Music journalist and broadcaster. Co-host of the Rap Radar Podcast with Elliott Wilson, former Lead Music Correspondent for MTV News, and Senior Director of Editorial and Playlists at Epic Records. He has hosted Complex Brackets and New Joints Live!, and his name has been referenced in verse by Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle.

Also anchors session 6.4 of the learning path

Who he is

Brian "B. Dot" Miller co-hosts the Rap Radar Podcast, was MTV News' lead music correspondent, and runs editorial at Epic Records. Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle have said his name in songs.

He is not a scholar and this dossier will not pretend otherwise. He is the person in this archive who has this argument in the room where the culture is actually being made, across a table from artists whose records shape what a generation believes. Eight minutes, and most of them are useful.

What you are getting in this dossier

The exchange with Killer Mike, which is the reason he is in the film. His flat description of what people actually produce when you ask them for a source. The one-sentence geographic argument he leans on. And the place where he pushes back on a claim other people in this very archive make, which we have left in rather than tidy away.

Killer Mike

The whole dossier turns on this, and it is a masterclass in not taking the bait.

"I did an interview with Killer Mike in 2018 for the Rap Radar podcast, and he has this show on Netflix where he's talking about the image of Christ being a white man and things of that nature. And him and I got into a little debate about Christianity and its origins, and he's like, 'Well, Black people need to go back to Ethiopia.' I'm like, 'Yeah, you're right, because that's where Mark established his first church at.'"

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1,040 more words and 2 more clips of him making the case, including the three objections he answers and the place he refuses to flatter his own argument.

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Memes and Facebook statusesB-Dot Miller · 1:17 of interview
It was about color, not textureB-Dot Miller · 0:51 of interview
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