A performance by Run The Jewels at this year’s SXSW was briefly interrupted when a man rushed the stage and accosted the band. In video of the incident, the anonymous man aggressively stalks toward Run The Jewels’ Killer Mike and El-P during their set at the festival’s Spotify House.
As readers of this web site might know, though, Killer Mike isn’t just a talented rapper and fiery advocate for equality; he’s also a devoted student of martial arts and action movies. (This is a man whose response to the idea of putting a padlock in a pillowcase and beating a dude with it was, “It just reinvented the lock for me.”) So it’s not altogether surprising that the response from Killer Mike, El-P, and the Run The Jewels security team was to rush the interloper from the stage. The band then taunted the interrupter by leading the crowd in a chant of “fuck boy,” whatever that means. The gig then continued, sans further incident, with El-P later posting an apology for the interruption on his Twitter.
Anyway, you might want to add a new entry to your little book of pop-culture tips: Never play pool with someone named after a state, don’t let anyone whose name is an anagram for Dracula near your neck, and don’t mess with a guy with “Killer” right there in his self-chosen moniker.