The first time many of us heard about MIKE, we were listening to Earl Sweatshirt&#8217;s Some Rap Songs in 2018. On &#8220;Nowhere2go,&#8221; Earl raps, &#8220;I be with MIKE and Med, nowadays I be with Sage and sixpress?&#8221; At first I thought this was a throwaway line, perhaps referencing Mike G along with Medhane, Navy Blue,…

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