She knows who it is, and she’s not trying to blow up his spot. “She doesn’t say, ‘I love you, Killer Mike,’” he adds. I wanted it to be a moment of playfulness, where if you know the record, then you like it.” Hilfer points out that the wink is similar to the appearance of Killer Mike himself: They don’t call out his name in the scene. “That’s also the title of the episode - she’s lost her cousin, but it’s also the Nas lyric. “Because ‘ is the cousin of death,’” Mundy elaborates. In the scene, Killer Mike asks Ruth why she doesn’t sleep, and she simply replies, “You know.” He’s referring to a subtle salute to one of Nas’ most famous rap lines. “There’s a wink at the end of the scene,” Mundy explains in an interview from the writers room of a top-secret new project. The rapper sits at a table with his entourage, and the two opine about Nas after he asks what she’s listening to. Season four’s eighth episode, in which Killer Mike is featured, has a similarly violent arc - in the aftermath of her cousin Wyatt’s murder, Ruth sets out on a pilgrimage from the Ozarks to Chicago on a quest for revenge (listening to the bone-chilling, cinematic song “New York State of Mind” by Nas) and meets Mike during a break at a restaurant. (It played through the credits that rolled seconds after Navarro Cartel lawyer Helen Pierce met her shocking demise, receiving a bullet to the head from her own boss). Mike’s catalog is a favorite of both Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy, and the series’ music supervisor Gabe Hilfer, and his solo and group efforts have been featured on the show’s soundtrack multiple times throughout its five-year run - most notably, the Run the Jewels track “Oh La La” closing out season three’s high-octane finale.
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He’s a highly involved activist who always answers the call to hit the front lines and galvanize people (his 2019 documentary series Trigger Warning explored topics like the educational system and what he calls white-gang privilege). He’s also one of hip-hop’s most insightful and outspoken voices when it comes to social and political issues. The grammar slinger has since won Grammys with Outkast and solidified himself as a rap icon with critically acclaimed solo works (including official albums and underground mixtapes) as well as the highly lauded Run the Jewels discography. Killer Mike, whose real name is Michael Render, made his debut to the masses when his mentors, Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast, asked him to appear on their 2000 album Stankonia, which was a multiplatinum culture-shifter. There’s a lot of, ‘I might curse you out in the morning, and I’ll be nursing you back to health in the evening.'”
It takes a lot of what the Byrdes do: conversation. That’s on television, but in real life, marriage is not always easy. “ survive affairs, drug cartel hits, friends becoming enemies. “Marriages survive a lot of shit,” he says. Watching Ozark is a favorite downtime activity he and his wife have been loyal followers since season one, and relate most to lead characters Wendy (Laura Linney) and Marty (Jason Bateman) Byrde staying together even through the most dire of circumstances. Mike, an Atlanta native, has just returned from highly touted back-to-back stints at Coachella, performing alongside his Jewels partner EI-P, (he spent the time in between the weekends celebrating his 4/20 birthday with a big party in Los Angeles). 'Ozark' Boss, Jason Bateman and Laura Linney on Avoiding a "Junk Food" Ending and the "Choicefulness" of Final Episodes
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