Rapper Killer Mike (left) listens as Bernie Sanders speaks during a roundtable meeting with local activist and community members December 23, 2015, in Chicago.
Rapper Killer Mike (left) listens as Bernie Sanders speaks during a roundtable meeting with local activist and community members December 23, 2015, in Chicago.
Joshua Lott/Getty

Story highlights

Killer Mike has been a prominent Sanders supporter

Sanders introduced the rap group in a video

CNN  — 

Bern the Jewels?

Before gracing the stage at the Coachella music festival in California on Saturday, the rap duo Run the Jewels received a video introduction from their preferred presidential candidate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“One of the highlights of running for president over the course of this last year has been getting to know Killer Mike,” the Democratic White House hopeful said. “El-P, keep up the great work and let’s get to know each other better in the months to come.”

Killer Mike, the Georgia native and Southern rap icon, has been a prominent Sanders supporter, speaking on the trail and interviewing the Vermont senator in Killer Mike’s barbershop.

El-P, a Brooklyn resident who raps and produces, has also expressed his support for Sanders.