On June 26, Open Mike Eagle will release his follow-up to last year's amazing Rappers Will Die Of Natural Causes . It's called 4NML HSPTL and it features 14 new joints from the melodic West Coast spitter, who's currently in Uganda with Ras G . We're getting our first sampling of the album here in "Universe Man", which features like-minded rapper Serengeti and booming production from Awkward. You can stream "Universe Man" and the view the album's track listing below. [ via ] 1. Starz [...]
Today we are pleased to announce the premiere of Open Mike Eagle's new song, "Universe Man." The track features Chicago indie rapper Serengeti , and can be found on OME's forthcoming LP, 4NML HSPTL , which will be released on June 26th via Fake Four Inc. Open Mike Eagle is a South LA-based, independent hip-hop artist who has been labeled by the Los Angeles Times as, "one of LA's smartest young voices." He's a multitalented force finding a fit in both music and comedy, having performed numerous times at the world famous Upright Citizens Brigade Theater [...]
Open Mike Eagle est gentil. Pourquoi une telle affirmation ? Et bien tout simplement parce qu'il nous offre son EP « Rent Party Extension » dans son intégralité, une perle qu'il nomme « broke nerd theme musics « . Un premier titre produit par Hot Sugar (nouvel idole de la rédac'), le reste produit à chaque fois par quelqu'un de différent ( Alpha MC & Infinity Rock ). On a le droit au flow du rappeur sur des instruits entre 8bit, et electronica blindé de samples enfantins, le tout super [...]
Open Mike Eagle leaked the Memory Man Remix of "Exiled From The Getalong Gang" featuring MC Paul Barman, via Twitter .
Prolific spitter Open Mike Eagle just posted an awesome oddity to his Soundcloud today. Memory Man's remix of "Exiled From The Getalong Gang" finds MC Paul Barman and Mr. Eagle engaged in a decidedly adolescent squabble over girls and treehouses and all manner of unimportant things that seem of life-and-death consequence when you're young. The beat, a thick slab of clavinet-heavy robo-tronic funk, sputters along at a jaunty clip, and Barman's nasal, neurotic flow is a great counterpoint to Open Mike Eagle's smooth, laid-back delivery. The subject matter is silly but not goofy (well, [...]
A hard-hitting track from D.C MC Billy Woods that features lyrical guests Open Mike Eagle and MarQ Spekt. It's a non-album single that didn't make it onto Woods' latest album, History Will Absolve Me , unfortunately. Still, the track is crushing both sonically and emotionally. The topics are gritty, and the doom-bringing horn samples match the lyrical landscape perfectly. Enjoy! Check out our review for Woods' new album here .
Download: Open Mike Eagle- Rent Party Extension Los Angeles-based rapper Open Mike Eagle recently dropped a five-track EP that, like many of the best things in life, is free. Titled Rent Party Extension , the EP brings in a handful of features, including Milo, who put out the Loved Listed I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here last year, and Roots collaborator Hot Sugar . The release serves as an appetizer for the full-length that the MC is supposedly putting out [...]
Download: Open Mike Eagle - Rent Party Extension EP 1. 5ree Thinkers prod. Hot Sugar 2. Amped feat. Eagle Nebula prod. Alpha MC 3. Neighbor prod. Infinity Rock 4. Boss Fight feat. Milo 5. Rent Party Revolution (Taco Neck Remix) Rent Party Revolution is a song I wrote about and for all the folks I know with hyperactive minds that live in a world that isnt designed to inspire their potential. Its my story of growing up a "smart kid" and being led to believe that that [...]
Open Mike Eagle has an LP coming around in June, but he thought he'd surprise his fans with a slick 5-track EP called Rent Party Extension . Proclaiming it "broke nerd theme music", this fine piece of free music features Hot Sugar, Eagle Nebula, and Milo. Download the Rent Party Extension EP here . [ via ] More words from Open Mike Eagle: Rent Party Revolution is a song I wrote about and for all the folks I know with hyperactive minds that live in a world that isnt designed to [...]
Since his Mush debut Unapologetic Art Rap, Open Mike Eagle has made party music for people who hang out for the sole purpose of overanalyzing obscure things. It's a bigger demographic than you'd think. He's not operating exclusively in this channel, but a fair share of his material is a comfort blanket for nerds who get his reference to the Dinosaurs episode "The War on Pistachios". Open Mike Eagle, "Neighbor" With production by Hot Sugar, Alpha MC, Infinit...
Like listening to his albums, conversations with Open Mike Eagle tend to be enlightening, thought-provoking and pretty damn hilarious. The L.A.-based emcee is due for a big year: After headlining our Friday bonanza at Hidden House as part of the Desert Viper tour with Has-Lo, he'll head to Uganda for three weeks on a hip-hop education mission. Then he'll drop his third full-length album, 4NMLHSPTL ("It's the war on vowels," he says), in June. He discusses all this and then some in advance of Friday's rap spectacular with Has-Lo and [...]
Astro-traveling beat maestro Ras G and MC Open Mike Eagle are currently caught up in a pretty cool project with non-profit organizations J.U.i.C.E. and AGYA that will take them to Uganda to record a project with a few local musicians. The three-week exchange program would almost certainly yield some fascinating results, set to occur this May. You can learn more about the campaign as well as contribute here , stream the track "Warhorn" for free here via Soundcloud, and check out a live performance of the track below.
Live version of "Warhorn" by Ras G and Open Mike Eagle /////// Check out how you can support the completion of their project, to be recorded in Kampala, Uganda in May 2012 here: ////// http://www.stayclassy.org/even ts/juice-intl-hip-hop-artist-e xchange-w/agya-ug... /////// The Project J.U.i.C.E., a non-profit hip-hop arts organization in Los Angeles (www.rampartjuice.com), is proud to announce that we are partnering with Amagezi Germanyi Youth Association (AGYA) on an international hip-hop artist exchange program that will bring Los Angeles-based MC Open Mike Eagle, and Los Angeles-based beatmaker and Brainfeeder recording artist, Ras G, to work with Ugandan rapper Mon [...]
As the symbolist poet Coolio once averred: this is all the way live. Mike "The Admiral" Eagle and Ras G mash MPC hits with some soulful singing and rapping and we get war (with 25 percent more horns). This cut was done for the pair's putative trip to Uganda , which was fully bankrolled. Hence, the pair will travel to East Africa to teach a class on hip hop and record with Ugandan artists. The import of this sojourn could forever alter history and stop the continent from producing another Akon.* This is a cause for celebration. Blow the [...]
Here's two new remixes from Open Mike Eagles, "The Processional" remixed by Taco Neck & "Rapper Will Die of Natural Causes" remixed by MC Sole. Both originals off the Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes album. iTunes: Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes - Open Mike Eagle
The horns are pretty warm to approximate the feeling of "Frozen Sunlight." I'll presume the chill comes from the punchlines. Mike Eagle drops one of his more quote-worthy verses in recent memory, riffing on the Large Professor telling rappers not to say the year and the apathetic stares of Eliza Dusku and Zooey D (even though he doesn't know what they look like - in his head, they just look like girls named Chloe.) He rhymes "40 G's in debt from a Bachelor's diploma" with "I still can't believe they made a drug called Soma."This is why he is one [...]
Billy Woods leaks a new track "Frozen Sunlight" featuring Open Mike Eagle & MarQ Spekt, the Willie Green produced track will not be featured on his upcoming project.
I'm far from a professional show promoter – and the Valley is in very capable hands anyway – but a perk of writing this blog (inching ever closer to its seven-year anniversary in July) is getting to know some of the artists I admire – and, once a year or so, putting together a night with them to showcase what I haven't sufficiently described with words. It happened last February , and we're returning once again to Hidden House on April 27 for this year's venture with Open [...]
North Carolina producer L'Orange takes his turn at remixing Zilla Rocca's " Full Spectrum 2 ", with features from Has-Lo and Open Mike Eagle . Previous incarnations of this track were produced by Potholes favorites Dr. Quandary and Man Mantis , so there's some big shoes to fill here for the beatsmith, but L'Orange is nothing if not a slick, studious producer and the end result absolutely bangs. Opening and closing with 1940's era strings, perhaps a nod to Zilla Rocca's "noir-hop" aesthetic, and the main portion has thick, warm bass over an expertly [...]
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