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open mic eagle

Open Mike Eagle

ICYMI is an acronym.

Original Edits

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OpenMikeEagle

Verse 1 - Open Mike Eagle
Button my uniform for this stupidness
if I wore a suit and a tie, I'd make a noose with it.
Kill me, kill me, kill me dead.
Spill my head juices open.
Choke me, fill me with lead. 
I won't even raise a limb 'cause I been afraid.
I walk like a zombie and I swim like a renegade.
Favorite nightmare is ten degrees centigrade.
I only know five songs and they're all Gucci's "Lemonade"!
I'm at a tender age when compared
to a dead rotten deer, when the shins get ensnared
and it dies in the trap, but the trap gets forgot
?I'm a god in a trap, and it snaps on the spot?
and the party people clap
till the gavel gets dropped
then we're all sentenced to eternal damnation.
All of us.
Especially you.

Hook - Stik
Ain't nothing promised in life but death and taxes.
No time to rest, stepping over the mattress.
best distractions, collecting protecting fractions.
Looking like success. Overdressed in the casket.
Feeling resurrected, blowing breath into ashes.
It's anybody's guess. Can't connect to the masses.
Felt it in my chest. Hope that I left established.
God directs the steps. Some suggest that he's absent.

Bridge-
Destruction is a habit, insatiable apetite,
can't see it how I see it, they only see black and white.

Verse 2 Tron-
 Whenever I contemplate late nights.
Thoughts flowing like condensate drain pipes.
Concentrate day lights.
Across a pattern of glass shards,
?scatter a wreckage a deck of cards?
my reflection don't play right.
Stack the checkers and check backstories
of facts of what they seem
cause you lack more informative means.
Act serious, carved into wax.
We write letters of light and end them with dark periods.

Verse 3 Kon Sci-
Yo it's hard to understand the dark dwellings of the heavens,
so we capture afterlife, demand an answer to the questions
of eternity- the source of a lifespan.
Indelible daydream, the course of my flight plans.
A glance at the ides even evaluate the sinister God,
Seein it forthright, comparable, clairvoyance to mortals
who talk fight, disposable chalk lines,
fatalities stares cold  
into the abyss of any man's soul.

Hook 2 - Stik

Devil's asking price - yet to be satisfied
Soul still intact, yet to be sacrificed
Ain't been living lavish but actually gratified
Hungry as a haitian with holes in my bag of rice
Destruction is a habit, insatiable apetite
How full is the glass, as it passes your sight
Can't see it how I see it, they only see black and white
while my grey matter splices all these fragments of light.
Gone.


L'Orange & Stik Figa - Decorated Silence (ft. Open Mike Eagle & MindsOne)

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Qualifiers by Open Mike Eagle was the first single off of DORNER VS TOOKIE out now!!
hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

OPEN MIKE EAGLE "Qualifiers Live from the Laundromat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2totiszy0ws

Open Mike Eagle: http://mikeeagle.net/

Open Mike Eagle - Qualifiers produced by Taco Neck

Bonus song off of Dorner Vs. Tookie featuring Jeremiah Jae (Warp/Black Jungle Squad)
out now!! hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

production and mixing: 
Jeremiah Jae
http://jeremiah-jae.com/

See Busdriver, milo and Open Mike Eagle in Minneapolis for the Midwest DVT release show Novemver 22nd first-avenue.com/event/2013/11/busdriver

Dorner vs. Tookie album release party at low End Theory 12/11/13
https://www.facebook.com/events/337369853073924/

Elephant In The Pressroom w/ Busdriver & Open Mike Eagle feat/prod. by Jeremiah Jae

The Fear

Steel Tipped Dove - Open Mike Eagle - A Horrible Realization About Babies

Barstool {ft. Open Mike Eagle}

Hot Sugar - Made Man EP - 08 Watermelon (feat. Open Mike Eagle)

RED WINE (FEAT. OPEN MIKE EAGLE) (PROD. AMAZE 88)

BONUS TRACK FROM THE UPCOMING UK/EURO EDITION OF RUN THE JEWELS.  PRODUCED BY EL-P, FEATURING THE LEGENDARY DJ QBERT.  

PRE ORDER AVAILABLE HERE http://bigdada.com/run-the-jewels/

RUN THE JEWELS "PEW PEW PEW(featuring DJ QBERT)"

Imagine if you will two foes locked in endless combat, each driving towards their destiny with every thrust, parry, and repost. I had the pleasure to score such an honorable goal. Forest is one level of many you'll encounter when you play the game, with the songs as a little bonus when you download. Check the link for all the platforms supported.

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Forest (from Nidhogg OST)

Another from the Nidhogg soundtrack. It's nice when an opportunity provides an excuse to try on other styles, but I'm also smiling when I can find a way through the labyrinth including some of where I've been. Clouds, I believe does just that in harkening back to my previous albums a bit. 

This song and all the others from the OST come with the game when you purchase.

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Clouds

DOWNLOAD DORNER VS. TOOKIE BY HELLFYRE CLUB
http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

ALSO COME TO SEE THE DORNER VS. TOOKIE US TOUR THIS SPRING
with BUSDRIVER, OPEN MIKE EAGLE, NOCANDO AND MILO

Tue 02-11	Fullerton, CA	The Slide Bar

Wed 02-12	Riverside	UCR

Thu 02-13		

Fri 02-14	        SF, CA	The Elbo Room

Sat 02-15	Ashland, OR	The Lounge South

Sun 02-16		

Mon 02-17	Seattle, WA	Crocodile

Tue 02-18	Portland, OR	Star Theatre

Wed 02-19	Boise, ID	Neuorlux

Thu 02-20	SLC, UT	Kilby Court

Fri 02-21	        Denver, CO	Marquis

Sat 02-22	Ft. Collins, CO	Road 34

Sun 02-23		

Mon 02-24	Kansas City, KS	The Riot Room

Tue 02-25	Milwaukee, WI	Mad Planet

Wed 02-26	Minneapolis, MN	7th Street Entry

Thu 02-27	Chicago, IL	Schubas Tavern

Fri 02-28	        Grand Rapids, MI	The Pyramid Scheme 

Sat 03-01	Cincinnati, OH	         Northside Tavern

Sun 03-02	Toronto, Canada	Lee's Palace

Mon 03-03	Montreal, Canada	ill Motore

Tue 03-04	Buffalo, NY	Dukes Hohemian Grove

Wed 03-05	Philly	The Barbary

Thu 03-06	NYC, NY	   Mercury Lounge

Fri 03-07	        Boston, MA	The Middle East

Sat 03-08	New Haven, CT	Stella Blues

Sun 03-09	DC	DC9

Mon 03-10	Charlotte, NC	     Snug Harbor

Tue 03-11	Atlanta, GA	The Masquerade

Wed 03-12		

Thu 03-13	SXSW	

Fri 03-14	        SXSW	

Sat 03-15	        SXSW	

Sun 03-16	SXSW	

Mon 03-17	ABQ, NM   TBA

Tue 03-18		

Wed 03-19	Phoenix, AZ	TBA

Thu 03-20	Tucson, AZ	Opti Club @ Congress

Fri 03-21	         LA, CA 	TBA






Honest(y) w/ milo, Open Mike Eagle, Nocando and Busdriver prod. by Riley Lake

Pink Mountaintops 'Get Back' out April 29, 2014 on Jagjaguwar. 

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Pink Mountaintops - "North Hollywood Microwaves" from 'Get Back' out April 29, 2014 on Jagjaguwar.

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Pink Mountaintops - North Hollywood Microwaves

I'm not much of one for a proper mash-up. It is usually a little too much the realm of others, but this was a challenge I couldn't pass up. All the songs that sprung to mind that used reversed drum sounds, a surprising selection I'm sure you'll agree, but more shocking is how they all work!

Soon I'll be doing more in a similar vein of known but switched to unknown places, check this link for the details.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/882207932/unwinnable-weekly

Reversed Drums Megamix

From the upcoming album "Dark Comedy," available June 10th from Mello Music Group.

ABOUT THE ALBUM:
One famous Oscar Wilde aphorism claimed: “if you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they’ll kill you.” Open Mike Eagle lacks the capacity to tell anything but the truth. In a nation that prizes self-aggrandizing buffoons and artful liars, morbid humor might be the sanest response—a tourniquet to stop the toxicity from spreading. 

If this sounds heavy, it’s probably because it is. Dark Comedy, the Mello Music debut from the critically revered Los Angeles rapper, is mostly about the failure of Karl Marx’s Proletariat Revolution. Yet its brilliance stems less from the novelty of its ideas than from the ingenuity of its wordplay, its caustic whimsy, and infectious melodies. 

Opening track “Dark Comedy Morning Show” operates as a shorthand manifesto. For those who haven’t heard, Eagle’s bad at sarcasm, so he works in absurdity (when trying not to wish death on the upper class). The airing of grievances includes racial stereotypes, inner-city warfare and Facebook logging all of his favorite sandwiches. It’s Slug’s “Modern Man’s Hustle” if the Atmosophere frontman had been haunted by James Baldwin’s ghost instead of heavily tattooed exes. 

Lead single “Qualifiers” finds Eagle subverting the notions of traditional rap braggadocio and lyrical terrain. His revolution isn’t just some abstract political ideals, but at the crux of his approach to art. This is intended to dump Coconut Water and whiskey on the unsuspecting heads of those with false ideas of authenticity or what rap should be.  

Lest you mistake him for a meditating yoga-panted rapper, the rapper raised on the Southside of Chicago, wields wordplay as sharp and weird as any of his peers. He proclaims himself “the King of all rappers who don’t condone date rape.” Molotov Cocktails are helpfully tossed from fellow conspirators Kool AD and comedian, Hannibal Burress.

Former hockey star Luc Robataille is rhymed with the Kobra Kai Dojo from Karate Kid. In the same breath, Eagle cracks about being too old to die. It’s absurdity in the sense that Joseph Heller deployed it in Catch 22. He will live forever or die in the attempt. 

If you’re just tuning into Eagle’s stellar career on album number four, the LA Weekly anointed him last year as the hottest thing in indie rap. Pitchfork called him a “whiz with matching easy-going hooks to intimate personal reflection.” But Dark Comedy could be the best thing he’s ever done—a record that captures the perennial struggle between art and commerce, the last half-century of widening class rift, and the need to be funny or die. 


Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy Morning Show (feat. Toy Light)

Snorlax described his remix as if in the game, instead of swords, they just threw flowers at each other, and the Nidhogg started singing a love song. I think that is very fitting indeed. Get the latest MAC version of the game just released! and his remix for free.

Mac version!

Clouds {Snorlax Remix)

Bassotronics   Bass, I Love You

“Something They Don’t Know” contains twenty four samples. We will send a free, one-of-kind, edition-of-one, Clipping t-shirt to the first fan who can name them all. (Note, this count does not include the samples from CLPPNG which appear in the scratch solo.)

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something they don't know (ft. sb the moor, nocando, open mike eagle, and cuts by baseck)

It's been an incredible year for Open Mike Eagle, first he signed a multi-album deal with Mello Music Group, then he released the critically acclaimed album "Dark Comedy," and after months of touring North America, he is off for his first ever European Tour.  Oh, and he has an incredible new podcast called "Secret Skin" that is on the Infinite Guests network of American Public Media.  Here's an end of the year reminder of why he should be on you radar: Late Show, produced by Exile, starring Open Mike Eagle (side note, this will appear on the annual Mello Music Group compilation out in early 2015).

Open Mike Eagle - "Dark Comedy Late Show" (prod. Exile)

from the upcoming "A Special Episode of" - EP (2/3)
prod. by lo-phi / mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner


Open Mike Eagle - Raps For When It's Just You And The Abyss

from the new Open Mike Eagle "A Special Episode of - EP"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-special-episode-ep/id961827159

produced by GOLD PANDA
vocals by OPEN MIKE EAGLE

"Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth"
Mello Music Group, 2015

Open Mike Eagle feat. Gold Panda - "Ziggy Starfish (Anti-Anxiety Raps)

Get Like Me Feat. Busdriver, Nietzsche Cortez, And Open Mike Eagle

De La Soul - Trying People

Open Mike Eagle - Cobra Commander feat Danny Brown prod Kenny Segal

The Kampala Blackouts EP was recorded over a two-week span in Kampala, Uganda in May of 2012. Featuring Los Angeles-based beatmaker and Brainfeeder recording artist, Ras G, and Los-Angeles-based Hellfyre Club recording artist, Open Mike Eagle, along with Ugandan rapper Mon MC, this project is the result of an international hip-hop exchange program between hip-hop non-profit J.U.i.C.E. (Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy) and AGYA (Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association), an NGO in Kampala, Uganda. * this project is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.
 
Tack Listing
Let it Go
Can’t Hide
Constant and Hopeful
AGYA House
The Good Guys
 
* All tracks produced by Ras G
* All tracks feature Open Mike Eagle and Mon MC + various MCs from Kampala, Uganda
* All tracks recorded in Kampala, Uganda by Samuel Bissaso at Blacksmith Records (Kampala, Uganda) 
* All tracks are the property of J.U.i.C.E. and licensed for free download