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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

4th single off of "Dorner Vs. Tookie" out now!!
http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

produced by Busdriver
mixed by Riley Lake

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/

All Pastel Everything w/ Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle and milo prod. by Busdriver

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

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

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)

“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)

Watch The Throne

Otis (Album Version (Edited)) [feat. Otis Redding]

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)

produced by Driver
additional sounds on the chorus & bridge by 
Riley Lake and s.al
mixed by Kenny Segal
mastered by Driver

Get the "Unreleased Hits" single here: https://busdriver.lnk.to/UnreleasedHits

photo by Emari Traffie

BUSDRIVER - BlondeCurd

Jealousy Feat Open Mike Eagle

from the album "Hella Personal Film Festival"
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694?app=itunes

produced by Paul White
vocals by Open Mike Eagle
Shawn Lee: Drums, bass, guitars, keys, percussion & additional vocals.

artwork by Brad Beatson
Recorded at Office/Space Studios 
Shawn Lee's parts recorded by Pierre Duplan
Mastered by Daddy Kev @ Cosmic Zoo 

I chase my poison tail 
and get so high that voices fail. 
I heard that when you in a fucked up space no one can hear you signal help 
I tried to set 'em straight 
Tell them I self medicate 
All they saw's a glitchy video but then I never show my cards 
Instead I write for stealth 
blah blah blah I cry for help 
All this belly-aching's just to say my belly's hurtin after all 
It's all endorphins though 
Or maybe every Scorpio is predisposed to never feel as cold as the first time they felt a loss 

My addiction, my obsession, my admission, my rejection, I insisted, I accepted 
My prescription carried us away 
carried us away 

Pretend I didn't know who smoked up all the mistletoe 
you'd really be surprised how innovative I can get when left alone 
And once them cravings strike, 
I knew I should say goodnight 
Want for them endorphins got me saying everything except for that 
White knuckle rodeo and failing fills my holy holes 
Staring at my phone wondering how endorphins travel via screen 
As I feel my withdrawal 
I understand them 90's songs 
Rap music has ruined me, I always want to loop my favorite part 

day to day to day is ground zero I'm 20 years im 20 inches tall 
Today today my sky has fallen, I have no resolve 


My addiction, my obsession, my admission, my rejection, I insisted, I accepted 
My prescription carried me away 
carried me away

Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Admitting The Endorphin Addiction

the big homie Busdriver re-worked Nightmares into an electronic zombie ritual. 

Open Mike Eagle - Nightmares (Busdriver remix)

I’ve been offered an opportunity that I never could have imagined. 

I’ve been selected along with Brainfeeder artist Ras G to travel to the african nation of Uganda to teach a youth program about hip-hop and record a project with Ugandan rap artists.

The project was conceived and developed by LA hip-hop non-profit organization J.U.I.C.E. and has been partially funded by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. 

The grant, however, calls for matching funds. This means that they fund half of the overall budget for the project with the responsibility of the other half being on us. 

We began with a fundraising goal of $7,000. At the moment we’ve generated $1,200. We still have quite a bit of ground to cover.

We need any help that you could provide. 1 dollar, 5 dollars, 1,000 dollars. Each and every bit of assistance we get will help this once in a lifetime opportunity come to pass.

The song we’ve presented here is just an exercise in Ras and I putting something down. Its raps I wrote to a beat of his that I liked. We did this very quickly and I think it came out great. Whats in front of us tho, is the opportunity to visit another culture and and have experiences that could change our lives and help us make a project that could be a landmark in both of our careers.

Please help us and donate here:

http://www.stayclassy.org/events/juice-intl-hip-hop-artist-exchange-agya-uganda/e8079

Ras G & Open Mike Eagle - Warhorn

Download Veneris Nigrum: http://hellfyreclub.tumblr.com/post/13308521566

Open Mike Eagle - Nightmares (Busdriver Remix)

"Bangarang" is available now. Support on:
Itunes: http://smarturl.it/S_Bangarang
Beatport: http://bgbe.at/S_BangarangBeatport
Spotifty: http://bgbe.at/S_BangarangSpotify
Amazon: http://bgbe.at/S_BangarangAmazon

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Bangarang EP

Skrillex - Bangarang feat Sirah

produced by Awkward for our LP 4NML HSPTL. out on Fake Four Records 6.26.12

if youre afraid they might discover your backpack past
start trap rapping
do a bunch of coke
grow a handlebar
do some more coke
there are a hundred ways to cover your backpack past
do some heroin
start a bunch of bands
do some more coke and some more heroin


i know its hard out there for a dinosaur
what you collect all those rare vinyls for?
hall closet full of timbs and adidas stripes
all you needs slim jeans and a tee tonight,
cause you've seen the light
its a new regime
there's so much fresh shit in the music scene
and staying current means fuck what it used to be.
and what you used to like.
you can choose tonight.

cause its all today
its such an awesome day
at least that’s what the dolls and the bloggers say
and what the top 40 jockeys have the callers say
fuck a yesterday dawg throw it all away
fuck a yes yaller, the dj spins links in your web crawlers
the tumblr's called first church of the dead baller
its a dot net. is we hot yet?
jpeg banner is a platter full of hot sex
write think pieces all about context
write op-eds, in a mock neck
your favorite rap album hasn’t even dropped yet

if you’re afraid they might discover your backpack past
you can do some r&b
if you’re afraid they might discover your backpack past
just make it all about your falsetto

Has-Lo

you wear huge shirts
such big jeans
buy some skinny ones
get a fitted tee
mines whitewashed
and i got em torn
it’s street though,
i got boxers on
i done grown out of gangstarr and wu-tang
all the girls here only like gucci mane
i dont know em well
thats rare taste
you can ask em on dates
but they all flake
thats cool they got stuff to do
i don’t care anyway
im just trying to screw
step into the now
being such a prude
drink a forty ounce
thisll get you loose
love free love
never dated anyone more than three months
busy doing things
what’s more important
got a pair of mcflys and a pair of jordans
keep retros
cop on the first day cause i gotta have it
plaid shirt with the rosary im not a catholic
christ head made of wood reading op-eds
and a think-piece on my fav dot net

Open Mike Eagle - Your Back Pack Past feat Has Lo

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

PlaneCarBoat (feat. Schoolboy Q) (prod. Larry Dollaz)

Producer: Matthew "A.K.T. Aktion" Hammerton. 

Executive Producer: Zachary "Futuristic" Beck & Matthew "A.K.T. Aktion" Hammerton. 

Management: Ryan "The R" Matthews (Futuristic@TheRmusicGroup.com)

Recorded By: Matthew "A.K.T. Aktion" Hammerton 
at A.K.T. Studios Chandler, AZ. 

Mastered By: Sage Audio Nashville, TN.

Long Days Cold Nights (featuring SwizZz)

Dizzy Wright - Maintain feat. Joey Bada$$

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Dizzy Wright - Maintain feat. Joey Bada$$ (Prod by DJ Hoppa)

Open Mike Eagle - Password (tiny man raps)

Black Pegasus does it again! You have heard him do songs with Tech N9ne, Immortal Technique, & Krizz kaliko just to name a few. Now he teams up with Funk Volumes Super star Dizzy Wright to give yall a Hip Hop Classic! "Silly Of Me" Produced by Base Jase & Boonie Mayfield! ENJOY