open mike eagle

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)

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

Charles Vann a.k.a. SelfSays, hails from Detroit, MI. A truly original MC hailing from the city of Detroit, SelfSays, has always kept good musical company. You need only check the production list of his self-released 1st E.P. “Something Out of Nothing”, to know that his eye for talent is sharp and years ahead of its time.

On this single he brings together another wonderful group of up and coming talent: Open Mike Eagle (Chicago, L.A.) on the MIC, Doc Illingsworth (Detroit) rocking the MIC and the music, & Raj Mahal (Detroit, Chicago) and SelfSays himself, rounding out the production roster. But it is truly SelfSays lyrical content and cadence that set off this release.

He was recently featured as the lone MC on the song “Rollercoaster” off of the debut LP “Let It Go” by HouseShoes. He just finished a short trip to Europe with Shigeto (Ghostly) and has shared the stage with Shabazz Palaces, Muxmool, DoomTree & Guilty Simpson among others. He is currently working on his 1st release, for the London-based label Earnest Endeavors, in the form of a 12”. 

Tracklisting:

Side A: 
1)“Not Another Video Game Song” ft. Open Mike Eagle (prod. by Doc Illingsworth)

Side B: 
2) “They Shootin” ft. Doc Illingsworth (prod. by Raj Mahal) 
3) “One For My Cuz” prod. by SelfSays
 
http://www.fatbeats.com/collections/frontpage/products/self-says-not-another-video-game-song-b-w-they-shootin-yellow-7

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