Open Mike Eagle and Has Lo remember seeing you purchase your Juggaknots 12″ at the Fat Beats in 1997. You gave Percee P daps and told Babu that your flow was the illest. They remember you rocking Lugz, a Jansport, and a Rawkus Records t-shirt. You used to worship Talib Kweli and now he’s doing […]

Mike Eagle exists on the periphery. He’s part Low End Theory beat family, part Blowdian, part sarcastic Second City native.  He’s forever an outsider, a mindset that has helped shape him into one the sharpest, smartest, and funniest observers in the rap game. His satirical on-point perspective of the current rap scene comes fully fleshed […]

Jonah Bromwich is blaming everything on Jimmy Iovine. Danny Brown obviously deserves to be popular. He’s talented and has a performative personality that demands attention  — which would be worthless if not backed by said talent.  While everyone’s pleased that Brown is succeeding off merit, one of the nicest things about his rise has been […]

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 remains $2,000 short of being […]

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 […]

I was all set to do one of those sarcastic self-aggrandizing spiels where I use a ton of alliteration and make esoteric references to farm animals in the hopes of getting you to come to the Echoplex tonight. On second thought, I may have just done that. Thankfully, the the erudite Eagle has penned a […]

Dear Internet, Remember that one time when a bunch of you gave money to foot the bill for the weed carrier in Animal Collective to travel to Mali to play a concert and buy all sorts of exotic sandals. Well, this time I have an even better and less culturally noxious offer for you. Mike […]

Bug eyed monsters clutching swooning heroines. Grassy knolls and brazen adventurers. Blue Beatle butterflys. Murder scenes swept with neon green urgency before tops are turned Ron Burgundy. What’s a Golden Gopher to a taxiderm? Zen koans by Zilla Rocca. Skies stained the color of ash and Tiramisu. Tarnished crowns and lacquered hair. Gold not bronze. […]

I will probably scream until I’m Blu in the face that the Hellfyre Club deserve a fraction of the attention that other LA rappers receive. But it’s cool. I am as tired as you of rap writers getting agog that people will pay for Wale records but won’t support their personal favorite subterraneans (mine is […]

Untitled from MOCHILLA on Vimeo. File under: Thundercat funk, Gaslamp Killer ferocity, Flying Lotuses, Mochilla, and Beat Scene evangelism. Tangentially related: Mike Eagle is giving away this collaboration with Blowed Vet Gajah and Ellul for free. As with anything Eagle-related, you will probably want to hear it. Sponge feat. Open Mike Eagle & Ellul (prod. […]