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"Open" Mike Eagle
Name: "Open" Mike Eagle
Age: 26
Hometown: Chicago!
Profession: Academic Center Site Coordinator by day, Professional Emcee, Event Promoter, Merchandise Pusher, and Husband by night
Crew: wow, where do I start? The OG crew is the Almighty PDX fam. Thats the outfit I came up in when I first began rapping in Chicago. I'm also down with the Nacrobats and the Project Blowed. I'm currently performing and recording in the Project Blowed Supergroup "Thirsty Fish".
Website: www.Mikeeagle.com, www.Projectblowed.com, www.myspace.com/thirstyfishmusic, www.myspace.com/openmikeeagle
Rapping since: 1996!
Releases: The Finger Booger EP, released in 2004
Featured on: Project Blowed for Dummies MixTape, N/A's That Was Now, Tommy Blak's Bedroom Sessions, Dumbfoundead's Super Barrio Bros., Lady DJ and the 4Real HOP All Stars, Flako7's The 7th Day Revolution
Influences: They Might Be Giants, King Missile, Frank Zappa, MF Doom, MC Paul Barman, and Breezely Brewin
One of your lines: "This is cancer of the hairline/ I'm a dancer in my spare time/ Passenger on an airline/ Thats allergic to airtime"
Independent vs. Major: Indy baby! I'm not selling my balls to anyone...lol
Studio vs. Stage: We don't live in an either/or universe. We live in an and/or universe. No Black and White, always shades of gray. Which is to say that I enjoy both.
Battles: I used to be heavy into the battling. Now, not so much. I haven't really flexed that muscle in a while and organized battles are wayyy more intense than they used to be. I battle midgets for raffle tickets, though.
Freestyles: like breathing. Its the easiest way to communicate with the other side. It causes all parts of the brain to light up at once. The only other thing that does that is porn.
Mcing: Is my favorite thing in the world to do for money. I've had some prettygood jobs. But I tend to be thinking of raps whenever I'm not rapping. Daydreaming isn't safe when you're working with other people's kids.
B-Boying: When I began my journey into hip-hop you had to be good in at least two of the four arts to get any respect. I was a rapper, a tagger, and a breaker. Me and my crew would spend at least two hours everyday busting our asses trying to do headspins in our high school gym. 11 years later, I can still style all over your arse.
Writing: I wasn't ever really very good at it, But I still made sure I got up on every train car that I ever rode to school. I was the worst kind of tagger, too. I was a scratch-bomber. Scrping my ugly tag into plexi-glass windows everywhere.
Djing: Tried it about four times and ruined every record I touched. Serato makes me wanna try it again, though. My MP3 collection puts people to shame.
Hip-Hop: Is either the soul's last attempt at genuine expression or the recording of the slow mass exodus of African people from this planet. Either way its equal parts beautiful and sad.
Internet: The internet beat the holy hell out of the era of hip-hop that I most enjoyed. If I had spent more time at Tower Records and less time on Napster, Morpheus, and Audiogalaxy, there might be more selection available in the hip-hop industry. Now all you got is coons.
Media: The media is a tool of the devil. They're all controlled by the annual meetings of the Bilderberger group in Austria. All printed stories contain hints of the Illuminati's eons old agenda. They're all poop. Except this magazine.
Politics: I'm gonna vote for Obama whether he's on the ballot or not. Because he's just black enough to make rural people panic. Hillary has a vagina so she's interesting, too. Actually voting is for jackasses. Whenever I'm dumb enough to vote, I wear my "I voted" sticker on my forehead all day. It keeps people from asking me important questions.
Love: kicks ass. I'm married and so should everyone else be. Now!
Sucks: Bad commercials, people who can't drive, republicans, child molestors, ugly fliers, bad comedians, mainstream rock music, ice fishing, fake Jamaican accents, Tom goes to Mayor, John Cena, Bobby Lashley, Dave Batista, Will Smith movies, and the armed forces.
Fans: keep the world in motion. One man's trash is another man's treasure. So I hold weekly rummage sales and await my customers with crossed fingers and nervous gas. Any artist appreciates genuine appreciation.
Travelling: is something that Scottish Rite and Prince Hall masons do well according to their pamphlets. I hear .22 caliber bullets are pretty good at it too. I hope to see every corner of the world once, I haven't found my way off this hemisphere yet, though.
Money: is a lie. Its all an illusion created by the Federal Reserve Board. They decide how much the dollar is worth and we concur. The trick is that the dollar isn't worth anything real. It used to represent US gold reserves and you could turn in your dollars at anytime for its gold equivalent. Now its not connected to any real calculation other than how mnay of them are in circulation at anytime (which they also control). Let's hurry this up, though. I gotta go to work in the morning.
Life: Is a temporary trapping of an eternal entity (the soul) in a perishable vessel. Hence all the anguish.
Drugs: This term must be further defined. Marijuana and caffeine should not be in the same category. One increases awareness and the other turns people into fiends. And not even a cool fiend like Dick Dastardly. Nope, no moustache twisting, just compulsive consumption.
Pain: is caused by temporary memory loss. Pain comes from loneliness and loneliness is the worst illusion ever performed by Adam Weishaupt. People only feel pain when they forget that we're all the same. That and when they hit themselves in the thumb with hammers.
Idols and Heroes: Frank Zappa, Frank Black, John Linnell, John Flansburgh, Prince Paul, Tom Robbins, David Bowie, Robert Anton Wilson, Kurt Vonngeut, Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Mitch Hedburg, all the black guys in TV on the Radio, and John S. Hall
5 Favourite Rap songs:
1. Tribe Called Quest "God Lives Through"
2. Busta Rhymes "Woo-Hah Remix"
3. Freestyle Fellowship "Can You Find the Level of Difficulty in this?"
4. De LA Soul "Long Island Degrees"
5. Open Mike Eagle "Illuminati Blues"
5 Favourite Rap albums:
1. Tribe "Midnight Marauders"
2. De La "Stakes is High"
3. Aceyalone "All Balls Don't Bounce"
4. Common "Like Water for Chocolate"
5. Ol Dirty Bastard "Return to the 36 Chambers"
Top 5 songs of any music genre:
1. They Might Be Giants "Tiny Doctors"
2. They Might Be Giants "Birdhouse in your Soul"
3. Frank Zappa "Lets Make the Water Turn Black"
4. TV on the Radio "A Method"
5. David Bowie "We are the Dead"
Top 5 Lps of any music genre:
1. TMBG – Flood
2. King Missile – The Way to Salvation
3. The Breeders- The Last Splash
4. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
5. XTC – Apple Venus
Favorite drink: Smoothies!
Favourite food: Indian
Favourite sneakers: Pumas
Favourite movies, actors:
1. Magnolia
2. Waking Life
3. Memento
4. Barton Fink
5. I Heart Huckabees
1. Steve Buscemi
2. William H. Macy
3. Bill Murray
4. Kevin Spacey
5. Steve Carell
Favourite sports, players: Football, Wrestling
Future projects: Thirsty Fish w/ Dumbfoundead, and Psychosiz. My next solo LP "The Meditation Hustle". Another solo EP with Energiaporvida
Advice: Remember to breathe and don't shit where you eat.
Shout outs and props: -
