Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime. The Chicago-born hip-hop artist’s mix ...

The rapper Open Mike Eagle knows how to start from scratch. After a run of unimpeachable, cerebral albums in the 2010s and bubbling momentum, Eagle experienced a catastrophic year in 2019. The ...

When I open my Zoom conversation with Brooklyn-born, LA-based MC Radamiz, he’s a one-week newlywed, and Lightman, his first full-length LP in six years, had just dropped. It’s a momentous time for him ...

What might you do if your phone got destroyed? Debilitating as that sounds for any of us, Open Mike Eagle found it all the more soul crushing. That’s because his device was full of notes and audio ...

We're a few days away from the release of James Gunn's new Superman movie, which means that a whole new generation will now get a chance to contemplate the question of how the fuck nobody can figure ...

It has been 15 years since Open Mike Eagle declared he had seen the future on his debut solo record, 2010’s Unapologetic Art Rap, before warning: “If my premonition’s right, this is a demolition site.