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Open Mike Eagle is an alternative hip-hop artist from Chicago, U.S. formed in 2004. 42 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Hip-Hop · Chicago, U.S. · Best alternative hip-hop albums
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Unapologetic Art Rap
2010
Dark Comedy
2014
Art Rap After Party
2013
4NML HSPTL
2012
DOOMED!
2026
Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
2025
another triumph of ghetto engineering
2023
Component System with the Auto Reverse
2022
Anime, Trauma and Divorce
2020
The New Negroes (Season 1 Soundtrack)
2019
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
2017
Hella Personal Film Festival
2016
Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes
2011
Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Reissue)
2011
Premeditated Folly
2008
Unfinished Concrete Initials (feat. Hemlock Ernst)
Single · 2026
A Special Episode
EP · 2026
EGOH
Single · 2026
Instruction Manual Raps
Single · 2026
Ate the Tuning Fork While I Taxied in the Crepuscular
Single · 2025
Shame
Single · 2025
Went Off
Single · 2025
Contraband (the plug has bags of me)
Single · 2025
My co-worker Clark Kent's secret Black Box
Single · 2025
Candles Of Love (Open Mike Eagle Remix)
Single · 2024
Mushrooms & Acid
Single · 2024
Sir Rockabye
EP · 2024
WFLD 32
Single · 2023
Circuit City
Single · 2022
Multi Game Arcade Cabinet
Single · 2022
I'll Fight You
Single · 2022
Burner Account
Single · 2021
Bucciarati
Single · 2020
Death Parade
Single · 2020
I'm a Joestar (Black Power Fantasy)
Single · 2020
Headass (Idiot Shinji)
Single · 2020
The Edge of New Clothes
Single · 2019
Whiskey and Push-Ups
Single · 2019
No Snare
Single · 2018
What Happens When I Try to Relax
EP · 2018
Relatable (peak OME)
Single · 2018
I Rock
Single · 2010
A member of California's Project Blowed collective with a whip-smart sense of humor, rapper Open Mike Eagle was born Michael Eagle II in Chicago. It was at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale that the aspiring MC became an RA, and after he met Hannibal Buress, the resident advisor and student became fast friends. Grad school took him to the West Coast, where he joined the Project Blowed collective along with the group Thirsty Fish. In 2010, he went solo on Mush Records with Unapologetic Art Rap, an album that featured college bud Buress along with left-field MCs like Busdriver and Serengeti. Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes followed a year later on the Hellfyre label; then he collaborated with producer Awkward and issued 4NML HSPTL on Fake Four in 2012. The Mello Music group released the aptly titled Dark Comedy in 2014, the same year that Eagle submitted a track to The Ron and Fez Show, which the satellite radio talk show duo soon picked up as their theme song. He stuck with Mello for 2016's Hella Personal Film Festival, an album recorded with U.K. producer Paul White. Solo effort Brick Body Kids Still Daydream followed a year later, with EP What Happens When I Try to Re…