Open Mike Eagle
With Sammus, Max Gomez, Kosha Dillz.
Emari Traffie
To say Open Mike Eagle is abstract doesn’t quite scratch the surface of this Chicago emcee’s style. On tour pushing his new album Brick Body Kids Still Daydream, Eagle has an uncanny knack for calmly rapping about heavy topics like race and celebrity worship over beats that sound like slow-tempo EDM. This isn’t surprising for a guy who calls his music “art rap.” Openers include Philadelphia-based feminist beatmaker/lyricist Sammus and Jewish recovered drug addict-turned-emcee Kosha Dillz.
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