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MH-049 Open Mike Eagle - Art Rap After Party  Art Rap After Party, the follow-up companion EP to Open Mike Eagle's Unapologetic Art Rap long player is an almost true story of a long night out (and the morning after repentance) told A Christmas Carol-style, with the rapper acting as your Ghost of After Parties Past. "Everybody's Birthday" details the humble beginnings of a long Los Angeles night; "Haircut" sees Mike chatting up the room; "Someplace Quiet" dredges up all-too-familiar memories of trying to get a new acquaintance to the 21st century's equivalent of Make Out Point; and "Four Years Old" ends with the MC inebriated to the point of slurring as he swills through a list of everything he has had to drink that night. The concept EP's morning after song, "Last Night" can best be summed-up by the line "Last night I said a whole bunch of dumb shit" - and who can't relate to that. Welcome to your life, young party people. Now to all a good night. |
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| One of Los Angeles’ smartest young voices - Los Angeles Times / I love this shit - Phat Friend / If you want a change in the hip-hop you’re listening to, get Art Rap After Party - AU Review / I’ve been playing the shit out this - UGSMAG / The EP has a lot of quality jammed into its 20 minutes - My Backpack Is Bigger Than Yours / Open Mike Eagle does the dirty work-- throwing Art-Rap after-parties so you don't have to - Whiskey Teeth |
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| Consider Open Mike Eagle’s “Art Rap After Party,” a sequel to the stellar “Unapologetic Art Rap,” the contemporary equivalent of Hieronymus Bosch painting an extravagantly bearded horde of hipsters. For the wry graduate of the Leimert Park open-mike workshop Project Blowed, hell is a subterranean landscape of shady self-promoters, snobs and trend-hopping dilettantes. And Eagle calls out every poseur on his new EP: name-droppers, people in biblical sandals, and girls with haircuts like Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Unlike many of the dull and didactic “conscious” types that plagued underground hip-hop for the last decade, Eagle has a lacerating wit, mocking the city where everyone, as he puts it, has their own clothing line, cupcake and Twitter update. An heir to the uncompromised complexity of Freestyle Fellowship and Busdriver, Eagle is a deft satirist — never heavy-handed and capable of striking clueless narcissists and subtle bigots. Eagle’s EP, released last week from Mush Records, not only ensures him an e-vite to the next scenester bash, it solidifies his spot as one of Los Angeles’ smartest young voices. - Los Angeles Times |
