Birth name Michael Eagle Name Open Eagle Years active 2004-present | Occupation(s) Rapper Also known as Mike Eagle Music group Thirsty Fish | |
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Origin Chicago, Illinois, United States Genres Alternative hip hop, Underground hip hop, Art rap Role Hip-hop artist · mikeeagle.net Record labels Hellfyre Club, Mello Music Group, Fake Four Inc., Mush Records Albums Dark Comedy, Unapologetic Art Rap, 4NML HSPTL, A Special Episode Of, Sir Rockabye Similar People Busdriver, Nocando, Has‑Lo, Milo, Zilla Rocca Profiles | ||
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Michael W. Eagle II (born November 14, 1980), better known by his stage name Open Mike Eagle, is an American alternative hip hop artist. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, he is now based in Los Angeles, California, where he is a member of the hip hop collective Project Blowed. He is also a member of Thirsty Fish and Swim Team.
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Style and influences
- Solo albums
- Collaboration albums
- Extended plays
- Singles
- Guest appearances
- Compilation appearances
- References
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Early life
Mike grew up in Chicago and lived with his grandparents until he was 13 at which point he moved in with his mother. He attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School and went on to Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he majored in psychology. There he became good friends with Hannibal Buress after being his resident adviser.
He did a year of grad school, but quickly moved to Los Angeles to live with his dad. He began working for AmeriCorps for six months before getting a job at a non-profit halfway house. As he continued to work odd jobs, Mike rapped as a hobby before discovering Project Blowed and then creating Thirsty Fish.
Career
In 2010, Open Mike Eagle released the first solo album, Unapologetic Art Rap, on Mush Records. The album features Nocando, Busdriver, and Serengeti. His second album, Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes, was released on Hellfyre Club in 2011. It features vocal contributions from P.O.S and MC Paul Barman. In 2012, Open Mike Eagle released the album, 4nml Hsptl, on Fake Four Inc. It is entirely produced by Awkward.
In 2012, he co-authored and participated in a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health that observed the locations of increased brain activity during freestyle rapping.
Open Mike Eagle, Dumbfoundead and Psychosiz make up the rap trio Thirsty Fish. They released the first album Testing the Waters in 2007 and the second album Watergate on Mush Records in 2011. All three members of Thirsty Fish are also co-founders of the battle crew Swim Team. In 2008, Swim Team released the mixtape Ocean's 11.
On June 13, 2014 & August 15, 2014, Mike Eagle appeared live on Ron and Fez show.
On April 18, 2017, Comedy Central announced they were greenlighting The New Negroes, a stand-up and musical series co-hosted by Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn.
Personal life
He met his wife Tiffany at a TransAfrica conference at UCLA and they have one son together. Mike also has a younger brother and sister.
Mike Eagle has expressed his appreciation for the Cartoon Network animated television series Adventure Time. In June 2015, Eagle along with John Moe, launched "Conversation Parade", a podcast in which the two discuss the show. The podcast has featured guests like Jeremy Shada (the voice of Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (the voice of Jake the Dog), Hynden Walch (the voice of Princess Bubblegum), and Adam Muto (the series' co-executive producer and showrunner), Kent Osborne (Adventure Time's head writer), Niki Yang (the voice of BMO and Lady Rainicorn), Olivia Olson (the voice of Marceline), Jesse Moynihan (former storyboard artist), Jessica DiCicco (the voice of Flame Princess), Elizabeth Ito (one of the show's supervising directors), and alternative country musician Neko Case. During the show's ninth season, he appeared in the episode "Son of Rap Bear", voicing a rapping gingerbread man.
More recently, Open Mike Eagle podcasts regularly on his podcast Secret Skin.
Mike Eagle also co-hosts the pro-wrestling podcast Tights and Fights with Hal Lublin and Danielle Radford on the Maximum Fun Network.
Style and influences
He has coined his own term for the style of some of his music, which he calls Art Rap. He has also stated that the alternative rock band, They Might Be Giants, is a major influence.