At present acting on his headline North American tour, rapper Open Mike Eagle, returns together with his new single “my co-worker clark kent’s secret black field.” Produced by Okay-Nite13, the most recent providing from screenwriter, comic, and polymath follows the announcement of his forthcoming new album, Neighborhood Gods Limitless due this Friday through his personal label, Auto Reverse Information.
Past his profession as a musician, Mike has developed quite a lot of tv initiatives together with his Comedy Central present The New Negroes. Talking about that course of, Mike displays, “One venture I all the time come again to is an idea known as Darkish Comedy Tv. It’s a present a couple of cable community that may solely afford to be on the air for an hour every week so it has to suit its total slate of packages in that hour.” Impressed by dramas like Get Out or Sorry to Trouble You, that are tales that interact in massive conversations across the trauma of marginalized peoples, and later by the surrealism of Boots Riley’s I’m A Virgo, Mike started to develop Neighborhood Gods Limitless.
Mike continues, “The trauma on the heart of ‘Neighborhood Gods Limitless’ is mine. I used to be shattered as a youngster and I spent the vast majority of my life not realizing it. In my ignorance I’d go on to shatter myself even additional as a result of it was all I knew. This can be a story about how people who find themselves looking for themselves get confused after they encounter issues that remind them of themselves.”
In gentle of the cruel realities that new sequence usually face within the tv business, Mike determined to rework his idea into music, partly as a cathartic course of. As Mike says, “It felt good to make and generally TV forces you to desert belongings you’ve put your coronary heart into. If that had occurred with a venture round this specific subject material, it could have been unhealthy for my psychological well being.” The following album incorporates a gap theme, flashbacks, a climax and even some commercials.
Mike launches his tour in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, CA at this time, July 9 earlier than traversing the nation and culminating in an August sixteenth present in Washington, DC.