The LA-based underground rap veteran Open Mike Eagle is extraordinarily good at making humorous, advanced, life-affirming rap information and at speaking about rap historical past on podcasts. The person works exhausting. Lower than a yr in the past, he launched his mixtape Part System With The Auto Reverse. At this time, he’s introduced plans to comply with that one with an album-length mission known as One other Triumph Of Ghetto Engineering, and he’s teamed up with a bunch of previous associates on first single “WFLD 32.”

Open Mike Eagle was school buddies with Hannibal Buress, the nice stand-up comedian and actor who just lately began releasing music beneath the title Eshu Tune. (I actually like his “Veneers” remix with Danny Brown and Paul Wall.) However Buress has been enjoying round with rap for a very long time, and he’s collaborated with Open Mike Eagle just a few instances; I’m an enormous fan of their 2014 monitor “Doug Stamper (Recommendation Raps).”

On “WFLD 32,” Open Mike Eagle trades verses with Hannibal Buress, rapping beneath his Eshu Tune alter-ego, and with OME’s longtime collaborators Nonetheless Rift and Video Dave. (Each of them have been on OME’s Madlib-produced monitor “Circuit Metropolis” final yr.) The monitor was produced by Kenny Segal, the person who just lately teamed up with billy woods for the really glorious Maps album. All of them sound casually nice collectively.

One other Triumph Of Ghetto Engineering additionally options appearances from underground rap greats Younger Zee and Blu. In a press launch, Open Mike Eagle says, “Within the ghetto, we by no means cease toiling! These songs are all fancy methods of claiming ‘fuck you’ to folks that ignore us and ‘thanks’ to folks that care if we reside or die! Pay shut consideration to the music titles! That is one other triumph of ghetto engineering! I took that cowl photograph. Thats my mama’s hand!” Under, try “WFLD 32,” the album’s tracklist, and Open Mike Eagle’s tour dates.

TRACKLIST:
01 “I bled on stage at first rave”
02 “BET’s rap metropolis” (Feat. Younger Zee)
03 “a brand new rap competition known as falling loud”
04 “the grand prize recreation on the bozo present” (Feat. Video Dave & Nonetheless Rift)
05 “we should always have made different floor a factor”
06 WFLD 32″ (Feat. Eshu Tune, Nonetheless Rift, & Video Dave)
07 “the wire s3 e1” (Feat. Blu)
08 “dave stated these are the liner notes”
09 “mad sufficient to goal a pyramid at you”

TOUR DATES:
8/16 – Lansing, MI @ Corridor 224
8/17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit Corridor
8/18 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Store
8/19 – Lexington, KY @ The Burl
8/20 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
8/21 – Asheville, NC @ The Gray Eagle
8/22 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Tavern
8/23 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
8/24 – Charleston, NC @ Music Farm
8/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Hell at The Masquerade
8/26 – Memphis, TN @ Growlers
8/27 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Corridor
8/29 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Observe
8/31 – Oklahoma Metropolis, OK @ Resident Head
9/01 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad

One other Triumph Of Ghetto Engineering is out 8/25 on Auto Reverse. Take a look at our We’ve Obtained A File On You interview with Hannibal Buress right here.