Dark Comedy, by Open Mike Eagle

Dark Comedy

by Open Mike Eagle

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Bingo Clamshell idk, the whole album I guess...? As a white man just the whole thing... I feel like everything keeps making me want to say something and also shut up at the same time... I just... don't know... I love OME and everyone else. I wish life wasn't so hard for everyone involved

Robert Bloemkolk It's true. It's a rap masterpiece. And funny as hell. Favorite track: Informations feat. Kool A.D. (of Das Racist).

Miles Lamborghini You're so fucking dope and Very Much Money is such a powerful song, radical love Favorite track: Very Much Money (Ice King Dream).

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1.	Dark Comedy Morning Show (feat. Toy Light) 03:23	info	buy track
2.	Qualifiers 03:31	info	buy track
3.	Thirsty Ego Raps 03:50	info	buy track
4.	Golden Age Raps 02:53	info	buy track
5.	Very Much Money (Ice King Dream) 03:34	lyrics	buy track
(chorus) my friends are superheroes none of us have very much money tho they can fly, run fast, read Portuguese, none of us have very much money tho, they know judo and yoga, photography, politics, some of them leap over buildings, writers, magicians, comedians, astronauts, none of it mattered when niggas was hungry
6.	Doug Stamper (Advice Raps) (feat. Hannibal Buress) 04:48	info	buy track
7.	Jon Lovitz (Fantasy Booking Yarn) 02:22	info	buy track
8.	Idaho 03:56	info	buy track
9.	Sadface Penance Raps 01:26	info	buy track
10.	A History of Modern Dance 03:41	info	buy track
11.	Deathmate Black 04:09	info	buy track
12.	Informations feat. Kool A.D. (of Das Racist) 03:45	info	buy track
13.	Big Pretty Bridges (3 Days off in Albuquerque) (free) 03:15	info	download

about

One famous Oscar Wilde aphorism claimed: "if you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they'll kill you." Open Mike Eagle lacks the capacity to tell anything but the truth. In a nation that prizes self-aggrandizing buffoons and artful liars, morbid humor might be the sanest response-a tourniquet to stop the toxicity from spreading.

If this sounds heavy, it's probably because it is. Dark Comedy, the Mello Music debut from the critically revered Los Angeles rapper, is mostly about the failure of Karl Marx's Proletariat Revolution. Yet its brilliance stems less from the novelty of its ideas than from the ingenuity of its wordplay, its caustic whimsy, and infectious melodies.

Opening track "Dark Comedy Morning Show" operates as a shorthand manifesto. For those who haven't heard, Eagle's bad at sarcasm, so he works in absurdity (when trying not to wish death on the upper class). The airing of grievances includes racial stereotypes, inner-city warfare and Facebook logging all of his favorite sandwiches. It's Slug's "Modern Man's Hustle" if the Atmosophere frontman had been haunted by James Baldwin's ghost instead of heavily tattooed exes.

Lead single "Qualifiers" finds Eagle subverting the notions of traditional rap braggadocio and lyrical terrain. His revolution isn't just some abstract political ideals, but at the crux of his approach to art. This is intended to dump Coconut Water and whiskey on the unsuspecting heads of those with false ideas of authenticity or what rap should be.

Lest you mistake him for a meditating yoga-panted rapper, the rapper raised on the Southside of Chicago, wields wordplay as sharp and weird as any of his peers. He proclaims himself "the King of all rappers who don't condone date rape." Molotov Cocktails are helpfully tossed from fellow conspirators Kool AD and comedian, Hannibal Burress.

Former hockey star Luc Robataille is rhymed with the Kobra Kai Dojo from Karate Kid. In the same breath, Eagle cracks about being too old to die. It's absurdity in the sense that Joseph Heller deployed it in Catch 22. He will live forever or die in the attempt.

If you're just tuning into Eagle's stellar career on album number four, the LA Weekly anointed him last year as the hottest thing in indie rap. Pitchfork called him a "whiz with matching easy-going hooks to intimate personal reflection." But Dark Comedy could be the best thing he's ever done-a record that captures the perennial struggle between art and commerce, the last half-century of widening class rift, and the need to be funny or die.

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released June 10, 2014

Featuring: Hannibal Burress; Kool AD (of Das Racist); Toy Light

Producers: Alpha MC; Cohen Beats; Dibia$e (Dibiase); Driver (aka Busdriver); Elos; Illingsworth; Jeremiah Jae; Kenny Segal; Taco Neck; Toy Light; Ultra Combo

Executive Produced by Michael Tolle

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