About.

"One of LA’s smartest young voices" says the LA Times...which the
artist suspects, may just be a covert way of saying LA is dumb. "Open"
Mike Eagle wouldnt terribly mind, being born and raised in Chicago
where the painful winters and his uppity grandparents kept him inside
as a youth. He spent his formative years watching alternative music
happen on MTV and hoping to one day be able to audition for the Native
Tongues. As a young adult after graduating with a degree in
Psychology, he did the next best thing and moved to Los Angeles,
joining the Project Blowed collective where he made music and toured
with Busdriver, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Nocando and more. He’s also
gained notoriety in the world of comedy by being invited by
professional funny people (Paul F. Tompkins, Hannibal Buress, Matt
Besser/UCB) to rap at their shows. He’d like to be rap’s Kurt Vonnegut
but recognizes that he’d first have to create something as iconic as
the four-stroke illustration of an anus. He practices by releasing rap
albums that delight, entertain, and confuse.

1 Comment

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   11/21/2012 @ 3:18 pm

   Erik Torenberg says:

   Dear Mike,

   We are a hip hop company out of Detroit that focuses on the power of freestyle. We do the following:

   1) we have a website, rapt.fm, where you can freestyle with people all over the world and have a live audience watch and vote for who they like best. the goal is to provide a place for people to learn how to freestyle, get better at it, and even get noticed. We've been funded by Dan Gilbert, and been featured in Fast Company and Venture Beat. (we plan to launch in January)

   2) We do freestyle rap workshops with bigger companies (Quicken Loans for instance). The value prop is that freestyle helps with adaptability, leadership, and brings teams together.

   3) We do freestyle workshops in schools as well, focused on getting kids outside of their comfort zones and connecting a love of rap and hip hop with a love of writing/reading.

   We're interested in teaching freestyling, creating a place where people can learn it, and promoting the positive value of it. Would love to talk to you about your involvement in the study and potential collaboration. We already are in talks with researchers of hip hop pedagogy and think a neuroscientist approach would be a natural collaboration. I'm a rapper myself who's written and will continue to write about the positive benefits of freestyling.

   If this is of interest, I'd love to hop on a call with you after the holiday