“We’re releasing this video a year to the day of the election of the garbage king. May our national nightmare end sometime soon.” – Open Mike Eagle
Beat Produced by Exile
Directed & Edited by Ryan Calavano
from the album “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream”
https://tinyurl.com/y72v73ky
“Happy Wasteland Day” by Open Mike Eagle
Mello Music Group, 2017
Praise for Open Mike Eagle “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream”:
“Armed with a caustic wit and a poetic eye, Open Mike Eagle builds a small, quiet monument to a housing project in Chicago across a diverse and singular piece of contemporary hip-hop.” – Pitchfork, 8.1/10
“Open Mike Eagle fuses the source and its voice [The Robert Taylor Homes], literally becoming the building as he delivers a defiant blues.” – NPR
“[Open Mike Eagle’s] headiest yet…Masterfully adds a ‘historical’ circle to hip-hop’s powerful Venn diagram of the personal and political.” – Rolling Stone
“Lead single ’95 Radios’ is an instant classic…one of the most beautiful songs about listening to rap music on the radio you will ever hear.” – VICE Noisey
“Epic…Eagle makes grand narrative connections across the album and does so through his skills as a storyteller and rapper with a sublimely confident flow.” – LA Times
