Stream: Open Mike Eagle, ‘Bucciarati’ (feat. Kari Faux)

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Open Mike Eagle

L.A.-via-Chicago wordsmith Open Mike Eagle has done almost everything since last releasing an album — including taking on a rival rapper in a pro wrestling match.

He’s a podcast network baron, nascent record label entrepreneur, co-founder of the “Funny or Die” show “Call & Response,” host of the daily “Quarantine Drivetime Radio Show” on Instagram Live and co-host of the Comedy Central program “The New Negroes.”

Today, though, Eagle announced that his new album “Anime, Trauma and Divorce” would be out Oct. 16 via his own Auto Reverse Records. It’s his first since “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream” in 2017 and was executive-produced by Jacknife Lee. And its arrival comes as the rapper works through what has been a difficult period in his life.

“Before the world went to shit, I was already in the middle of a few personal [crises],” he says. “Shit had gone haywire personally and professionally, and my therapist had to remind me that I have an outlet to process some of my shit in rap music. So I made a bunch of painful rap songs, and Jacknife Lee was kind enough to help me make good music out of them. Maybe it can help other people, too. It probably won’t, but maybe.”

The album features beats from Black Milk, Gold Panda and Frank Leone and contributions from Lil A$e, Kari Faux and one of Eagle’s label charges, Video Dave. It is Faux delivering the hook on the new Caleb Stone-produced single “Bucciarati,” in which Eagle laments, “I need more fingers to pick up the pieces.”

||| Stream: “Bucciarati”

||| Also: Stream “I’m a Joestar (Black Power Fantasy),” originally out via Adult Swim, and “The Edge of New Clothes”

||| Previously: Stony Island Audio, live at the Echo, live at the Skirball, “I Went Outside Today (feat. Aesop Rock)” with Paul White, “Check to Check” with Paul White, “Feel at Home” with Nobody,” Echo Park Rising (2015), “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” “Raps for When It’s Just You and the Abyss,” Ears Wide Open