Open Mike Eagle

Biography

Open Mike Eagle is a rapper and comedian from Chicago, Illinois, who has been part of influential hip hop collectives Project Blowed and Thirsty Fish. He majored in psychology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and became the school's second African American homecoming king. Eagle also attended graduate school for one year before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in non-profit work, where he began rapping as a hobby that eventually led him to his music career.