Open Mike Eagle x Kenny Segal - Watching A Movie Called Freedom By Myself (Official Video)

Picture Credit: Alex Steed

Rapper Open Mike Eagle and producer Kenny Segal have released their excellently titled new single, Watching A Movie Called Freedom By Myself.  Check out the video, directed by comedian and actor Elise Valderrama below.

The woozy yet wonderful Watching A Movie Called Freedom By Myself is taken from Eagle and Segal’s DOOMED!, the world’s first half whimsical break up album, out 14th August on billy woods’ Backwoodz Studioz label.

DOOMED! is five years in a blender.  It’s every troublesome misunderstanding of a half-decade relationship distorted and stretched into an absurdist black comedy mini-series.  It’s the sound of every fight playing simultaneously.

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have been friends and occasional collaborators for almost twenty years.  Despite that, DOOMED! is the first time the two have put together a full body of work.

“In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something,” Eagle explains.  “I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for Neighborhood Gods Unlimited [Mike’s recent solo endeavour] with the caveat we would focus on our thing next.  Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’”