Open Mike Eagle / Kenny Segal: DOOMED!

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip hop breakup masterpiece

In every possible universe? | Image: Backwoodz Studioz "Breakups are… tough." It's the opening lines of an interlude towards the end of DOOMED! Called "It Happens in Every Universe." It's also basically the thesis of the entire record. It's no grand revelation, but it's a well-trodden subject that Open Mike Eagle manages to mine for artistic gold. Eagle's subject matter is usually personal, and his productions tinged with nostalgia. But DOOMED!…

Open Mike Eagle / Kenny Segal: DOOMED!

On their first full-length together, Segal pushes his soulfully psychedelic beats into more forceful territory, offering solid ground for Eagle’s grimly sardonic post-mortem for a failed relationship.

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal release raw hip-hop breakup album

Photo: Treefort Music Fest / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Rapper Open Mike Eagle and producer Kenny Segal have released DOOMED!, their first full-length album together, and it is drawing attention as one of the most emotionally raw hip-hop records of the year. The album is available now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Qobuz and Deezer. Eagle has always mined personal territory in his music, but DOOMED! goes further than anythi…

CAUSTIC COMMENTARY: The Womack Sisters, Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal, Grace Cummings, Hovvdy, Phoebe Bridgers & More - Glide Magazine

It is another barn-burning New Music Friday here at the Old Caustic Factory, as we continue what has been an incredibly busy 2026. Our team here is back at it again bright and early, shifting through a mountain of fresh releases to select the greatest hits of the past week. This Friday, we explore refreshing debuts, invigorating jazz and folk, and poetically penned, deeply personal, intimate LPs. This is yet another week of tough decisions for t…

Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal – ‘DOOMED!’

Every new Open Mike Eagle album is an event, and especially when its produced by Kenny Segal, drops on Backwoodz Studioz, and comes equipped with a guest spot from billy woods himself.