Episode 38: Mike Eagle

Mental Illness Happy Hour

• Episode: Episode 38: Mike Eagle
• Website: Mental Illness Happy Hour
• Feed URL: http://mentalpod.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 01:43:48
• Published: 2011-12-09 10:07

Not many rappers list They Might Be Giants as their primary musical influence.  But Mike isn't like most rappers.   Thoughtful, wry and uncompromising, he opens up about the struggle to fit in at a school for gifted children, the uncertainty of familial love in an unstable home, and the need to discuss the mental effects history has had on African Americans.