Private Playlist recently spotlighted the talented LA-based artist Ah-Mer-Ah-Su, whose name is derived from the Shinto sun goddess. An optimist at heart, Ah Mer Ah Su’s new work is theemotional and danceable anthem “No One.”
Listen 7 min Open Mike Eagle. Photo by Emari Traffie
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With more than a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Leimert Park’s
Open Mike Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. He spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like ”Brick Body Kids Still Daydream” and ”Dark Comedy,” he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. More recently, he s made a shift toward examining trauma: his own and his community s. And on his brilliant new album, Anime, Trauma, and Divorce, he probes the darkness of his past and searches for lights to guide him fo