Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal Team for New Album Doomed!
“Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet”
Longtime friends and collaborators Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal finally recorded a full-length album together. Doomed! drops August 14 via Billy Woods’ Backwoodz label. Check out its first single, “Unfinished Concrete Initials” featuring Hemlock Ernst (aka Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring ), below.
“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,” the Los Angeles-based rapper said in a statement, adding, with customary panache, “Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.”
This is the fourth year in a row Open Mike has released an album; his latest, Neighborhood Gods Unlimited , premiered last July. Meanwhile, Kenny’s most recent album was 2025’s The Night Green Side of It , a collaboration with R.A.P. Ferreira.
Doomed! 01 Out to Lunch 02 Streets of Rage: Public Arguments Edition feat. Gothic Tropic 03 DOOMED! 04 Unfinished Concrete Initials feat. Hemlock Ernst 05 Don’t Go Look (Battleworld Focus Prayer) 06 She Swear I’m Colorblind feat. billy woods 07 Science Fiction/Fantasy 08 The Irredeemable Magic Man 09 The Many Hustles of my Lonely Time Traveling Uncle 10 Trying to Remember What I Aimed At 11 Shrödinger’s Green Room (There but Uninvited) 12 It Happens in Every Universe (interlude) 13 Sweetheart Jail 14 Infinity War Spoliers 15 Watching a Movie Called Freedom By Myself
