Another Day Archives: Living the Dream (and the Struggle) with Open Mike Eagle

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What happens when living your dream doesn’t pay the bills? Ana and Open Mike Eagle talk about how unexpected gigs can save the day, but needing work still feels uncool. They reflect on shame, resilience, and the reality of making it as a creator in a world that doesn’t always reward your art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We were talking about, um, kind of like emergency survival money from the sky.
0:06.2	Oh, yeah.
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:07.6	Um, so one of the ways that I make money is people approach me to rap on their albums and stuff.
0:16.5	Mm-hmm.
0:17.6	And that's usually a little piece of money that really, really helps me a lot.
0:24.2	But it's the sort of thing you can't, you can't make it happen, you know?
0:28.9	Even if it's an important part of your income, you can't push a button and say,
0:34.1	where all the features at?
0:35.2	It doesn't work that way.
0:36.2	And in fact, in rap, there's like,
0:42.3	there's a, there's a, you can see it when artists get to a certain point where they need it.
0:48.1	And they start advertising it.
0:49.7	And it's always a really rough look.
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.7	Yeah. It's always a really rough look. Yeah. Yeah.
0:54.8	It's always a really rough look.
0:56.6	When they make that tweet that says,
0:58.4	I got features for the low,
1:01.1	hit me up.
1:03.0	DM, serious inquiries only.
1:04.8	It's like, oh, that's...
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