Open Mike Eagle Details The Good Life
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Questlove reconnects with Open Mike Eagle, picking up a conversation that began on a 2025 episode of the show. As Mike reflects on his time with Project Blowed, the two artists-turned-podcast hosts dive into The Good Life Cafe and its influence on the West Coast Underground Hip-Hop scene, as well as touring on the left side of the country.
This mini-episode is entertaining and insightful—and leaves plenty more of Mike’s story still to be told.
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| 0:00.0 | The Questlove show is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Another Questlove mini here, me and I open my eagle. |
| 0:20.6 | Okay, so I have my eagle. What up? |
| 0:20.9 | Okay, so I have a question. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, I'm very familiar with the sort of reputation or the lure of the good life |
| 0:29.0 | cafe movement. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.2 | Of which you sort of come into the picture doing the second phase of it. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, after the afterlife period. |
| 0:39.2 | One, can you explain to me the difference between the two events and just start there? |
| 0:47.9 | Okay. |
| 0:48.4 | I didn't go to The Good Life, but I know all about it because it was like, you know, it's the |
| 0:53.4 | Housian days or the rap family that I belong to. |
| 0:56.6 | So the Good Life Cafe was a literal place called the Good Life Cafe on Exposition in Crenshaw. |
| 1:03.4 | That was a health food store. |
| 1:05.2 | And they did an open mic on Thursday nights that all of the rappers all around the city started coming to. |
| 1:11.6 | It's very hotel. I'm sure that word was said. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, very apropos. |
| 1:14.6 | Right, right. |
| 1:15.6 | Many, I'm sure that play smelled like incense. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.6 | It's B. Hall who ran it, and I forgot the young man's name, who ran it with her. |
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