Posts tagged “Mello Music Group”

I noticed late last week that my website traffic was blowin’ up. Take a look here:

March 30th: Daaaaaaaaaaang.

Looking into it, I realized that 99% off that traffic was from my post about Open Mike Eagle declaring himself the new Mayor of Ferndale, WA. I was already aware that Mike had re-tweeted the link to the article, but I quickly discovered that it hadn’t stopped there.

Mello Music Group (who have released some OME musics) tweeted a link to my post as well:

If you missed the story of Open @Mike_Eagle becoming mayor of Ferndale, enjoy https://t.co/pIYsCiwUTq pic.twitter.com/0IYqhSlfXe

— Mello Music Group (@MelloMusicGroup) March 29, 2017

That tweet in itself was re-tweeted 15 times. That would seem to be enough to account for the traffic spike. But then, the very City of Ferndale itself tweeted:

Hey @Mike_Eagle, visit again soon! We'd love to make you "honorary mayor" for a day. #FerndaleWA https://t.co/Na7nS5ykhs

— City of Ferndale (@CityOfFerndale) March 30, 2017

To which Mike succinctly replied:

honorary my foot! https://t.co/iWtp4nJW3b

— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) March 30, 2017

Mike would expand his stance on Instagram:

sorry ferndale. should have appreciated me when you had me. im rapping in san diego tonight and LA tomorrow and none of these transparent attempts to get me back are going to fly. #byefelerndale #toolittletoolate

A post shared by open mike eagle face (@artrapmike) on Mar 30, 2017 at 9:16am PDT

I tweeted about how my website traffic was blowin’ up over all this attention, and the City of Ferndale rather cheekily tweeted a response:

@angrybeef Sorry, not sorry!

— City of Ferndale (@CityOfFerndale) March 31, 2017

Also at one point over the weekend somebody I’d never met posted a link to my post on the Faced Book.

Well, it looks like as of today my site traffic is back to normal (i.e., nobody reading this), but it was a fun little explosion while it lasted.

Much respect.

I’m super stoked for my pal Mike Eagle, with whom I hung out with just a week-and-a-half ago. He has signed a three-album deal with Mello Music Group! They’re going to be releasing his upcoming LP Dark Comedy.

To celebrate, Mike has released the official music video for his extremely entertaining song “Qualifiers,” which not only has a hilarious send-up of hip-hop braggado, especially in the chorus…

We’re the best, mostly
Sometimes the freshest rhymers
We the tighest, kinda
Respect my qualifiers

…but it also ends with an epic quoting of “Weep Day,” a rather obscure, early B-side by They Might Be Giants! Here, watch:

Good times… good times…

Good on ya, Mike! This is unqualified awexome news.

(Via Passion of the Weiss)