Review: Open Mike Eagle Offers Impressionistic History Lesson

Motormouthed rapper Open Mike Eagle has gotten ravesfor albums that explore the comedy of neurosis. His new one, easily hisheadiest, is a concept LP built around Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, a famouslymismanaged housing project destroyed 10 years ago. Eagle impressionisticallyinserts himself into events real and imagined. "We live in a space thatshould have never existed," he raps. The results add a historical angle tohip-hop's powerful mix of the personal and political.      &n