Atmosphere struck gold yet again with their album 'Southsiders', which recently dropped on Rhymesayers Entertainment and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard album sales chart. After working together ...

After investigation a medical examiner has ruled that underground rapper Mikey “Eyedea” Larsen died of an accidental overdose. According to Minnesota’s Star Tribute the exact cause of death was opiate ...

IF EYEDEA COULD go back in time and redo his life, he’d probably be erasing things that every fan of underground hip-hop associates with him: the mastery of battle emceeing, the win at HBO’s Blaze ...

This Minneapolis duo has been a team since their teens, when DJ Abilities left home, and Eyedea’s mom put him up in their basement, where their partnership flourished. Eyedea began competing in battle ...

When Mike Larsen was five years old, cars or buildings weren’t just the playthings of his imagination—he wanted to know how to construct them and would often make modest attempts in his backyard.

Though the cause of his death is still unknown, a memorial has been organized to celebrate rapper Eyedea's life this week. Fans of the Minnesota rapper, who died at age 28 on October 16, will be able ...

A member of the enormously promising Rhymesayers collective, Eyedea attracted considerable media attention when he won the 2000 Blaze Battle on HBO. While the Midwestern rapper's charisma, good looks, ...

Not all bands can excel in every kind of venue, as those who attended the August 14 Atmosphere show at Red Rocks discovered during the Eyedea & Abilities set. The Minnesota pair, whose collective ...

When Mike Averill, aka Eyedea, declares near the top of his new Rhymesayers release, First Born, that “It’s time to clean MTV out of your ears,” I’m inclined to take him seriously–in order to maintain ...