@@Vibekilla Eyedea, you said, "Forget me." But it turns out there are people meeting you each day, loving and thanking you for what you had given...No matter how small the group, you made something people want to remember. There's nobody I've ever met that changed my life like you did, and I never met you. I think we would have been friends. I miss you... I miss you? I often think about the future we lost when you lost yours. I just think about the life you were leading, and wish I got to see what you could have done with it. I've never met anyone else I truly wanted to see how their story unfolded. Maybe it makes me a cold SOB, but I had a heart for yours.
Matt Sendor Eydea is probably my favorite mc of all time. But you know he was an opiate user and that's how he died? Just funny you call it "Xanax/lean induced rap" when probably a lot of his shit was written/performed under the influence of opiates and alcohol. Not trying to start a fight but I think what drugs an artist use has nothing to do with the "talent" or whether it's good or not....just sayin
As a fan of metal/hardcore I find it funny that Eyedea is perhaps the only artist I've come across who actually screams with inflection and authenticity haha
As kooky says, Carbon Carousel is amazingg. If you like acoustic then I recommend "Micheal Larsen - When In Rome Kill The King" (album). I'm a fan of a lot of genres but each album he ever made grew on me in it's own way over time.
I'm a combat vet and the song he sang about the gun owner... sounded like he was describing me. He just opened my mind, and I heard smile before but I listened to the words more this time... amazing. youre amazing music and messages have reached me on the east coast EYEDEA! You just fucking opened my mind because thats exactly how i feel about guns, and you was right, and i would have never thought of that. man youre music is amazing and im so happy I found it. I wish you was still around man...
how could no one see the pain .. he was clearly crying out for help , just listen to him spill every emotion out on the page.. this has to be the most powerful video I have ever watched in my life
we saw the pain, but many of us were just as sick, if not worse. the last time I saw him, he was on suboxone - he was trying. unless you've lived through opiate addiction....it's very hard to understand.
I was one of the "under 21" on the ground level. Even rolling so I will remember it forever. At the time I didn't know who he was, but that night I was revealed the divine. Eyedea's transcend the concept of time. His energy at the time was simply one of a kind.
I was there that night as well under 21 of course..my bf at the time was a huge fan and introduced him music to me eyedea signed my shirt that I still have and grateful for
Definitely not the deepest lyrics of any artist. I did look deeper into his his career and he is one of the legends of rap, but even among underground artist nas is and forever will be the best to come from underground hip hop.
Yo!! That’s a solid comedy set lol. Rip Mikey! You will forever be apart of my life. When I was in the darkest point in my life your song “hay fever” spoke to how I felt at the time (I know it was about your dog, but the pain matched my inner pain) and the song “smile” reminded me regardless of how bad I felt it will all be ok as long as I smile (I know a lot flnthis song is sarcasm but the ending verse about how “beautiful when i don’t deny what lies within” saved my life). Never knew you personally but you literally were there for me through your music with Abilities.
Discovered slug and the rhymesayers crew right as eyedea passed...I'll never forgive myself for not seeing Mikey live. Yet I still find inspiration and hope in his songs. They have gotten me through and still getting me through some of the toughest moments in my life. Can't say anything but thank you for everything.
same here except i got to see him live in Hultsfred in sweden in 2005-ish i think. hadnt heard of Eyedea & Abilities as well as Brother Ali before that. i have some fun anecdotes to tell happened after the concert when Ali wnd Eyedea sold their merch and I got 2 of their both albums. I regret being too shy to ask Eyedea to sign the records.. I miss Eyedea. he is my nr 1 inspiration now that Im tryin to get back into writing
So much emotion, so raw, so beautiful. It is a shame that we lost someone so beautiful that was able to formulate his own human experience and translate it into music, but what he left will survive and live on to give insight and maybe even illumination to those that discover his music and pay attention to its own living emotion.
Eyedea & Kristoff on one stage, I would love to have seen that. I wish I could have seen Eyedea live, my favourite musician of all time and really put his heart into every performance.
anyone ever feel like he's inside all of us sortof like how the chirstians say jesus is for them? no just me? i guess thats just what happens when you discover this man during a come up
Im so lucky I got to see him in 2004/2005-ish festival Hultsfred in Sweden , I hadnt heard of him and Abilities and I was like SHIT , the crowd was on FIRE as was I! Brother Ali performed as well there and I remember after the concerts Eyedea and Brother Ali was selling merch,CDs, tshirts, i bought two of Eyedeas and 2 of Ali's CDs and I REALLY fuckin regret not get Eyedea to sign the CDs I bought from him. He is now my favorite rapper/poet/philosopher. He is my main inspiration now that Ive gotten back into writing and tryin to not Suck at rappin my lyrics. One fun anecdote , some ppl REALLY wanted Eyedeas absolutely grosse as hell tshirt haha, it was so wet of his sweat that it looked like he had showered with the shirt on. the crowd waiting to buy their merch was so LIT haha , Eyedea threw the tshirt off to the the crowd haha and many of us laughed and thought it was such a great moment. Eyedea smiled haha, he put on a new shirt ,prolly one of the one he was sellin there. Ive seen many artists in festivals, not just hiphop , but I saw Dilated Peoples, Brother Ali, Immortal (omfg he was SO FUCKIN DOPE!) . but Eyedea /Oliver Heart(got that record right from him back then) has been the one that I to THIS day. Have made the most impact on me. So sad...so sad that he's gone, I hope his legacy lives on.. 😢😢
I don't know how many times I meant to listen to just one song from this...but I watch the whole thing every time. The best hour I think I can spend with my time. Love Eyedea AND Abilities.
I am so thankful for this, incredible performance from start to finish, flaws add a whole nother realm of lovely perfection. I can't count the number of times I've watched it and still get mesmerized, what a hugely devastating loss to we, the people , that he moved and inspired and saved .... Thank you so much for posting this, and Thank you Mikey, for being you 💝
Legit he is killing on the stand up. It's so crazy how all comedians want to be rock stars vice versa. Also watching this genius in the throes of creativity is like being reborn. I'm crying. I pissed. Im happy. I want to grab him and tell him how fucking amazing he is. I shouldn't have gotten so stoned lol
Here for my weekly watch All of the verses in the very beginning from old projects give me a tingle in my spine (more so than his studio albums) every time.
Couldn't sleep, woke up in the middle night and eventually thought about what a loss the loss of Eyedea has been for music, art, poetry, the world...lucky to have one song.
I unfortunately didn't find out about Eyedea until a couple of years after his passing, and that already right there was such a huge hit after going through E&A's catalog. I just lost my lil furball kitty companion after 15 years last week, and days before I had to put her down, the lyrics for the second half of Hay Fever kept coming up in my head. I've been going over all of Mikey's material again since then and it's so fucking crazy how underrated he is. It's awesome to also read all the comments from people who respond to these videos that grew up with him and how much of a good person he was, truly a huge loss to humanity. It's wild to try and imagine where we would be now if his life wasn't cut so goddamn short.
Burn fetish is a masterpiece. The energy between them is wicked! The most real people die young, the world needs real, he still feels alive and I just want to jump through the screen and give him a hug.
Random quotes from songs that he made with his band Carbon Carousal and a few randoms. Google the lyrics you wish to find and you'll see which songs they're from. :)
michael larson(eydea) has always been a musical genius! im so happy i got to see him live a few times they are experiences i will never forget! thanks for the good times mikey
Watching this again, i don't know how many times it's been. Just had this strange burst of tears for 3 seconds at the end of Hay Fever, fuck it's gonna be hard. My world will be turned upside down
I was there, it was AMAZING!! He's the greatest of all time. My favorite musician for life. Nicest person to talk to and a brilliant mind that'll be missed by many REYEP
i have watched this every day for the past 82 days now because i realized im losing a sense of who i am and seeing eyedea as a real person in real time kinda keeps me going.
"There's a lot of jokes but I think if there's one message I'd like to get across it's that - smile. Did you say 'free smile'? Here, take a lighter and shut the fuck up - Jesus Christ man" RIP my friend - I wish I knew you a little bit more before it was too late. I mean, at least like Kurt, we're only two people apart - I mean, I didn't know Slug but I saw him back in the day (2004-05) so at least I saw someone who knew him. For Kurt I managed to interview King Buzzo in 97 or 98 and interviewed a few people who worked with him, but doesn't really count since didn't meet them while they were still alive. I did meet someone in France that managed to see Nirvana twice, when they were like 11 years old in 89 with their older brother sneaking them in and again in 94 for their last French tour. I love six degrees of separation - I think if we all thought about it more we might not treat other people so shit. They ARE going to know someone who knows you, or at least someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows you. Just rambling - E&A always get my brain racing. The best art isn't easy to interpret/is open to multiple interpretations.. but also equally usually isn't that easy to misinterpret .. hard balance to achieve - Catcher in the Rye sadly got misinterpreted a few times to bad outcomes..
Alright so, not sure about anyone else, but personally in this show Eyedea reminds me a lot of Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I say this because he looks quite a bit like AK has in the past few years, and just by the way he is on stage, jumping around and being pretty energetic. Idk, not sure if anyone else sees it but that's just my opinion. REYEP, Eyedea.
I have yet to see an artist who's still alive with this much skill and emotion. R EYE P Sadistik and Kristoff Krane are the closest that I can think of off the top of my head.
I swear I used to listen to Eyedea everyday back in middle school n high school, then the last 8-9 years I forgot he existed & now I’ve journeyed back down the wormhole again which feels like the first time all over again. Man this dude was way ahead of his time he was more lyrically & philosophically advanced than artists are in 2023 he is forever a legend. Also he combined rock influences with hip hop before anyone else had even thought of making music like this. Truly a once a millennium type of talent
Its hard for me to watch eyedea videos, his music has gotten me through so much for so many years that it literally gives me eerie chills when I watch him live now. He will never know how many lives he has touched. We all miss you
Today is 7 years that a legend passed away we miss u I never thought I could be so close to another person yet so far away rest easy your in a better place now
I went to fifth element when tbis came out for the release and just remembering how crazy and cool this album was, especially with the music videos.. saw him at sound set that year and when he started playing “Rain” and the most magical concert moment ever, it starts raining. Sounds kinda dumb writing it but being there felt like the dude had an unearthly connection to the universe
