My guest for the season 3 premiere is New York-based rapper-producer MIKE. We spoke about Park Chan-wook, Skinamarink, Nigerian cinema, Paid In Full, Belly, the importance of tragedy in art, growing up in London, Philly, and New York, healing, a brief retrospective on his career, and the creative process behind his last two albums Disco! and Beware of The Monkey.

Beware of The Monkey is available wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping directly from MIKE's Bandcamp page here. Follow MIKE on Instagram (@mikelikesrap) and Twitter (@t6mikee).

Read my Pitchfork review of MIKE's Disco! here.

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MIKE (with special guest Sideshow) | S3 Episode 1 (Season 3 premiere)