Mike Is Searching for Something More Than Just Sad or Happy
Every album by Mike, the 24-year-old New York rapper, answers the same question: How is Mike doing right now? Since 2016, he’s dropped a record each year on the first day of summer, June 21, with a few others in between. Early projects like 2017’s breakout May God Bless Your Hustle found Mike, born Michael Bonema, confronting his depression while coming of age; on 2019’s Tears of Joy and 2020’s Weight of the World, he processed the death of his mother in real time.
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