Open Mic

Open Mic

Open Mic is a French hip hop group made up of L’Oncle Tom and Vasco. It works in hip hop and underground hip hop.

Open Mic has links to the early 1990s underground rap scene and to a boom-bap style associated with that period. Its music is described as drawing on science fiction and conspiracy themes, which was an unusual approach in hip hop at the time. The group name is also connected to earlier projects and line-ups from the same scene.

The group’s history includes work with the Demigodz collective, which expands into a larger squadron of MCs and DJs in 2000. Open Mic helps lead a Connecticut chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation and records the cassette-only Sureshot Affair EP, which is self-released in 1997 and circulates in underground scenes in the north-east of the United States. It later appears on tracks including Science of the Bumrush on Stonegroove Recordings and on the Demigodz EP on Ill Boogie Records. These releases receive critical attention from publications including XXL and The Source.

Outside music, Open Mic works as a professional graphic designer and creates 12-inch single, vinyl album and CD artwork for labels including Bronx Science Records, Raptivism Records, Domination Recordings and Babygrande. In early 2006, after reconnecting with P-Air, an early Nobility member and co-founder of the first generation of the Demigodz, Open Mic begins work on a new duo project called Megadonz.