Foggy Notions Presents: MIKE

The Button Factory, Thursday 27th February 2025

General Onsale: Wednesday 23rd October at 10:00

MIKE is a quintessential old soul. The 24-year-old artist’s wisdom is
evident in both his calm delivery and measured questioning. Known for
introspective, subtly profound rhymes that explore grief, family, and
identity, and melt over muffled, soul-seasoned samples, MIKE’s newest
record, Burning Desire, is his biggest to date: both in length, but more
so artistically. For the first time in his career, MIKE truly reaches
outside of his immediate circle for collaborators, pulling in everyone
from Larry June to Liv.e to Lila Ramani (of Crumb) to Earl Sweatshirt
and more. The beloved rapper has come a long way from making waves in
underground hip-hop circles with the [sLUms] collective formed in New
York in 2015. Since, he’s released numerous critically celebrated
albums, earned Pitchfork’s Best New Music accolade twice, and toured
with artists like Blood Orange, Earl Sweatshirt, The Alchemist, and
Freddie Gibbs. Burning Desire sees MIKE confidently step out as the
leader of a new movement within hip hop, as he breaks through the
ceiling of the underground and introduces the style of rap he originated
to a wider audience. If anything is certain about this next chapter for
MIKE, it is that it will be on his own terms.