Take the good looks of any A-list star
and combine with the talent of Harry Connick Jr. and you get the one and
only MikeMRF! The chart-topping musician just dropped his new album, MobMusic 2.
MikeMRF won the Lennon Award (Hip-Hop)
in the 2017 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the title track of his Mob
Music album. He also took home Humanitarian Songwriter of the
Year at the 2014 OUTmusic Awards for his LGBT youth anthem on that same album
called "Be Strong".
The first three singles off Mob
Music 2 were featured in 30 The Series, a show that chronicles the
love and lives of three queer women of color living in Houston, Texas:
"Tip Jar", an ode to performing musicians everywhere and an instructional guide for audiences on how to reward said musicians,
"Clean House" a sassy breakup story of firing your significant other,
and "I Can't Make You Love Me". MikeMRF wrote a string arrangement to
support the vocals of his front persons Lisa Bello and Justin
Waithe on the Bonnie Raitt classic.
Other songs from the album include
"Wedding Day" (a celebration of you, no matter how the day turns out)
"Me Completes" (Reggaeton track in Spanish featuring Puerto
Rican artist Iisma) and "End This Sentence" (the album closer
and a cathartic take on current state of the U.S. featuring the
words of D.Ruff and bars of Shawn Caliber, whose verse on Mob
Music helped take home the Lennon Award).
