MIKE Wants to Be Present Without Bearing the Weight of the World

On last year's Tears of Joy, Brooklyn rapper MIKE mourned the loss of his mother. His latest full-length project Weight of the World is still pensive and heavy -- a grief-stricken album that finds the 21-year-old, born Michael Jordan Bonema, maneuvering through a reality propelled off its axis by her passing. A year later, he's had more time to work through the haziness of it all, sifting through memories and depression to provide listeners with just enough of his hero's journey to make his pain...