Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
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| Released | July 11, 2025 | |||
| Studio | Office/Space[1] | |||
| Length | 39:00 | |||
| Label | Auto Reverse | |||
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| Singles from Neighborhood Gods Unlimited | ||||
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Neighborhood Gods Unlimited is the tenth studio album by American rapper and comedian Open Mike Eagle. It was released on July 11, 2025, via Auto Reverse Records in LP, CD and digital formats.[2]
The album was preceded by Open Mike's 2023 release, Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering.[2]
The lead single, "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)", was released on June 3, 2025.[2] It was followed by the second single "My Co-Worker Clark Kent's Secret Black Box" on August 6, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Stoney Sharp.[3]
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100[4] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Beats Per Minute | 82%[6] |
| Paste | 8.3/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10[8] |
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Neighborhood Gods Unlimited received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 from 6 critic scores.[4]
John Amen of Beats Per Minute described the album as "a potent, enticing, and, yes, elusive project," giving it a rating of 82%.[6] It received a rating of 8.5 from Pitchfork, whose reviewer Paul Thompson noted it as "conceived as a dispatch from a fictional cable channel with a budget so small that it can only broadcast for one hour a week."[8] Casey Epstein-Gross of Paste assigned the album a score of 8.3 out of ten and described the production of the album as "the glue holding its conceptual particles together," stating "This is where Neighborhood Gods Unlimited leaves us: not with a fantasy of wholeness, but with a quiet commitment to keep searching among the shards anyway."[7]
Accolades
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
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| Beats Per Minute | Top 50 Albums of 2025 | 13 | [9] |
| Consequence | The 25 Best Rap Albums of 2025 | 13 | [10] |
| HotNewHipHop | The 40 Best Rap Albums of 2025 | 18 | [11] |
| Paste | The 25 best rap albums of 2025 | 2 | [12] |
| The Ringer | The 25 Best Albums of 2025 | 14 | [13] |
| Rolling Stone | The 100 Best Albums of 2025 | 84 | [14] |
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2025 | 25 | [15] | |