TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT! Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn are bringing the live stage version of The New Negroes (which I’ve written about quite a bit on this site) right here to the Freemont Abbey in Seattle. It’s gonna be a night full of standup comedy and music.
Aaagh, It’s been over two years since I’ve seen Mike! I miss him, but I can’t make it to this show due to just the sheer power of logistics and distance.
But that just means that YOU should go, especially my friends who live nearby!
That’s “live” as in “happening right now” not “live” as in “They Live.” But you probably got that…
Details:
The New Negroes Live
Friday, November 15th, 8:30 PM
@ Freemont Abbey
4272 Fremont Ave N, Seattle 98103 (map)
All-Ages, $20 (tickets)
Tomorrow is Halloween! Celebrate with this great ghostly song by Open Mike Eagle. Partake and enjoy this 1980s-tastic music video, directed by Mike himself:
Holy crap, gang, I thought it was a big deal when Mike did a song with MF Doom, now here he’s dropped a track collaborating with none other than Method Man. That’s nutz (yes, with a “z”), man!
The video for “Eat Your Feelings” takes the idea of “conspicuous consumption” to another whole level as Mike and Method Man literally consume their valuables. It’s very funny:
I must say I am loving this series of collabs from The New Negroes. I especially appreciate how they’re all around that two-to-three-minute sweet spot; that’s my favorite song length.
Yes, another WLS featuring Open Mike Eagle. You know what, friends? If you have a TV show and release a new music video every week, there’s a good chance I’ll feature you as well. Here Mike verbally spars with Phonte about whom is the more “woke” of the two:
I particularly love the “Wokken Fighters” video game that’s featured throughout the video:
Wokken Fighters: Fight!
OME & Phonte get in on the game…
And especially how at the end of the video the video game characters get in on the real-world action and start beating Mike up (though they do seem to be aiming directly for his crotch, which is a bit disturbing).
Is Oh-Em-Eee Em-Eff-Doomed by the Tiny Cop in his head…?
Back again with yet another new song and amazing video from his Comedy Central show The New Negroes is your friend and mine, Open Mike Eagle. “Police Myself” is a rather biting song about the necessity of self-censorship in the face of racial bias with a denouement that made me say, “Ouch” aloud. It also has some hilarious visuals with Mike as a tiny cop speeding around town in a tiny cop car with an enormous (to him) blunt.
It’s interesting how this song fits thematically with the previous New Negroes music video release, “Unfiltered” (that I featured a couple of weeks ago, so go listen to that as well if you haven’t). It’s also great seeing Mike swinging for the fences with some of the biggest and best names in hip-hop! Em-effing MF Doom!
Hey, howcome Mike Eagle is the Wednesday Listening Pleasure two weeks in a row? Well, son, it’s because he just keeps on a-puttin’ out musics!
This time it’s the debut clip from his upcoming (premieres this Friday, April 19th!) Comedy Central series, The New Negroes, in which the expressive Danny Brown lives inside of the repressed Mike Eagle and spouts the things Mike only wishes he could say. It’s very funny. You can take a look/listen here!
Short and hilarious. Good work, fellas!
Be sure to watch The New Negroes when it premieres on Comedy Central this Friday!
Open Mike Eagle recently released a new video for the song “Every Single Thing” off of his EP What Happens When I Try to Relax (another EP!). In it, a man played by Tracy Kernell gathers and burns a “box of meaning” over another stunning, clever, angry, and beautifully lyrical Open Mike Eagle song.
Seriously, how can Mike keep on putting out music that’s so good?
Don’t forget that Mike’s Comedy Central Show, The New Negroes, premieres on April 19th! Also he has a webseries currently running called Live from WZRD. Also he’s pretty much completely awexome.
Not Shovel Knight. NOT SHOVEL KNIGHT! IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME!!
