Open Mike Eagle and Danny Brown know how cathartic – and dangerous – it is to let your coworkers know how you really feel.
Producer: Bionik
Director: Lance Bangs
About The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle:
The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle is a socially aware stand-up and music series. Vaughn and Eagle took inspiration for the series and title from the term “New Negro,” as popularized during the Harlem Renaissance, and it refers to black Americans speaking up, telling their own stories and affirming their various identities to dismantle outdated assumptions and beliefs.
LYRICS
[Verse 1: Open Mike Eagle] I want to express myselfI want to be revealing
I’m always holding back to keep from hurting people’s feelings
Pulled over by a cop
I was playing nice
I’m trying to say polite things
Ask what his day was like
Wanted to cuss him out
Him and my coworkers
Sometimes I speak my mind
I’d like to go further
And say shit when I feel it
And cuss at little children
I’m tired of holding back
I’m going unfiltered [coworker] You doing alright over there? [Danny Brown] I’m great! [Verse 2: Danny Brown] Listen here, I gets …
Explain to me just what I did
I was only doing forty in a forty-five
Oh right, I’m black and I’m late this time
Screw my boss, he can kiss my ass
Fuck whoever still run from the …
Fuck him, fuck her, and your mom and dad
Fuck them, fuck you, and your dog and cat
Lost my brain think I’m going insane
Off the rails, I’m the crazy train
Taking action, can’t even explain
Why I cursed a kid and got joy from his pain
Yo son this ain’t real so what’s your deal
Feels really good to say how you really feel
Get it off my chest like me express
That means I’m saying go fuck yourself [Verse 3: Open Mike Eagle] Uh, that got out of hand
I may have overshared
Looks like I may have spilled a drink or two
And then broke a chair
Yeah we should keep it realer
Go where emotion takes us
I need a minute here
To recollect my social graces [Verse 4: Danny Brown] Think I need to go bugging right now
I’ma drink more then hold it down
… bring another round
Before I blow chunks all over the ground
Wait, what’s that?
You hear that sound?
I’m about to go off right now
Drunk, reckless, and I’m talking loud
Do you mind if I just wild out?
