Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Complex *official video*

water ur seeds
water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in The Reason
Man this is dope, something a little different...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQxXubLTIBw&ct=


From Mello Music:

'Brick Body Complex’ is a powerful statement made through incensed verses and potent visuals. It introduces the character of “Iron Hood,” a super-powered protector of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project that displaced thousands of residents when it was torn down a decade ago. In this video, Iron Hood, played by Open Mike Eagle, leaps into action against a mysterious masked villain representing the forces of gentrification.

"This is about trauma. It's about how 30,000 residents were displaced and only one-third of them are accounted for — and there are no AMBER alerts for the other two-thirds," Michael Eagle says. "This is about the pain of that. And how black life in America seems to run parallel with painful events that we're not supposed to talk about, because America doesn't really want to hear it. This song and album is about how those buildings were torn down and replaced with nothing — not a new highway or a football field. Nothing at all."

Comments

  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Open Mike Eagle is underrated. Never heard a full project from him, but he has features with a lot of underground folks and ive heard a few songs from him. This song is cool.
  • water ur seeds
    water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Open Mike Eagle is underrated. Never heard a full project from him, but he has features with a lot of underground folks and ive heard a few songs from him. This song is cool.

    Ive never heard of dude before, kinda dope style though, is that his regular style??? Post up some of his best tracks if you feel like it...
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Open Mike Eagle is underrated. Never heard a full project from him, but he has features with a lot of underground folks and ive heard a few songs from him. This song is cool.

    Ive never heard of dude before, kinda dope style though, is that his regular style??? Post up some of his best tracks if you feel like it...

    Kind of his regular style. He's one of those artists that people label a weirdo. Just a indy guy. Im taking off for the day and will be on mobile the rest of the night, but I'll post up some songs tomorrow morning.
  • water ur seeds
    water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2017
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Open Mike Eagle is underrated. Never heard a full project from him, but he has features with a lot of underground folks and ive heard a few songs from him. This song is cool.

    Ive never heard of dude before, kinda dope style though, is that his regular style??? Post up some of his best tracks if you feel like it...

    Kind of his regular style. He's one of those artists that people label a weirdo. Just a indy guy. Im taking off for the day and will be on mobile the rest of the night, but I'll post up some songs tomorrow morning.

    Yeah just found this joint, straight fire again (has has-lo killed this joint too)... Man its not often you find a rapper with an original style and message. dude is dope Im gonna dig through more of his work...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSVqxYSPPY
  • TheGOAT
    TheGOAT Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Album was dope and original

    Im a new fan

    https://youtu.be/bdiGlNbz_Qc