Jan 7, 2019
Chi Town in my building code Stood here for ten million snows Wind chilled is all in my bones Indivisible in divisible kids and criminals young and old No radiator my dungeon cold Thunder humming you something slow
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Chi Town in my building code Stood here for ten million snows Wind chilled is all in my bones Indivisible in divisible kids and criminals young and old No radiator my dungeon cold Thunder humming you something slow
Open Mike Eagle
Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Complex
Brick Body Complex - Open Mike Eagle
Honorable mention: Adopting the highly symbolic viewpoint of a project building that considers itself too large and imposing to ever be demolished, Inglewood-based rapper Open Mike Eagle not only denounces the economics of gentrification, but also offers a compelling glimpse into the mindset of someone who has been repeatedly victimized by urban "renewal."
Whats been in my ear this week?
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream by Open Mike Eagle
This one’s super raw, and it’s seen as one of hiphops best responses to the 2016 US election (besides more mainstream shit like DAMN. ofc). But there’s a timelessness here. Track 5, Wasteland Day is a pretty clear-cut allegory to how fucked the american govt is getting, but some of these tracks you could’ve listened to back in the mid-10s and still agreed with. One of the central themes of the album is gentrification, and the reality of its damage on project and low-income housing. This theme climaxes in track 12 but i’m not gonna spoil it (tho i can tell u it sounds fucking spectacular).
It took me a really long time to crack the ‘brick body’ metaphor, but once i did my relationship w/ this album reached crazy new heights. I was out running one night and the line ‘we grew up in basements, dungeons’ ran past my ear for like the tenth time and i just. Got it. There’s a really intense anger hidden in this album and once you tune yourself into it, it really takes hold of you.
The aesthetic,,,,,,,,, in this album,,,,, calls to me. It’s so glitchy, and sporadic. It feels like a hiphop album via the LISA soundtrack, and that alone is enough to make me fuckin cream my pants. The best examples of this come from Tracks 7, 10 & 12.
If you dont have time to listen to the whole thing, the best tracks would have to be 5, 6 & 7. Which is great because directly after that is Track 8, Tldr, where OME talks shit about people who don’t listen to full albums
Also these tracks are super nerdy?? And OME is fucking adorable??? Track 1 is literally him explaining the Juggernauts whole backstory (and drawing fun allegory to how angry he feels now in the wake of america’s fascist apex), its great? go listen to this album you’ll love it
The album also doesn’t resolve, which is
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Discogs: Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
