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American Robot feat. Open Mike Eagle

by Buy Muy Drugs

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“American Robot" is an unsettling meditation on the repetition and ultimate pointlessness of American suburban consumerism. While Buy Muy Drugs’ bellowing hook turns the components of the daily grind into a sort of chain gang chant, repeating, “Wake up every morning, and I brush my teeth / Kiss the wife, go to work,” Guest rapper Open Mike Eagle provides the deconstruction of the malaise that comes from climbing the endless ladder to nowhere, detailing how “My son has been asking for different fire trucks / Climb the corporate ladder, pal around with the higher-ups.”

The Afro-Brazilian inspired percussion accentuates the disconcerting sense of being reduced to just another cog in a giant corporate machine, as the boys stand on the deck of beached yacht in a barren wasteland, using perspective to give the illusion of forward motion, which only deepens the biting satire of the fruitlessness of the rat race. Meanwhile, the visuals warp and distort throughout, polarizing the artists’ faces and intercutting images of war and destruction, the two primary engines that often fuel economic “progress.”

The album will feature Yasiin Bey, Open Mike Eagle, Quelle Chris, Billy The Kid, Sassi Blaque, Big Tone, and Adad.

lyrics

Hiyawei Ohiya

Wake up every morning and I
Brush my teeth
Kiss the wife
Go to work
Wake up every morning and I
Brush my teeth
Kiss the wife
Go to work
Go to work
Go to work
Work

[Hook]
First you brush your teeth
Sheer the sheep
Hunt the prey
Feed the kids
Fuck your wife
Kill the day and slay the night
Pay the lights
Mow the lawn
Fix the sink and
Fuck your wife
Kill the day and slay the night
Kill the day and slay the night
Slay the night

[Verse] Open Mike Eagle

For lunch my lady fixes me pickles and chicken parmesan
I clock into the station and wait on ratings from Arbitron
Tryin’ to get these interns not to be unprofessional
Please place your waste items in the proper receptacles
Saving
My son has been asking for different fire trucks
Climb the corporate ladder
Pal around with the higher ups
Get your clients up
I parked my car under the viaduct
Between an old mail truck and an idle bus
How many times I promise myself
that this was the final cut
Grind another line until it’s the time with the Midas touch
Reminds me of the time when we thought nobody could silence us
Please pardon my sinuses

[Hook]
First you brush your teeth
Sheer the sheep
Hunt the prey
Feed the kids
Fuck your wife
Kill the day and slay the night
Pay the lights
Mow the lawn
Fix the sink and
Fuck your wife
Kill the day and slay the night
Kill the day and slay the night
Slay the night

Hiyawei
Brush my teeth
Hiyawei
Kiss the wife
Go to work

Hiyawei
Brush my teeth
Hiyawei
Kiss the wife
Go to work

Hiyawei

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released July 18, 2017

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BUY MUY DRUGS' sound is designer dissonance. An Afro-Brazilian percussive mien hybridized with the aggressive, federally-sanctioned genre, "loom-bap".

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