'Key & Peele' Addresses Police Brutality in Musical 'Negrotown' Sketch
The new season of Key & Peele doesn’t premiere until July 8, but when you’ve got a sketch this timely — and this good — it’s best to get it out there now.
In “Negrotown,” a black man (Keegan-Michael Key) gets stopped by a white cop (Justified’s Nick Searcy) for no reason. After he hits his head on the door of the police car, a black homeless man (Jordan Peele) escorts him instead to the titular location where, as he learns through a lavish production number, “You won’t get followed when you try to shop. You can wear your hoodie and not get shot. No white folks to cross the street in fear. No trigger-happy cops or scared cashiers.”
The entire sly, uncensored song is an earworm, but here’s another choice section: “In Negrotown you live long and well, there’s no disease, no sickle cell. No stupida– white folks touchin’ your hair, or stealin’ your culture claimin’ it’s theirs. Hanging out in a group doesn’t make you a gang. Every word that you say ain’t considered slang. No one tryin’ to get in on the latest trend, by makin’ you their token black friend.”
Season 5 of Key & Peele premieres July 8 at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central.
