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Key & Peele Get Musical in New Short

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‘Negrotown’ is a movie musical look at Black America.

Alex Chancey

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:48AM ET / Published May. 06, 2015 11:40AM ET 

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We’re still two months out from the new season of Key & Peele, but they’re teasing it already in this brilliant musical short.

‘Negrotown’ is a satirical look at the concerns of Black America, from being profiled by police to cultural appropriation, through the filter of a Music Man-style Broadway show. The biting wit and catchy melodies are reminiscent of South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Perhaps Key & Peele have a Book of Mormon of their own itching to get out.

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