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Talk To The Hand (feat. Joshua Virtue & IL. Subliminal)

from Smoke Detector by Rich Jones

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Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans
Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans

(Rich Jones)
I Take a cool sip of water
floating on the surface
Refresh
Break down
Reset
Sweat big
Recess
Stack big
Tetris
Roll nice
Yahtzee!
Yahtzee!
Yahtzee!
Yahtzee!

At your own peril
Moved past caring if I’m being transparent
And the path is feeling narrow
Squeezed
Time, space, love + money trees
Check please
Turning at the cemetery for my pet peeves
Leaving things dead and buried
Birds getting drunk off juniper berries
I’m feeling baby jealous
Selfish
Seldom
Second helpings of the pile on
3-2-1, pull the fire alarm
Rainy exits
In search of a nexus
The truth is out there and it’s ambidextrous

Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans
Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans

(Joshua Virtue)
Funny how life is mad expensive
Yet the violence free
Headless n*ggas waddle down the street, reminds me of me
Too upset to go to bed and then too tired to sleep
Too hungry to hit the blunt and then I’m to high to eat
These days bishop or rook look the wrong way, get your shit took
Big whoop
Normalized it cause have to adapt, just like when I started rapping,
When my rapping was whack
Little bean was all it take to bring the giant down
And planet earth was 25k miles around till dial up dialed it down
But fuck it
What’s another hundred trillion transistors?
You ain’t getting off that phone without your hand blistered
Like was it worth it? Perks, earnings, World burning
Was it worth it? They mutter curses and sing to you in cursive
A wizard is the universe’s servant not it’s master
These n*ggas had it backwards
We thought that OxyContin was the magic word, the password,
Nothing ever made me feel like that
Nibble on the darkness hard enough it will bite back
Let the cauldron brew im sipping black soup
Necklace dangling with my dead cats tooth
Truth
The bones will act as proof
This one’s for you

Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans
Talk to the hand, don’t talk to the man
He’s got other plans

(IL. Subliminal)
Gumshoe gung fu
Swine flu mooshoo
Dumb smooth fly tooth
Hung to time booth
Phantom toll atom stole
Matador actin swole
In Madripor
Landau, Luckman, and Lake
Asshole stuck in the cake.
Clams be fuckin the bake
Royal Casino,
Don’t seem so evil
When the dead walk awake
Hold my phone people,
I’m goin to take
My bitter time
Spit a rhyme in the grime
Get in line for the brine
Vinegar state
I’m bout to swim on a date
More like the whirlpool
Sittin’ in wit you’re girl fool
Adrenaline, make the curls drool
Like activator,
Lost in Grenada.
I’ll be you’re waiter
Hand grenade salad toss
Olympic game stake
For the name sake
A month later,
Have you lost
Pressin License plates.
Not the nicest fate, Boss
Dumb haters
Wonderin how much sense my
Artistic license makes
awww
Scratch the crossfader
I dont need rap for my
Dough to bake
But you gon need a nap
For this tag,
Yo toe gon take
What a strange spell to fate
What dreams may sell?
Poor Eurich knew too well
The hell he couldn’t escape from
Hamlet head ass n*gga
dont be actin fake dumb
What did the face say to the
Palm, fingers and thumb?
Hamlet head ass n*gga
dont be actin fake dumb
What did the face say to the
Palm, fingers and thumb?

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from Smoke Detector, released June 15, 2022

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Rich Jones Chicago, Illinois

Rich Jones is a prolific Chicago artist, community figure, and veteran of the cultural scene. Known for his versatile and evolving style, his latest album How do you sleep at night? finds him returning to his Hip Hop roots as he tackles class complacency, complicity under American authoritarianism and the value of human life vs. what’s profitable. ... more

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