You playin', God your eye sockets, she gon' rip in two
#Close your eyes and count run the jewels lyrics skin#
My battle status is burnin' mansions from Dallas to MalibuĬheck my résumé, your residence is residueĬall her a skin job and my honey dip'll backflip for you I'm miles ahead of you, you can sip my bitches brew It's De La on the cut, liftin' 6 on your stitchy crew (So strippin' kids to the nude and then tell 'em God'll forgive 'em) Includin' members of clergy that rule on you through religion The forehead engravers, enslavers of men and women Liars and politicians, profiteers of the prisons
The vision becomes a vow to seek vengeance on all the vicious Go mane and missin' my misses, they keepin' me from my childrenĬonditions create a villain, the villain is givin' vision My solitary condition's preventin' conjugal visits The only solace I have is the act of conjugal visitin' Not shittin' you, little buddy, this fuckin' island's a prison I can't even relax without sirens off in the distances Waitin' for their christenin', I know the neighbors can't help but listen inĪ dirty boy who come down on a side of dissonance I'm trained in vagina whisperin', glistenin' The cheaper the parts, the better buy for the money I'm here to buy hearts, I got hundreds, honey Now I'll never get that phrase off my brain, it's no wonder I listened, tatted a sentence on my dick last summer Just spit it disgusting youngin', and hold your nuts while you're gunnin' Run them, run them, r-run them, r-run them, run them, r-run themĪ wise man once said, ("We all dead, fuck it") (Aye, we the type to beat the preacher with a grin and a gun) Look at Mikey, I think he likey, we are sinister sons I wear my Yankee so tilted I actually walk with a hunch I'll bite into a cyanide molar before you whores win I'm a flip wig synonym, livin' within distortion This whole court is unimportant, you fuckers are walkin' corpses We out of order, your honor, you're out of order We killin' 'em for freedom cause they tortured us for boredomĪnd even if some good ones die, fuck it, the Lord'll sort 'em The burnin' of the sulfur, God damn I love the smellīlankets and pillow torchin', where the fuck the warden?Īnd when you find him, we don't kill him, we just waterboard him When you niggas gon' unite and kill the police, mothafuckas? Where my thuggers and my cripples and my blooders and my brothers? How you like my stylin', bruh? Ain't nobody stylin', bruh'Bout to turn this mothafucka up like Riker's Island, bruh (Look good, posing in a centerfold of Crook Book)īlack on black on black with a ski mask, that is my crook look Run them, run them, r-run them, run them, fuck the slow moįashion slave, you protestin' to get in a fuckin' look bookĮverything I scribble's like The Anarchist Cookbook However, there is an opportunity to dialogue and change the way communities are policed in this country," he said.Run them jewels fast, run them, run them jewels fast There is no neat solution at the end because there is no neat solution in the real world.
"This video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system. Killer Mike released a statement on the video via Pigeons and Planes. He continued, "Our goal was to highlight the futility of the violence, not celebrate it." It's provocative, and we all knew this, so we were tasked with making something that expressed the intensity of senseless violence without eclipsing our humanity," he said. "We had to exploit the lyrics and aggression and emotion of the track, and translate that into a film that would ignite a valuable and productive conversation about racially motivated violence in this country. Watch the powerful visuals below from Killer Mike and El-P.ĭirector Rojas spoke about the opportunity and what message he was trying to convey with his video. Symbolism is rife throughout the video as the two men represent the larger communities they come from and the seemingly never-ending battle between them. Director AG Rojas crafts a simple, no-frills video, yet with an incredibly powerful message as two men - a young black man played by Keith Stanfield ( Jimmie Lee Jackson in Selma) and a white police officer played by Shea Whigham ( Eli in Boardwalk Empire) and - grapple with each other all day and all night on a deserted street without one side ever gaining an advantage or winning and eventually come to rest right next to each other. Run the Jewels have shared the music video for the powerful Run the Jewels 2 track " Close Your Eyes." The video is just as evocative, if not so, as the song that takes a strong stance against the current injustices facing society, like police brutality.
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