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OftenBen  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Run the Jewels - "Lie, Cheat, Steal" (video)

RTJ have some of the greatest lyricism of any rappers today. Greatest as in best, but also most consistent. Pretty much every song in RTJ2 has a line or eight like this one. I'm particularly enamored of Close Your Eyes And Count To Fuck.

    Or take over a jail, give those COs hell

    The burnin' of the sulfur, God damn I love the smell

    Like it's a pillow torchin', where the fuck the warden?

    And when you find him, we don't kill him, we just waterboard him

    We killin' 'em for freedom cause they tortured us for boredom

    And even if some good ones die, fuck it, the Lord'll sort 'em