While his Rage Against the Machine bandmates are traveling with Prophets of Rage, frontman Zack De La Rocha has been laying low, apparently hard at work preparing to release a solo project produced by none other than El-P, who is not only one half of Run the Jewels, but also a Company Flow vet and founding member of the indie label Definitive Jux. The first single, “Digging For Windows,” is available for a free download and a mere tease from the often elusive artist.
The lyrics came along with the press release and they are posted in full below:
fuck that bright shit
the spot or the flashlights
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we in la ducking both
in the shadows with lead pipes
the days are all night
see if i pay edison
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no medicine
these blues ain’t more better when
my fever rise in the jungle
as quick as the price spikes
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the days are all night
my future snapped like a rubber band
off my fold on a hand to hand
he drew from his waist
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i put two in his roof
and i can still hear his screams
all night
now they ride their portfolios
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like rodeos
rise every time my cherry glows
on the end of my cig as
the smoke blows through the bars
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and the co’s laugh fades
as he strolls away
says i gotta pay
off that roll away
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or its fuck your visitation days
and i pop off so in solitaire
i dream of offing these fred astaires
and the skin off my fingers tear
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we digging for windows here
where the days are all night
this city’s a trap my partner
under the lights of they choppers
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bodies tools for they coffers
not worth the cost of our coffins
i stare at a future so toxic
no trust in the dust of a promise
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won’t mark the name on a ballot
so they can be free to devour our options
and just like you I’m a target
ill defined by the guap in my pocket
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but the stage make figures
as quick as it off em
what marley and pac get?
i put these caps in capitals
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leave minds blazed in they capitols
i step with a fury so actual fact
that my offense could be capital
we digging for windows here
