Chicago’s own Rich Jones and Montana Macks have shared today the title track of their forthcoming album, How Do You Sleep at Night?
The Jazzy percussion leads the way, while Jones lays down rhymes about the current social climate. The violence with which police met protestors is the central theme of the track and why Jones says he’s “got no love for the boys in blue.” Though calm with his delivery, the chorus is still scathing as he asks the people in charge of maintaining so-called law & order “how do you sleep at night?”
“How Do You Sleep at Night?” follows lead single “Groceries,” featuring Mykele Deville, as the latest cut from the Rich Jones and Montana Macks collab album arriving October 30. Stream it below.
Rich Jones shares via the press release how the song came to life:
I wrote this song in the days following some friends and others being injured by the CPD at a rally downtown [Chicago]… While this wasn’t the first time this had happened last summer, it especially pissed me off following weeks of listening to our mayor bold face lie again and again about how these officers had shown professionalism and restraint. What happened to my friends isn’t my story to tell but I’ll just say that restraint and professionalism are not the words I would use in the slightest. Throw in several months worth of being bombarded with disinformation regarding the pandemic and our futures via leadership in D.C. and I hope you’d understand why I felt and still feel pressed! It’s made me thoroughly question the motives and consciences of those we’ve elected to work for US. How come it’s so easy to get in front of a mic and lie day in and day out? How do you sit with yourself? How do you sleep at night? Unfortunately, I fear they do so far too soundly.
