Dirty Sanchez x Rokamouth Are a Duo Still Playing For a Chip w/ "Don't Talk To Me"

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This morning as I was listening to "The Joe Budden Podcast" Rory and Joe, during the usual precursory drops and interlude of shooting the breeze before discussing the actual topics on the docket, reassurance over coronavirus fears was offered in via a simple statement: "In such scary times ... we pod." Well ... in such scary times, I write. In such scary times, we do whatever it is we dedicate our time and passion to. And, in such scary times, we listen to music.

In this case we have Dirty Sanchez and Rokamouth's collab project "Don't Talk To Me." The DJ DNA-produced music has somewhat alleviated the most unimportant side to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social distancing and quarantine -- NBA duos. We may never get the answer to best duo this NBA season, but there's a whole other duo in a different game still playing for a chip. And I think they at least clinched a playoff birth.

The 8-track tape plays telephone games and regorges trauma in switched up duties from Dirty and Rokamouth. Songs like "City of Love" see Dirty crooning stoic melodies in the hook, and both New York rappers tell metaphor and reference stressed verses that explore the cut throat nature their city assumes. A cut like "Leave Me Alone" on the other hand dials the early aughts with production garnished with a Nelly sample and vapor chords. Sanchez's cruising flow wake up more metaphors and punchlines to express contempt. And the other six songs dabble in variations of thoughts and emotions within the spectrum of telephone games and trauma.

"Don't Talk To Me" is like a single day for multiple people's lives. DJ DNA's production can be anywhere from tender guitar riffs and party 808s ("Me & You) to ominous chords and brooding bass ("Yeezy47). Dirty Sanchez and Rokamouth's flows and lyrics constantly change and contain a myriad of thoughts and feelings song-to-song, with the use of Kanye West's "THat Part" cadence and Capital STEEZ mention on "Yeezy47" being the most notable. It's one project that lets you get off everything that has bothered you for a while so that after you've let it out you can wash your hands of it and say don't talk to me.

Listen to "Don't Talk To Me" in full below.

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