Skyzoo – Sky Is Like

HiPNOTT Records & First Generation Rich announce that Skyzoo’s new Album “Views of a Lifetime”.

Views of a Lifetime is Skyzoo‘s new album released via HiPNOTT Records & First Generation Rich.

Featuring production from Camouflage Monk, Tuamie, Cartune Beatz, DJ Manipulator, Conductor Williams, Thelonious Martin, Leo Confident & The Other Guys, the EP blends dusty drums, gritty loops, and soulful grit into a tight, hard-hitting narrative.

The lead single, “Sky is Like”, is a modern take on the classic “Nas is Like” by the iconic team of Nas and DJ Premier. As someone who was in high school when that song first dropped, I lived the momentum of that record firsthand. Years later, I came up with the idea of making my own version of the classic, spinning it in my own way, and without speaking about Nas at all on the record, still using it to serve as in homage to Nas and Preemo of sorts just off of the love that I, like everyone else in hip-hop, has for that song. “Sky is Like” is me bringing my own lyrical barrage front and center the way I idolized Nas doing on the OG version in 1999. Production wise, I called my friend and frequent collaborator DJ Manipulator who is an avid Preemo fan and explained the idea to him. I knew he was the perfect person to handle the musical landscape of such an iconic record. The main thing that I wanted to do with the song was not sample Nas is Like or make the beat the same as Nas and Preemo did. I wanted this to be an original beat with of course my own original penmanship, while using the Nas is Like scheme and changing it to Sky is like as a spring board for my lyrical schemes. Honoring our legends while incorporating our own originality is the best way to keep the sport and culture of it all alive.

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