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Night Lights

by DJ Booker x MC Yinka

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    12" vinyl version of "Night Lights", the debut album of the collaboration between DJ Booker & MC Yinka! Featuring Mr. Lif and Twinsanity! Pressed on transparent orange vinyl!

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1.
Intro 02:12
2.
We spiritual gangsters in mind ghettos hustling to gain balance troopers in inner battles. Fortified mentals therapy through instrumentals move! My freedom is not rental. Is like the wire take over the corners Dominate over depression open the borders Of perception survival of the fittest this is the session in which we bombing haunted thoughts we blazing. Hot in a frozen realm, the stakes is high like the moral the war cry is all over see the sound expanding firing hot aura see us standing chariots of the truth in ecstasy we are chanting In the twilight redemption songs fuck the limelight We urban monks with vibrating lungs in suburbs and slums we get high on liberty fighting anxiety in this ill society Representing beats Representing rhymes Representing knowledge Representing truth We need that dope shit a dosage of elevation pushing us to the max the exclamation point.. burning sensation is what I crave It takes a lifetime to know one's self always update your state Relate with your needs your fate is just a reflection of your deeds in the present Magnify your presence we are descendants of preachers and griots of Black Panthers and voices that started riots The voyage is always gonna be pure like a virgin as she has her first orgasm we are bursting emerging poppin’ out from rivers of lava fighting the pain ready to be dream riders The game is unpredictable survival tactics Can be unethical I got stains on my body Cause my process is psychosomatic And when I'm at it I can be serene but also go frantic. Representing beats Representing rhymes Representing knowledge Representing truth Representing respect Representing night Representing will Representing the end
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What speaks in to your soul? What makes your blood boil what makes your mind blow I'm in a rush to peak up my dust refeed the trust in this fucking energy I have I won't rust I keep on digging challenging inspiration In every station its fire steam and agrevation I'm gonna fill the page And Channel all the rage and in the process be lost in space pace my train of thought And be my fucking self man is basic To find your own rhythm in traffic All the Time I feel stiff not elastic Cause my muscles are my psychological condition I gotta be drastic and stretch And then run and fetch my dreams in this test we call life oh yes Don't rest take a break and then get in the in ring again I'm shadowboxing every day to stack up adrenaline Sometimes I choke as if I swallow cinnamon My demons are knocking at my door so I let em in We are depressed go-getters spending time doing nothing but show up when it matters your when your world shatters It's time to do the puzzle the world will judge you but they won't understand your hustle. We live the days of the Corona fear to touch and hug salvation will come if your a loner Walking in the ghost town I shout and hear my echoe pondering over this strange days in empty ghettos And I continue living the now sometimes panicking in anxiety sometimes in denial And I continue living the now sometimes communicating and sometimes in exile Stretch Loosen up My mind stretch around corners It’s known as boomerang theory forced to issue warnings For when you and your gang hear me Hang near me Radio waves is how I wave I was the pipeline for rare communications from slaves now in plague age Everybody’s logo read mayday S.O.S It’s either isolation or death So let me reminisce on crowds at venues Murder on many menus The Social gatherings And rooms filling with laughter when people we’re allowed to stand close Now everybody’s a potential host Around the globe From coast to coast From street to street Under surveillance when we meet Plus the app says it’s a wrap that’s when you’re dead on your feet And I was chosen I started decomposing while composing I was open while the door was closing And I was loathing What the world has become And plus the way that it’s run by privileged idiots who think they’re 2nd to none That’s when I start to go numb My words’ll start to go dumb I hit kickback rap That’s when I spit like a gun A verse’ll rip through your lungs Open your heart up to a martyr The hardest of times That forced us both to rhyme harder Stretch Loosen up
4.
Night Lights 03:10
Hey yaw, night lights yaw I’m in the crib with the fly thought yaw chillin with the memories gettin my groove Monday night still not understood I’m in the mood to inhale the atmosphere and write some shit I take a sip I and just produce syllables hey yinks dont forget to be original ha dont forget to be original Random thought's.. teardrops on dirty spots meet me at the corner, you know I got that hot shit I need to spit my heart out that's it I’m above the ground now Liquid and horny streets and I ready to fuck listen and follow the beat, don’t be a duck Mind business conscious sinners we struck from this underground stars good luck Life is simple people are complex Plain loosing passion like bad sex midnight express run or you will miss the bus Irony and contradictions from dawn till dusk Acid samples.. can't sleep lines are bumpin like bangers repeat This treat is made out of concrete Cold feet.. chills ..and I’m complete I maneuver this negative vibe that's inside Psychologically I break on through from the dark side Urban Jedi with the red eye I’m stoned on life’s obscurity can I Share this melodical image that I saw I draw the flow is acrylic what u see o vivid the streets are the gallery you can be the fucking critic tell how you really see it It all about the legacy but we breath the now got no time for bitch mentalities I want my minds clarity I battle night and day don't wanna fade Hungry for this escapade
5.
Era Of Libra 03:00
I’m cursed to write a verse that makes all my demons disperse I always search for that first sensation when i started my course Emotional burst is this uncontrolled urge to feed the hungry spirit and produce flow that resonates with universe Is the era of a Libra that’s search A Liberal star to align a creature That feeds of ritual a preacher Possessed that as he write scriptures stays blessed hypermotional body hot flesh your minds I carres I stress the meaning of not being Demeaning to your nature and seeing Your full potential read the signs is essential nobody can defend you. You got step up and use your mental strike back cause there war going on in this corrupt residential. I got the momentum to fight against a phantom of sick opera abduct it and don’t ask for ransom its awesome to see your dreams blossom to feel your soul dancing You got the light u are handsome You are handsome. I just take notes and give a dose of how life flows No matter the blows i stay resilient raised on beast mode. I got a heavy load Spiritual i got let it go Feeling my gaps emotionally Lyrically riding on new roads Life is mysterious The psyche embraces your subconscious Is hard to keep it together Can get rid of your phobias I trip on this creative process to gain euphoria see and travel to the future like a motherfuckin DeLorean This Art is self explanatory Vivid narratives pure natural stories No preservatives we be serving this Raw we be rocking them worlds We be break in them jaws Burning crooked laws believe and Follow the force That emanates from your source Inspiration gives u a cause Fight and win your wars.
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It’s the Metropolis an underground dirty acropolis the spirit of a decadent civilization is harassing us I know the history is great But today you grind your way trying not fade a way The vibe is grimy people are grumpy prejudice youngs are restless thinking of the future That's ominous Democracy is mocking us Same o same o Bureaucracy is slaving us Vicious circle. The game we play is crisis Next level shit oppression as the sun rises can't stay legit Step aside its a suicide People hit rock bottom It smells like a genocide Bloody streets riots and heat Struggle and defeat Fuck the police tears gas I can't breathe Revolution through news feeds Evolution through retweets. Attention direct connection Athens shitty crooked nation Athens Greece the belly of the beast and civilians try to grow seeds in grounds that’s deceased Vultures feast on your hard labor Time freeze ill behavior where’s your savior This land is rich but people can't produce migrants are marginalized through bloodsucking rules European funds the party has began Business as usual but who's the Don Down town odyssey is like flowing in junkies artery dont watch is robbery hustlers epitome Walk with insensitivity create a safety zone poverty does not exist and you are not stoned Refugee camps racism chants Fascist dance on top of the working class and get in a trance Fuck Nazis we urban fighters You are an abomination bullies and liars Rumpled areas multicultural subcultures are emerging in a land with no infrastructure Uninspired architecture no horizon But we still visionaries still the hope is rising.
7.
Dope Zone 03:29
Stay stable don't burn out Kill the doubt what is this grey cloud above our heads It rains and we stay depressed You vexed but you feed from your stress Who's your pusherman who's your hero Is your hope powerful like the sting of the needle Amplify your steelo don't be loose The high just started and you know the rules. Speed it up your body need energy Perception is weak so avoid any rivalry How many thrills and how many pills? What do you really wanna see in this grey and purple fields? Never ending placebo dreams Cannot follow the scenes illusion justifies the means Don’t loose your composure just sell it Enjoy your exposure they'll like it Intoxicated hopes are we the pimps or the hoes Is all good when you roll the doe Your time of greatness and wittiness is little like when you sniff blow Enjoy as you grow old Ecstatic like when you dance in a rave psychedelic You see colors figures in shades The trip is sacred, is it a phase? Don't over do it will show on your face Love can be addictively pathetic If you fall in love idolizing synthetic images fake Bloodsucking mothefuckers are distorting your tenderness Wake up there’s no oasis in the wilderness You dehydrated u just need water man Take a deep breath and fill your lungs with the breeze man Produce your own high don’t be insecure This society is ill, you are the cure
8.
New Genesis 02:45
It’s the scent of the breeze That brings the change expecting the new is so strange empty days Till u find this small crack to happiness can't go back man is meaningless.. I’m daydreaming seeing the vision In a season of no reason I’m freezing trying to be warm And pleasing dealing with daily routine But killing time cause I’m not getting mine and i always think i have deadline I know sky the limit but sometimes Is so hard to lift your eyes and see it dig it vanity always gonna be there and ill try to kill it reality check every night day so hard to deal with them I just go with flow Follow the glow Go on with the show think fast and live slow Give birth to gems to see tomorrow Atmospheres above atmospheres below, no sorrow I create to elevate the fallen spirit I hate not being prolific my fate Is in a lyric I state my organic thinking is not a gimmick There’s a lot going in my soul gotta spit it So can I seek myself and reach the peak And speak my mind Over a heartbeat manipulate time And feed my need to succeed I know gotta bleed and my wounds i gotta lick Im just trying on and on keep the game strong Sing a song embrace the dawn And run in large fields the wind is strong but keep going on and when you reach a new quest has began We need an apocalypse as we need the sun reinvent to stay alive and have fun Enjoy loving someone have an inner drum and keep the pace rhythm you are never done
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My swinging is tribal Try to peep my recital I an urban revival I try to rock your cradle Ready willing and able To connect with my cable Live and direct my music will always be faithful. Always in a trance Grooving to enhance Work my psyche to my personal deliverance Its a freedom dance and twerking my soul wake up this is real life we ain’t playing no roles I rhyme for the spirits Ancient ancestral spitters Poets and culture diggers generation leaders Fuck your dazzling image Still rock with dreamers Full circle baby we always going to be beginners In a new era Alpha to omega And beyond In new galaxies i enter the vibe representer, I reside in the center Down town raw and uncut Thats is the splendor. Fuck your social status Were in this class war We gonna fight for our shit Bash your closed doors Bodies down in the street they hit with no remorse Live like soldier and Serve the pure human source Fucking dummies, we gonna smack your Ignorance out of your head Break your glass jaw You live in a bubble Don’t connect with struggle The game we play is riot We always gonna be your trouble Snakes rattle ready To choke the dream We bust a move Score to live Like Hakeem the dream Athens heat baby many blazing schemes either you get Roasted or you exhale the steam Beyond the horizon I fly like the dragon Spit fiery thoughts Contribute to the uprising It ain’t easy bruh But I’m still riding On my emotions Keep on revolutionizing
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Outro 01:58

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How would Roc Marciano and MF Doom sound if they were born in Athens to immigrant parents?
MC Yinka & DJ Booker provide an answer by teaming up to bring us their first LP “Night Lights”.
MC Yinka finds inspiration in blighted areas, urban struggles and multicultural subcultures. Night Lights is fully produced by DJ Booker who balances between trippy and minimal sounds with dark beats which vary from broken to “J Dilla – inspired” rhythms to discreet patterns that trigger the imagination and the expectations of the audience.
The album also features one of the best “conscious” MCs, Mr. Lif and the hip-hop street performers Twinsanity who call our attention to the raw reality from Athens to Boston.

Night Lights is released on vinyl by the label Mind The Wax and includes 10 tracks.

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released February 26, 2021

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dj booker had shared the stage with names like : dj krush , dj shadow , dj q bert , madlib , nostalgia 77,general levy,jeru the damaga,
j rocc ,dilated peoples ,jedi mind tricks, gza , ghostface , masta ace , looptroop ,dj vadim , bonobo , booca 45 ,stagga, pinch ,digital mystikz, jahtari soundsystem ,gaslamp killer & gonjasufi and many more in many gigs in greece and in festival's across europe.
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