By Odeisel

In cities across America, the day timeis filled with the hustle and bustle of commerce. Citizens go to work to feel their families, vendors service them to suport their families and the world goes around. When night fall occurs, an entirely different sector of society emerges to get paper; hustling under the light of the moon. The freaks aren’t the only things that come out at night and Shabaam Sahdeeq, Sadat X and General Steele get you hip to what really goes on at “Nite Time.”

There is no new wave synth or clubby feel to this track, it’s as dirty and seedy as the underbelly it describes.There is a low whine with echoes of early G-Funk Daz production that accents a funky bassline and a muffled drum. A horror organ amps up the seediness.  The perfect backdrop for a song about the evils of urban nightlife.

Sahdeeq raps about Godless stickup kids; relating them to ghouls and goblins, the historic villians of the night. Cars get jacked, vics get shot, and women get accosted, all in the name of lunar commerce. The police are no better; operating as a gang unto themselves with the shield of immunity and the ability to operate with impunity. “41 for [Amadou] Diallo, 50 for Sean Bell, protect and serve homie? I can’t tell, might as well bust back and be alive in jail,” raps Sahdeeq.

Sadat X runs the middle leg with a chick on the left and one on the right asking the listener whether they are prime targets for the jux. Sadat laughs at the fake ballers who walk thorugh fronting with their Jesus peices, but the “crosses on your neck can’t save you.” He then runs downthe list of vices associated with the grimey new york he was riased in, a far cry from the city of transplants it has become. Day may belong to Wall Street, but the night belongs to the vultures.

General Steele close with real grit and chronicles the booze-fuled mayhem binges that also characterize midnight marauders. This tribe doesn’t rap, however, they take from the weak. Steele cooly relays the mechanism of the get down, whether you holding weight with no muscle or you’reon the wrong corner at the wrong time, you are subject to the hood tax. his delivery is tinged with an ice cold malice, and a departure from the Smiff-N-Wessum flow, but its natural malevolence is well placed.

While each of these rappers can be considered “conscious” their collective performance is illustrative of how a wrong turn can change our lives. Perhaps they are reformed from the street life. Perhaps they are opposite sides ofthe same coin. Or perhaps, when the moon is just right, and the night falls, the revert, just for a taste of the “Nite Life.” Keep your eyes open and your wallet in your front pocket. Peace.

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Shabaam Sahdeeq Feat. Sadat X General Steele-Nite Time

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