Dilated Peoples are a hip hop group who have achieved great fame in the underground hip hop community, although their only real mainstream success was the song This Way, a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West. DJ Babu (from the DJ crew Beat Junkies), Evidence, and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released Third Degree and Work the Angles, which were quickly established as favorites in the underground scene and among rap critics. They eventually signed to Capitol Records and in 2000 released The Platform, to more critical acclaim. Their sophomore set Expansion Team was released in 2001, led by the Alchemist-produced single Worst Comes To Worst, which sampled from Mobb Deep's Survival Of The Fittest. Their third album, Neighborhood Watch, was released in 2004 and debuted at #55 on USA's Billboard 200 Albums Chart.
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Night Life Lyrics
Dilated Peoples
Chorus:
[evidence]
Night life..
Ready to spit
Tags what? evidence
Cross the planet
Step it up this year weather man
The times right, sleep all day to wake up for night life
Ready to spit
When it drops, gonna hit
We step it up, no doubt the times right
Sleep all day to wake up for night life
Start every verse with something to quote:
The devil you know, is better than the devil you dont
Last year.. a test, true colors where shown
Kings remained in chess on the board and life in thrones
Music catch the force of my mic
Thats why at night I be out postin up my own snipes
For years I sat back, played the role, what for?
This here disc, hear us raw
Cant fake it anymore
Check it out: you now witness the scenes
2nd release, expansion team
Shit thumps, shine bright headlights seen on
The like laser beams drive fast things and tee green
(chorus)
You know these nights aint gettin any longer
Put your best out and bail
You never know, you might get stronger
I stood back a bit, take punchlines out raps been more legitimate
Solidify our place in the game, pleasure with pain
Tropical flow: see sun but feel rain
Its easy to seclete yourself up in the mix
Thats why its good to get out at night and holler at chicks
I take it back before studio racks,
Before I understood the concept of seperatin tracks
Before...
Around the time my life when I swore
That the mic was a device not to be taken light
Chorus
Night life...
Graffiti artists get armed
Cans get shook, the walls get bombed
This is the time when shadow rocks get thrown
At your tinted car windows sound off the alarm
This is the time you execute your plan
While other people sleep, jewels get ran
In get away vans exit off ramps
Smaller operations are shops bigger one camps
Rock knots in pocket pants
Got the advance, and back for my back end in hands
And things aint always what they seem from a glance
But up close shitll change your whole prespective
Shadows close in, you realize you aint protected
(chorus)