One of my favorite Mobb Deep songs.
It's been a long time since I've left this shining city on the sea of New York. And though I'm in love with it, and it is everything to me, and everything that I am is owed to the experiences I've had here, I feel like I need to escape it. The city that never sleeps. The city of lights. There is always something going on, but there's always something to miss out on. New York can and will beat you down. In every sense that you could be. It is a constantly in motion turbine of life. Spinning. A microcosm of the universe. I'm in it. Spinning with everyone else.
I need a break! As it turns out, this isn't one of those rides you can just ask to stop and get off. We all have obligations. Responsibilities, necessary tasks to handle and an economic requirement to take care of. (Of course if you are certified BALLIN' like Jay-Z, none of this would matter and you'd go as you please, but, like myself, most people reading this aren't)
I want to lock myself in a room in a glass house in the middle of nowhere and make music for 6 months straight. I want to breathe in deep fresh air through an open roof without the exhaust of 8 million people. I want to lay on my back and see stars without the ever present glow of street lights.(Film school pro-tip: We get the color of streetlights by putting Sodium Vapor (Super white flame 232) diffusion in front of blue HMI lights). I want to walk on the Earth and save my tired feet from the constant pounding of concrete, marble, steel, and all types of stone they are subjected to being supported by. I want to walk on trails. I want to climb a mountain. I want to sit on a mountain and do what I've done in hundreds of places all over this city : write.
I want to get away, and I will. It's only a matter of time. But damn, don't you sometimes just wanna GO?
If you read this and have any ideas on where I should go feel welcome to leave suggestions
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