Luxury tenements choking the skyline
It's low life getting tree-top high

from Yasiin Bey – Hip Hop Lyrics on Rap Genius

Mos addresses gentrification (making “luxury” apartment buildings out of former tenements), then just beginning to sweep through his native Brooklyn, and juxtaposes the image of skyscrapers with another contradiction — a “low” life getting “high” on marijuana. The naturalness of the tree-top contrasts with the oppressive artificiality of the skyscraper.

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