Born Gregory Skyler Taylor in 1982 in Crown Heights, he grew up in Bedford-… Read Full Bio ↴Born Gregory Skyler Taylor in 1982 in Crown Heights, he grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was nicknamed Skyzoo by his parents after the Skyy disco song (his middle name is Skyler). He began rapping at the age of nine and went on to work with producers Jay Dee and 9th Wonder, releasing several mixtapes in the hope of securing a record deal. He was beaten by Jin on BET's 106 & Park freestyle contest, but went on to have tracks used as both the theme to ESPN's Whiplash TV and the soundtrack to a Guinness advert, and set up his own Custom Made Entertainment company. He has also had a long association with North Carolina rap crew the Justus League, whom he was introduced to via his friend Chaundon, and who he describes as his "second family". Jay Dee's death in 2006 prompted Skyzoo to pay tribute with the song "Sky's Last Donut". He worked with 9th Wonder on his debut album, Present Cloud 9: The 3 Day High, which reputedly took only three days to record. He also contributed to three tracks on the Hall of Justus album Soldiers of Fortune.
He released the critically-acclaimed Corner Store Classic mixtape in 2007, and released a remixed version, including some new material, as a digital download album in 2008. Corner Store Classic was rated 'XL' (4/5) by XXL Magazine. In 2007, he stated that he had a second album ready, called The Salvation, but was waiting for a major record deal before releasing it.
He cites as influences hip hop artists such as Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas, N.W.A., Big Daddy Kane, and Kid 'n Play, as well as artists such as Sade, Nirvana and John Coltrane, and cites Coltrane's A Love Supreme as his favorite album. He credits J Dilla as his biggest inspiration and favorite producer. He has been critical of the direction that Hip Hop has taken, stating "People are taking the 'whetever we gotta do' method, resulting in gimmick records. I'm about making money but it has to be with dope records".
He released the critically-acclaimed Corner Store Classic mixtape in 2007, and released a remixed version, including some new material, as a digital download album in 2008. Corner Store Classic was rated 'XL' (4/5) by XXL Magazine. In 2007, he stated that he had a second album ready, called The Salvation, but was waiting for a major record deal before releasing it.
He cites as influences hip hop artists such as Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas, N.W.A., Big Daddy Kane, and Kid 'n Play, as well as artists such as Sade, Nirvana and John Coltrane, and cites Coltrane's A Love Supreme as his favorite album. He credits J Dilla as his biggest inspiration and favorite producer. He has been critical of the direction that Hip Hop has taken, stating "People are taking the 'whetever we gotta do' method, resulting in gimmick records. I'm about making money but it has to be with dope records".
Collateral
Skyzoo Lyrics
Can it all be so simple Cory and Dennis?
Top 3s and chopped cheese all thru the winters
Box Jeeps and Cardi B's off of the scrimmage
Mahogany behind the seats caught in the lyrics
Do you know where you going to? Draw up what they know of you
Picture that with enough space for whoever should go with you
Told me what we here for same way it was told to you
My Saint Laz's heavy enough to pray over both you
Meaning yall and me is a-alikes for the being
Of time time being a way to find you a lead in
Gil Scott Heron Jill Scott heroine
Hands folded for apple bags or you Elohim it
Be as it may shit will seem to be straight
And banking on collateral's what it be out the gate
The beauty of it all but you still see the decay
And counting's even prettier baby so either way either way
This shit feels like we living a life on borrowed time
This shit feels like we living a life being caught in a high
Been in jail since my daddy was born
But my pen is collateral bond
Oh my God oh my God
Are we really free here?
Either way it's more than just what they're saying
Say you look in the tone and it shows you what they're portraying
They giving you the tone that you need like you was related
Feeling like to atone is to keep it from ever fading
Til you knew the tone you receiving was off a payment
Like when it's two tones on the V' that you serenading
Mike '92 tone on the Beamer Rockaway Ray it
Or white and blue tone from the D's all in the way and
It gets in between soon as you got it you grey it
I mean silly me for tryna Co-Op and New Day it
I be centerpieced like I was tryna two way it
I preach Hennessy but I see the need to Dusse it
The thought of pink bottles of Spade turns into spilling them
Over flow on the dough like the red bones that deliver them
Yeah be as it may shit will seem to be straight
And banking on collateral's what it be out the gate either way
This shit feels like we living a life on borrowed time
This shit feels like we living a life being caught in a high
Been in jail since my daddy was born
But my pen is collateral bond
Oh my God oh my God
Are we really free here?
And you in the back of a rental in front of a bag of maybes
Like maybe shit'll move to where you can call this the 80's
Or maybe this is ruined and you in for an awakening
And the tone that you knew was the root why you mistaken
And waiting and still waiting and still waiting
Told youngin on my second classic to drill a way in
Word to any misconception that they drilled to us
'Cause you still shooing to kill if you kill the shooters
They told us fuck it
Either way it's what we want so do believe what we on baby
I respond like We just here to pick up on some money 'fore they tell us we gone baby
They respond like Get it how you live and how you live is how to get it to God baby
And I respond like either way you put it this collateral is all off the arm baby
Top 3s and chopped cheese all thru the winters
Box Jeeps and Cardi B's off of the scrimmage
Mahogany behind the seats caught in the lyrics
Do you know where you going to? Draw up what they know of you
Picture that with enough space for whoever should go with you
Told me what we here for same way it was told to you
My Saint Laz's heavy enough to pray over both you
Meaning yall and me is a-alikes for the being
Of time time being a way to find you a lead in
Hands folded for apple bags or you Elohim it
Be as it may shit will seem to be straight
And banking on collateral's what it be out the gate
The beauty of it all but you still see the decay
And counting's even prettier baby so either way either way
This shit feels like we living a life on borrowed time
This shit feels like we living a life being caught in a high
Been in jail since my daddy was born
But my pen is collateral bond
Oh my God oh my God
Are we really free here?
Either way it's more than just what they're saying
Say you look in the tone and it shows you what they're portraying
They giving you the tone that you need like you was related
Feeling like to atone is to keep it from ever fading
Til you knew the tone you receiving was off a payment
Like when it's two tones on the V' that you serenading
Mike '92 tone on the Beamer Rockaway Ray it
Or white and blue tone from the D's all in the way and
It gets in between soon as you got it you grey it
I mean silly me for tryna Co-Op and New Day it
I be centerpieced like I was tryna two way it
I preach Hennessy but I see the need to Dusse it
The thought of pink bottles of Spade turns into spilling them
Over flow on the dough like the red bones that deliver them
Yeah be as it may shit will seem to be straight
And banking on collateral's what it be out the gate either way
This shit feels like we living a life on borrowed time
This shit feels like we living a life being caught in a high
Been in jail since my daddy was born
But my pen is collateral bond
Oh my God oh my God
Are we really free here?
And you in the back of a rental in front of a bag of maybes
Like maybe shit'll move to where you can call this the 80's
Or maybe this is ruined and you in for an awakening
And the tone that you knew was the root why you mistaken
And waiting and still waiting and still waiting
Told youngin on my second classic to drill a way in
Word to any misconception that they drilled to us
'Cause you still shooing to kill if you kill the shooters
They told us fuck it
Either way it's what we want so do believe what we on baby
I respond like We just here to pick up on some money 'fore they tell us we gone baby
They respond like Get it how you live and how you live is how to get it to God baby
And I respond like either way you put it this collateral is all off the arm baby
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Written by: Gregory Taylor
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