Neon Never Sleeps

2020s trap-influenced hip-hop. Heavily processed 808 sub-bass with slow portamento slides, pitch-shifted electric guitar samples chopped into stuttering loops, layered synth pads with long attack and rolled-off highs, programmed hi-hats with triplet rolls and sudden open-hat accents, a punchy side-chained kick. Auto-tuned mid-tenor with extreme pitch-correction artifacts and melodic runs, reverb-drenched doubled vocal stacks panned wide, sparse verses collapsing into dense wall-of-sound drops, and psychedelic detuned synth swells between sections.

[Intro] (auto-tuned hum, ad-libs) Yeah... neon never sleeps (never sleeps) City on my shoulders (yeah, yeah) [Verse 1] (sparse, melodic auto-tune) Midnight on the rooftop, I can see it all (see it all) Every street's a circuit board, I'm reading through the code (woah) They was sleeping on me, now they're blowing up my phone (brrr) I was down in basements, now the skyline is my home (my home) Eight-oh-eight inside my chest, it slides like gasoline (slide) Everything I prayed for creeping slowly into frame (amen) [Pre-Drop] (stripped, voice and pads) If I fall... I fall in slow motion (slow motion) Neon in my lungs just like a potion (yeah) [Hook] (dense drop, wide vocal stacks) Neon never sleeps, and neither do I (do I) Diamonds in the concrete, headlights in my eyes (my eyes) Run it up, run it up, watch the numbers climb (climb) Neon never sleeps — the city's always mine (mine, mine) [Verse 2] (sparse, melodic auto-tune) Guitar loops like ghosts, they be stuttering the night (night) Hi-hats doing triplets while I'm levitating high (high) Made a promise to the mirror: never touching down (never) Every L I took became a ladder to the clouds (facts) Portamento sliding, let the sub-bass hit the ground (boom) Psychedelic swells — I'm in color, they're in grey (grey) [Bridge] (detuned swells, whisper) City hums... I hum back... Every light on the grid keeps my heart on track... [Hook] (dense drop, wide vocal stacks) Neon never sleeps, and neither do I (do I) Diamonds in the concrete, headlights in my eyes (my eyes) Run it up, run it up, watch the numbers climb (climb) Neon never sleeps — the city's always mine (mine, mine) [Outro] (fading ad-libs) Neon never sleeps... (never sleeps) Neither do I... (yeah)