Night Writers

Lyrics

[Intro: Blueprint] Yeah Fly shit Uh huh [Verse 1: Blueprint] I wrote my first rhyme at school on a Saturday Stuck there for half a day all because I can't behave Already upset 'cause I was up so early With other show outs that showed up at 7:30 To make matters worse, we had to turn in an assignment Now what we did wrong, so I decided I would rhyme it That's when my mind went, time started flying Suddenly I was done and wondered where all the time went My first rhyme, I never thought I was headed Anywhere until my teacher cracked a smile when he read it Back then, that little validation got me so amped 'Til now I travel 'round the nation rocking for fans Who I wax and ask when my next book coming out Amazed in many ways on what my pen's brought about Humble beginnings but now I get to speak it with clout 'Cause my name ring bells like schools letting out [Chorus] "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "Stayed up late to write some rhymes to some rhythms" "See, with the pen I'm extreme" "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "I-I write it down and I watch it blow up" "We the night writers" [Verse 2: Slug] Wifey says I get cold and icy Like I might be destressed if I don't write nightly Turn a couple pages in my psyche, maybe I be understood I'm not allowed to put a price upon the livelihood I tapped the buttons 'til the sun is coming up And tryna glimpse through these basement windows Ground level, 26 symbols A keyboard, a pencil, send some smoke signals Gotta write it all the way instead of throw it all away 'Cause I don't know no other way, okay? Whether or not any whoever heard the verse won't sway On how I measure giving worth to these words today It's what it takes to escape and put my mind right Let the lightning strike or go linear line for line And even when there ain't a limelight I might Still write rhymes about writing these rhymes [Chorus] "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "Stayed up late to write some rhymes to some rhythms" "See, with the pen I'm extreme" "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "I-I write it down and I watch it blow up" "We the night writers" [Verse 3: Wordsworth] It's like a maze how these lines are shaped to design Graduated from college writing papers and rhymes African Studies got an A in, people, power, and politics Then followed it with grad school at the U on a scholarship 5 vowels, 26 letters, 21 consonants Played in 196 countries on 7 continents Bright nights, my mind's a night light, the beats resume the boom My window from how the light's bright, it's like room's a moon I assume you goons buffoons, you meet your doom you're soon In a tomb like old westerns meet at salloons at noon You brought a knife to a gunfight, we the night writers I'm an assault rifle, you a knife fighter I'm a laptop, you a typewriter Against us with highlighters you couldn't write brighter You never edit mine, I better so nevermind Every line I got credit for got me in good credit line [Chorus] "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "Stayed up late to write some rhymes to some rhythms" "See, with the pen I'm extreme" "I write in the night to bring truth to the light" "S-s-sacrifice things like no sleep" "I-I write it down and I watch it blow up" "We the night writers"