Raphael Saadiq, A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight lyrics

The night is on my mind
The sun'll still shine
But the night is on my mind
So parlay while I drop this rhyme

See, Jake be gettin illy when
The sun get dark
He be coming out for heads but
Shit don't let me start
There's activities a-plenty in the nighttime
For the ghetto child it seem
To be the right time
See, kids be getting stuck with
Jewels and fly gimmicks
Shorty see the action and then start to mimic
Running to the corner
The dice game is blazing
Looking at the loot, it seems so amazing
Puts the short down, to be exact one pound
He shakes the stones in his hand
Then he lets it down


Scared money don't make none
He threw a trip on the ace now he's out son
Hit's the local bodega to wolf down a hero
Son is on a midnight run like De Niro
Spots a shorty rock standing on his block
The fiends be hounding him to pump
So he adds to his knot
Conversation that he kicked to the
Shorty was a sly one increased intensity
'cause damn she was a fly one
Took her to the crib there she ran her jibs
About mind upliftment and being positive
He yawned and he sighed til 1: 05
Then he finally realized that
Honey wasn't live
At least he didn't plan on
Building for the evening
Threw the Fila on the dome
And said 'Come on yo, we leaving'
Came out on the scene as he
Told her to beep him
Saw his man Stan with the blunt in his hand
(Ah sh) You know the transaction
Brothers gettin lost in the weed satisfaction
Coming down the block man loud as (fuck)
You would swear Redman was inside the truck
As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt
They interrupt your cipher
And crush your blunt
See you left your work at home so
They pat you down for nothing
Why in the hell does 10-4 keep fronting
You push to the park even
Though it's still dark
The kid is nice on the hoop
He said 'I'll spot you troop'

The night is on my mind
The sun’ll still shine
But now the night is on the mind
The night is on the mind
The night is on yo mind
Ayo, the sun’ll still shine
But now the night is on the mind

As for me I'm a nocturnal animal
God concentrates on a young black man who
Makes the niggas speakers shake
The nighttime is busy
It's word to Aunt Kizzy
It's the time we get down, yo son
You know the sound
The flavas on the top with the
Rugged beat to back it
The night makes the aura and
The Jake can't hack it
The way the moon dangles in the midnight sky
And the stars dance around
Ayo I think it's fly
Intensity, most rappers don't see it
Spirit wise, musically, you gotta be it
Serenity and silence of the
Sounds and emotions
In the concrete jungle when
The sun don't bungle
I think it's hard to find the
Words on how I feel
I paid about a deuce twenty
For the Ampex steel but let me slow down
I think I ran my jibs enough
Peace out to the Nation
Stay rugged and rough

The night is on my mind
The sun’ll still shine
The night is on my mind
The night is on my mind
The night is on my mind
Yeah, the sun’ll still shine
But now the night is on my mind
Uh huh, the night is on my mind
The night is on yo mind
You know the sun’ll still shine
But now the night is on the mind
Yeah, the night is on the mind
The night is on the mind
Ayo, the sun’ll still shine
But now the night is on the mind
Yeah, the night is on the mind
The night is on the mind
Ayo, the sun’ll still shine

Did you know that the rate
Of AIDS in the Black
And Hispanic community is rising
At an alarming rate?
Education is proper means for slowing it down