Blueprint, Slug, Wordsworth - Night Writers lyrics

Yeah fly shit
Uh, huh

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

"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"
"II write it down and I watch it blow up"
"We the night writers"

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

"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"
"II write it down and I watch it blow up"
"We the night writers"

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

"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"
"II write it down and I watch it blow up"
"We the night writers"