Night Writers - Blueprint, Slug, Wordsworth

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»

«I-I 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»

«I-I 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»

«I-I write it down and I watch it blow up»

«We the night writers»