Midnight (feat. Raphael Saadiq)

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 comin' out for heads, but chill, don't let me start

There's activities a-plenty in the nighttime (Nighttime)

For the ghetto child, it seem to be the right time

See, kids be gettin' stuck with jewels or fly gimmicks

Shorty see the action and then start to mimic

Runnin' to the corner, the dice game is blazin'

Lookin' at the loot, it seems so amazin'

Puts the short down, to be exact, one pound

He shakes the stones in his hands, then he lets it down, uh

Scared money don't make none

He threw a trip on the ace, now he's out, son

Hits the local bodega to wolf down a gyro

Son is on a midnight run like De Niro

Spots a shorty rock standin' on his block

The fiends be houndin' 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 bein' positive

He yawned and he sighed till 1:05

Then he finally realized the honey wasn't live

At least he didn't plan on buildin' for the evening

Threw the FILA on the dome and said, "Come on, yo, we leavin'"

Came out on the scene as he told her to beep him

Saw his man Stan with the blunt in his hand (Aww, shh)

You know the transaction

Brothers gettin' lost in the weed satisfaction

Comin' down the block, man, loud as—

You would swear Redman was inside the truck

As the night seemed darker, cops is on the hunt

They interrupt your cipher and crush your blunt

See, you left your work at home, so they pat you down for nothin'

Why in the hell does 10-4 keep frontin'?

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 your mind

Ayo, the sun'll still shine

But now the night is on the mind

As for me, I'm a nocturnal animal, dark concentrates

On a young Black man who makes the ****' 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, huh

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 your 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

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