Writers (Explicit)

Composed by：N. Jones/C. Martin

Produced by：DJ Premier

Writers

Writin' my name in graffiti

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

Writers

Writin' my name in graffiti

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

I'm hard to read like graffiti

Here's my Galactican citizenship card

Interplanetary mission I've been discharged to hit y'all

No ancillary staff will assist me

I'm about to show you what that writer's list be

See I'm a writer in rap form

But these are writers that bomb trains and subway platforms

Courageous bravest street creators

They synonymous with DJs rappers and breakers

Arms folded jail poses ill portraits

Foster kids mixed in with the ill-fortuned

Fat laces back in the day shit calligraphers

Taggin' they names puttin' they signatures in places

Courtyards sports bars landmarks tan Clarks

Jams in the park they doing art

Big bubble letters all over the city

I see it up in high places wonder how they did it

Admit it I always wished that I could do the same

But now the mic is a marker I'm taggin' up names

Sometimes at night I would walk with a pen

With a marker or even some chalk

Writin' my name in graffiti

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

Sometimes at night I would walk with a pen

With a marker or even some chalk

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

I'm hard to read like graffiti

Henry Chalfant made Style Wars

A young Kay Slay tag was Dez go check it out y'all

Zephyr got a Z sprayed on his back

Sleep by the train tracks in Wild Style straight outlaws

Zoro is Lee Quiñones

Shout to Saint Blade Ink Seen Kade Crash and Topaz

Shoutin' out Taki 183

Cornbread straight out of Philly Phase 2 out of NYC

The mic is a marker I'm taggin' more names

Quik and Fuzz and Kool Sphere out of Queens

Case 2 Easy Cap Ghost Jerms

If you into art you should be concerned

These are some of the kings of the graff

And there's some iconic queens I should add

Charmin Claw Lady Pink goes back

And MadC Germany's on the map

On the west Slick Dream Chaka and Hex

And international writers I can't forget

So let's salute the highly gifted Krylon mystics

This is homage to the ghetto hieroglyphics

Sometimes at night I would walk with a pen

With a marker or even some chalk

Writin' my name in graffiti

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

Sometimes at night I would walk with a pen

With a marker or even some chalk

Yes indeedy I wrote graffiti

I'm hard to read like graffiti

Shout out to TeKay Cost and Revs Bom 5 Peak Reas VE Jesus Saves

Too Ill Doze PJ Chino Coco 144 Billy Vinny Flashbacks

JA XTC Crew it's on you what you gonna do?

Baby 168 1-Up Can 2 Bates Kel First we get it straight

Can Control Futura Estro On The Run

Rockin' it Suckers Eli Old Queens Boys Mad Style Kings

Most Talked About Mob Rules For the Rep Can't Be Stopped

For the Rush Dame 3D style of graff

When the cops came they ran away then returned

Keith Haring Crack is Wack just burns into my mind

It's called vandalism like a crime

They had intuition 'cause gettin' pinched was a given

Not new to the system when it's in you it's like a religion

Phade was Fab 5 Freddy oh did I mention?

Crack Sent Giz and Poem

Sitting on the throne it's Merk Gnome

And Skeme Iz the Wiz and Shame

Trap and Vulcan Harlem Hall of Fame

Ice Ich most famous for freight trains

The mic is a marker I'm taggin' up names

Dondi Serve Running Man Wayne Ecko and Totem

Tame One Ase One Min One

Samo that's Basquiat thun

Big shout out the whole Tats crew gang

Hit Scrap Yard to rack up some new paint

Made U Look another legendary crew

How ironic I made a song with that name in '02

Sane Smith two brothers one passed

FX crew Idea and Stash

Risk R-I-S-K Cope Revolt Tracy 168

Doc TC5 crew Part Shy 147 it don't stop

And we all send blessings to these two to Lou 167 and Rule

So let's salute the highly gifted Krylon mystics

This is homage to the ghetto hieroglyphics

To all the writers out there that's just gettin' started

Just gettin' ya name out there keep bombin'