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[00:19.46]It ain't hard to tell
[00:20.57]I excel and prevail
[00:22.39]The mic comes to contact with the third rail
[00:24.88]My raps react, they attack the wack
[00:27.27]Just like a maniac
[00:28.51]With this see I'm a braniac
[00:30.06]I'll pull your tattoo, you never come off
[00:32.44]I flip the script with a sawed off, of course
[00:34.79]A mind of Shakespeare, reincarnated
[00:37.44]Bring the elevated, I'm being R-rated
[00:39.93]This style was cover, drastic, meltin' the plastic
[00:42.80]And I eat mics just like Afton
[00:44.81]burn your pen pad, mics, you'll need not
[00:47.56]'Cause I be packin like a Rasta in a weed spot
[00:50.12]Hittin' your heart with a hollow-tip verbally illin'
[00:52.68]Minds manipulared, my raps are nickel-plated
[00:55.01]I execute raps like I'm swingin' an axe around
[00:58.19]This is the mic shutdown
[00:59.76]Notify the president
[01:01.43]That I'm bombing your residence
[01:03.04]And I'm leaving no evidence
[01:04.81]Voice box sells, lyrics I exhale
[01:07.17]Rappers gettin smoke, you can smell the hot shells
[01:09.57]These dollars fake, snake
[01:11.33]Real dramatized, you might as well be a singer but ain't harmonize
[01:14.93]Here's the break Imma translate verbal so well I excel
[01:18.32]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:28.28]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:39.14]I got a case of verbal fever
[01:41.01]I'm here to make you a believer
[01:42.71]Nas wrecks the tweeters and receivers
[01:44.62]Lyrics'll explode, my brain overloads
[01:46.73]Get me a grammy, competition is dead just like Sammy
[01:49.61]I leave mines magnetized like slaves
[01:52.15]Your style is old fashioned like graves
[01:54.53]Holdin' a pistol at a pastor
[01:56.43]Pullin the trigger faster
[01:57.82]Tell him I was sent by his master
[01:59.65]But that talk is too deep for your ear
[02:01.86]Here's the science you can comprehend clear
[02:04.39]Advanced intellectual, a time bomb speeder
[02:06.87]I know your whole card just like a palm reader
[02:09.39]Non-stop I'm bustin' heads like the feds, Baby Pops
[02:12.51]This is not the Kindergarten Cop
[02:14.27]Put on your blindfold, Imma release and stand tall
[02:16.71]I detonate bombs at the Policeman's Ball
[02:19.74]This is heart from the heart, I leave a mark for deputies reppin' the same imma rep
[02:24.35]Already I'm ill but I can only get better
[02:26.74]My lyrics as pretty as a nickel-plated Beretta
[02:29.25]A massive dialect of uncommon languages
[02:31.68]A black man caught by the Klan couldn't hang with this
[02:34.53]See the proverbs, copycat attackers, huh
[02:36.95]I'm wanted dead 'cause I'm a genocide to rappers
[02:39.29]Battlin' Nas is death when my brain reacts
[02:42.05]You might has well have fell asleep on a train track
[02:44.18]This ain't the same tact as you're used to
[02:46.20]This is rhythmatic, automatic
[02:47.85]Tried your auto-habit
[02:49.17]Slaughter your tape recorder
[02:50.39]Givin' thanks to my supporters
[02:52.44]And keep flowin' like water
[02:54.27]No matter the obstacle, Nasty Nas will prevail
[02:57.52]Ayo, it ain't hard to tell
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[03:07.91]It ain't hard to tell
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[03:28.79]Check it, I catch rep with my intellect
[03:31.03]Suckas are incorrect
[03:32.46]I wanna win cause slept
[03:33.90]All Nas words born
[03:35.35]I leave the microphone torn
[03:36.96]Forced rappers, you need to write your own song
[03:39.28]Menopause I murder man, hittin' like a verbal Iran
[03:42.10]Hold a mic in my hand, my life is end
[03:43.98]Imitators have swept me like gym class
[03:46.62]Your raps is batshit, then I'll be slipped past
[03:49.03]you rap for roots absolute, then delete 'em
[03:51.33]Verbally eat 'em
[03:52.32]Because my ears don't need 'em
[03:53.87]Nas is a terrorist, analyst, swingin' my fist
[03:56.67]Like a nigga breakin' posessed by satan
[03:58.96]You couldn't compete on a beat that was fast flow
[04:01.62]Brothas and sistas shipped out like I was Castro
[04:03.94]I can eat your flavor but I'm not a candy lover
[04:06.31]I used to leave the references like Danny, brother
[04:08.68]I execute monologues, sabotage entourage
[04:11.50]Mutilate mics like a maniac at large
[04:13.75]I talk with slang, and use my brain
[04:16.27]Generate pain, penetrate your veins
[04:18.68]Move like a maniac, Nas is nice son
[04:21.24]Talk to your conscience and hit like Tyson
[04:23.79]No competition, 'cause I cause wonders
[04:26.12]Nas a battle rapper grindin' football numbers
[04:28.61]I load 'em out killa
[04:29.85]Rhyme writin' thriller
[04:31.04]Hold a Mac-11 and attack a reverend
[04:33.93]Don't sleep 'cause you might not wake
[04:35.88]I speak deep dialects and translate
[04:38.39]Me and friends commit sins on the regular
[04:41.13]Murder my competitors and et cetera
[04:43.77]Nas is a Gypsy Egyptian
[04:45.55]Livin' a script and microphone manufacturers are victims
[04:48.62]My verse makes your eardrums swell
[04:50.83]It ain't hard to tell
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