[00:08.02]It ain't hard to tell  I excel  then prevail
[00:11.04]The mic is contacted  I attract clientele
[00:13.66]My mic check is life or death
[00:14.84]Breathin a sniper's breath
[00:16.32]I exhale the yellow smoke of
[00:17.70]Buddha through righteous steps
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[00:18.97]Deep like The Shinin'
[00:20.01]Sparkle like a diamond
[00:21.27]Sneak a uzi on the island
[00:22.84]In my army jacket linin
[00:23.99]Hit the Earth like a comet invasion
[00:26.12]Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian
[00:28.01]Half-man  half-amazin
[00:29.24]Cause in my physical
[00:30.33]I can express through song
[00:31.69]Delete stress like Motrin
[00:33.08]Then extend strong
[00:34.28]I drank Moet with Medusa
[00:35.67]Give her shotguns in hell
[00:37.08]From the spliff that I lift and inhale
[00:39.03]It ain't hard to tell
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[00:44.89]It ain't hard to tell
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[00:55.29]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:00.78]The buddha monk's in your trunk
[01:02.19]Turn the bass up
[01:03.30]Not stories by Aesop  place your loot up
[01:05.41]Parties I shoot up
[01:06.29]Nas  I analyze  drop a jew-el
[01:07.67]Inhale from the L
[01:08.68]School a fool well  you feel it like braille
[01:11.33]It ain't hard to tell  I kick a skill like
[01:13.57]Shaquille holds a pill
[01:14.54]Vocabulary spills I'm I'll
[01:16.11]Plus Matic
[01:16.93]I freak beats slam it like Iron Shiek
[01:19.40]Jam like a tech with correct techniques
[01:21.62]So analyze me  surprise me
[01:23.02]But can't magmatize me
[01:24.61]Scannin while you're plannin
[01:25.97]Ways to sabotage me
[01:27.37]I leave em froze like her-on in your nose
[01:29.98]Nas'll rock well  it ain't hard to tell
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[01:37.48]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:47.82]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:53.00]This rhythmatic explosion
[01:54.58]Is what your frame of mind has chosen
[01:56.30]I'll leave your brain stimulated
[01:57.49]Niggaz is frozen
[01:58.66]Speak with criminal slang
[02:00.17]Begin like a violin
[02:01.29]End like Leviathan
[02:02.44]It's deep well let me try again
[02:04.19]Wisdom be leakin out
[02:05.29]My grapefruit troop
[02:06.31]I dominate break loops
[02:07.53]Givin mics men-e-straul cycles
[02:09.02]Street's disciple
[02:10.06]I rock beats that's mega trifle
[02:11.73]And groovy but smoother
[02:13.15]Than moves by Villanova
[02:14.46]You're still a soldier
[02:15.58]I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra
[02:17.06]Packin like a rasta in the weed spot
[02:19.05]Vocals'll squeeze glocks  MC's eavesdrop
[02:21.31]Though they need not to sneak
[02:23.10]My poetry's deep  I never fell
[02:24.69]Nas's raps should be locked in a cell
[02:26.94]It ain't hard to tell
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[02:32.58]It ain't hard to tell