[00:10.27]It ain't hard to tell
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[00:31.54]It ain't hard to tell  I excel  then prevail
[00:34.63]The mic is contacted  I attract clientele
[00:37.16]My mic check is life or death
[00:38.93]Breathin a sniper's breath
[00:40.08]I exhale the yellow smoke of
[00:41.52]Buddha through righteous steps
[00:42.64]Deep like The Shinin'
[00:43.75]Sparkle like a diamond
[00:44.99]Sneak a uzi on the island
[00:46.47]In my army jacket linin
[00:47.63]Hit the Earth like a comet invasion
[00:49.54]Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian
[00:51.69]Half-man  half-amazin
[00:52.65]Cause in my physical
[00:54.27]I can express through song
[00:55.47]Delete stress like Motrin
[00:56.60]Then extend strong
[00:57.64]I drank Moet with Medusa
[00:59.41]Give her shotguns in hell
[01:00.89]From the spliff that I lift and inhale
[01:02.83]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:13.90]It ain't hard to tell
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[01:24.75]The buddha monk's in your trunk
[01:26.19]Turn the bass up
[01:27.23]Not stories by Aesop  place your loot up
[01:29.40]Parties I shoot up
[01:30.38]Nas  I analyze  drop a jew-el
[01:32.10]Inhale from the L
[01:33.26]School a fool well  you feel it like braille
[01:35.35]It ain't hard to tell  I kick a skill like
[01:37.62]Shaquille holds a pill
[01:38.66]Vocabulary spills I'm I'll
[01:40.52]Plus Matic
[01:41.30]I freak beats slam it like Iron Shiek
[01:43.24]Jam like a tech with correct techniques
[01:45.45]So analyze me  surprise me
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[01:47.60]But can't magmatize me
[01:48.84]Scannin while you're plannin
[01:50.06]Ways to sabotage me
[01:51.51]I leave em froze like her-on in your nose
[01:54.08]Nas'll rock well  it ain't hard to tell
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[02:06.94]It ain't hard to tell
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[02:17.08]This rhythmatic explosion
[02:18.78]Is what your frame of mind has chosen
[02:20.66]I'll leave your brain stimulated
[02:21.90]Niggaz is frozen
[02:23.08]Speak with criminal slang
[02:24.46]Begin like a violin
[02:25.91]End like Leviathan
[02:26.96]It's deep well let me try again
[02:28.76]Wisdom be leakin out
[02:29.93]My grapefruit troop
[02:30.95]I dominate break loops
[02:32.26]Givin mics men-e-straul cycles
[02:33.56]Street's disciple
[02:34.72]I rock beats that's mega trifle
[02:36.69]And groovy but smoother
[02:37.84]Than moves by Villanova
[02:39.16]You're still a soldier
[02:40.21]I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra
[02:41.75]Packin like a rasta in the weed spot
[02:43.19]Vocals'll squeeze glocks  MC's eavesdrop
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[02:46.10]Though they need not to sneak
[02:47.67]My poetry's deep  I never fell
[02:49.35]Nas's raps should be locked in a cell
[02:51.88]It ain't hard to tell