One Time 4 Your Mind

[00:05.65] Yeah, it's Illmatic (yeah)
[00:09.35] It's Illmatic (yeah!)
[00:12.20] It's Illmatic, huh
[00:14.66] (Yeah kick that shit)
[00:16.60] One time 4 your mind, one time
[00:18.99] Yeah whatever
[00:20.06] One time 4 your mind, one time
[00:21.98] Yo whatever
[00:23.37] One time 4 your mind, one time
[00:25.42] Aiyyo Nas (whattup Paul) kick that fuckin rhyme
[00:28.62] Check it out
[00:29.67] When I'm chillin, I grab the buddha, get my crew to buy beers
[00:32.76] And watch a flick, illin and root for the villian, huh
[00:34.94] Plus every morning, I go out and love it sort of chilly
[00:38.47] Then I send a shorty from my block to the store for Phillies
[00:41.21] After being blessed by the herb's essence
[00:44.26] I'm back to my rest, ten minutes some odd seconds
[00:46.98] That's where I got the honey at, spends the night for sexing
[00:50.86] Cheap lubrication, Lifestyle protection
[00:53.45] Picking up my stereo's remote control quickly
[00:56.13] Ron G's in the cassette deck, rockin the shit, G
[00:59.34] I try to stay mellow, rock, well acapella rhymes'll
[01:02.70] Make me richer than a slipper made Cinderella fella
[01:05.58] Go get your crew, Hobbes, I'm prepared to bomb troops
[01:07.54] Got niggaz who's born, I shot my way out my Mom Dukes
[01:11.99] When I was ten, I was a hip-hoppin shorty wop
[01:15.03] Known for rocking microphones and twisting off a 40 top, yeah
[01:18.28] One time 4 your mind, one time
[01:19.51] Yeah whatever
[01:21.86] One time 4 your mind, one time
[01:23.45] It sound clever
[01:25.16] Hey yo Nas, fuck that, man that shit was fat
[01:27.42] But kick that for them gangstas man, fuck all that
[01:30.45] Right, right, what up niggaz, how y'all, it's Nasty the villian
[01:32.83] I'm still writin rhymes but besides that I'm chillin
[01:36.02] I'm trying to get this money, God, you know the hard times, kid
[01:39.74] Shit, cold be starvin make you wanna do crimes kid
[01:42.70] But I'ma lamp, cuz a crime couldn't beat a rhyme
[01:46.00] Niggaz catching 3 to 9's, Muslims yelling free the mind
[01:49.01] And I'm from Queensbridge, been to many places
[01:52.12] As a kid when I would say that out of town, niggaz chased us
[01:55.13] But now I know the time, got a older mind
[01:57.69] Plus control a nine, fine, see now I represent mine
[02:00.88] I'm new on the rap scene, brothers never heard of me
[02:04.37] Yet I'm a meance, yo, police wanna murder me
[02:07.35] Heine(ken) Dark drinker, represent the thinker
[02:09.90] My pen rides the paper, it even has blinkers
[02:13.33] Think I'll dim the lights then inhale, it stimulates
[02:16.54] Floating like I'm on the North 95 Interstate
[02:19.26] Never plan to stop, when I write my hand is hot
[02:23.09] And expand alot from the Wiz to Camelot
[02:26.08] The parlayer, I'll make ya heads bop Pah
[02:29.40] I shine a light on perpetrators like a cop's car
[02:32.29] From day to night, I play the mic and you'll thank God
[02:35.56] I wreck shit so much, the microphone'll need a paint job
[02:39.75] My brain is incarcerated
[02:41.00] Live at any jam, I couldn't count all the parks I raided
[02:44.89] I hold a Mac-11, and attack the Reverand
[02:48.33] I contact 11 L's and max in heaven
[02:51.10] One time 4 your mind, one time
[02:53.76] It sound clever
[02:54.99] One time 4 your mind, one time
[02:56.77] Yeah whatever
[02:57.79] One time 4 your mind, one time
[03:00.24] Yo, from ninety-two to ninety-nine
[03:02.70] Yeah that shit was greasy fat Paul, kno what I'm sayin?
[03:08.21] But check it, you gotta another verse for me
[03:11.79] I want you to kick it, you know what I'msayin?
[03:12.91] Kick that shit for the projects
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