It Ain't Hard to Tell

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[00:25.36] It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail
[00:28.86] The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
[00:31.41] My mic check is life or death, breathin' a sniper's breath
[00:34.17] I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
[00:36.73] Deep like The Shining, sparkle like a diamond
[00:39.09] Sneak a Uzi on the island in my army jacket linin'
[00:41.94] Hit the Earth like a comet-, invasion!
[00:43.93] Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin'
[00:47.27] 'Cause in my physical, I can express through song
[00:49.59] Delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong
[00:52.20] I drink Moët with Medusa, give her shotguns in Hell
[00:54.91] From the spliff that I lift and inhale; it ain't hard to tell
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[01:18.34] The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up
[01:20.76] Not stories by Aesop
[01:21.96] Place your loot up, parties I shoot up
[01:24.09] Nas, I analyze, drop a jew-el, inhale from the L
[01:27.12] School a fool well, you feel it like Braille
[01:29.17] It ain't hard to tell
[01:30.08] I kick a skill, like Shaquille holds a pill
[01:32.56] Vocabulary spills, I'm Ill plus Matic
[01:35.17] I freak beats, slam it, like Iron Sheik
[01:37.20] Jam like a TEC with correct techniques
[01:39.57] So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me
[01:42.34] Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me
[01:45.30] I leave 'em froze, like heroin in your nose
[01:47.67] Nas will rock well; it ain't hard to tell
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[02:10.20] This rhythmatic explosion
[02:12.15] Is what your frame of mind has chosen
[02:13.96] I'll leave your brain stimulated, niggas is frozen
[02:16.66] Speak with criminal slang, begin like a violin
[02:19.35] End like Leviathan, it's deep? Well, let me try again
[02:22.19] Wisdom be leakin' out my grapefruit, troop
[02:24.13] I dominate break loops, givin' mics men-e-strual cycles
[02:27.12] Street's disciple, I rock beats that's mega trifle
[02:29.63] And groove even smoother than moves by Villanova
[02:32.38] You're still a soldier, I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra
[02:35.03] Packin' like a Rasta in the weed spot
[02:37.10] Vocals will squeeze Glocks
[02:38.02] MCs eavesdrop, though they need not to sneak
[02:40.93] My poetry's deep, I never fell
[02:42.68] Nas' raps should be locked in a cell; it ain't hard to tell
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