It Ain't Hard to Tell

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It Ain't Hard to Tell by Nas

About It Ain't Hard to Tell

"It Ain't Hard to Tell" is Nas' second single and last track from his debut album Illmatic. Produced by Large Professor, the song samples Michael Jackson's 1983 hit single "Human Nature". The single reached #97 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was also a critical success. In 1991, Nas recorded a demo tape for Columbia Records, featuring the original version of "It Ain't Hard to Tell" named "Nas Will Prevail". This version is roughly 90 seconds longer .

It Ain't Hard to Tell Lyrics

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[00:25.32] It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail
[00:28.89] The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
[00:31.49] My mic check is life or death, breathin' a sniper's breath
[00:34.10] I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
[00:36.74] Deep like The Shining, sparkle like a diamond
[00:39.06] Sneak a Uzi on the island in my army jacket linin'
[00:41.97] Hit the Earth like a comet-, invasion!
[00:43.99] Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin'
[00:47.22] 'Cause in my physical, I can express through song
[00:49.59] Delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong
[00:52.28] I drink Moët with Medusa, give her shotguns in Hell
[00:54.96] From the spliff that I lift and inhale; it ain't hard to tell
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[01:18.35] The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up
[01:20.75] Not stories by Aesop
[01:21.98] Place your loot up, parties I shoot up
[01:24.07] Nas, I analyze, drop a jew-el, inhale from the L
[01:27.14] School a fool well, you feel it like Braille
[01:29.18] It ain't hard to tell
[01:30.08] I kick a skill, like Shaquille holds a pill
[01:32.59] Vocabulary spills, I'm Ill plus Matic
[01:35.14] I freak beats, slam it, like Iron Sheik
[01:37.23] Jam like a TEC with correct techniques
[01:39.58] So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me
[01:42.37] Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me
[01:45.32] 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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[02:10.29] This rhythmatic explosion
[02:12.19] Is what your frame of mind has chosen
[02:13.99] I'll leave your brain stimulated, niggas is frozen
[02:16.67] Speak with criminal slang, begin like a violin
[02:19.36] End like Leviathan, it's deep? Well, let me try again
[02:22.14] Wisdom be leakin' out my grapefruit, troop
[02:24.15] I dominate break loops, givin' mics men-e-strual cycles
[02:27.14] Street's disciple, I rock beats that's mega trifle
[02:29.62] And groove even smoother than moves by Villanova
[02:32.37] You're still a soldier, I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra
[02:35.09] Packin' like a Rasta in the weed spot
[02:37.10] Vocals will squeeze Glocks
[02:38.04] MCs eavesdrop, though they need not to sneak
[02:40.90] My poetry's deep, I never fell
[02:42.67] Nas' raps should be locked in a cell; it ain't hard to tell
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From the album: The Legacy of Hip Hop East Coast