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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nas
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nasir Jones
Songwriter
W.P. Mitchell
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Large Professor for Paul Sea Productions, Inc.
Producer
Stan Wallace
Recording Engineer
Diego Garrido
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It ain't hard to tell, I excel then prevail
The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
My mic check is life or death, breathing a sniper's breath
I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
Deep like The Shining, sparkle like a diamond
Sneak a Uzi on the island in my army jacket lining
Hit the Earth like a comet invasion
Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half amazing
'Cause in my physical, I can express through song
Delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong
I drink Moet with medusa, give her shotguns in hell
From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell
[Verse 2]
The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up
Not stories by Aesop
Place your loot up, parties I shoot up
Nas I analyze, drop a jewel, inhale from the L
School a fool well, you'll feel it like Braille
It ain't hard to tell, I kick a skill like Shaquille holds a pill
Vocabulary spills, I'm ill plus Matic
I freak beats, slam it like Iron Sheik
Jam like a TEC with correct techniques
So analyze me, surprise me but can't magmatize me
Scanning while you're planning ways to sabotage me
I leave 'em froze like heroin in your nose
Nas will rock well, it ain't hard to tell
[Verse 3]
This rhythmatic explosion
Is what your frame of mind has chosen
I'll leave your brain stimulated, **** is frozen
Speak with criminal slang, begin like a violin
End like Leviathan, it's deep well let me try again
Wisdom be leaking out my grapefruit, troop
I dominate break loops, giving mics men-e-strual cycles
Street's disciple, I rock beats that's mega trifle
And groove even smoother than moves by Villanova
You're still a soldier, I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra
Packing like a Rasta in the weed spot
Vocals will squeeze Glocks
MC's eavesdrop though they need not to sneak
My poetry's deep, I never fell
Nas's raps should be locked in a cell, it ain't hard to tell
Written by: Nasir Jones, Paul Mitchell