Key: A minor•
Verse 1
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Yeah, it's illmatic
It's illmatic (yeah)
It's illmatic, huh
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(Huh, check it)
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(One time for your mind, one time) Yeah,
Verse 2
whatever
(One time for your mind,
one time)
Yo, whatever
(One time for your mind, one time)
Ayo, Nas (what up,
Paul?) Kick that fuckin' rhyme
Verse 3
When I'm chilling, I grab the Buddha,
get my crew to buy beers
And watch a flick,
illin' and root for the villain, huh
Plus, every morning,
I go out and love it, sort of chilly
Then I send a shorty from my
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block to the store for phillies
After being blessed by
the herb's essence
I'm back to my rest, ten minutes,
some odd seconds
That's where I got the honey at,
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spends the night for sexing
Cheap lubrication, lifestyle protection
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quickly
Ron G's in the cassette deck
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, rockin' the shit, G
I try to stay mellow, rock, well,
acapella rhymes'll
Make me richer than a slipper
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made Cinderella, fella
Go get your crew, Hobbes,
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I'm prepared to bomb troops
Got niggas who's born,
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I shot my way out my mom dukes
When I was ten,
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I was a hip-hoppin' shorty shorty wop
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Known for rocking microphones and twisting off a forty top,
yeah
Verse 4
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time)
Yeah, whatever
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(One time for your mind, one time)
It sound clever
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that shit was fat)
(But kick that for them gangstas, man,
fuck all that)
Verse 5
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how y'all? It's Nasty, the villain
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but besides that I'm chillin'
I'm trying to get this money, God,
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you know the hard times, kid
Shit, cold be starvin',
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make you want to do crimes, kid
But I'm a lamp,
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'cause a crime couldn't beat a rhyme
Niggas catching three to nines,
Muslims yelling free the mind
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to many places
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As a kid, when I would say that out of town,
But now I know the time, got a older mind
Plus control a nine, fine, see,
now I represent mine
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brothers never heard of me
Yet I'm a meance, yo,
police want to murder me
Heine dark drinker,
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represent the thinker
My pen rides the paper,
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it even has blinkers
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it stimulates
Floating like I'm on the north
ninety-five interstate
interstate
Never plan to stop,
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when I write my hand is hot
I shine a light on perpetrators,
and you'll thank God
I wreck shit so much,
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the microphone'll need a paint job
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I couldn't count all the parks I raided
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I hold a MAC-11, and attack the Reverend
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I contact eleven L's, and max in heaven
Verse 6
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Yo, one time for your mind, one time
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But one time for your mind, one time
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One time for your mind, one time
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Yo, from ninety-two to to ninety-nine
Verse 7
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Yeah
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Yeah, Yeah, that shit was greasy,
fat Paul, know what I'm saying?
I want you to kick it,
you know what I'm saying?
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