It Ain’t Hard to Tell - Nas

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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

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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 feel it like Braille, it ain't hard to tell

I kick a skill like Shaquille holds a pillAnnotate

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 magnetize me

Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me

I leave 'em froze like her-on in your nose

Nas'll rock well, it ain't hard to tell

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This rhythmatic explosion is what your frame of mind has chosen

I'll leave your brain stimulated, niggas 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'll squeeze Glocks

MC's eavesdrop though they need not to sneak

My poetry's deep, I never fail

Nas' raps should be locked in a cell, it ain't hard to tell

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