[00:00.6552][Intro: Nas]
[00:00.17]Slow it down
[00:08.65]This **** feel good up here
[00:16.36]Yeah, it's Illmatic
[00:20.25]It's Illmatic
[00:22.54]Let's go back a little bit
[00:24.08][Chorus: Nas]
[00:24.68]One time for your mind, one time
[00:26.93]Yeah, whatever
[00:27.54]One time for your mind, one time
[00:29.33]Yo, whatever
[00:29.73]One time for your mind, one time
[00:32.07]Yo, whatever
[00:32.97]Hey one, check, check it out
[00:35.91][Verse 1: Nas]
[00:36.06]When I'm chilling, I grab the buddha
[00:37.40]Get my crew to buy beers
[00:38.65]And watch a flick, illin' and root for the villain, huh
[00:41.49]Plus every morning, I go out and love it sort of chilly
[00:44.13]Then I send a shorty from my block to the store for Phillies
[00:46.68]After being blessed by the herb's essence
[00:49.71]I'm back to my rest, ten minutes, some odd seconds
[00:52.36]That's where I got the honey at, spends the night for ***in'
[00:55.15]Keep lubrication, Magnum protection
[00:58.08]Hitting up my stereo's remote control quickly
[01:00.92]Ron G's in the cassette deck, rocking the ****, G
[01:03.77]I try to stay mellow, rock, well a cappella rhymes'll
[01:06.85]Make me richer than a slipper made Cinderella, fella
[01:09.64]Go get your crew, Hobbes, I'm prepared to bomb troops
[01:12.63]Rip in peace to my mom dukes
[01:15.47]When I was ten I was a hip-hoppin' shorty wop
[01:18.02]Known for rocking microphones and twisting off a 40 top
[01:20.96][Chorus: Nas]
[01:21.58]One time for your mind, one time
[01:23.32]Yeah, whatever
[01:24.22]One time for your mind, one time
[01:25.73]Yeah, whatever
[01:26.69]One time for your mind, one time
[01:44.64][Verse 2: Nas]
[01:44.89]You know the hard times, kid
[01:45.99]****, cold, be starving make you wanna do crimes kid
[01:48.45]But I'ma lamp, ‘cause a crime couldn't beat a rhyme
[01:51.80]Muslims yelling "Free the mind"
[01:54.29]And I'm from Queensbridge, been to many places
[01:57.07]As a kid when I would say that out of town, ****** chased us
[02:00.11]But now I know the time, got a older mind
[02:02.55]Plus control a 9, fine, see now I represent mine
[02:05.64]I'm new on the rap scene, ****** never heard of me
[02:08.48]Yet I'm a menace, yo, police wanna murder me
[02:11.27]Heini Dark drinker, represent the thinker
[02:14.01]My pen rides the paper, it even has blinkers
[02:16.79]Think I'll dim the lights, then inhale, it stimulates
[02:19.98]Floating like I'm on the North 95 Interstate
[02:22.91]Never plan to stop, when I write my hand is hot
[02:25.80]And expand a lot from the Wiz to Camelot
[02:28.45]The parlayer, I'll make your heads bop, pa
[02:31.43]I shine a light on perpetrators, like a cop's car
[02:34.33]From day to night, I play the mic and you'll thank God
[02:36.82]I wreck **** so much, the microphone'll need a paint job
[02:40.30]See, my brain is incarcerated
[02:41.99]Live at any jam, I couldn't count all the parks I've raided
[02:45.44]I hold a MAC-11, and attack a reverend
[02:48.47]I contact eleven L's and max in heaven
[02:51.16][Chorus: Nas]
[02:51.36]One time for your mind, one time
[02:53.56]Yeah, whatever
[02:54.26]One time for your mind, one time
[02:56.05]Yeah, whatever
[02:57.04]One time for your mind, one time
[02:59.38]'92 to 2099
[03:02.63]One time for your mind, one time
[03:05.41]One time for your mind, one time
[03:08.55]One time for your mind, one time