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 death

I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps

Deep like The Shinin', 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 drank Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell

From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up

Nas, 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 the skill like Shaquille holds a pill

Vocabulary spills I'm Ill

Plus Matic, I freak beats slam it like Iron Shiek

Jam like a tech with correct techniques

So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magnetize me

Scanning while you're planning ways to sabotage me

I leave em froze like her-on in your nose

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

Street's disciple, I rock beats that's mega trifle

And groovy but smoother than moves by Villanova

Yet still a soldier, I'm like Sly Stallone 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 fell

Nas's raps should be locked in a cell

It ain't hard to tell