[00:00.00]Mind Over Matter -Pete Rock
[00:01.60]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:03.500]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:06.400]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:08.960]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:11.720]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:14.280]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:17.250]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:19.860]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:22.820]Pay attention cause my focus is not that of a clown
[00:25.360]I gets down for mine when I astound you with my rhymes
[00:28.810]It's like that in the years of the 9
[00:31.120]Ini comes though with the rhymes divine
[00:34.10]What you gonna do
[00:34.899]Who you gonna tell
[00:36.79]No-one son
[00:37.39]You can't run you got to stay and listen
[00:39.329]Cuz the the mission is this to be hittin'em'
[00:41.889]With the real flavor all the time
[00:43.648]Yes indeed I'm the g to the r-a-p four square freestyle specialist
[00:49.98]Poppin'the mic
[00:50.378]But can't you see that I'm rockin'the mic
[00:53.08]Shocking mc's because they don't know how to write
[00:55.857]Comin'clear and precise with the rhyme device
[00:58.597]Mathematics manifest so chill don't test
[01:01.417]It's no stress
[01:02.207]We do this on the reg you know the time
[01:04.257]Speaking to the people that matter with my mind
[01:07.47]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:09.497]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:12.537]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:15.27]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:17.977]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:20.297]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:23.447]I-I n I meant to verify
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[01:28.937]From tall tenements streets suspense loss innocence
[01:32.177]Check the events it's all evidence
[01:34.607]That this life is intense with all the b******t and nonsense
[01:37.827]And kids predicaments got me convinced
[01:40.37]When your pockets is bent you can't accomplish nothing
[01:43.27]Brothers is frontin and y'all b**ches do is want something
[01:46.77]I think it's time to get this microphone line and get known for mine
[01:49.386]Making my own sunshine
[01:51.505]Aw yeah living life without a care
[01:54.325]Go from d**e rhyme sayer to major player
[01:56.705]But avoiding the scene cause it's deceitful
[01:59.355]Paranoid in the cream but I needed to feed my peoples
[02:02.605]Rob-o's at the top of the list you thought I'm fallin'
[02:05.645]But back the hell up I'm still ballin'
[02:07.705]Since I rather watch your confidence shatter
[02:09.775]While my pockets gettin'fatter
[02:11.765]Puttin'mind over matter like that
[02:13.655]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:15.714]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:18.694]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:21.164]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:24.174]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:26.484]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:29.754]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:32.173]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:34.723]His -imperial -majesty
[02:36.753]I'm coming in clearly
[02:38.03]Stay preaching to my peoples so they must hear we
[02:40.563]I kept verses on stash since elementary
[02:43.373]Revelations occurred so I became a n**i
[02:46.163]A new age
[02:47.493]Seeing the eyes on stage giving microphone
[02:50.03]Checks and then it's time to engage
[02:52.143]To turn the page just to see a darker shade
[02:54.643]Of african ways being displayed
[02:57.123]I made the grade when I cut the fade
[02:59.203]Now mc is my trade I use to get the bills paid
[03:02.563]So yo save your shade and your thoughts of
[03:04.893]Misbehave cause these are the last f**king days
[03:07.923]So like ace duce tre you pay and I scoop up
[03:11.412]Another beat move up while the rhythm erupts
[03:13.772]So I give em'the funk which is the chord to the batter
[03:16.722]Rhymes over beats equals the mind over matter
[03:19.472]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:22.192]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:24.832]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:30.392]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:35.892]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:41.472]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:47.32]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:52.761]I-I n I meant to verify
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[03:58.90]I-I n I meant to verify
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[04:03.490]Hot stop non-stop
[04:05.10]'Bout how I hip hop
[04:06.380]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[04:09.209]Hot stop non-stop
[04:10.529]'Bout how I hip hop
[04:11.919]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write