Nas - One Mic (Official HD Video)

♪ Turn my headphones up ♪ ♪ Nothing gonna stop, me now, nothing baby ♪ ♪ I'm here now ♪ ♪ We here, it's your world ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yo, all I need is one mic ♪ ♪ One beat, one stage, one person ♪ ♪ Front of my face on the front page ♪ ♪ Only if I had one love,, one girl, and one crib ♪ ♪ One God to show me how, to do things his son did ♪ ♪ Pure, like a cup of virgin blood ♪ ♪ Mixed with 151 ♪ ♪ One sip'll probably make me flip ♪ ♪ See my name in the hieroglyphs ♪ ♪ Like Osiris and Isis ♪ ♪ Parables written inside papyruses ♪ ♪ Acknowledge it. ♪ ♪ We've been all tricked, time to come out of it ♪ ♪ Seeds watch us grow up and try to follow us ♪ ♪ Police watch us roll up and try knocking us ♪ ♪ One knee, I ducked, could it be my time is up ♪ ♪ But my luck, I got up,, the cop (censored) again. ♪ ♪ Bus stop, glass bursts, a. fiend drops his Heineken ♪ ♪ Ricocheting between the. spots that I'm hidin' in ♪ ♪ Blackin' out as I duck back ♪ ♪ Forget gettin' hit! ♪ ♪ This is my hood, I'mma rep to the death of it ♪ ♪ 'til everybody come home,. little brothers is grown ♪ ♪ Hoodrats, don't abortion your womb ♪ ♪ We need more warriors soon ♪ ♪ Sent from the star, sun, and the moon ♪ ♪ In this life of police chases, ♪ ♪ street (censored), and coppers ♪ ♪ Stick-up kids with no conscience, ♪ ♪ leavin' victims with doctors ♪ ♪ If you really think you ready to fly with mind powers ♪ ♪ This is what Nas is 'bout, brothers, the time is now ♪ ♪ Yo, all I need is one mic ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ That's all I need ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ All I need ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ All I need is one cup,, one page, and one pen ♪ ♪ One prayer, tell God.

forgive me for one sin ♪ ♪ Matter of fact, maybe more than one ♪ ♪ Look back at all the hatred against me, touch all of them ♪ ♪ Jesus died at age 33 ♪ ♪ There's 33 (censored) from twin (censored) ♪ ♪ There's sixteen apiece, that's thirty-two ♪ ♪ Which means, one of my, dunns was holdin' 17, ♪ ♪ 27 hit your crew, six went into you ♪ ♪ Everybody gotta die sometime ♪ ♪ Hope your funeral never get caught up ♪ ♪ Pain'll go through the innocent ♪ ♪ Nothin' is fair ♪ ♪ Brothers roll up. (censored) from wheelchairs ♪ ♪ My heart is racin',. tastin' revenge in the air ♪ ♪ I let this all slide for too many years, too many times ♪ ♪ Now I'm strapped with, a couple of (censored) ♪ ♪ Too many (censored) ♪ ♪ If y'all people really with me ♪ ♪ Get busy load up the (censored) ♪ ♪ Do more than just hold it ♪ ♪ Explode the (censored) until you empty ♪ ♪ There's nothin' in our way ♪ ♪ They (censored), they rush, we rush ♪ ♪ (Censored) flyin', feel it ♪ ♪ I feel it in my gut ♪ ♪ That we take these dudes, to war, lie 'em down ♪ ♪ Cause we stronger now my, peoples the time is now ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ That's all I need, that's all I need ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ There's nothing else in the world ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ That's all a nigga need, to do his thing y'know ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ All I need is one life ♪ ♪ One try, one breath, I'm one man ♪ ♪ What I stand for speaks for itself ♪ ♪ They don't understand. or wanna see me on top ♪ ♪ Too egotistical ♪ ♪ Talking all that slick stuff,, while my name is biblical ♪ ♪ Wonder what my secrets, is, enemies move on you ♪ ♪ Only if they know, what your weakness is, I have none ♪ ♪ Too late I'm mad young, I'm laughin' ♪ ♪ Cause I'm a cool brother ♪ ♪ Thought I wouldn't have that ass done? ♪ ♪ Fooled you brothers ♪ ♪ What you call a infinite

brawl, eternal souls clashin' ♪ ♪ War gets deep, some. beef is everlastin' ♪ ♪ Complete with thick scars, ♪ ♪ Brothers (censored) each. other up in prison yards ♪ ♪ Drama, where does it start ♪ ♪ You know the block. was ill as a youngster ♪ ♪ Every night it was like a. (censored) would get killed ♪ ♪ Body found in the dumpster ♪ ♪ For real a hustler, purchased my Range, ♪ ♪ People throwing dirt on my name ♪ ♪ Jealous cause fiends got, they work and complain ♪ ♪ Women left me cause they, thought I was finished ♪ ♪ Shoulda knew she wasn't true ♪ ♪ She came to me when her, man caught a sentence ♪ ♪ Diamonds are blindin', I, never make the same mistakes ♪ ♪ Movin' with a change. of pace, lighter load ♪ ♪ See now the king is straight ♪ ♪ Swellin' my melon cause, none of these brothers real ♪ ♪ Heard they were tellin' police, ♪ ♪ How can a kingpin squeal? ♪ ♪ This is crazy, I'm on the. right track I'm finally found ♪ ♪ You need some soul, searchin', the time is now ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ That's all I ever needed in. this world, (censored) cash ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ (Censored) the cars, the jewelry ♪ ♪ All I need is one mic ♪ ♪ Spread my voice to the whole world ♪ (hip-hop beat fades).