[00:02.07][Intro: AZ] [00:10.56]Yea, yea, check it out [00:11.30]I see today's mathematics as being understanding, you know? [00:14.84]Understanding is having the ability to see things clearly [00:18.27]For what they are not what they present theyself to be [00:20.61]It completes the cipher, you know what I'm saying? [00:23.94]It's also symbolic to the black child which is the best part [00:27.18]Ayo, son, represent [00:29.67][Verse 1: Nas] [00:29.86]Now I'm the average ***** in the street life God [00:32.21]I try to beat trife odds, ride my elite through the night fog and park [00:35.00]It's Buddha to be sparked, it's consistent [00:37.65]The beast smells the el because it travels long distance [00:39.94]Cruising in his Chrysler, pursuing ****** in my cipher [00:42.43]Start wildin' like insane asylum on Rikers Island [00:45.36]Verbal assassin, I murder freestylin' [00:47.30]One two for the gun crew, three drinking Cristal n [00:50.25]I play the side cause the words of man kill [00:52.64]Proverbs, buck out my grill, real as Ill Will, keep still [00:55.52]Nobody move nobody die, why must I be high? [00:57.71]Busting in trife *******, touchin' mic switches [01:00.20]It's like a hot spoon of ******, a Don like Perignon [01:03.09]Females love the guns I be wearing [01:05.03]Plant my seeds to live infinite, indeed in my sentences [01:07.42]I flow demandin', that's understandin' [01:30.64][Verse 2: Nas] [01:30.84]850 Tempo but rugged like a Pinto [01:32.82]Chop shop hip-hop, burn the block intro [01:35.36]High priests release voodoo, déjà vu and this taboo [01:38.35]Illmatic **** and what have you [01:40.29]Chef ******* cook, no brain got the proper diction [01:42.63]My competition bleeds words and **** blurs my vision [01:45.82]I'm freezing in time, stop the rhyme [01:47.86]I'm sober in stolen Range Rover much crime [01:50.25]I, stick up America, Nas in your area [01:52.63]Disrupt the sound barrier, clowns get pounds of terror [01:55.27]A full whip for more clips then Clint has in his era [01:57.67]Dirty Harry, cold black the uncanny, of Kojak [02:00.21]A Beretta sticking up trucks carrying amaretto [02:02.75]Clever to entice 'em, herbs I'm micin' while I'm pricin' [02:05.29]****** like they're slaves, best behave I'm the nice one [02:07.72]Nas, broken down for Nasir, means protection [02:10.32]Pop Dukes, resurrection international hoes, I'm ***in' [02:13.10]Or you'll be ******* one section, question? [02:15.60]Does a lonely mic give me an erection?, yes, son [02:17.64]On a float like the Jetsons futuristic rappin' mystic [02:20.18]Bust it, try and diss while my finger is on the iron biscuit [02:22.97]I rhyme terrific sparklin' like the diamond district [02:25.91]It's understanding