featuring Large Professor

Intro: Nas and Large Professor

Yeah it's Illmatic (yeah)

It's Illmatic (yeah!)

It's Illmatic huh

(yeah kick that shit)

[LP] One time 4 your mind one time

[Nas] Yeah whatever

[LP] One time 4 your mind one time

[Nas] Yo whatever

[LP] One time 4 your mind one time

Aiyyo Nas (whattup Paul) kick that fuckin rhyme

Verse One: Nas

Check it out

When I'm chillin I grab the buddha, get my crew to buy beers

And watch a flick, illin and root for the villian, huh

Plus every morning, I go out and love it sort of chilly

Then I send a shorty from my block to the store for Phillies

After being blessed by the herb's essence

I'm back to my rest, ten minutes some odd seconds

That's where I got the honey at, spends the night for sexing

Cheap lubrication, Lifestyle protection

Picking up my stereo's remote control quickly

Ron G's in the cassette deck, rockin the shit, G

I try to stay mellow, rock, well acapella rhymes'll

make me richer than a slipper made Cinderella fella

Go get your crew, Hobbes, I'm prepared to bomb troops

Got niggaz who's born, I shot my way out my Mom Dukes

When I was ten, I was a hip-hoppin shorty wop

Known for rocking microphones and twisting off a 40 top, yeah

Chorus: Nas and Large Professor

[LP] One time 4 your mind, one time

[Nas] Yeah whatever

[LP] One time 4 your mind, one time

[Nas] It sound clever

[LP] Hey yo Nas, fuck that, man that shit was fat

But kick that for them gangstas man, fuck all that

Verse Two: Nas

Right, right, what up niggaz, how y'all, it