Mind over Matter (Explicit)-Pete Rock

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[00:00.00]Mind over Matter (Explicit) - Pete Rock
[00:01.75]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:03.50]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:06.40]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:08.96]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:11.72]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:14.28]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:17.25]I-I n I meant to verify
[00:19.86]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[00:22.82]Pay attention cause my focus is not that of a clown
[00:25.36]I gets down for mine when I astound you with my rhymes
[00:28.81]It's like that in the years of the 9
[00:31.12]Ini comes though with the rhymes divine
[00:34.01]What you gonna do
[00:34.89]Who you gonna tell
[00:36.07]No-one son
[00:37.03]You can't run you got to stay and listen
[00:39.32]Cuz the the mission is this to be hittin' em'
[00:41.88]With the real flavor all the time
[00:43.64]Yes indeed I'm the g to the r-a-p four square freestyle specialist
[00:49.09]Poppin' the mic
[00:50.37]But can't you see that I'm rockin' the mic
[00:53.00]Shocking mc's because they don't know how to write
[00:55.85]Comin' clear and precise with the rhyme device
[00:58.59]Mathematics manifest so chill don't test
[01:01.41]It's no stress
[01:02.20]We do this on the reg you know the time
[01:04.25]Speaking to the people that matter with my mind
[01:07.04]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:09.49]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:12.53]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:15.02]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:17.97]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:20.29]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:23.44]I-I n I meant to verify
[01:26.05]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[01:28.93]From tall tenements streets suspense loss innocence
[01:32.17]Check the events it's all evidence
[01:34.60]That this life is intense with all the b******t and nonsense
[01:37.82]And kids predicaments got me convinced
[01:40.03]When your pockets is bent you can't accomplish nothing
[01:43.02]Brothers is frontin and y'all b**ches do is want something
[01:46.07]I think it's time to get this microphone line and get known for mine
[01:49.38]Making my own sunshine
[01:51.50]Aw yeah living life without a care
[01:54.32]Go from d**e rhyme sayer to major player
[01:56.70]But avoiding the scene cause it's deceitful
[01:59.35]Paranoid in the cream but I needed to feed my peoples
[02:02.60]Rob-o's at the top of the list you thought I'm fallin'
[02:05.64]But back the hell up I'm still ballin'
[02:07.70]Since I rather watch your confidence shatter
[02:09.77]While my pockets gettin' fatter
[02:11.76]Puttin' mind over matter like that
[02:13.65]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:15.71]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:18.69]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:21.16]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:24.17]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:26.48]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:29.75]I-I n I meant to verify
[02:32.17]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[02:34.72]His - imperial - majesty
[02:36.75]I'm coming in clearly
[02:38.00]Stay preaching to my peoples so they must hear we
[02:40.56]I kept verses on stash since elementary
[02:43.37]Revelations occurred so I became a n**i
[02:46.16]A new age
[02:47.49]Seeing the eyes on stage giving microphone
[02:50.00]Checks and then it's time to engage
[02:52.14]To turn the page just to see a darker shade
[02:54.64]Of african ways being displayed
[02:57.12]I made the grade when I cut the fade
[02:59.20]Now mc is my trade I use to get the bills paid
[03:02.56]So yo save your shade and your thoughts of
[03:04.89]Misbehave cause these are the last f**king days
[03:07.92]So like ace duce tre you pay and I scoop up
[03:11.41]Another beat move up while the rhythm erupts
[03:13.77]So I give em' the funk which is the chord to the batter
[03:16.72]Rhymes over beats equals the mind over matter
[03:19.47]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:22.19]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:24.83]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:27.46]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:30.39]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:32.95]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:35.89]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:38.23]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:41.47]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:44.14]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:47.03]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:49.59]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:52.76]I-I n I meant to verify
[03:55.11]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[03:58.09]I-I n I meant to verify
[04:00.70]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[04:03.49]Hot stop non-stop
[04:05.01]'Bout how I hip hop
[04:06.38]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write
[04:09.20]Hot stop non-stop
[04:10.52]'Bout how I hip hop
[04:11.91]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write