Mind Over Matter -Pete Rock

I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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Pay attention cause my focus is not that of a clown

I gets down for mine when I astound you with my rhymes

It's like that in the years of the 9

Ini comes though with the rhymes divine

What you gonna do

Who you gonna tell

No-one son

You can't run you got to stay and listen

Cuz the the mission is this to be hittin'em'

With the real flavor all the time

Yes indeed I'm the g to the r-a-p four square freestyle specialist

Poppin'the mic

But can't you see that I'm rockin'the mic

Shocking mc's because they don't know how to write

Comin'clear and precise with the rhyme device

Mathematics manifest so chill don't test

It's no stress

We do this on the reg you know the time

Speaking to the people that matter with my mind

I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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From tall tenements streets suspense loss innocence

Check the events it's all evidence

That this life is intense with all the b******t and nonsense

And kids predicaments got me convinced

When your pockets is bent you can't accomplish nothing

Brothers is frontin and y'all b**ches do is want something

I think it's time to get this microphone line and get known for mine

Making my own sunshine

Aw yeah living life without a care

Go from d**e rhyme sayer to major player

But avoiding the scene cause it's deceitful

Paranoid in the cream but I needed to feed my peoples

Rob-o's at the top of the list you thought I'm fallin'

But back the hell up I'm still ballin'

Since I rather watch your confidence shatter

While my pockets gettin'fatter

Puttin'mind over matter like that

I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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I-I n I meant to verify

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His -imperial -majesty

I'm coming in clearly

Stay preaching to my peoples so they must hear we

I kept verses on stash since elementary

Revelations occurred so I became a n**i

A new age

Seeing the eyes on stage giving microphone

Checks and then it's time to engage

To turn the page just to see a darker shade

Of african ways being displayed

I made the grade when I cut the fade

Now mc is my trade I use to get the bills paid

So yo save your shade and your thoughts of

Misbehave cause these are the last f**king days

So like ace duce tre you pay and I scoop up

Another beat move up while the rhythm erupts

So I give em'the funk which is the chord to the batter

Rhymes over beats equals the mind over matter

I-I n I meant to verify

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Hot stop non-stop

'Bout how I hip hop

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Hot stop non-stop

'Bout how I hip hop

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