Mind Over Matter-Pete Rock

[00:00.00]Mind Over Matter -Pete Rock [00:01.60]I-I n I meant to verify [00:03.500]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [00:06.400]I-I n I meant to verify [00:08.960]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [00:11.720]I-I n I meant to verify [00:14.280]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [00:17.250]I-I n I meant to verify [00:19.860]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [00:22.820]Pay attention cause my focus is not that of a clown [00:25.360]I gets down for mine when I astound you with my rhymes [00:28.810]It's like that in the years of the 9 [00:31.120]Ini comes though with the rhymes divine [00:34.10]What you gonna do [00:34.899]Who you gonna tell [00:36.79]No-one son [00:37.39]You can't run you got to stay and listen [00:39.329]Cuz the the mission is this to be hittin'em' [00:41.889]With the real flavor all the time [00:43.648]Yes indeed I'm the g to the r-a-p four square freestyle specialist [00:49.98]Poppin'the mic [00:50.378]But can't you see that I'm rockin'the mic [00:53.08]Shocking mc's because they don't know how to write [00:55.857]Comin'clear and precise with the rhyme device [00:58.597]Mathematics manifest so chill don't test [01:01.417]It's no stress [01:02.207]We do this on the reg you know the time [01:04.257]Speaking to the people that matter with my mind [01:07.47]I-I n I meant to verify [01:09.497]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [01:12.537]I-I n I meant to verify [01:15.27]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [01:17.977]I-I n I meant to verify [01:20.297]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [01:23.447]I-I n I meant to verify [01:26.57]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [01:28.937]From tall tenements streets suspense loss innocence [01:32.177]Check the events it's all evidence [01:34.607]That this life is intense with all the bullshit and nonsense [01:37.827]And kids predicaments got me convinced [01:40.37]When your pockets is bent you can't accomplish nothing [01:43.27]Brothers is frontin and y'all bitches do is want something [01:46.77]I think it's time to get this microphone line and get known for mine [01:49.386]Making my own sunshine [01:51.505]Aw yeah living life without a care [01:54.325]Go from dope rhyme sayer to major player [01:56.705]But avoiding the scene cause it's deceitful [01:59.355]Paranoid in the cream but I needed to feed my peoples [02:02.605]Rob-o's at the top of the list you thought I'm fallin' [02:05.645]But back the hell up I'm still ballin' [02:07.705]Since I rather watch your confidence shatter [02:09.775]While my pockets gettin'fatter [02:11.765]Puttin'mind over matter like that [02:13.655]I-I n I meant to verify [02:15.714]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [02:18.694]I-I n I meant to verify [02:21.164]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [02:24.174]I-I n I meant to verify [02:26.484]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [02:29.754]I-I n I meant to verify [02:32.173]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [02:34.723]His -imperial -majesty [02:36.753]I'm coming in clearly [02:38.03]Stay preaching to my peoples so they must hear we [02:40.563]I kept verses on stash since elementary [02:43.373]Revelations occurred so I became a nigga [02:46.163]A new age [02:47.493]Seeing the eyes on stage giving microphone [02:50.03]Checks and then it's time to engage [02:52.143]To turn the page just to see a darker shade [02:54.643]Of african ways being displayed [02:57.123]I made the grade when I cut the fade [02:59.203]Now mc is my trade I use to get the bills paid [03:02.563]So yo save your shade and your thoughts of [03:04.893]Misbehave cause these are the last ****ing days [03:07.923]So like ace duce tre you pay and I scoop up [03:11.412]Another beat move up while the rhythm erupts [03:13.772]So I give em'the funk which is the chord to the batter [03:16.722]Rhymes over beats equals the mind over matter [03:19.472]I-I n I meant to verify [03:22.192]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:24.832]I-I n I meant to verify [03:27.462]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:30.392]I-I n I meant to verify [03:32.952]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:35.892]I-I n I meant to verify [03:38.232]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:41.472]I-I n I meant to verify [03:44.142]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:47.32]I-I n I meant to verify [03:49.591]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:52.761]I-I n I meant to verify [03:55.111]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [03:58.90]I-I n I meant to verify [04:00.700]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [04:03.490]Hot stop non-stop [04:05.10]'Bout how I hip hop [04:06.380]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write [04:09.209]Hot stop non-stop [04:10.529]'Bout how I hip hop [04:11.919]Hold the mic and write hold the mic and write