One Mic

[speaking softly, gradually getting louder]<br>One time.. yeah.. yeah..<br><br>Yo, all I need is one mic, one beat, one stage<br>One nigga front, my face on the front page<br>Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib<br>One God to show me how to do things his son did<br>Pure, like a cup of virgin blood; mixed with<br>151, one sip`ll make a nigga flip<br>Writin names on my hollow tips, plottin shit<br>Mad violence who I`m gon` body, this hood politics<br>Ackowledge it, leave bodies chopped in garbages<br>Seeds watch us, grow up and try to follow us<br>Police watch us {*siren*} roll up and try knockin us<br>One knee I ducked, could it be my time is up<br>But my luck, I got up, the cop shot again<br>Bus stop glass bursts, a fiend drops his Heineken<br>Richochetin between the spots that I`m hidin in<br>Blackin out as I shoot back, fuck gettin hit! [more sirens]<br>This is my hood I`ma rep, to the death of it<br>`til everybody come home, little niggaz is grown<br>Hoodrats, don`t abortion your womb, we need more warriors soon<br>Sip from the star sun and the moon<br>In this life of police chases street sweepers and coppers<br>Stick-up kids with no conscience, leavin victims with doctors<br>IF YOU REALLY THINK YOU READY TO DIE, WITH NINES OUT<br>THIS IS WHAT NAS IS BOUT, NIGGA THE TIME IS NOW!<br><br>[whispering again]<br>Yo, all I need is one mic..<br>All I need is one mic.. that`s all I need<br>All I need is one mic.. all I need niggaz<br>All I need is one mic.. yeah<br><br>[gradually getting louder]<br>All I need is one blunt, one page, and one pen<br>One prayer - tell God forgive for one sin<br>Matter fact maybe more than one, look back<br>at all the hatred against me, fuck alla them<br>Jesus died at age 33, there`s thirty-three shots<br>from twin glocks there`s sixteen apiece, that`s thirty-two<br>Which means, one of my guns was holdin 17<br>Twenty-seven hit your crew, six went into you<br>Everybody gotta die sometime; hope your funeral<br>never gets shot up, bullets tear through the innocent<br>Nothin is fair, niggaz roll up, shootin from wheelchairs<br>My heart is racin, tastin revenge in the air<br>I let the shit slide for too many years, too many times<br>Now I`m strapped with a couple of macs, too many nines<br>If y`all niggaz really wit me get busy load up the semis<br>Do more than just hold it explode the clip until you empty<br>There`s nothin in our way - they bust, we bust, they rust, we rust<br>Led flyin, feel it? I feel it in my gut<br>THAT WE TAKE THESE BITCHES TO WAR, LIE `EM DOWN<br>CAUSE WE STRONGER NOW MY NIGGA THE TIME IS NOW!!<br><br>[whispering again]<br>All I need is one mic.. that`s all I need, that`s all I need<br>All I need is one mic.. there`s nuttin else in the world<br>All I need is one mic.. that`s all a nigga need to do his thing y`know<br>All I need is one mic..<br><br>[starting loud this time, getting quieter]<br>ALL I NEED IS ONE LIFE, ONE TRY, ONE BREATH I`M ONE MAN<br>WHAT I STAND FOR SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, THEY DON`T UNDERSTAND<br>Or wanna see me on top, too egotistical<br>Talkin all that slick shit, the same way these bitches do<br>Wonder what my secrets is, niggaz`ll move on you<br>only if they know, what your weakness is I have none<br>Too late to grab guns I`m blastin cause I`m a cool nigga<br>Thought I wouldn`t have that ass done? Fooled you niggaz<br>What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin<br>War gets deep, some beef is everlastin<br>Complete with thick scars, brothers knifin each other<br>up in prison yards, drama, where does it start?<br>You know the block was ill as a youngster<br>Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster<br>For real a hustler, purchased my Range, niggaz throwin dirt on my name<br>Jealous cause fiends got they work and complain<br>Bitches left me cause they thought I was finished<br>Shoulda knew she wasn`t true she came to me when her man caught a sentence<br>Diamonds are blindin, I never make the same mistakes<br>Movin with a change of pace, lighter load, see now the king is straight<br>Swellin my melon cause none of these niggaz real<br>Heard he was, tellin police, how can a kingpin squeal?<br>This is crazy, I`m on the right track I`m finally found<br>You need some soul searchin, the time is now<br><br>All I need is one mic.. yeah, yeah yeah yeah<br>All I need is one mic.. that`s all I ever needed in this world, fuck cash<br>All I need is one mic.. fuck the cars, the jewelry<br>All I need is one mic.. to spread my voice to the whole world