Song: One Mic ~~ 2001 ~~ 4:29
Artist: Nas
LP/CD: Stillmatic ~~ Ill Will/Columbia ~~ 2001
Composers: Nas Jones~Chucky Thompson

One time
Yeah, yeah

Yo’, all I need is one mic, one beat, one stage
One n**** front my face on the front page
Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
One God to show me how to do things his son did
Pure, like a cup of virgin blood
Mixed with 151, one sip’ll make a n**** flip
Writin’ names on my hollow tips, plottin’ s***
Mad violence who I’m gon’ body this hood politics
Acknowledge it, leave bodies chopped up in garbages
Seeds watch us grow up and try to follow us
Police watch us, roll up and try knockin’ us
One knee I ducked, could it be my time is up
But my luck, I got up, the cop shot again
Bus stop glass bursts, a fiend drops his Heineken
Ricochetin’ between the spots that I’m hidin’ in
Blackin’ out as I shoot back, f*** gettin’ hit
This is my hood, I’mma rep till the death of it
Till everybody come home, little n****s is grown
Hood rats, don’t abortion your womb
We need more warriors soon
Sent from the star sun and the moon
In this life of police chases street sweepers and coppers
Stick-up kids with no conscience, leavin’ victims with doctors
If you really think you ready to die with nines out
This is what Nas is ‘bout, n****, the time is now

Yo’, all I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
That’s all I need
All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
All I need, n****s
All I need is one mic, yeah

All I need is one blunt, one page and one pen, one prayer
Tell God forgive me for one sin
Matter of fact maybe more than one, look back
At all the hatred against me, f*** all of them
Jesus died at age 33, that’s 33 shots from twin glocks
And 16 a piece, that’s 32
Which means, one of my guns was holdin’ 17
27 hit your crew, 6 went into you
Everybody gotta die sometime, hope your funeral
Never gets shot up, bullets tear through the innocent
Nothin’ is fair, n****s roll up, shootin’ from wheelchairs
My heart is racin’, tastin’ revenge in the air
I let the s*** slide for too many years, too many times
Now I’m strapped with a couple of macs, too many nines
If y’all n****s really with me, get busy, load up the semis
Do more than just hold it, explode the clip until you empty
There’s nothin’ in our way, they bust, we bust, they rust, we rust
Lead flyin’, feel it, I feel it in my gut
That we take these b****es to war, lie ‘em down
‘Cause we stronger now, my n****, the time is now

All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
That’s all I need, baby, that’s all I need
All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
There’s nothin’ else in the world

All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
That’s all a n**** need to do his thing, you know
All I need is one mic...one mic...one mic...
That’s all a n**** really need

All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I’m one man
What I stand for it speaks for itself
They don’t understand or wanna see me on top, too egotistical
Talkin’ all that slick s***, the same way these b****es do
Wonder what my secrets is, n****s’ll move on you
Only if they know, what your weakness is I have none
Too late to grab guns I’m blastin’ ‘cause I’m a cool n****
Thought I wouldn’t have that a*** done, fooled you, n****s
What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin’
War gets deep, some beef is everlastin’
Complete with thick scars, brothers knifin’ each other
Up in prison yards, drama, where does it start
You know the block was ill as a youngster
Every night it was like a cop would get killed
Body found in the dumpster
For real, a hustler purchased my Range
N****s throwin’ dirt on my name
Jealous ‘cause fiends got they work and complain
B****es left me ‘cause they thought I was finished
Shoulda knew she wasn’t true she came to me when her man caught a sentence
Diamonds are blindin’, I never make the same mistakes
Movin’ with a change of pace, lighter load, see now the king is straight
Swellin’ my melon ‘cause none of these n****s real
Heard he was tellin’ police how can a kingpin squeal
This is crazy, I’m on the right track, I’m finally found
You need some soul searchin’, the time is now

All I need is one mic.. .one mic...one mic...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All I need is one mic.. .one mic...one mic...
That’s all I ever needed in this world, f*** cash

All I need is one mic.. .one mic...one mic...
F*** the cars, the jewelry
All I need is one mic.. .one mic...one mic...
To spread my voice to the whole world

Transcribed by: Char Star
Uploaded on: June 8, 2002