Turn my headphones up, it's pure
Nothing gon' stop me now (Stillmatic)
I'm here now, we here, it's your world (Tye Fyfe remix, you know?)
Ill Will y'all
Yo, all I need is one mic, one beat, one stage
One person front, my face on the front page
Only if I had one love, 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 probably make me flip
See my name in the hieroglyphs, like Osiris and Isis
Parables written inside papyruses
Ackowledge it, we been all tricked time to come out of it
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 again
Bus stop, glass bursts, a fiend drops his Heineken
Richochetin' between the spots that I'm hidin' in
Blackin' out as I duck back, forget gettin' hit!
This is my hood, I'ma rep, to the death of it
'Til everybody come home, little brothers is grown
Hood rat, 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 fly with my powers
This is what Nas is 'bout, brothers the time is now
Yo, all I need is one mic (one mic)
All I need is one mic (one mic)
That's all I need
All I need is one mic (one mic)
All I need
All I need is one mic (one mic), yeah
All I need is one cup, one page, and one pen, one prayer
Tell God forgive me for one sin
Matter fact maybe more than one
Look back at all the hatred against me, touch all of them
Jesus died at age 33, there's 33 from twin there's sixteen a piece, that's thirty-two
Which means, one of my dunes was holding seventeen
27 hit your crew, six went into you
Everybody gotta die sometime, hope your funeral
Never get caught up, pain'll go through the innocent
Nothin' is fair, brothers roll up -, from wheelchairs
My heart is racin', tastin' revenge in the air
I let this all slide for too many years, too many times
Now I'm strapped with a couple of - too many
If y'all people really with me get busy load up the -
Do more than just hold it explode - until you empty
There's nothin' in our way they bust, we bust, they rush, we rush
- flyin', feel it? I feel it in my gut that we take these dudes to war, lie 'em down
'Cause we stronger now my people the time is now
All I need is one mic (one mic)
That's all I need, that's all I need
All I need is one mic (one mic)
There's nothin' else in the world
All I need is one mic (one mic)
That's all a - need to do his thing y'know
All I need is one mic
Is all I need
All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man
What I stand for speaks for itself, they don't understand
Or wanna see me on top, too egotistical
Talkin' all that slick stuff, while my name is biblical
Wonder what my secrets is, enemies'll move on you
Only if they know what your weakness is, I have none
Too late, I'm mad young I'm laughin', 'cause I'm a cool brother
Thought I wouldn't have that ass done? Fooled you brothers
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 -, would get killed body found in the dumpster
For real a hustler, purchased my Range, people throwin' dirt on my name
Jealous 'cause fiends got they work and complain
Women 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 brothers real
Heard they were 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)
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
All I need is one mic (one mic)
That's all I ever needed in this world, cash
All I need is one mic (one mic)
The cars, the jewelry
All I need is one mic (one mic)
To spread my voice to the whole world