To ease the mind I analyze between lines I vandalize With rhymes, when I recite I hold the mic like a nine I design like a composer Blow you like a soldier Vocal mind? With the smoothness, move with composure Grab a mic n' set it like I'm wettin' suing with my heater Emcees get wet 'cause they be sweatin' my procedure Crimes I design remove stress Like Buddha bless in the projects I choose to rep My complex like geometry, blessed like ganja be If I die, live niggaz gunshots'll honor me Properly, I be droppin these lime life philosophies Criminology, it's just a ghetto nigga prophecy I got to be laid back, empower property Sports cars, dogs, and a yard lots of trees Quite possibly I might even chop a ki 'Cause even when I chill the D's are still clockin' me Rookies on their fours havin' wet dreams of knockin' me See me jumpin' out the mean Lex, a street odyssey So vex they follow me son, my policy, here to make mines Sorta like rhyme is a robbery, I take mines There ain't a mother fucka stoppin' me Rhymes like these, leave ya' mind at ease Just, just, just, just, just listen to the man on the mic I'm Sagittarius, the archer, live breed, Dimes leave keys to they apartment I snipe emcees like a marksman Heat of a arson And I'll freeze ya' mind like a breeze from the Arctic Seize like the narcsters When on stage I feel weak, you breathe out ya' nostrils You seek enlightenment you can be my disciple Son I don't want to be in Queens house with my boo Stressed out because case supreme might indict you I do what I got to do survive I've slung jums n' bottles Touched blood money, bust guns with hollows A man child command crowds in smooth apparel Write quite elustrious n' live like a pharaoh My destiny's to spread my wings like a sparrow My pen's addicted to men who've been convicted Every housin' projects I've repped the realness Son I sit down with convicts, deal wit' killers, chill wit' dealers I ain't really feelin' niggaz rhymes these days I coincide each phrase to write so deep my line's engraved Like a gemstar inside a plate I'm tryin' to live 'cause I'ma die one day If Crime don't pay My currency's defined off the rhymes I say I'ma po-et due to my respect of Bigs' assassination I rep N-Y-C with no kingly aspiration My feet stand on pavement once felt by Perry Mason 'Cause self-preservation is the first law of nature I clutch a M-I-see while semi- squeeze Rhymes like these, leave ya' mind at ease Just, just, just, just Listen, just listen, listen, just listen to the man on the Mic, just, just listen, just listen, just listen to the man on the Mic, listen, listen, listen to the man on the mic