[00:03.16]Artist: Nas
[00:03.40]Album:  God's Son
[00:03.64]Song:   Mastermind
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[00:04.84]Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh...
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[00:11.30]A Mastermind - Sees it coming before it comes
[00:14.20]A Mastermind - Before he go to war he counts his one
[00:16.99]A Mastermind - Everything planned out perfect, in case y'all niggaz got to get murdered
[00:22.70]A Mastermind - Sleeps at night, real easy
[00:25.61]A Mastermind - Cause everything he does is by the book
[00:28.27]A Mastermind - Never do a thing irrational, lives forever, these tales are classical
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[00:34.76]Velvet bowties, bulletproofs in the tux, when I roll by
[00:38.93]In car similar to a suanas, in my diamonds
[00:43.08]And my principal is to study drama
[00:45.79]Look what happened in Manhattan
[00:47.93]A couple of years ago when guns started clappin'
[00:51.16]Two of my dogs fell, two of my niggaz ran
[00:54.12]They was amatures in beef with a grown man
[00:57.29]It taught me the lessons of how the strong stand
[01:00.13]And how the weak, end up in a coffin
[01:02.71]Play it cool, that's the old school rule, man
[01:05.56]Keep your ears to the street, y'all never lose man
[01:08.29]Make your enemies believe there's love there
[01:11.37]Cause in war, belief is all fair
[01:13.92]Rock them to sleep, shots in your jeep
[01:15.80]And you ain't never know the plot was from me
[01:18.04]It's from my Masterminds
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[01:19.11]A Mastermind - Sees it coming before it comes
[01:21.67]A Mastermind - Before he go to war he counts his one
[01:24.38]A Mastermind - Everything planned out perfect, in case y'all niggaz got to get murdered
[01:29.91]A Mastermind - Sleeps at night, real easy
[01:32.82]A Mastermind - Cause everything he does is by the book
[01:35.71]A Mastermind - Never do a thing irrational, lives forever, these tales are classical
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[01:42.62]It ain't a game it's the life
[01:44.86]Think it's a game, you layin
[01:46.31]And I'm nice on that black stone merlo
[01:48.98]Toast to my hero Nat Turner
[01:51.33]Whether below zero, gave the keys to Kelis
[01:53.90]Whispered in her earlobe, drive on
[01:56.23]Cause she the wife and they the freaks
[01:58.07]The underneath my girl caliber
[02:00.11]They smiled at her and said "Goodbye"
[02:01.80]With niggaz who thug or die, they wild as us
[02:03.88]My bodyguards are my Denali trucks
[02:05.98]Knownin' that I'm surrounded by OG's that I don't really get down with
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[02:09.67]They got a seperate table for their freaks bought them drinks
[02:12.37]So we could talk man-to-man so real niggaz could link
[02:15.02]I knew, they kill hos too like Rae Carruth
[02:18.00]They used to spray troops, now they managing groups
[02:20.44]The main nigga sunny had big money since '82
[02:23.36]Had two of my dogs whacked, nothing I could do
[02:25.99]That was back when I had no crew, I switch that
[02:29.02]Now I'm strong with niggaz who felt Sonny was wrong
[02:31.80]My money's long his money is weak, he's losing sleep
[02:34.71]Trying to feel me out, to see what it's gonna be
[02:36.97]But I'm a Mastermind
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[02:38.87]A Mastermind - Sees it coming before it comes
[02:40.62]A Mastermind - Before he go to war he counts his one
[02:43.02]A Mastermind - Everything planned out perfect, in case y'all niggaz got to get murdered
[02:48.66]A Mastermind - Sleeps at night, real easy
[02:51.52]A Mastermind - Cause everything he does is by the book
[02:54.20]A Mastermind - Never do a thing irrational, lives forever, these tales are classical
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[03:00.51]I live a clean life, I don't even steal cable
[03:03.19]I speak for myslef, my niggaz will slay you
[03:05.56]Lucky us, this rap done worked out fine
[03:08.39]FEDs, check me out, it's no dirt y'all find
[03:11.11]This King Of New York shit only last 15 minutes
[03:13.89]Every nigga get burned, but it's what you did with it
[03:16.75]Niggas who brillant, came in and killed it
[03:18.93]Made millions ever three months, new jury
[03:21.54]I'm low, smoking blueberry, with a ho
[03:24.13]Who know a few scary individuals eerie as she gets into it
[03:27.88]Squares they into voodoo
[03:29.20]She says a Hail Mary and she says she knew who
[03:31.95]Would come and try to kill you too
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[03:33.61]A Mastermind - Sees it coming before it comes
[03:36.55]A Mastermind - Before he go to war he counts his one
[03:39.24]A Mastermind - Everything planned out perfect, in case y'all niggaz got to get murdered
[03:43.38]A Mastermind - Sleeps at night, real easy
[03:47.74]A Mastermind - Cause everything he does is by the book
[03:50.67]A Mastermind - Never do a thing irrational, lives forever, these tales are classical