Ice T - Mind Over Matter
Lyrics:
It's been a long time since I hit you with freestyle
High tech selection from the vaults of the Ice files
Kick back, relax and watch as I melt wax
Don't ever let a brother like me write a dope track
Cause once I hit it with the vocal tone
It's mine, have motherfuckers rushing to rewind
Cause I'll flow slow and still twist your tongues up
Rock the house from night till the sun's up
Cause it really ain't how much you say, it's what you say
I got no fuckin' time on the mic to play
I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry
Don't even come at me
Talkin that weak and popping that bullshit
Get out my face, a fool could get his head split
A lot of doubters said it couldn't be done by me
Them same suckers are now lookin' from under me
Wondering what I did, I didn't play myself kid
I respected my fans and made the high bid
Sometimes I write my rhymes at night and fall asleep
Wake up with new techniques
Grab the pen and place it on some loose leaf
Nothin' soft, always the tough meat
The white paper and blue lines excite my mind
Not allowing me to stop the rhyme
Until the whole motherfuckin' book's complete
Then I write on the back of the sheets
I made a promise to my brothers in street crime
We'd get paid with the use of a sweet rhyme
We put our minds together made the tracks clever
Now we're checkin' more bank than ever
Mind over matter
So ya got to have mind power, like the fellah's say..
Mind over matter, mind power
I can drop rhymes in twos, and threes and fours
And still have much shit left for encores
Cause when my mind locks in on a dope idea
Motherfuckin' ducks should stand clear
Cause I'm a hit the topic point blank
It's jail ya better keep your shank
Cause I got mine and I'm out on a solo creep
Your face hits the concrete
You wanna roll with the niggas that don't play
I think you got false courage get out my damn way
Cause the car I'm in is rollin' full of men
No kids or boys, E got the Mac 10
Islam's got the Zulu Nation back up
DJ Aladdin's who hooked the fuckin' track up
Syndicate's makin' the move with the ski masks
And I'm housing the long cash
So now you realize you underestimated me, the Ice
You thought that I was OK
But now you realize I'm nice
But that's alright cause I knew I'd make it in the end
Those who like me now might not of liked me then
But I'm a keep impressin' stressin' my lesson
And keep motherfuckers guessin'
Armor plate my mind with walls and shields
As I escape from the killing fields
I can understand
Mind over matter, I know what it means.
Mind power, Mind over matter
Wise up, move to the tempo of this hype groove
You know this shit's dope so what you tryin' to prove?
Vu's max as Evil E
My nigga dogs the wax
My brain's a handgrenade-catch
I'm a hit you with an over load of bottomless thought
Reversin' all the shit you're taught
Then throw words at you syl-la-ble-at-a-time
Your brain recites the rhyme
No matter what you do the power's over you
When you sleep you'll be sayin' these rhymes too
Cause the brain has the power to control all
Think positive you'll be unable to fall
Brain cells swell thought process becomes a trance
Makes you feel posessed to dance
I'll say I want a million, my mind is so deep
I'll be bustin' a check for it next week
Like the fellah's say, mind over matter
I know what it means mind power
Mind over matter