"I use the mind elevation" Nas Sample "I Take a deep sigh" scratches Laozi Check it I take a deep sigh Resume the daily routine Consume marijuana fumes And cruise with my team Polluted teens Used to amusing juvenile peers Who choose to be wild and end up doing 2 to 5 years It's reliant on the weather To direct my sense of pleasure I breathe in these embers Attempt to a**ess the measure Of our progress Cause I'm feeling rotten in this gossip Got caught up talking bout out nonsense in this moshpit I'm all in On a pursuit for more depth Iv dug up four layers but still got the core left So I store stress, and share energy with my neighbors Infatuate about relaxing days and half baked Behaviour I'm out for intelligence to represent me Retaliate against the fallacies that bred dependency And mend my entropy with these exceptional lectures I never veer from the lesson Maintain my cool under pressure And my heads heavy with concepts you'll probably never hear Dropping bits of knowledge when Im talking to my peers Concoction of thoughts will rock ears once woven to instrumental My potential is sought nonstop, control is Essential I'm sentimental Semi mental bent pushing pencils While my sixth sense is possessing pens and bending utensils You emcees use stencils Pretend to invent your own style I'll serve you a flavorful verse to bend your smile And if your hear it, then nod to the rhythm, and burn the chronic I'm amped up on verses and working logic to phonics I never stop it But pause to catch my breath when I'm winded The Mary Jane in my veins got my brain feeling lifted And I'm in no rush to hurry so I remain for a minute Cause I don't worry about my life My man, I just live it Keep stepping resilient Against the forces repelling me Never let my essence slip into Hell that they telling me I take a deep sigh And sink into the city's silence The white noise of industry and distant police sirens I feel alive as I strive through this exciting environment Inviting my mind to find what kind of surprises hide in it I choose to blend right in, reflect impression of my habitat 'stead of stepping up against the thing that make me mad at that Disgruntled Student Glued to confusion From chaos Still pursuing a punchline in an attempt to get the pay off Compress the Sunshine to ink and spill the luminescence Throw brightness over the eyes of the blind in my presence I step smartly on ice To keep my feet from slipping under me And focus on the way my heartbeat mimics rhythms thundering I've been wondering whats got our search so skewed What the f** did we do to get our world so screwed? Well some fools insist that it's best we try our luck Some of us put up a fight Man, the rest are getting high as f** f** Well Im smokin endo too Cause I choose to cope just the same way as the rest of you I aim to make my name viewed by every complacent teen Just wasting his days away getting blazed on the green And it's my ill premonition to mention this heads condition Until it ceases to need an explanation for livin Driven disciple, pursuing inner peace over beats My words are manifest of soul(sole) they reside under feet I ain't afraid of d**h Nope, man I sleep whenever needed Walk the streets of my city, constantly getting weeded Fall from Jesus pieces, I reach for what exceeds me Seek a higher knowledge Still admire those who reside beneath me I'm a free learner Space cadet and weed burner My dreams murmur of how this freaking world needs turners But nonetheless, I know it's me who rotates the globe So my opinion alone is enough to motivate my load So I talk on the beats To keep my spirit uplifted Try to connect with anyone that be willing to listen I seek the substance, to provide sustenance to the jive And keep a wondering why we teach all these kids f**ing lies Now take a deep sigh...