[Hook]
Mastermind - Sees [bad word] before [bad word] 
Mastermind - Before he go to war he counts his ones
Mastermind - Everything planned out perfect
In case y'all niggas got to get murdered
Mastermind - Sleeps at night real easy
Mastermind - Cause everything he does is by the book
Mastermind - Never do a thing irrational
Lives forever, these tales are classical

[Nas]
Velvet bow ties, bulletproofs in the tux, when I roll by
In a car similar to Osama's, in my diamonds
And my principal is to study drama
Look what happened in Manhattan
couple of years ago when guns started clappin'
Two of my dogs fell, two of my niggas ran
They was amateurs in beef with a grown man
It taught me the lessons of how the strong stand
And how the weak end up in a coffin
Play it cool, that's the old [bad word]  man
Keep your ears to the street, you'll never lose man
Make your enemies believe there's love there
Cause in war, belief is all fair
Rock them to sleep, shots in your jeep
And you ain't never know the plot was from me
It's from my Masterminds

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[Nas]
It ain't a game it's the life
Think it's a game, you lame
And I'm nice on that black stone merlot
Toast to my hero Nat Turner
Weather below zero, gave the keys to Kelis
Whispered in her earlobe, "drive home"
Cause she the wife and they the freaks
The underneath my girl caliber
They smiled at her and said "Goodbye"
With niggas who thug or die, they wild as us
My bodyguards in my Denali [bad word] 
Knowing that I'm surrounded by OGs that I don't really get down with

They got a separate table for their freaks bought them drinks
So we could talk man-to-man so real niggas could link
I knew, they kill hoes too like Rae [bad word] 
They used to spray troops, now they managing groups
The main [bad word] Sonny had big money since '82
Had two of my dogs whacked, nothing I could do
That was back when I had no crew, I switched that
Now I'm strong with niggas who feel Sonny was wrong
My money's long, his money is weak, he's losing sleep
Trying to feel me out, to see what it's gonna be
But I'm a Mastermind

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[Nas]
I live a clean life, I don't even steal cable
I speak for myself, my niggas will slay you
Lucky us, this rap done worked out fine
Feds, check me out, it's no dirt y'all find
This King Of New York [bad word] only last 15 minutes
Every [bad word] get burned, but it's what you did with it
Niggas who brilliant, came in and killed it
Made millions every three months, new jury
I'm low, smoking blueberry with a ho
That know a few scary individuals, eerie as she get into it
Squares, they into voodoo
She says a Hail Mary, then she said she knew who
 [bad word] and try to kill you too

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