One Time 4 Your Mind

"One Time 4 Your Mind"
Song by Nas from the album Illmatic
Released	April 19, 1994
Recorded	1992
Genre	East Coast hip hop
Length	3:18
Label	Columbia Records
Writer	Nasir Jones William Paul Mitchell
Producer	Large Professor
Illmatic track listing
"One Love" (7) "One Time 4 Your Mind" (8) "Represent" (9)

"One Time 4 Your Mind" is the eighth song on Nas' debut album Illmatic. It is produced by Large Professor who provides the song with a mellow beat and a deep bassline. The song's melody samples "Walter L" by Gary Burton.^[1][2] Nas raps two verses on the song and contributes to the call and response chorus with Large Professor. The song's lyrics deal with what Nas does in his leisure. Nas sampled a lyric from "One Time 4 Your Mind" on his song "Fetus."^[3] Termanology references a lyric from this song on "Stop, Look, Listen" by Statik Selektah. Steve Juon of RapReviews.com describes it as a "somber and slow-rolling banger."^[4] Marc Hill of PopMatters boasts the song's lyrics saying: "the laid back 'One Time 4 Your Mind' demonstrated a level of technical precision and rhetorical dexterity that [is] now requisite for inclusion among hip-hop's elite."^[5]

References

1. ^ The-Breaks.com: "One Time 4 Your Mind" Search
2. ^ Ultragraphik.com: "Nas One Time 4 Your Mind" Search
3. ^ Scratchfaq.com: "One Time 4 Your Mind" Search
4. ^ Juon, Steve. "Nas' Illmatic at RapReviews.com". http://rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_illmatic.html. Retrieved January 26, 2008. 
5. ^ Hill, Marc. "Illmatic (Anniversary Edition) Review". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/n/nas-illmatic2004.shtml. Retrieved January 26, 2008.