[Chorus: Nas]

Stay chisel like a boxer, wife-beater by Fila

Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger type steelo

Stay chisel, check your paper nigga

Bring the bar to your chest, then push it up harder than the rest

Stay chisel, precisely cut, sharp the fuck

You thought this was a game we came to charge you up

So take it to the brain, laid peoples, know how throw them things

Swift on them toes, knockout blow, so stay chisel

[Interlude: Large Professor]

Ayo Nas, I was telling them niggas on the ave

The same shit the other day (right)

Kids gotta stay sharp (no doubt) or stay chisel (chisel)

[Verse 1: Nas]

Yo, performing chest naked, I'm looking sharp for the peoples

Not in my physical form, strong thoughts, I'm cock-diesel

Brolic with knowledge so flow with me

Intelligence benching, four thousand and four fifty

Light a dumbbell L, Inhale then hear the lunch bell ring

Sweating, working up her appetite, setting

Mental calisthenics got my mind stretching, then I release it

Have my whole frame bulging under diamond pieces

Take the weight of the world on my shoulders, I hold it

So I consume most of pain for my niggas that I roll with

'Cause see the streets ain't no Gold's Gym, papi

And if I feel it going down then my niggas'll spot me

Without the mind the body weight don't even mean nothing

Let's take three brothers and put them in the bing or something

Who's gon' survive the wise man, the fool or the warrior?

Well if all of their minds are chisel, then all of them

[Chorus: Nas]

Stay chisel like a boxer, wife-beater by Fila

Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger type steelo

Stay chisel, check your paper nigga

Bring the bar to your chest, then push it up harder than the rest

Stay chisel, precisely cut, sharp the fuck

You thought this was a game we came to charge you up

So take it to the brain, laid peoples, know how throw them things

Swift on them toes, knockout blow, so stay chisel

[Verse 2: Nas]

I stayed proper from my head to my feet

I dead the red meat, the best weed

I dated stressful chicks so now I'm stress-free

Cause life's too short for heartache

Let's fucking party, buy trucks and Ferraris

Driving across the globe, why not?

Sick of the same spot, move to the next

It's real niggas everywhere, bigger business plans

Bigger connects, every woman to one man, it's ten to one

Without the feeling of someone

Making you scared to get up and run

It's called escaping, the mental raping

How could the mind grow when you stagnant

Around dude's who're too slow, my brother's trifling

Pushing cars the color of lightning

Read the writing in my skin... it spells GOD'S SON

There always be another coming up

A killer got a mom son, that's why his luck is never running up

She praise for him, his taking over you position love

Doing what you use to do, being who you was

[Chorus: Nas]

Stay chisel like a boxer, wife-beater by Fila

Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger type steelo

Stay chisel, check your paper nigga

Bring the bar to your chest, then push it up harder than the rest

Stay chisel, precisely cut, sharp the fuck

You thought this was a game we came to charge you up

So take it to the brain, laid peoples, know how throw them things

Swift on them toes, knockout blow, so stay chisel

[Verse 3: Nas]

Reduce fat rap, no calories in my mentality

No sugar no starch, the pull-ups is hard but get money

Breathe out your nose, start with light weights

Wheat bread instead no carbohydrates

Building my stamina, I'ma rep for the hood

Plumper than last summer, stomach stretched from the grub

Good living, good women, I'm sexing straight stallions

Bow-leg stances, go'head handsome

Knuckle game, it's like Rubin Hurricane

Dance to the music for the brain

Y'all dudes will never see me down

Reading everything, books and body language

Du Bois, Baldwin, and Chavis

Assata, John Hope Franklin, Angela Davis

Keep your chest up, head straight, eyes to the center

In your worst situation, gotta rise you a winner

So if I'm down to my last dime, cowards will never know

'Cause yo, my shit is solid, remember yo

[Chorus: Nas]

Stay chisel like a boxer, wife-beater by Fila

Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger type steelo

Stay chisel, check your paper nigga

Bring the bar to your chest, then push it up harder than the rest

Stay chisel, precisely cut, sharp the fuck

You thought this was a game we came to charge you up

So take it to the brain, laid peoples, know how throw them things

Swift on them toes, knockout blow, so stay chisel