I contact eleven L's and max in heaven Nas – One Time 4 Your Mind
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Nas is showing just how ruthless he can be, saying he’ll assault a reverend with a machine pistol, and then get high enough from 11 L’s (or blunts) to reach heaven. I don’t think that God would allow him in after attacking a reverend, however.
Nas throws down a similar line in MC Serch’s “Back to the Grill”:
This is Nas, kid, you know how it runs
I’m waving automatic guns at nuns
Sticking up the preachers in the church, I’m a stone crook
Perhaps Nas' disdain for religion at this time in his life influenced this line. Instead of accepting their idea of heaven, he violently rejects it and finds his own personal heaven through getting high.
This line was originally used on “Nas Will Prevail”, the demo version of “It Ain’t Hard to Tell.” That song contains a variation of this line:
Holdin a pistol at a pastor, pullin the trigger faster
Tell ‘em I was sent by his Master
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A reference to the Nation of Islam – or perhaps the splinter 5% Nation of Islam – and their attempts to reach young blacks with their message.
As a kid, when I would say that outta town, niggas chased us Nas – One Time 4 Your Mind
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“That” refers to the words of the previous line. Nas would go to other neighborhoods and say “Hey guys, I’m from Queensbridge!” The locals didn’t appreciate his visits, and would run him and his friends out of town.
As he grew older, he would later put his feet in the other’s shoes.
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