Halftime - Nas

[00:12.13]Check me out y'all Nasty Nas in your area
[00:17.05]About to cause mass hysteria
[00:21.6]Before a blunt I take out my fronts
[00:23.54]Then I start to front matter of fact I be on a manhunt
[00:26.91]You couldn't catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer
[00:30.03]That's like Malcolm X catchin the Jungle Fever
[00:31.9]King poetic too much flavor I'm major
[00:33.91]Atlanta ain't Brave-r I'll pull a number like a pager
[00:37.09]Cause I'm am ace when I face the bass
[00:39.33]40-side is the place that is giving me grace
[00:41.76]Now wait another dose and you might be dead
[00:44.2]And I'm a Nike head I wear chains that excite the feds
[00:47.13]And ain't a damn thing gonna change
[00:49.44]I'ma performer show the mic warmer was born to gain
[00:53.31]Nas why did you do it
[00:54.68]You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme it's halftime
[00:57.11]It's halftime
[01:02.71]Aiyyo it's halftime
[01:07.52]It's halftime
[01:12.82]Yeah it's about halftime
[01:18.92]This is how it feel check it out how it feel
[01:22.1]It's like that you know it's like that
[01:23.47]I got it hemmed now you never get the mic back
[01:25.34]When I attack there ain't an army that could strike back
[01:27.71]So I react never calmly on a hype track
[01:30.4]I set it off with my own rhyme
[01:31.770004]Cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time
[01:34.21]I'm max like cassettes I flex like sex
[01:36.2]In your stereo sets Nas will catch wreck
[01:38.64]I used to hustle now all I do is relax and strive
[01:41.32]When I was young I was a fan of the Jackson 5
[01:44.68]I drop jewels wear jewels hope to never run it
[01:47.55]With more kicks than a baby in a mother's stomach
[01:49.92]Nasty Nas has to rise cause I'm wise
[01:52.240005]This is exercise 'til the microphone dies
[01:54.92]Back in eighty-three I was an MC sparking
[01:57.6]But I was too scared to grab the mic's in the park and
[02:00.54]Kick my little raps cause I thought niggaz wouldn't understand
[02:02.72]And now in every jam I'm the f**kin man
[02:05.4]I rap in front of more niggaz than in the slave ships
[02:08.52]I used to watch C H I P S now I load glock clips
[02:10.83]I got to have it I miss Mr Magic
[02:13.01]Versatile my style switches like a faggot
[02:15.69]But not bisexual I'm an intellectual
[02:18.57]Of rap I'm a professional and that's no question yo
[02:20.44]These are the lyrics of the man you can't near it understand
[02:23.99]Cuz in the streets I'm well known like the number man
[02:27.18]In my place wit the bass and format
[02:30.05]Explore rap and tell me Nas ain't all that
[02:32.39]And next time I rhyme I be foul
[02:34.02]Whenever I freestyle I see trial niggaz say I'm wow
[02:37.51]I hate a rhymebiter's rhyme
[02:39.2]Stay tuned Nas soon the real rap comes at halftime
[02:43.13]It's halftime
[02:45.38]Exhale check it it's halftime
[02:48.12]It's halftime
[02:51.55]It's real in the field
[02:53.54001]Word life check it
[03:03.47]I got it goin on even flip 'em on this song
[03:05.71]Every afternoon I kick half the tune
[03:08.33]And in the darkness I'm heartless like when the NARCs hit
[03:11.33]Word to Marcus Garvey I hardly sparked it
[03:13.2]Cause when I blast the herb that's my word
[03:15.82]I be slayin them fast doing this that and the third
[03:18.44]But chill past to Andre and let's slay
[03:20.88]I bag b**ches up at John Jay and hit a matinee
[03:23.62]Puttin hits on 5-0
[03:25.68]Csudr when it's my time to go I wait for God wit the fo'-fo'
[03:29.3]And biters can't come near
[03:30.99]And yo go to hell to the foul cop who shot Garcia
[03:34.42]I won't plant seeds don't need an extra mouth I can't feed
[03:37.28]That's extra Phillie change more cash for that w**d
[03:39.72]This goes out to Manhattan the island of Staten
[03:42.89]Brooklyn and Queens is livin fat and
[03:44.88]The Boogie Down enough props enough clout
[03:46.88]Ill Will rest in peace yo I'm out
[03:54.31]It's still halftime
[03:56.20999]To the Queensbridge crew
[03:58.20999]To the Queensbridge crew you know it's halftime
[04:00.39]Ninety-two it's halftime