Halftime(Radio Edit) - Nas

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[00:11.43]check me out y'all, nasty nas in your area
[00:16.97]about to cause mass hysteria
[00:20.94]before a blunt, i take out my fronts
[00:22.93]then i start to front, matter of fact, i be on a manhunt
[00:26.14]you couldn't catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer
[00:28.73]that's like malcolm x, catchin the jungle fever
[00:31.31]king poetic, too much flavor, i'm major
[00:33.59]atlanta ain't brave-r, i'll pull a number like a pager
[00:36.47]cause i'm am ace when i face the bass
[00:38.65]40-side is the place that is giving me grace
[00:41.25]now wait, another dose and you might be dead
[00:43.76]and i'm a nike head, i wear chains that excite the feds
[00:46.93]and ain't a damn thing gonna change
[00:48.91]i'ma performer (?) show the mic warmer was born to gain
[00:52.64]nas, why did you do it?
[00:53.94]you know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it's halftime
[00:58.11](right..) it's halftime
[01:02.63](right..) aiyyo it's halftime
[01:08.3](right..) it's halftime
[01:12.89](right..) yeah, it's about halftime
[01:16.99]this is how it feel, check it out, how it feel
[01:18.45]it's like that, you know it's like that
[01:20.22]i got it hemmed, now you never get the mic back
[01:22.91]when i attack, there ain't an army that could strike back
[01:25.43]so i react never calmly on a hype track
[01:28.14]i set it off with my own rhyme
[01:30.67]cause i'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time
[01:33.71]i'm max like cassettes, i flex like sex
[01:36.17]in your stereo sets, nas will catch wreck
[01:38.770004]i used to hustle, now all i do is relax and strive
[01:41.759995]when i was young, i was a fan of the jackson 5
[01:44.3]i drop jewels, wear jewels, hope to never run it
[01:47.04]with more kicks than a baby in a mother's stomach
[01:49.509995]nasty nas has to rise cause i'm wise
[01:51.95]this is exercise 'til the microphone dies
[01:54.57]back in eighty-three i was an mc sparking
[01:56.89]but i was too scared to grab the mic's in the park and
[01:59.75]kick my little raps cause i thought niggaz wouldn't understand
[02:02.95]and now in every jam i'm the f**kin man
[02:05.22]i rap in front of more niggaz than in the slave ships
[02:07.89]i used to watch c.h.i.p.s., now i load glock clips
[02:10.33]i got to have it, i miss mr. magic
[02:12.73]versatile, my style switches like a faggot
[02:15.34]but not bisexual, i'm an intellectual
[02:18.05]of rap, i'm a professional and that's no question, yo
[02:20.95]these are the lyrics of the man, you can't near it, understand
[02:23.57]cuz in the streets, i'm well known like the number man
[02:26.06]in my place wit the bass and format
[02:28.57]explore rap, and tell me nas ain't all that
[02:31.02]and next time i rhyme, i be foul
[02:33.34]whenever i freestyle i see trial niggaz say i'm wow
[02:36.32]i hate a rhymebiter's rhyme
[02:39.29001]stay tuned, nas, soon the real rap comes at halftime
[02:41.51](right..) it's halftime
[02:47.33](right..) exhale, check it it's halftime
[02:51.33](right..) it's halftime
[02:52.53](right..) it's real in the field
[02:57.13]word life, check it
[03:02.77]i got it goin on, even flip 'em on this song
[03:05.18]every afternoon, i kick half the tune
[03:07.89]and in the darkness, i'm heartless like when the narcs hit
[03:10.91]word to marcus garvey i hardly sparked it
[03:13.12]cause when i blast the herb, that's my word
[03:15.43]i be slayin them fast, doing this that and the third
[03:17.91]but chill, past to andre, and let's slay
[03:20.53]i bag B*****s up at john jay, and hit a matinee
[03:23.48]puttin hits on 5-0
[03:25.59]csudr when it's my time to go, i wait for god wit the fo'-fo'
[03:28.7]and biters can't come near
[03:30.45]and yo, go to hell to the foul cop who shot garcia
[03:33.54001]i won't plant seeds, don't need an extra mouth i can't feed
[03:36.39]that's extra phillie change, more cash for that weed
[03:39.23]this goes out to manhattan, the island of staten
[03:41.92]brooklyn and queens is livin fat and
[03:44.33]the boogie down, enough props, enough clout
[03:46.73]ill will, rest in peace, yo, i'm out
[03:50.26](right..) it's still halftime
[03:55.12](right..) to the queensbridge crew
[03:58.74]to the queensbridge crew, you know it's halftime
[04:00.49](right..) ninety-two, it's halftime
[04:05.53](right..) yo police, police man, yo let's get ghost
[04:09.65]halftime..