Halftime-Nas

[00:05.04](Right..) (Right..) [00:11.43]Check me out y'all, Nasty Nas in your area [00:16.97]About to cause mass hysteria [00:18.92] [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 [00:57.04] [00:58.11](Right..) It's halftime [01:02.63](Right..) Aiyyo it's halftime [01:08.30](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 [01:18.22] [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 *** [01:36.17]In your stereo sets, Nas will catch wreck [01:38.77]I used to hustle, now all I do is relax and strive [01:41.76]When I was young, I was a fan of the Jackson 5 [01:44.30]I drop jewels, wear jewels, hope to never run it [01:47.04]With more kicks than a baby in a mother's stomach [01:49.51]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 ****** wouldn't understand [02:02.95]And now in every jam I'm the ****** man [02:05.22]I rap in front of more ****** 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 *****ual, 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 ****** say I'm wow [02:36.32]I hate a rhymebiter's rhyme [02:39.29]Stay tuned, Nas, soon the real rap comes at halftime [02:39.32] [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 [03:02.09] [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 ******* 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' [03:28.70]And biters can't come near [03:30.45]And yo, go to hell to the foul cop who shot Garcia [03:33.54]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 **** [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 [03:49.26] [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.. [04:10.24]