Key: B minor•
Intro 1
Bm
D
Em
C#m
Bm
D
Em
C#m
Bm
D
Check me out y'all
Em
C#m
Nasty Nas in your area
Bm
D
Em
C#m
About to cause mass hysteria
Verse 1
Bm
D
Before a blunt, I take out my fronts
Bm
D
You couldn't catch me in the streets
without ton of reefer
Bm
D
King poetic, too much flavor, I'm major
Bm
D
'Cause I'm a ace when I face the bass
Em
C#m
40 side is the place that is giving me grace
Em
Bm
And ain't a damn thing gonna change
Bm
D
Nas, why did you do it?
Chorus 1
Bm
D
Em
C#m
It's halftime
Bm
D
Em
C#m
Ayo, it's halftime
Bm
D
Em
C#m
It's halftime
Bm
D
Em
C#m
Verse 2
Bm
D
It's like that, you know it's like that
Em
C#m
So I react never calmly on a hype track
Bm
D
I set it off with my own rhyme
Bm
D
I'm max like cassettes, I flex like sex
Em
C#m
In your stereo sets, Nas'll Nas'll catch wreck
Bm
D
I used to hustle, now all I do is relax and strive
Bm
D
I drop jewels, wear jewels,
hope to never run it
Em
C#m
With more kicks than a baby
in a mother's stomach
Bm
D
Nasty Nas has to rise 'cause I'm wise
Em
C#m
This is exercise 'til the microphone dies
Bm
D
Back in '83, I was an MC sparking
Bm
Em
'cause I thought niggas wouldn't understand
Em
Bm
I rap in front of more niggas
D
I used to watch CHiPs, now I load Glock clips
Bm
D
I got to have it, I miss Mr. Magic
Em
C#m
Versatile, my style switches like a faggot
Bm
D
But not bisexual, I'm an intellectual
Bm
D
These are the lyrics of the man,
'Cause in the streets,
Bm
D
Am I in place with the bass and format?
Em
C#m
Explore rap and tell me Nas ain't all that
D
Em
I be foul whenever I freestyle
Bm
D
I hate a rhyme biter's rhyme
Chorus 2
Em
Bm
Em
D
It's halftime
Em
Bm
Em
D
Check it, it's halftime
Bm
D
Em
C#m
It's halftime
Bm
D
Em
C#m
Verse 3
Bm
I got it going on, even flip a morning song
Em
C#m
Every afternoon, I kick half the tune
Word to Marcus Garvey, I hardly sparked it
Bm
'Cause when I blast the herb, that's my word
doing this, that in the third
Em
C#m
I bag bitches up at John Jay
and hit a matinee
Bm
D
Putting hits on 5- 0
Bm
D
And biters can't come near
Bm
D
This goes out to Manhattan
Em
C#m
Ill will, rest in peace, yo, I'm out
Chorus 3
Em
Bm
Em
D
It's still halftime
Em
Bm
Em
D
You know it's halftime
Em
Bm
Em
Em
D
It's halftime
Em
Bm
Em
D
Halftime
[Fade out]
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