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