Halftime chords by
Nas (Official Version)
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Key: B minorDifficulty: Easy

Intro 1
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Em Em 
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Em Em 
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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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Then I start to front, matter of fact,
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I     be on a manhunt
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You couldn't catch me in the streets
without ton of reefer
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That's like Malcolm X
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catching the Jungle Fever
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King poetic, too much flavor, I'm major
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Atlanta ain't Brave-r,
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pull a number like a pager
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G G 
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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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Now wait, another dose
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and you might be dead
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And I'm a Nike head,
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I wear chains that excite the feds
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And ain't a damn thing gonna change
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I'm a   performer strange,
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so the mic warmer was born to gain
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Nas, why did you do it?
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You know you got the mad fat fluid
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when you rhyme, it's halftime

Chorus 1

F#m

It's halftime

F#m

Ayo, it's halftime

F#m

It's halftime

F#m

Verse 2
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It's like that, you know it's like that
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I got it hemmed,
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now you never get the mic   back
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When I attack,
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ain't an army that could strike back
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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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'Cause I'm as ill as a convict
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who kills for phone time
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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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When I was young,
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I was a fan   of the Jackson 5
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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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But I   was too scared
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to grab the mic's in the parks
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And kick my little raps
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'cause I thought niggas wouldn't understand
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And now in every jam, I'm the fucking man
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Em Em 
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I rap in front of more niggas
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than in the slave ships
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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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Of rap, I'm a professional
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and that's no question, yo
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These are the lyrics of the man,
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you can't near it, understand
'Cause in the streets,
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I'm well known like the number man
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Am I in place with the bass and format?
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F#m F#m 
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Explore rap and tell me Nas   ain't all that
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And next time I rhyme,
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Am Am 
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I be foul whenever I freestyle
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I see trial, niggas say I'm wild
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I hate a rhyme biter's rhyme
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Stay tuned, Nas soon,
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the real rap   comes at halftime

Chorus 2

It's halftime

Check it, it's halftime

F#m

It's halftime

F#m

Verse 3
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I got it going on, even flip a morning song
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F#m F#m 
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Every afternoon, I kick half  the tune
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And in the darkness, I'm heartless
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when the narcs hit
Word to Marcus Garvey, I hardly sparked it
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'Cause when I blast the herb, that's my word
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I be slaying 'em fast,
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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'Cause when it's my time to go,
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I wait for God   wit the fo-fo
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And biters can't come near
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And yo, go to hell
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to the foul cop shot  Garcia
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I won't plant seeds,
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don't need an extra mouth I can't feed
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That's extra Phillie change,
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more  cash for damp weed
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This goes out to Manhattan
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the Island of Staten
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Brooklyn and Queens is living fat
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And the Boogie Down,
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enough props, enough clout
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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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G G 
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It's halftime
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Em Em 
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Halftime
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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsEm G Am F#m

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Em
G
Am
F#m
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Finger positions, low to high (E A D G B e). 0 is open, x is muted.

Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0
G: 3-2-0-0-0-3
Am: x-0-2-2-1-0
F#m: 2-4-4-2-2-2

Capo: No capo

Transpose: 5

Accurately transcribed by the GuitarTuna team.

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This is the definitive original version of Halftime by Nas, transcribed exactly as it was recorded in the studio. Unlike our simplified arrangement, this chart preserves the precise chord voicings and progressions in the original key of B minor. It suits players who want to learn Halftime the way Nas intended, without oversimplifying the arrangement.

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