[00:06.28]Right Right
[00:11.87]Check me out y'all
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[00:14.45]Nasty Nas in your area
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[00:17.12]About to cause mass hysteria
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[00:21.53]Before a blunt  I take out my fronts
[00:23.15]Then I start to front
[00:24.43]Matter of fact  I be on a manhunt
[00:26.13]You couldn't catch me
[00:27.40]In the streets without a ton of reefer
[00:29.17]That's like Malcolm X
[00:30.37]Catchin the Jungle Fever
[00:31.62]King poetic  too much flavor  I'm major
[00:34.09]Atlanta ain't Brave-r
[00:35.07]I'll pull a number like a pager
[00:36.79]Cause I'm am ace when
[00:38.24]I face the bass
[00:39.22]40-side is the place that is
[00:40.64]Giving me grace
[00:41.70]Now wait  another dose
[00:43.10]And you might be dead
[00:44.26]And I'm a Nike head
[00:45.42]I wear chains that excite the feds
[00:47.35]And ain't a damn thing gonna change
[00:49.45]I'ma performer
[00:50.24]Show the mic warmer was born to gain
[00:53.22]Nas  why did you do it
[00:54.62]You know you got the mad fat fluid
[00:56.20]When you rhyme  it's halftime
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[00:58.72]Right It's halftime
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[01:04.08]Right Aiyyo it's halftime
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[01:09.19]Right It's halftime
[01:13.86]Right Yeah  it's about halftime
[01:16.26]This is how it feel  check it out  how it feel
[01:18.92]It's like that  you know it's like that
[01:20.84]I got it hemmed
[01:22.16]Now you never get the mic back
[01:23.68]When I attack  there ain't an
[01:25.10]Army that could strike back
[01:26.29]So I react never calmly on a hype track
[01:29.22]I set it off with my own rhyme
[01:31.14]Cause I'm as ill as a convict
[01:32.99]Who kills for phone time
[01:34.39]I'm max like cassettes
[01:35.36]I flex like sex
[01:36.85]In your stereo sets
[01:38.34]Nas will catch wreck
[01:39.34]I used to hustle
[01:40.42]Now all I do is relax and strive
[01:42.49]When I was young
[01:43.49]I was a fan of the Jackson 5
[01:45.10]I drop jewels  wear jewels
[01:46.62]Hope to never run it
[01:47.87]With more kicks than a
[01:49.06]Baby in a mother's stomach
[01:50.41]Nasty Nas has to rise cause I'm wise
[01:52.27]This is exercise 'til the microphone dies
[01:55.24]Back in eighty-three I was an MC sparking
[01:57.91]But I was too scared to
[01:59.24]Grab the mic's in the park and
[02:00.52]Kick my little raps cause
[02:02.01]I thought niggaz wouldn't understand
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[02:03.84]And now in every jam I'm the f**kin man
[02:06.02]I rap in front of more niggaz
[02:07.81]Than in the slave ships
[02:08.96]I used to watch C H I P S
[02:10.20]Now I load glock clips
[02:11.29]I got to have it  I miss Mr  Magic
[02:13.74]Versatile  my style switches like a faggot
[02:16.25]But not bisexual  I'm an intellectual
[02:19.03]Of rap  I'm a professional
[02:20.44]And that's no question  yo
[02:21.76]These are the lyrics of the man
[02:23.45]You can't near it  understand
[02:24.73]Cuz in the streets  I'm well known
[02:26.08]Like the number man
[02:27.04]In my place wit the bass and format
[02:29.24]Explore rap  and tell me Nas ain't all that
[02:32.08]And next time I rhyme  I be foul
[02:34.30]Whenever I freestyle I see trial
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[02:36.21]Niggaz say I'm wow
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[02:38.07]I hate a rhymebiter's rhyme
[02:39.53]Stay tuned  Nas  soon the real
[02:41.52]Rap comes at halftime
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[02:43.63]Right It's halftime
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[02:48.86]Right Exhale  check it it's halftime
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[02:54.09]Right It's halftime
[02:59.03]Right It's real in the field
[03:01.22]Word life  check it
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[03:04.04]I got it goin on  even flip 'em on this song
[03:06.55]Every afternoon  I kick half the tune
[03:09.06]And in the darkness
[03:10.12]I'm heartless like when the NARCs hit
[03:11.44]Word to Marcus Garvey I hardly sparked it
[03:14.00]Cause when I blast the herb  that's my word
[03:16.42]I be slayin them fast
[03:17.70]Doing this that and the third
[03:19.19]But chill  past to Andre  and let's slay
[03:21.86]I bag bitches up at John Jay  and hit a matinee
[03:24.73]Puttin hits on 5-0
[03:26.10]Csudr when it's my time to go
[03:28.01]I wait for God wit the fo'-fo'
[03:29.88]And biters can't come near
[03:31.63]And yo  go to hell to the
[03:33.36]Foul cop who shot Garcia
[03:34.94]I won't plant seeds
[03:36.09]Don't need an extra mouth I can't feed
[03:37.86]That's extra Phillie change
[03:39.05]More cash for that weed
[03:40.39]This goes out to Manhattan
[03:41.84]The island of Staten
[03:43.34]Brooklyn and Queens is livin fat and
[03:45.55]The Boogie Down  enough props
[03:47.27]Enough clout
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[03:49.16]I'll Will  rest in peace  yo  I'm out
[03:51.39]Right It's still halftime
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[03:56.94]Right To the Queensbridge crew
[03:59.52]To the Queensbridge crew
[04:00.74]You know it's halftime
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[04:02.41]Right Ninety-two  it's halftime
[04:07.19]Right Yo police  police man
[04:09.50]Yo let's get ghost
[04:11.56]Halftime
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[04:12.89]Right Yo  police man