Halftime (Butcher Remix)

Song Halftime (Butcher Remix)
Artist Nas
Album Illmatic XX

Lyrics

[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