[00:00.00] 作词 : Gary Byrd/Nasir Jones/Paul Mitchell[00:01.00] 作曲 : Gary Byrd/Nasir Jones/Paul Mitchell[00:12.13]Check me out y'all, Nasty Nas in your area[00:17.05]About to cause mass hysteria[00:19.67][00:21.60]Before a blunt, I take out my fronts[00:23.54]Then I start to front, matter of fact, I be on a manhunt[00:26.91]You couldn't catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer[00:30.03]That's like Malcolm X, catchin the Jungle Fever[00:31.90]King poetic, too much flavor, I'm major[00:33.91]Atlanta ain't Brave-r, I'll pull a number like a pager[00:37.09]Cause I'm am ace when I face the bass[00:39.33]40-side is the place that is giving me grace[00:41.76]Now wait, another dose and you might be dead[00:44.20]And I'm a Nike head, I wear chains that excite the feds[00:47.13]And ain't a damn thing gonna change[00:49.44]I'ma performer strange show the mic warmer was born to gain[00:53.31]Nas, why did you do it?[00:54.68]You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it's halftime[00:57.11]It's halftime[00:57.47][01:02.71]Aiyyo it's halftime[01:03.78][01:07.52]It's halftime[01:08.51][01:12.82]Yeah, it's about halftime[01:13.74][01:18.92]This is how it feel, check it out, how it feel[01:22.10]It's like that, you know it's like that[01:23.47]I got it hemmed, now you never get the mic back[01:25.34]When I attack, there ain't an army that could strike back[01:27.71]So I react never calmly on a hype track[01:30.40]I set it off with my own rhyme[01:31.77]Cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time[01:34.21]I'm max like cassettes, I flex like sex[01:36.20]in your stereo sets, Nas will catch wreck[01:38.64]I used to hustle, now all I do is relax and strive[01:41.32]When I was young, I was a fan of the Jackson 5[01:44.68]I drop jewels, wear jewels, hope to never run it[01:47.55]With more kicks than a baby in a mother's stomach[01:49.92]Nasty Nas has to rise cause I'm wise[01:52.24]This is exercise 'til the microphone dies[01:54.92]Back in eighty-three I was an MC sparking[01:57.60]But I was too scared to grab the mic's in the park and[02:00.54]kick my little raps cause I thought niggas wouldn't understand[02:02.72]And now in every jam I'm the ****in man[02:05.40]I rap in front of more niggas than in the slave ships[02:08.52]I used to watch C.H.I.P.S., now I load glock clips[02:10.83]I got to have it, I miss Mr. Magic[02:13.01]Versatile, my style switches like a f****t[02:15.69]But not homosexual, I'm an intellectual[02:18.57]Of rap, I'm a professional and that's no question, yo[02:20.44]These are the lyrics of the man, you can't near it, understand[02:23.99]Cuz in the streets, I'm well known like the number man[02:27.18]Am I in place wit the bass and format?[02:30.05]Explore rap, and tell me Nas ain't all that[02:32.39]And next time I rhyme, I be foul[02:34.02]Whenever I freestyle I see trial niggas say I'm wild[02:37.51]I hate a rhymebiter's rhyme[02:39.20]Stay tuned, Nas, soon the real rap comes at halftime[02:42.38][02:43.13]It's halftime[02:44.07][02:45.38]Exhale, check it it's halftime[02:48.12]It's halftime[02:48.24][02:51.55]It's real in the field[02:53.54]Word life, check it[02:55.23][03:03.47]I got it goin on, even flip 'em on this song[03:05.71]Every afternoon, I kick half the tune[03:08.33]And in the darkness, I'm heartless like when the NARCs hit[03:11.33]Word to Marcus Garvey I hardly sparked it[03:13.20]Cause when I blast the herb, that's my word[03:15.82]I be slayin them fast, doing this that and the third[03:18.44]But chill, past to Andre, and let's slay[03:20.88]I bag b*****s up at John Jay, and hit a matinee[03:23.62]Puttin hits on 5-0[03:25.68]Csudr when it's my time to go, I wait for God wit the fo'-fo'[03:29.30]And biters can't come near[03:30.99]And yo, go to hell to the foul cop who shot Garcia[03:34.42]I won't plant seeds, don't need an extra mouth I can't feed[03:37.28]Halftime, Nas, Illmatic, That's extra Phillie change, more cash for dampshit[03:39.72]This goes out to Manhattan, the island of Staten[03:42.89]Brooklyn and Queens is livin fat and[03:44.88]The Boogie Down, enough props, enough clout[03:46.88]Ill Will, rest in peace, yo, I'm out[03:49.31][03:54.31]It's still halftime[03:55.28][03:56.21]To the Queen b*****s ridge crew[03:58.21]To the Queen b*****s ridge crew, you know it's halftime[04:00.39]Ninety-two, it's halftime