| If I Ruled The World by Nas |
| Imaging smoking wee in the streets without the cops harassin Imagine going to court with no trial Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughers Days are shorter, nights are colder Feeling like life is overm these snakes strike like a cobra They world's hot my son got not evidentliy It's elementarym they want us all gone eventually Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge Of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars Imagine everybody flashin, fashion Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues Your people holding dough, no parole No robbers, go in raw, imagine law with no undercovers Just some thoughts for the mind I take a glimpse into time Watch the blimp read The World Is Mine If I ruled the world, imagine that I'd free al my sons, I love em love em baby Balck diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine We'd both shine, if I ruled the world Still livin for today. in these last days and times The way to be, paradise like relxin, black, latino, and anglo-saxon Armani exchange the reins Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last Brand new whips to crash, then we laugh in the iller path The Vila house is for the crewm how we do Trees for breakfast, dime sexes, and Benz stretches So many years of depression make me vision The better livin, type of place to raise kids in Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child Seeing things like I was controlling, click rolin Trickin six digits on kicks and still holdin Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish Political prisonner set free, stress free No work relesase purple M3's and jet skis Feel the wind breeze in West Indies I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies It sounds foul, but every girl I meet to go downtown I'd open every cell in Attica, send em to Africa |
| If I ruled the world, imagine that I'd free al my sons, I love em love em baby Balck diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine We'd both shine, if I ruled the world Still livin for today. in these last days and times And then we'll walk right up to the sun Hand in hand We'll walk right up to the sun We won't land We'll walk right up to the sun Hand in hand We'll walk right up to the sun We won't land You'd love to hear the story how thugs live in worry Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory Runnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight Tryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich Still nobody want a nigga havin shit If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit I push a Q-45 Infinit It woudn't be so such thing as jealousies or B felonies Strictly living longevity to the destiny I thought I'd never see but reality struck Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck If I ruled the world, imagine that I'd free al my sons, I love em love em baby Balck diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine We'd both shine, if I ruled the world Still livin for today. in these last days and times If I ruled the world, imagine that I'd free al my sons, I love em love em baby Balck diamonds and pearls Could it be, if you could be mine We'd both shine, if I ruled the world Still livin for today. in these last days and times |