Nas - If I Ruled The World lyrics

Album: It Was Written (1996)

Nas
featuring Lauryn Hill

Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)

Life..... I wonder....
Will it take me under.... I dt know

Verse One: Nas

Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin
Imagine gonna court with no trial
Lifestyle cruising blue Bahama waters
No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters
Days are shorter nights are colder
Feeling like life´s over, these snakes strike like a cobra
The world´s hot my son got knocked evidently
It is elementary, they want us all gone eventually
Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge
if coke was cooked without the garbage we would all have the top dollars
Imagine everybody flashin, fashion
Designer clothes, lacing your clique up with diamond Role´s
Your people holdin dough, no parole
No rubbers, goin´ 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"

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that
I would free all my sons, I love ´em love ´em baby
Black diamonds & pearls Could it be, if you could
be mine, we would both shine
If I ruled the world Suntil livin for today, in
these last days & times

Verse Two: Nas

Yo it will be, paradise life relaxin black, latino & anglo-saxon
Armani exchange the reins
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the illa path
The Villa houses for the crew, how we do
Trees for breakfast, dime sexes & Benz stretches
So many yeahrs 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 am as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling, clique rollin
Trickin six digits on kicks & 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 release purple M3´s & jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities & reverse feinds to Willies
It sounds foul but every girl I meet will go downtown
I would open every cell in Attica send ´em to Africa

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that
I would free all my sons, I love ´em love ´em baby
Black diamonds & pearls Could it be, if you could
be mine, we would both shine
If I ruled the world Suntil livin for today, in
these last days & times

And then we will walk right up to the sun
Hand in hand
We will walk right up to the sun
We won´t land
We will walk right up to the sun
Hand in hand
We will walk right up to the sun
We won´t land

Verse Three: Nas

You would love to hear the story how the 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 cocked hammer
Makin moves in Atlanta, back & forth scrambler
Cause you could´ve all the chips, be poor or rich
Still nobody want a nigga havin shit
If I ruled the world & everything in it, sky´s the limit
I push a Q-45 Infinit
It´dn´t be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
Strictly living longevity to the destiny
I thought I would never see but reality struck
Better find out before your time´s out, what the f*ck???

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that
I would free all my sons, I love ´em em baby
Black diamonds & pearls Could it be, if you could
be mine, we would both shine
If I ruled the world Suntil livin for today, in
these last days & times

If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled Imagine that
I would free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
I love ´em love ´em baby
Black diamonds & pearls, black dimaonds Could it be, if you could
black diamonds be mine, we would both shine
If I ruled the world Suntil livin for today, in
these last days & times

If I ruled the world, if I ruled
if I ruled, I would free all my sons
black diamonds, I love ´em love ´em baby
Black diamonds & pearls, if I ruled
If I ruled the world

If I ruled the world
I love ´em love ´em baby!!

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