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[00:00.00]Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo
[00:10.95]Life, they wonder, can they take me under?
[00:16.34]Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo
[00:19.45]I come from the housin tenement buildings
[00:21.77]Unlimited killings, menaces marked for death
[00:24.07]Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell
[00:27.14]Though I owe to it my success
[00:28.97]With survival of the fittest, everyday is a chal'
[00:31.37]I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud
[00:33.78]Confronted with racism, started to feel foreign
[00:36.24]Like, the darker you are the realer your problems
[00:38.73]I reached for the stars but I just kept slippin
[00:41.38]On this life mission, never know what's next
[00:43.46]Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar
[00:45.92]Had a piece of the globe, every continent
[00:48.37]Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan
[00:51.02]Pakistan, America, Afghanstan
[00:53.16]Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics
[00:55.50]Call a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages
[00:58.37]No war, we should take time and think
[01:00.43]The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct
[01:02.86]But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin
[01:05.96]Lost lives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then?
[01:08.31]Must it go on, we must stop the killin
[01:10.80]Tell me why we die, we all God's children
[01:12.93]World is hating, that's forever (uh, c'mon)
[01:18.12]It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the world)
[01:22.97]Everybody wants to rule the world (What, what, what, what, what, c'mon)
[01:29.42](World) Peace, (world) peace, (world) peace, (world)
[01:36.73]Yo, there's brothers on the block, posted up like they own it
[01:39.34]That's they corner, from New York to California
[01:42.03]Got blocks locked down
[01:43.59]Like, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see this is my town"
[01:46.59]So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to prison
[01:49.29]At an early age, already know it's against him
[01:51.66]So in order for him to survive, one day he must
[01:54.16]Open up his eyes to the set backs and rise
[01:56.13]'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of opportunity
[01:59.54]Look at what this country's got
[02:00.94]There shouldn't be nobody homeless
[02:02.72]How can the president fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet
[02:06.17]The earth wasn't made for one man to rule alone
[02:08.58]To all colors increases, to home it belongs
[02:11.00]I want land, mansions, banks and gold
[02:13.25]The diamonds in Africa, oil in my control
[02:15.50]The world's natural resources, all its residuals
[02:18.27]But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels
[02:20.77]And I become the most wanted
[02:22.18]But is it worth hearin a million people
[02:23.77]Problems and followed by Secret Service
[02:25.43]I guess, attempts at my life with loaded barrels
[02:27.70]So move over Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
[02:30.93]World is hating, that's forever (uh, c'mon)
[02:33.30]It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the world)
[02:41.12]Everybody wants to rule the world (What, what, what, what, what, c'mon)
[02:47.03](World) Peace, (world) peace, (world) peace, (world)
[02:54.24]Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right time
[02:57.14]No other compares to what Nas write down
[02:59.41]Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is yours
[03:01.76]You could get what you love, be a chain in cause
[03:04.28]You alive right now
[03:05.56]There's so many that's dead or locked
[03:06.99]Up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now
[03:09.07]It's whatever man think of manifest to the real
[03:11.55]The plan is to wake up 'cause time reveals
[03:13.88]All this hate can't forever last
[03:15.64]All my ghetto heroes in Heaven
[03:17.02]It's like you right here and never passed
[03:18.92]You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again
[03:21.58]Hopin I reach the world leaders and win
[03:23.57]Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's critical
[03:26.14]We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical
[03:28.56]In Hip-Hop, the weapons are lyrical
[03:30.35]To be the best you challenge the
[03:31.74]Best, then the blessings are spiritual
[03:33.70]Top of the world for the kid and unless
[03:35.76]Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no contest
[03:38.31]I know the Most High
[03:39.27]Hear me, so fly you can't near me
[03:41.33]You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power
[03:44.68]To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
[03:48.51]World is hating, that's forever
[03:53.34]It's time that we stand together
[03:58.22]Everybody wants to rule the world
[04:03.31](World)
[04:06.36]Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm saying?
[04:09.06]Niggas ain't forget nothing
[04:09.95]Men, women and children killed by the police and shit
[04:13.51]Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I mean?
[04:16.07]Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life
[04:18.62]Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and take it
[04:21.29]Even if that means blood and death
[04:24.53]You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about
[04:27.13]This is what my country is, and my country's a motherfucker
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