Nas feat. Lauryn Hill - If i ruled the world
    [Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)]
    Life..... I wonder....
  Will it take me under.... I don't know
    [Verse One: Nas]
    Imagine smoking weed in the streets without 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 daughters
  Days are shorter, nights are colder
  Feeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobra
  The world's hot my son got not evidently
  It's elementary, 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 holdin dough, no parole
  No rubbers, 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"
    [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
    If I ruled the world
  Imagine that
  I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
  Black 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
    [Verse Two: Nas]
    The way to be, paradise like relaxin 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 Villa house is for the crew, 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 rollin
  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 release 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
    [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
    If I ruled the world
  Imagine that
  I'd free all my sons, I love em love em baby
  Black 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
    [Verse Three: Nas]
    You'd 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 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 wouldn't be no 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??
    [Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
    If I ruled the world
  Imagine that
  I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby
  Black 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, if I ruled, if I ruled
  Imagine that
  I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
  I love em love em baby
  Black diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds
  Could it be, if you could
  black diamonds
  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, if I ruled
  if I ruled, I'd free all my sons
  black diamonds, I love em love em baby
  Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled
  If I ruled the world
    If I ruled the world
  I love em love em baby!!