If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (Explicit) - Nas/Ms. Lauryn Hill

Lyrics by：N. Jones/J. Olivier/S. Barnes/K. Walker

Composed by：N. Jones/J. Olivier/S. Barnes/K. Walker

Nas：

Life I wonder

Will it take me under

I don't know

Imagine smoking w**d in the streets without cops harassing

Imagine going to 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 is over these snakes strike like a cobra

The world's hot my son got knocked evidently

It's elementary they want us all gone eventually

Trooping out of state for a plate of knowledge

If coke was cooked without the garbage

We'd all have the top dollars

Imagine everybody flashing fashion designer clothes

Lacing your clique up with diamond Roles

Your people holding 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"

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 living for today in these last days and times

Nas：

The way to be Paradise life relaxin'

Black Latino and Anglo-Saxon

Armani Exchange the Range

Cash Lost Tribe of Shabazz free at last

Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in a 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 living 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 clique rolling

Tricking six digits on kicks and still holding

Trips to Paris I'd civilize every savage

Give me one shot I turn trife life to lavish

Political prisoners set free stress free

No work release purple M3's and jet skis

Feel the wind breeze in West Indies

I'd let Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities

And reverse fiends to Willies

It sounds foul but every girl I meet'd go down-town

I'd open every cell in Attica send 'em to Africa

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 living for today in these last days and times

Lauryn Hill：

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

Nas：

You love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry

Duck down in car seats heat's mandatory

Running from Jake getting chased hunger for papes

These are the breaks many mistakes go down outta state

Wait I had to let it marinate we carry weight

Trying to get laced flip the ace stack the safe

Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cocked hammer

Making moves in Atlanta back-and-forth scrambler

'Cause you could have all the chips be poor or rich

Still nobody want a n***a having s**t

If I ruled the world and everything in it sky's the limit

I push a Q-45 Infiniti

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 f**k

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 living 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 diamonds black diamonds

Could it be if you could be mine we'd both shine

If I ruled the world

Still living for today in these last days and times

Lauryn Hill：

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