Artist/Band:
Nas
Lyrics for Song: Rule
Lyrics for Album: Stillmatic [2001]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Nas, uh
yo, yo, Life, they wonder, can they take me under? Nah, never that, nah
Yo, yo, I come from the housin tenement buildings
Unlimited killings, menaces marked for death
Better known as the projects
Where junkies and rockheads dwell
Though I owe to it my success
Where survival of the fittest every day is a child
I would think I'm a part of USA and be proud
Confronted with racism, started to feel foreign
Like the darker you are the realer your problems
I reached for the stars, but I just kept slippin
On this life mission never know what's next
Ancient Kings from Egypt, welcome Julius Caesar
Had a piece of the globe, every continent
Yo theres Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan
Pakistan, America, Afghanistan
Yo theres Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics
Call a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages
No war, we should take time and think
The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct
But since the beginnin of Time, it's been man with
arms fightin
Lost lives in the Towers and Pentagon
Why then must it go on, we must stop the killin
Tell me why we die, we all God's children
All this hate can't last forever
It's time that we stand together
Everybody wants to rule the world
Come on (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Yo theres brothers on the block posted up like they
own it
That's they corner from New York to California
Got blocks locked down
Like dog, you safe whenever you with me
See, this is my town
So the youngstas, pros, and ghettos goes to prison
At a early age, already know it's against them
So in order for him to survive one day
He must open up his eyes to the set backs and rise
Cause everybody wants a shot
In this land of opportunity
Look at what this country's got
There shouldn't be nobody homeless
How can the President fix other problems when he ain't
fixed home yet
The earth wasn't made for one man to rule alone
To all colors and creeds is to whom it belongs
I want land, mansions, banks and gold
The diamonds in Africa, oil in my control
The world's natural resources own its residuals
But then comes foes, I have to guard it with missiles
And I become the most wanted
But is it worth hearin a million people problems and
followed by secret service
I guess attempts at my life wit loaded barrels
So move over Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
All this hate can't last forever
It's time that we stand together
Everybody wants to rule the world
Come on (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Peace (World...world....world...)
Y'all know that's my style to hit you at the right time
No other compares to what Nas write down
Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is yours
You could get what you love, be it chain or cars
You alive right now
There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the
beast
Ima highlight now
It's whatever man think of manifestin the real
The plan is to wake up cause time reveals
All this hate can't forever last
All my ghetto heroes in Heaven it's like you right
here and never passed
You just transcend, I know I'm gon see you again
Hopin I'll reach the world leaders and win
Aint' nothing without struggle, listen up, it's
critical
We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical
In hip-hop the weapons are lyrical
To be the best you challenge the best, and the blessings are spiritual
Top of the world for the kid none less
popping any Rappers head off his shoulders, no contest
I know the most high hear me, so far you can't near me
You scared of a mirror
My theory is that knowledge is power
To every projects and every street corner
We gotta get ours, now
All this hating lasts forever
It's time that we stand together
Everybody wants to rule the world
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