Yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Nas, uh

Yo’, yo’, I come from the housin’ tenement buildings

Unlimited killings, menaces marked for death

Better known as the projects where junkies and rock

heads dwell

Though I owe to it my success

Well, survival of the fittest every day as a child

I would think I’m a part of you and say and be proud

In front of racism, started to foreign

Like it bother you all, now deal with your problems

I reached for the stars, but I just kept slippin’

On this life mission never know what’s next

Ain’t your king from Fiji, but the Julius Caesar

Had a piece of the globe, every continent

There was Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan

Pakistan, America, Afghanistan

There was 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 man kinda extinct

‘Cause since the beginnin’ of time, it’s been man with

arms fightin’

No slobs in the towers and Pentagons

Why then must we it on, we must stop the killin’

Tell me why we die, we all God’s children

All this hating lasts 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...)

All those brothers on the block posted up like they

own it

That’s they Kona 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 what’s against them

So in order for him to survive one day

He must open up his eyes to the ???

‘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

To 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 are loaded

So move over Colin Powell, just throw in a towel, yo’

All this hating lasts 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...)

Young harass my style and 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 a chain to cause

You’re alive right now

There’s so many that’s dead or locked up inside the

beast

I’mma holler it now

It’s whatever man think’ll manifest to 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 gonna see you again

Hopin’ I’ll reach the world ears and win

Ain’t nothin’ 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 rest, and the blessed

keeps it spiritual

Top of the world for the kid none less

Shoot any Rappers head off his shoulders, no contest

I know the most high hear me, so fly you can’t hear me

You scared of a mirror

My theory is that knowledge is power

To every projects and every street corner

We gotta get out of this now

All this hating lasts forever

It’s time that we stand together

Everybody wants to rule the world