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Nas & Lauryn Hill - The Best of Nas - If I Ruled the World
The Best of Nas
01. Intro - '91 Freestyle
02. Live at the BBQ
03. Made You Look
04. Made You Look (remix)
05. Made You Shook (J.Period remix)
06. Righteous Records (interlude)
07. Nas Is Like
08. Represent
09. Halftime
10. If I Ruled the World
11. Make the Music Freestyle
12. Eric B. is President Freestyle
13. So Whatcha Sayin Freestyle
14. Dr. Knockboot
15. Ultimate High
16. Street Dreams
17. Silent Murder
18. You're the Man
19. Doo Rags
20. Memory Lane (Sittin in the Park)
21. The Message (Mafioso remix)
22. Life's a Bitch
23. What Goes Around (Poison)
24. One Mic
25. I Gave You Power
26. NY State of Mind
27. NY State of Mind Part 2
28. Eye for an Eye
29. Get Down
30. No Idea's Original
31. More Bounce Freestyle
32. One Love
33. One Love (J.Period remix)
34. Staying Power Interlude
35. Affirmative Action (St. Denis Style remix)
36. The Second Coming
37. Large Professor Interlude
38. It Ain't Hard to Tell (remix)
39. It Ain't Hard to Tell
40. The World Is Yours
41. Nas - Jay-Z Interlude
42. Ether
Life... I wonder...
Will it take me under... I don't know

Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassing
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 knocked evidentaly
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 flashing, fashion
Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues
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"

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

The way to be, paradise like relaxing 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 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, click rolling
Tricking six digits on kicks and still holding
Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
Political prisoner set free, stress free
No work release purple M'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

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

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

You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
Running 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
Trying to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
Making moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
Still nobody want a nigga having shit
If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
I push a Q- 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??

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 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
Could it be, if you could
Black diamonds
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, 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!!