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Nas
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[talking]
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Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo
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Life, they wonder, can they take me under?
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Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo
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I come from the housin tenement buildings
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Unlimited killings, menaces marked for death
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Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell
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Though I owe to it my success
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With survival of the fittest, everyday is a chal'
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I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud
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Confronted with racism, started to feel foreign
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Like, the darker you are the realer your problems
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I reached for the stars but I just kept slippin
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On this life mission, never know what's next
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Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar
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Had a piece of the globe, every continent
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Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan
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Pakistan, America, Afghanstan
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Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics
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Call a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages
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No war, we should take time and think
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The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct
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But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin
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Lost lives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then?
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Must it go on, we must stop the killin
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Tell me why we die, we all God's children
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[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in background]
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All this hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon)
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It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the world)
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Everybody wants to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon)
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World (peace), world (peace), world (peace), world
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Yo, there's brothers on the block, posted up like they own it
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That's they corner, from New York to California
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Got blocks locked down
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Like, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see this is my town"
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So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to prison
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At an early age, already know it's against him
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So in order for him to survive, one day he must
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Open up his eyes to the set backs and rise
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'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of opportunity
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Look at what this country's got
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There shouldn't be nobody homeless
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How can the president fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet
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The earth wasn't made for one man to rule alone
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To all colors increases, to home it belongs
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I want land, mansions, banks and gold
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The diamonds in Africa, oil in my control
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The world's natural resources, all its residuals
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But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels
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And I become the most wanted
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But is it worth hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret Service
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I guess, attempts at my life with loaded barrels
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So move over Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
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[Chorus]
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Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right time
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No other compares to what Nas write down
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Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is yours
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You could get what you love, be a chain in cause
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You alive right now
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There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now
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It's whatever man think of manifest to the real
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The plan is to wake up 'cause time reveals
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All this hate can't forever last
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All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and never passed
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You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again
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Hopin I reach the world leaders and win
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Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's critical
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We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical
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In Hip-Hop, the weapons are lyrical
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To be the best you challenge the best, then the blessings are spiritual
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Top of the world for the kid and unless
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Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no contest
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I know the Most High hear me, so fly you can't near me
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You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power
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To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
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[Chorus]
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(I1)
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itz a hy cryme society, roitz, peace, silently, quietly, privantly
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niggaz dyin, increased mamaz cryin cuz ha boiz disceased
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u c wut we unleased diz wurld 4 infantz at c
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Cuz thru da daze we led gun warz trimblen da kneez
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And we aint even gat money at fed da po
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brokin' homez shoken ya own mud thrown frum wut we've alwaze known and grown ta luv our fellow bruthaz
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thru GOD'z eyez we all da same blood
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so y we killin niggaz iz styll prisionz
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yell eurf diz styll isnt our lyfe we livin' hell sense burf
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Y showin sum reelizsm whyle havin serious visionz
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but we gotta make it ryght 4 da yunga generation
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dat wanna b a sensation we been waitin
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but da devil wont allow it so wit GOD u kan ova powah it
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lyke a towah whin itz built on a powah trip
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powah linez da powahz urz, mine
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swordz and rhymez itz da wurdz and da tymin
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dat u spyt 4 da killinz ta tell niggaz dey kan prevent it
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freedom uv speech we kan reach dem and teach'em & sho'em
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wut it meanz ta b a blakk person
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wit Freedomz & wit no painz, no strainz
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but keep ya head up and u aint neva gon' fail
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and dont git fed up cuz u a alwaze prevail
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Streetz Dreamaz
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[talking]
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Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin?
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Niggas ain't forget nothin man,
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The men, women and children killed by the police and shit
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Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I mean?
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Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life
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Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and take it
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Even if that means blood and death
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You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about
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This is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka
Nas - If I Ruled the World (Imagine That...
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