Nas - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)

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Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)

Life..... I wonder....
Will it take me under.... I don't know

Verse One: Nas

Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin
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 not evidently
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 flashin, fashion
Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues
Your people holdin 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"

Chorus: 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 livin for today, in
these last days and times

Verse Two: Nas

The way to be, paradise like relaxin 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 livin, 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 rollin
Trickin six digits on kicks and still holdin
Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
Political prisonner set free, stress free
No work release purple M3'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

Chorus: 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 livin 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

Verse Three: Nas

You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
Runnin 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
Tryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
Still nobody want a nigga havin shit
If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
I push a Q-45 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???

Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas

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 livin 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 dimaonds Could it be, if you could
black diamonds be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world Still livin 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!!

Original Version

Release History

05 November 2007

Greatest Hits

1. Surviving The Times (4:44)
2. Less Than An Hour (Theme From Rush Hour 3) (3:16)
3. It Ain't Hard To Tell (2:53)
4. Life's A Bitch (3:30)
5. N.Y. State of Mind (4:54)
6. One Love (2:31)
7. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
8. Street Dreams (Remix) (4:28)
9. Hate Me Now (4:47)
10. One Mic (4:30)
11. Got Ur Self A... (3:50)
12. Made You Look (3:25)
13. I Can (4:17)
14. Bridging The Gap (4:02)
15. Halftime (2:26)
16. Nas Is Like (3:56)
17. Thief's Theme (2:59)

01 July 1996

It Was Written

1. Album Intro (2:51)
2. The Message (3:55)
3. Street Dreams (4:52)
4. I Gave You Power (2:40)
5. Watch Dem Niggas (4:11)
6. Take It In Blood (4:54)
7. Nas Is Coming (5:47)
8. Affirmative Action (4:26)
9. The Set Up (4:08)
10. Black Girl Lost (4:29)
11. Suspect (4:18)
12. Shootouts (3:52)
13. Live Nigga Rap (3:51)
14. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
15. Silent Murder (3:36)

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iTunes Originals: Nas

1. iTunes Originals (0:06)
2. Made You Look (Explicit Version) (3:23)
3. It All Begins (2:01)
4. Halftime (Explicit Album Version) (4:20)
5. Hey Young World... (1:39)
6. The World Is Yours/Thief's Theme (3:50)
7. Pure New York (2:19)
8. N.Y. State Of Mind (Explicit Album Version) (4:52)
9. Back In the Day (2:39)
10. Purple (Explicit Version) (3:38)
11. One Love Is Powerful (1:10)
12. One Love (3:00)
13. Working With Lauryn Hill (1:18)
14. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
15. The Mic Is My Best Weapon (1:12)
16. One Mic (4:30)
17. Reflecting On Biggie and Tupac (2:36)
18. My Father's Blessing (1:34)
19. I Can (4:17)
20. Telling Our Story (1:14)
21. The Concept Behind 'Street's Disciple' (0:40)

2003

Made You Look: God's Son (Live)

1. Program Start
2. The Cross (3:48)
3. Got Ur Self A... (3:50)
4. The World Is Yours (4:49)
5. It Ain't Hard To Tell (2:53)
6. N.Y. State of Mind (4:54)
7. Life's A Bitch (3:30)
8. Street Dreams (4:52)
9. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
10. Nas Is Like (3:56)
11. Zone Out (3:48)
12. You're Da Man (3:26)
13. Rewind (2:14)
14. Last Real N**** Alive (5:04)
15. Get Down (3:41)
16. Mastermind (4:08)
17. One Mic (4:30)
18. Ether (1:07)
19. Darryl McDaniels Appearance
20. Made You Look (3:25)
21. Made You Look (Remix) (1:51)
22. Credits

22 January 2002

The Best of Nas

1. Life's A Bitch (3:30)
2. Life's A Bitch (Arsenal Mix) (3:32)
3. The World Is Yours (4:49)
4. The World Is Yours (Tip remix) (4:28)
5. One Love (2:31)
6. One Love (LG main remix) (5:33)
7. It Ain't Hard To Tell (2:53)
8. It AIn't Hard To Tell (Large Professor Remix) (2:51)
9. The Message (3:55)
10. Street Dreams (4:52)
11. Street Dreams (Remix) (4:28)
12. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
13. Hate Me Now (4:47)
14. You Won't See Me Tonight (4:23)
15. Nas Is Like (3:56)
16. Nastradamus (4:01)
17. New World (4:01)
18. You Owe Me (4:48)

2001

The Nas Chronicles

1. One Love (2:31)
2. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
3. Hate Me Now (4:47)
4. You Owe Me (4:48)
5. Salute Me (The General) (3:39)
6. You're Da Man (3:26)

2004

Video Anthology Vol. 1

1. It Ain't Hard To Tell (2:53)
2. One Love (2:31)
3. Halftime (2:26)
4. Nas Is Like (3:56)
5. The World Is Yours (4:49)
6. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (4:45)
7. Hate Me Now (4:47)
8. Street Dreams (4:52)
9. Nastradamus (4:01)
10. You Own Me
11. Got Ur Self A... (3:50)
12. One Mic (4:30)
13. Made You Look (3:25)
14. I Can (4:17)