Rule (Radio Edit)

Rule (Radio Edit) - Nas/Amerie

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Nas uh yo

Here 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

With survival of the fittest

Everyday is a chal'

I would think I'm a part of U S A 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 up to Julius Cesar

Had a piece of the globe every continent

Yo there's Asia Africa Europe France Japan

Pakistan America Afghanistan

Yo there's Protestants Jews Blacks Arabic's

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 beginning of time

It's been men 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

Uh c'mon

It's time that we stand together

Yeah for the world

Everybody wants to rule the world

What what what what what c'mon

World Peace

World Peace

World Peace

World

Yo there's 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 youngsters grows in ghettos

Goes to prison

At an early age

Already know it's against him

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 increases

To home it belongs

I want land mansions banks and gold

The diamonds in Africa oil in my control

The world's natural resources

All it's residuals

But then comes foes

I have to guard it with missels

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 with loaded barrels

So move over Colin Powell

Or just throw in the towel yo

All this hate can't last forever

Uh c'mon

It's time that we stand together

Yeah for the world

Everybody wants to rule the world

What what what what what c'mon

World Peace

World Peace

World Peace

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 a chain in cause

You alive right now

There's so many that's dead or locked up inside

The beast I'm a hot light now

It's whatever man think of 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 gon' see you again

Hopin' I reach the world leaders 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 best

Then the blessings are spiritual

Top of the world for the kid and unless

Any rapper's head off his shoulders no contest

I know the Most High hear me

So fly 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 out of this now

All this hate can't last forever

It's time that we stand together

Everybody wants to rule the world