Nas - The World Is Yours lyrics

(It's yours) whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?

I sip the Dom P, watchin'
Gandhi 'til I'm charged, then
Writin' in my book of rhymes
All the words past the margin
To hold the mic I’m throbbin'
Mechanical movement
Understandable smooth shit that
Murderers move with
The thief's theme, play me at night
They won't act right
The fiend of hip-hop has got me


Stuck like a crack pipe
The mind activation, react like I'm facin'
Time like Pappy Mason
With pens I'm embracin'
Wipe the sweat off my dome
Spit the phlegm on the streets
Suede Timbs on my feets
Makes my cipher complete
Whether cruisin' in a Sikh's
Cab or Montero Jeep i can't call it
The beats make me fallin' asleep
I keep fallin'
But never fallin' six feet deep
I'm out for presidents to represent me
(Say what?)
I'm out for presidents to represent me
(Say what?)
I'm out for dead presidents to represent me

Whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?

To my man Ill Will, God bless your life
(It's yours)
To my peoples throughout Queens
God bless your life
I trip, we box up crazy bitches
Aimin' guns in all my baby pictures
Beef with housing police
Release scriptures that's maybe Hitler's
Yet I'm the mild, money-gettin' style
Rollin' foul
The versatile, honey-stickin', wild
Golden child
Dwellin' in the Rotten Apple, you get tackled
Or caught by the devil's lasso
Shit is a hassle
There's no days for broke days
When sellin' smoke pays
While all the old folks pray to Jesús
Soakin' they sins in trays
Of holy water, odds against Nas is slaughter
Thinkin' a word best describin' my
Life to name my daughter
My strength, my son
The star will be my resurrection
Born in correction, all the wrong shit I did
He'll lead in right direction
How you livin'? Large or broke
On charge cards and mediocre?
You flippin' coke or playin' spit, spades
And strip poker?

(It's yours) it's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
Yo, the world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)

Break it down it's yours, it's yours
It's yours, it's yours

I'm the young city bandit
Hold myself down single handed
For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone
Get remanded born alone, die alone
No crew to keep my crown or throne
I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside, 1
000 miles from home i need a new nigga for
This black cloud to follow
‘Cause while it's over me it's
Too dark to see tomorrow
Tryin' to maintain, I flip
Fill the clip to the tip
Picturin' my peeps not eatin' can
Make my heartbeat skip
And I'm amped up, they locked the champ up
Even my brain's in handcuffs
Headed for Indiana
Stabbin' women like the Phantom
The crew is lampin' Big Willie style
Check the chip-toothed smile
Plus I profile wild
Stash loot in fly clothes
Burnin' dollars to light my stoge
Walk the blocks with a bop, checkin' dames
Plus the games people play
Bust the problems of the world today

(It's yours) it's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (yeah)
The world is yours, the world is yours
It's mine, it's mine
It's mine whose world is this? (It's yours)

(Break it down) yeah, aight
To everybody in Queens, the foundation
(It's yours) the world is yours
To everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours
(It's yours) the world is yours
To everybody in Brooklyn
Y'all know the world is yours (It's yours)
The world is yours
Everybody in Mount Vernon, the world is yours
(It's yours)
Long Island, yo, the world is yours
(It's yours)
Staten Island, yeah, the world is yours
(It's yours)
South Bronx, the world is yours (It's yours)
Aight