[ti:The World Is Yours (Explicit)] [ar:Nas] [al:Illmatic] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The World Is Yours (Album Version) - Nas [00:00.59]Lyrics by:N. Jones [00:01.19]Composed by:N. Jones [00:01.78]Pete Rock/Nas: [00:01.90]It's yours [00:05.11]Whose world is this [00:06.94]The world is yours the world is yours [00:09.18]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [00:12.92]It's yours [00:14.52]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [00:17.99]The world is yours the world is yours [00:20.32]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [00:21.96]Nas: [00:22.07]I sip the Dom P watchin' Gandhi 'til I'm charged then [00:24.61]Writin' in my book of rhymes all the words past the margin [00:27.55]To hold the mic I'm throbbin' mechanical movement [00:30.32]Understandable smooth s**t that murderers move with [00:32.99]The thief's theme play me at night they won't act right [00:35.66]The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe [00:38.47]The mind activation react like I'm facin' [00:41.19]Time like Pappy Mason with pens I'm embracin' [00:43.90]Wipe the sweat off my dome spit the phlegm on the streets [00:46.56]Suede Timbs on my feets makes my cipher complete [00:49.28]Whether cruisin' in a Sikh's cab or Montero Jeep [00:51.94]I can't call it the beats make me fallin' asleep [00:54.57]I keep fallin' but never fallin' six feet deep [00:57.44]I'm out for presidents to represent me [00:59.54]Say what [01:00.36]I'm out for presidents to represent me [01:02.33]Say what [01:03.01]I'm out for dead presidents to represent me [01:05.40]Pete Rock/Nas: [01:05.84]Whose world is this [01:07.65]The world is yours the world is yours [01:09.77]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [01:12.98]The world is yours the world is yours [01:15.20]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [01:18.89]It's yours [01:20.46]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [01:24.05]The world is yours the world is yours [01:26.26]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [01:27.95]Nas: [01:28.06]To my man Ill Will God bless your life [01:30.25]It's yours [01:30.58]To my peoples throughout Queens God bless your life [01:33.12]I trip we box up crazy b***hes aimin' guns in all my baby pictures [01:36.57]Beef with housing police release scriptures that's maybe Hitler's [01:39.26]Yet I'm the mild money-gettin' style rollin' foul [01:42.01]The versatile honey-stickin' wild golden child [01:44.76]Dwellin' in the Rotten Apple you get tackled [01:47.29]Or caught by the devil's lasso s**t is a hassle [01:49.92]There's no days for broke days when sellin' smoke pays [01:52.27]While all the old folks pray to Jesús soakin' they sins in trays [01:55.74]Of holy water odds against Nas is slaughter [01:57.95]Thinkin' a word best describin' my life to name my daughter [02:00.71]My strength my son the star will be my resurrection [02:03.39]Born in correction all the wrong s**t I did [02:05.51]He'll lead in right direction [02:06.70]How you livin' [02:07.23]Large or broke on charge cards and mediocre [02:09.66]You flippin' coke or playin' spit spades and strip poker [02:12.50]Pete Rock/Nas: [02:14.04]It's yours [02:15.54]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [02:19.04]The world is yours the world is yours [02:20.98]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [02:24.93]It's yours [02:26.38]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [02:29.38]Yo the world is yours the world is yours [02:32.18]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [02:35.96]It's yours [02:36.50]Break it down [02:41.23]It's yours it's yours [02:52.29]It's yours it's yours [02:58.35]Nas: [02:58.73]I'm the young city bandit hold myself down single-handed [03:01.66]For murder raps I kick my thoughts alone get remanded [03:04.23]Born alone die alone no crew to keep my crown or throne [03:06.96]I'm deep by sound alone caved inside 1000 miles from home [03:09.65]I need a new n***a for this black cloud to follow [03:12.45]'Cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow [03:14.89]Tryin' to maintain I flip fill the clip to the tip [03:17.44]Picturin' my peeps not eatin' can make my heartbeat skip [03:20.24]And I'm amped up they locked the champ up [03:22.43]Even my brain's in handcuffs [03:23.81]Headed for Indiana stabbin' women like the Phantom [03:26.41]The crew is lampin' Big Willie style [03:28.63]Check the chip-toothed smile plus I profile wild [03:31.47]Stash loot in fly clothes burnin' dollars to light my stoge [03:34.22]Walk the blocks with a bop [03:35.53]Checkin' dames plus the games people play [03:37.62]Bust the problems of the world today [03:39.34]Pete Rock/Nas: [03:41.93]It's yours [03:43.53]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [03:46.74]The world is yours the world is yours [03:49.15]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [03:52.77]It's yours [03:54.32]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [03:57.26]Yeah [03:57.81]The world is yours the world is yours [03:59.82]It's mine it's mine it's mine whose world is this [04:03.90]It's yours [04:04.18]Nas/Pete Rock: [04:04.65]Break it down [04:05.90]Yeah aight [04:06.66]To everybody in Queens the foundation [04:09.30]It's yours [04:11.03]The world is yours [04:11.99]To everybody uptown yo the world is yours [04:15.17]It's yours [04:16.27]The world is yours [04:17.27]To everybody in Brooklyn [04:19.38]Y'all know the world is yours [04:20.71]It's yours [04:21.72]The world is yours [04:22.96]Everybody in Mount Vernon the world is yours [04:26.21]It's yours [04:26.66]Long Island yo the world is yours [04:28.80]It's yours [04:29.14]Staten Island yeah the world is yours [04:31.77]It's yours [04:32.23]South Bronx the world is yours [04:33.82]It's yours [04:35.98]Aight