[Produced by Pete Rock]
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[Chorus: Pete Rock + Nas]
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(Its yours)
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Whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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I sip the Dom P, watchin Gandhi til Im charged, then
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Writin in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
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To hold the mic I’m throbbin, mechanical movement
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Understandable smooth shit that murderers move with
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The thiefs theme, play me at night, they wont act right
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The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe
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The mind activation, react like Im facin
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Time like Pappy Mason, with pens Im embracin
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Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets
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Suede Timbs on my feets makes my cipher complete
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Whether cruisin in a Sikhs cab or Montero Jeep
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I cant call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
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I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep
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Im out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
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Im out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
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Im out for dead presidents to represent me
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[Chorus: Pete Rock + Nas]
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Whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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To my man Ill Will, God bless your life (Its yours)
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To my peoples throughout Queens, God bless your life
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I trip, we box up crazy bitches, aimin guns in all my baby pictures
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Beef with housing police, release scriptures thats maybe Hitlers
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Yet Im the mild, money-gettin style, rollin foul
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The versatile, honey-stickin, wild, golden child
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Dwellin in the Rotten Apple, you get tackled
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Or caught by the devils lasso, shit is a hassle
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Theres no days for broke days when sellin smoke pays
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While all the old folks pray to Jesús, soakin they sins in trays
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Of holy water, odds against Nas is slaughter
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Thinkin a word best describin my life to name my daughter
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My strength, my son, the star will be my resurrection
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Born in correction, all the wrong shit I did, hell lead in right direction
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How you livin? Large or broke on charge cards and mediocre?
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You flippin coke or playin spit, spades, and strip poker?
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[Chorus: Pete Rock + Nas]
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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Yo, the world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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[Bridge]
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Break it down
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Its yours, its yours
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Its yours, its yours
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[Verse 3: Nas]
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Im the young city bandit, hold myself down single-handed
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For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
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Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
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Im deep by sound alone, caved inside, 1,000 miles from home
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I need a new nigga for this black cloud to follow
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‘Cause while its over me its too dark to see tomorrow
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Tryin to maintain, I flip, fill the clip to the tip
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Picturin my peeps not eatin can make my heartbeat skip
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And Im amped up, they locked the champ up, even my brains in handcuffs
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Headed for Indiana, stabbin women like the Phantom
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The crew is lampin Big Willie style
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Check the chip-toothed smile, plus I profile wild
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Stash loot in fly clothes, burnin dollars to light my stoge
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Walk the blocks with a bop, checkin dames, plus the games people play
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Bust the problems of the world today
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[Chorus: Pete Rock + Nas]
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this? (Yeah)
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The world is yours, the world is yours
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Its mine, its mine, its mine—whose world is this?
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(Its yours)
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[Outro: Nas & Pete Rock]
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(Break it down) Yeah, aight
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To everybody in Queens, the foundation (Its yours)
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The world is yours
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To everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours (Its yours)
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The world is yours
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To everybody in Brooklyn
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Yall know the world is yours (Its yours)
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The world is yours
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Everybody in Mount Vernon, the world is yours (Its yours)
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Long Island, yo, the world is yours (Its yours)
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Staten Island, yeah, the world is yours (Its yours)
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South Bronx, the world is yours (Its yours)
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Aight
