Rule (feat. Amerie)

Yo, I come from the housin', tenement buildings

Unlimited killers, 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 every day as a child

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 Caesar

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, Arabics

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

It's time that we stand together

Everybody wants to rule the world

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 ghettoes, goes to prison

At an early age already knows it's against him

So in order for him to survive one day he must open up his eyes

To the setbacks 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 and creeds is to whom it belongs

I want land, mansions, banks and gold

The diamonds in Africa, oil in my control

The world's natural resources, all its residuals

But then comes foes, I have to guard it with missiles

And I become the most wanted, but is it worth hearin' a

Million people problems and followed by Secret Service?

I guess attempts on my life with loaded ****

So move over, Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo

All this hate can't last forever

It's time that we stand together

Everybody wants to rule the world

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 of cause

You alive right now, there's so many that's dead or locked up

Inside the beast, I'm a highlight 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 gonna see you again

Hopin' I reach the world leaders and win

Ain't nothing 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, none less

**** 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 ours now

All this hate can't last forever

It's time that we stand together

Everybody wants to rule the world