Mike jones

"[Verse 1: Nas]
"Imagine smoking weed in the street without cops harassing.
Imagine going to court with no trial.
Lifestyle cruising. Blue behind my waters.
No welfare supporters, 
more conscious of the way we raise our daughters.

Days are shorter, nights are colder,
feeling like life is over. These snakes strike like a cobra.
The world's hot. My son got knocked. 
Evidently, it's elementary: 
they want us all gone eventually.

Trooping out of state for a plate—
knowledge.
If coke was cooked without the garbage 
we'd all have the top dollars.

Imagine everybody flashing 
fashion, designer clothes, 
lacing your clique up with diamond rolls.
Your peoples holding dough. No parole,
no rubbers—
going raw. Imagine law with no undercovers…

Just some thoughts for the mind.
I take a glimpse into time,
watch the blimp read “The World Is Mine!”

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
If I ruled the world…
[Imagine that.]

I'd free all my sons… 
[I love ‘em, love ‘em, baby.]

Black diamonds and pearls…
[Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine.]

If I ruled the world…
[Still living for today, 
in these last days…]"

[Verse 2: A.D. Carson]
Yo, it’ll be paradise: Life, relaxing. 
Black, Latino, and Anglo Saxon—
Rainbow/PUSH with no Jesse Jackson. 
You’ll wonder how it ever happened,
that rappin’—just spittin’ flows—
no more entering through kitchen doors… 
Getting known for something other than the drama. 
Facing racism—even though we got Obama. 
We can still be honest, 
acknowledge and admonish. 
Take ‘em all to task, ‘cause a promise is a promise. 

Mommas would be mommas, 
and daddies would present. 
Children would be educated with practical lessons.
No arrested development; effort to empty prisons 
for better living—the type of place to raise kids in. 
Open they eyes to the lies History’s told foul. 
Teach ‘em the truth. Let ‘em know now, 
so we can grow how
nature intended—
reading spaces between the sentences.
Show ‘em they own image—let ‘em know that ain’t they nemesis.  

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
"If I ruled the world…
[Imagine that.]

I'd free all my sons… 
[I love ‘em, love ‘em, baby.]

Black diamonds and pearls…
[Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine.]

If I ruled the world…
[Still living for today, 
in these last days and times.]

[Bridge: Lauryn Hill]
And then we’ll walk right up to the sun
hand-in-hand.
We’ll walk right up to the sun.
We won’t land.

We’ll walk right up to the sun
hand-in-hand.
We’ll walk right up to the sun.
We won’t land.

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]
If I ruled the world…
[Imagine that.]

I'd free all my sons… 
[I love ‘em, love ‘em, baby.]

Black diamonds and pearls…
[Could it be? If you could be mine, we'd both shine.]

If I ruled the world…
[Still living for today, 
in these last days…]"


[Music: “Royals” by Lorde; produced by Joel Little
Lyrics by Nas, Lauryn Hill & A.D. Carson]"


Imagine This [Feat. Nas & Lauryn Hill]

Dang'Remix Vol.1 (2011) : http://www.datpiff.com/-No-artbeatz-Present-Dangremix-Vol1-mixtape.269827.html

Mike jones

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