The World Is Yours
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About The World Is Yours
"The World Is Yours" is a 1994 song by American rapper Nas. It was the fourth single from his debut album "Illmatic", released a month after the album. It is considered by music critics as one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever recorded; About.com ranked it seventh greatest rap song of all time. It reached number 13 on the Hot Rap Singles chart in 1994. It contains a sample of Ahmad Jamal's 1970 song, "I Love Music". The song (including the title) and its accompanying video pay homage to the film Scarface. .
The World Is Yours Lyrics
[00:01.76] "It's yours!"
[00:03.55] Whose world is this?
[00:06.64] The world is yours, the world is yours
[00:09.04] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:10.04] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[00:13.48] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:15.34] Whose world is this?
[00:17.42] The world is yours, the world is yours
[00:20.18] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:21.32] Whose world is this?
[00:22.52] I sip the dom p, watchin gandhi til i'm charged
[00:24.44] Then writin in my book of rhymes, all the words pass the margin
[00:26.86] To hold the mic i'm throbbin, mechanical movement
[00:29.57] Understandable smooth shit that murderers move wit
[00:32.39] The thief's theme, play me at night, they won't act right
[00:35.69] The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe
[00:36.73] The mind activation, react like i'm facin time like
[00:41.33] Cappy mason with pens i'm embracin
[00:43.98] Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets
[00:46.19] Suede timb's on my feets, makes my cypher, complete
[00:48.70] Whether crusin in a six-cab, or montero jeep
[00:51.80] I can't call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
[00:53.26] I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep
[00:57.24] I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what?)
[01:00.66] I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what?)
[01:02.83] I'm out for dead presidents to represent me
[01:06.15] Whose world is this?
[01:07.46] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:09.59] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:10.48] Whose world is this?
[01:12.16] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:14.67] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:16.66] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[01:19.22] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:21.71] Whose world is this?
[01:23.25] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:25.95] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:27.19] Whose world is this?
[01:27.96] To my man ill will, god bless your life "it's yours!"
[01:30.20] To my peoples throughout queens, god bless your life
[01:32.82] I trip we box up crazy bitches aiming guns in all my baby pictures
[01:35.79] Beef with housing police, release scriptures that's maybe hitler's
[01:38.73] Yet I'm the mild, money gettin style, rollin foul
[01:41.39] The versatile, honey stickin wild, golden child
[01:44.35] Dwellin in the rotten apple, you get tackled
[01:46.64] Or caught by the devil's lasso, shit is a hassle
[01:49.58] There's no days, for broke days, we sell it, smoke pays
[01:51.88] While all the old folks pray, to je-sus' soakin they sins in trays
[01:55.15] Of holy water, odds against nas are slaughter
[01:57.87] Thinkin a word best describin my life, to name my daughter
[02:00.76] My strength, my son, the star, will be my resurrection
[02:02.86] Born in correction all the wrong shit I did, he'll lead a right direction
[02:06.47] How ya livin large, a broker charge, cards are mediocre
[02:08.83] You flippin coke or playin spit spades in strip poker
[02:11.10] "It's yours!"
[02:15.03] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:16.26] Whose world is this?
[02:18.05] The world is yours, the world is yours
[02:20.68] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:21.94] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[02:25.13] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:27.45] Whose world is this?
[02:29.10] Yo, the world is yours, the world is yours
[02:31.39] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:32.57] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[02:36.42] Break it down
[02:54.73] I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded
[03:01.52] For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
[03:04.42] Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
[03:06.40] I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home
[03:09.11] I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow
[03:11.63] Cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow
[03:14.17] Trying to maintain, I flip, fill the clip to the tip
[03:16.65] Picturing my peeps, now the income make my heartbeat skip
[03:19.33] And I'm amped up, they locked the champ up, even my brain's in handcuffs
[03:23.02] Headed for indiana stabbing women like the phantom
[03:25.88] The crew is lamping big willie style
[03:27.79] Check the chip toothed smile, plus I profile wild
[03:30.30] Stash through the flock wools, burning dollars to light my stove
[03:33.33] Walk the blocks wit a bop, checkin danes plus the games
[03:36.27] People play, bust the problems of the world today
[03:38.87] "It's yours!"
[03:42.80] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:44.22] Whose world is this?
[03:45.98] The world is yours, the world is yours
[03:48.49] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:50.17] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[03:53.53] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:55.24] Whose world is this?
[03:57.05] Yeah the world is yours, the world is yours
[03:59.38] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[04:01.45] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[04:04.09] Break it down
[04:04.98] Yea aight?
[04:06.93] To everybody in queens, the foundation "it's yours!"
[04:10.77] The world is yours
[04:12.01] To everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:15.57] The world is yours
[04:17.48] To everybody in Brooklyn
[04:19.21] Y'all know the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:21.18] The world is yours
[04:23.11] Everybody in mount Vernon, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:26.25] Long island, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:28.85] Staten island, yea the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:31.25] South Bronx, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:34.07] Aight
[04:35.58]
[00:03.55] Whose world is this?
[00:06.64] The world is yours, the world is yours
[00:09.04] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:10.04] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[00:13.48] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:15.34] Whose world is this?
[00:17.42] The world is yours, the world is yours
[00:20.18] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[00:21.32] Whose world is this?
[00:22.52] I sip the dom p, watchin gandhi til i'm charged
[00:24.44] Then writin in my book of rhymes, all the words pass the margin
[00:26.86] To hold the mic i'm throbbin, mechanical movement
[00:29.57] Understandable smooth shit that murderers move wit
[00:32.39] The thief's theme, play me at night, they won't act right
[00:35.69] The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe
[00:36.73] The mind activation, react like i'm facin time like
[00:41.33] Cappy mason with pens i'm embracin
[00:43.98] Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets
[00:46.19] Suede timb's on my feets, makes my cypher, complete
[00:48.70] Whether crusin in a six-cab, or montero jeep
[00:51.80] I can't call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
[00:53.26] I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep
[00:57.24] I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what?)
[01:00.66] I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what?)
[01:02.83] I'm out for dead presidents to represent me
[01:06.15] Whose world is this?
[01:07.46] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:09.59] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:10.48] Whose world is this?
[01:12.16] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:14.67] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:16.66] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[01:19.22] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:21.71] Whose world is this?
[01:23.25] The world is yours, the world is yours
[01:25.95] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[01:27.19] Whose world is this?
[01:27.96] To my man ill will, god bless your life "it's yours!"
[01:30.20] To my peoples throughout queens, god bless your life
[01:32.82] I trip we box up crazy bitches aiming guns in all my baby pictures
[01:35.79] Beef with housing police, release scriptures that's maybe hitler's
[01:38.73] Yet I'm the mild, money gettin style, rollin foul
[01:41.39] The versatile, honey stickin wild, golden child
[01:44.35] Dwellin in the rotten apple, you get tackled
[01:46.64] Or caught by the devil's lasso, shit is a hassle
[01:49.58] There's no days, for broke days, we sell it, smoke pays
[01:51.88] While all the old folks pray, to je-sus' soakin they sins in trays
[01:55.15] Of holy water, odds against nas are slaughter
[01:57.87] Thinkin a word best describin my life, to name my daughter
[02:00.76] My strength, my son, the star, will be my resurrection
[02:02.86] Born in correction all the wrong shit I did, he'll lead a right direction
[02:06.47] How ya livin large, a broker charge, cards are mediocre
[02:08.83] You flippin coke or playin spit spades in strip poker
[02:11.10] "It's yours!"
[02:15.03] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:16.26] Whose world is this?
[02:18.05] The world is yours, the world is yours
[02:20.68] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:21.94] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[02:25.13] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:27.45] Whose world is this?
[02:29.10] Yo, the world is yours, the world is yours
[02:31.39] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[02:32.57] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[02:36.42] Break it down
[02:54.73] I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded
[03:01.52] For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
[03:04.42] Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
[03:06.40] I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home
[03:09.11] I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow
[03:11.63] Cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow
[03:14.17] Trying to maintain, I flip, fill the clip to the tip
[03:16.65] Picturing my peeps, now the income make my heartbeat skip
[03:19.33] And I'm amped up, they locked the champ up, even my brain's in handcuffs
[03:23.02] Headed for indiana stabbing women like the phantom
[03:25.88] The crew is lamping big willie style
[03:27.79] Check the chip toothed smile, plus I profile wild
[03:30.30] Stash through the flock wools, burning dollars to light my stove
[03:33.33] Walk the blocks wit a bop, checkin danes plus the games
[03:36.27] People play, bust the problems of the world today
[03:38.87] "It's yours!"
[03:42.80] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:44.22] Whose world is this?
[03:45.98] The world is yours, the world is yours
[03:48.49] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:50.17] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[03:53.53] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[03:55.24] Whose world is this?
[03:57.05] Yeah the world is yours, the world is yours
[03:59.38] It's mine, it's mine, it's mine
[04:01.45] Whose world is this? "it's yours!"
[04:04.09] Break it down
[04:04.98] Yea aight?
[04:06.93] To everybody in queens, the foundation "it's yours!"
[04:10.77] The world is yours
[04:12.01] To everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:15.57] The world is yours
[04:17.48] To everybody in Brooklyn
[04:19.21] Y'all know the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:21.18] The world is yours
[04:23.11] Everybody in mount Vernon, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:26.25] Long island, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:28.85] Staten island, yea the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:31.25] South Bronx, the world is yours "it's yours!"
[04:34.07] Aight
[04:35.58]
From the album: Illmatic
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The Genesis by Nas , -
N.Y. State of Mind by Nas , -
Life's a Bitch (feat. AZ & Olu Dara) by Nas , AZ , Olu Dara , -
The World Is Yours by Nas , -
Halftime by Nas , -
Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park) by Nas , -
One Love (feat. Q-Tip) by Nas , Q-Tip , -
One Time 4 Your Mind by Nas , -
Represent by Nas , -
It Ain't Hard to Tell by Nas ,