FOR THE OLD TIMERS, kids stay off

[S-D-M]

[quote="razzberry"]Taking it all the way back to 1996.

Nas. If I ruled the world.

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That is classic ....


"If I Ruled The World"
(feat. Lauryn Hill)

[Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background)]

Life..... I wonder....
Will it take me under.... I don't know

[Verse One: Nas]

Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin
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 not evidently
It's elementary, they want us all gone eventually
Trooping out of state for a plate knowledge
of coke was cooked without the garbage we'd all have the top dollars
Imagine everybody flashin, fashion
Designer clothes, lacing your click up with diamond vogues
Your people holdin dough, no parole
No rubbers, go in 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 livin for today, in
these last days and times

[Verse Two: Nas]

The way to be, paradise like relaxin black, latino and anglo-saxon
Armani exchange the reins
Cash, Lost Tribe of Shabazz, free at last
Brand new whips to crash then we laugh in the iller path
The Villa house is for the crew, how we do
Trees for breakfast, dime sexes and Benz stretches
So many years of depression make me vision
The better livin, type of place to raise kids in
Open they eyes to the lies history's told foul
But I'm as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling, click rollin
Trickin six digits on kicks and still holdin
Trips to Paris, I civilized every savage
Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
Political prisonner set free, stress free
No work release purple M3's and jet skis
Feel the wind breeze in West Indies
I make Coretta Scott-King mayor the cities and reverse themes to Willies
It sounds foul but every girl I meet to go downtown
I'd open every cell in Attica send em to Africa

[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 livin for today, in
these last days and times

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

[Verse Three: Nas]

You'd love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry
Duck down in car seats, heat's mandatory
Runnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes
These are the breaks many mistakes go down out of state
Wait, I had to let it marinate we carry weight
Tryin to get laced, flip the ace stack the safe
Millionaire plan to keep the gat with the cop camera
Makin moves in Atlanta, back and forth scrambler
Cause you could have all the chips, be poor or rich
Still nobody want a nigga havin shit
If I ruled the world and everything in it, sky's the limit
I push a Q-45 Infinit
It wouldn't be no such thing as jealousies or B Felonies
Strictly living longevity to the destiny
I thought I'd never see but reality struck
Better find out before your time's out, what the fuck??

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill, Nas]

If I ruled the world
Imagine that
I'd free all my sons, I love em em baby
Black diamonds and pearls
Could it be, if you could
be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still livin for today, in
these last days and times

If I ruled the world, if I ruled, if I ruled
Imagine that
I'd free all my sons, if I ruled, if I ruled
I love em love em baby
Black diamonds and pearls, black dimaonds
Could it be, if you could
black diamonds
be mine, we'd both shine
If I ruled the world
Still livin for today, in
these last days and times

If I ruled the world, if I ruled
if I ruled, I'd free all my sons
black diamonds, I love em love em baby
Black diamonds and pearls, if I ruled
If I ruled the world

If I ruled the world
I love em love em baby!!

[S-D-M]

Abdi,


"SDM - Nice thread. It was good walking back into time and youth. I hate it when I hear a young kid complaining about being young and wanting to grow up fast."


Yeah man.........I remembered the good times.....They don't make music like they use to

[ms.nalia]

awwww...old school music....
love it

but I have to take mine way back to...
Ella fitzgerald
Etta James
Bily holiday
Nat King Cole
Mamie Smith
Muddy Waters
Temptaions
Alberta Hunter
Bessie Smith
They're basically my ipod staples.....Im sure most of you dont know these artists...but you should chek em out...some date back to the 1920s

[S-D-M]

ms.nalia,


Those are not old, but ANCIENT.......but they are great

[ms.nalia]

ms.nalia,


Those are not old, but ANCIENT.......but they are great

thats what i call real soul.....
not that bump n grind ish! lol

[AbdiWahab252]

SDM:

My twin who is a wadaad will ocassionally break into some DE LA SOUL or TRIBE CALLED QUEST

His excuse is that they are not vulgar.

[ms.nalia]

AW...

you have a wadaad twin? how does that work?

do you live together? if so.....how do u entertain knowing ur brothere would no approve?
if you dont...do u guys get along??

[AbdiWahab252]

MissNalia,

We each took after our two awowes who were also twins. One awowe was the religious man who worked for the next world while the other was a warrior who worked to get his in this world

My brother doesn't live near me and thus we don't clash at all. He ain't the nagging wadaad type.

[S-D-M]

[quote="AbdiWahab252"]SDM:

My twin who is a wadaad will ocassionally break into some DE LA SOUL or TRIBE CALLED QUEST

His excuse is that they are not vulgar.

[/quote]



Some wadaado piss me off dude.........I don't like when they start to dictate your life and shiid.........most of them are fake...........There is this dude who is always preaching and one day we were at the park and fine sister walked by, u should have seen how he was checking her out........

most wadaad may not listen to music or drink, but they love woman.......That is why most shiekhs have at least two wives

[AbdiWahab252]

S-D-M,

My Congolese friend was once joking with me and said, its too bad the Arabs didn't make it that far. He said if I had the choice between one religion that says I muse give up booze while the other says I can ONLY MARRY ONE WOMAN, I'd give up the booze

[S-D-M]

[quote="AbdiWahab252"]S-D-M,

My Congolese friend was once joking with me and said, its too bad the Arabs didn't make it that far. He said if I had the choice between one religion that says I muse give up booze while the other says I can ONLY MARRY ONE WOMAN, I'd give up the booze [/quote]






I heard something like that b4.............

[*Amal]

Poison - Bill Bev Devoe

[AyeeyoH]

Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight: "LOve Is."

....you have great taste abdi..

They say its a river, that circles the earth
A beam of light shining to the edge of the universe
It conquers all, it changes everything

They say its a blessing, they say its a gift
They say its a miracle
And I believe that it is
It conquers all, but its a mystery

Love breaks your heart
Love takes no less than everything
Love makes it hard
And it fades away so easily

In this world weve created
In this place that we live
In the blink of an eye the darkness slips in
Love lights the world
Unites the lovers for eternity

Love breaks the chains
Love aches for everyone of us
Love takes the tears and the pain, and it turns it in-
To the beauty that remains

Look at this place
It was paradise, but now its dying
Ill pray forlove
Ill take my chances that its not too late

Love breaks your heart
Love takes no less than everything
Love makes it hard
And fades away so easily

Oh oh oh

Love breaks the chains
Love aches for everyone of us
Love takes the tears and the pain, and it turns it in-
To the beauty that remains

[AbdiWahab252]

Granny,

That song reminds me of someone

[gurey25]

some good old shit.