"It´s yours!" --> [T La Rock]

[Chorus: Nas, Pete Rock]

[PR] Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?

I sip the Dom P, watchin Gandhi til I´m charged
Then writin in my book of rhymes, all the words pass the margin
To hold the mic I´m throbbin, mechanical movement
Understandable smooth shit that murderers move wit
The thief´s theme, play me at night, they won´t act right
The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe
The mind activation, react like I´m facin time like
´Pappy´ Mason with pens I´m embracin
Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets
Suede Timb´s on my feets, makes my cypher, complete
Whether crusin in a six-cab, or Montero Jeep
I can´t call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep
I´m out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
I´m out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
I´m out for dead presidents to represent me

[Chorus: Nas, Pete Rock]

[PR] Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
[PR] Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?

To my man Ill Will, God bless your life
"It´s yours!"
To my peoples throughout Queens, God bless your life
I trip we box up crazy bitches aimin guns in all my baby pictures
Beef with housin police, release scriptures that´s maybe Hitler´s
Yet I´m the mild, money gettin style, rollin foul
The versatile, honey stickin wild, golden child
Dwellin in the Rotten Apple, you get tackled
Or caught by the devil´s lasso, shit is a hassle
There´s no days, for broke days, we sell it, smoke pays
While all the old folks pray, to Je-sus´ soakin they sins in trays
of holy water, odds against Nas are slaughter
Thinkin a word best describin my life, to name my daughter
My strength, my son, the star, will be my resurrection
Born in correction all the wrong shit I did, he´ll lead a right direction
How ya livin large, a broker charge, cards are mediocre
You flippin coke or playin spit spades in strip poker

"It´s yours!"

[Chorus: Nas, Pete Rock]

[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
[PR] Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
[Nas] Yo, the world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
[PR] Break it down

[Pete Rock cuts and scratches "It´s yours!"]

I´m the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded
For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
I´m deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home
I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow
Cause while it´s over me it´s too dark to see tomorrow
Trying to maintain, I flip, fill the clip to the tip
Picturin my peeps, now the income make my heartbeat skip
And I´m amped up, they locked the champ up, even my brain´s in handcuffs
Headed for Indiana stabbin women like the Phantom
The crew is lampin big Willie style
Check the chip toothed smile, plus I profile wild
Stash through the flock wools, burnin dollars to light my stove
Walk the blocks wit a bop, checkin Danes plus the games
people play, bust the problems of the world today

"It´s yours!"

[Chorus: Nas, Pete Rock]

[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
[PR] Whose world is this?
[Nas] The world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
[Nas] Yeah... the world is yours, the world is yours
[PR] It´s mine, it´s mine, it´s mine
Whose world is this?
"It´s yours!"
Break it down

Yea aight?
To everybody in Queens, the foundation
"It´s yours!"
The world is yours
To everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
The world is yours
To everybody in Brooklyn
Y´all know the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
The world is yours
Everbody in Mount Vernon, the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
Long Island, the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
Staten Island, yea the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
South Bronx, the world is yours
"It´s yours!"
Aight

[Pete Rock keeps cuttin and scratchin "It´s yours!" to fade]