Like Mike movie - Rule lyrics

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Song by Nas feat. Amerie<br /><br>

[talking]<br>

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo<br>

Life, they wonder, can they take me under?<br>

Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo<br>

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I come from the housin tenement buildings<br>

Unlimited killings, menaces marked for death<br>

Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell<br>

Though I owe to it my success<br>

With survival of the fittest, everyday is a chal'<br>

I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud<br>

Confronted with racism, started to feel foreign<br>

Like, the darker you are the realer your problems<br>

I reached for the stars but I just kept slippin<br>

On this life mission, never know what's next<br>

Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar<br>

Had a piece of the globe, every continent<br>

Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan<br>

Pakistan, America, Afghanstan<br>

Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics<br>

Call a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages<br>

No war, we should take time and think<br>

The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct<br>

But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin<br>

Lost lives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then?<br>

Must it go on, we must stop the killin<br>

Tell me why we die, we all God's children<br>

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[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in background]<br>

All this hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon)<br>

It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the world)<br>

Everybody wants to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon)<br>

World (peace), world (peace), world (peace), world<br>

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Yo, there's brothers on the block, posted up like they own it<br>

That's they corner, from New York to California<br>

Got blocks locked down<br>

Like, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see this is my town"<br>

So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to prison<br>

At an early age, already know it's against him<br>

So in order for him to survive, one day he must<br>

Open up his eyes to the set backs and rise<br>

'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of opportunity<br>

Look at what this country's got<br>

There shouldn't be nobody homeless<br>

How can the president fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet<br>

The earth wasn't made for one man to rule alone<br>

To all colors increases, to home it belongs<br>

I want land, mansions, banks and gold<br>

The diamonds in Africa, oil in my control<br>

The world's natural resources, all its residuals<br>

But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels<br>

And I become the most wanted<br>

But is it worth hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret Service<br>

I guess, attempts at my life with loaded barrels<br>

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

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[Chorus]<br>

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Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right time<br>

No other compares to what Nas write down<br>

Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is yours<br>

You could get what you love, be a chain in cause<br>

You alive right now<br>

There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now<br>

It's whatever man think of manifest to the real<br>

The plan is to wake up 'cause time reveals<br>

All this hate can't forever last<br>

All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and never passed<br>

You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again<br>

Hopin I reach the world leaders and win<br>

Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's critical<br>

We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical<br>

In Hip-Hop, the weapons are lyrical<br>

To be the best you challenge the best, then the blessings are spiritual<br>

Top of the world for the kid and unless<br>

Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no contest<br>

I know the Most High hear me, so fly you can't near me<br>

You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power<br>

To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now<br>

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[Chorus]<br>

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[talking]<br>

Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin?<br>

Niggas ain't forget nothin<br>

Men, women, and children killed by the police and shit<br>

Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I mean?<br>

Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life<br>

Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and take it<br>

Even if that means blood and death<br>

You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about<br>

This is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka<br>

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