If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (Live at Webster Hall, NYC - Dec. 17, 2002)

Uh, ayo, we in the motherfuckin' house

Is Queens in this motherfucker?

It go life, I wonder

Will it take me under?

We don't give a fuck (uh, uh)

Imagine smoking weed in the street without cops harassing

Imagine going to court with no trial

Lifestyle, cruising blue Bahama waters, no welfare supporters

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

Trooping out of state for a plate of 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 Roles

No parole, no rubbers

Check this out, imagine law with no undercovers

Just a thought for the mind

Take a glimpse into time

New York city, what's up?

If I ruled the world (imagine that shit, imagine that shit)

I'd free all my sons (ladies) I love 'em, love 'em, baby

Black diamonds and pearls (yeah)

(Could it be, if you could be mine, we'd all shine?)

If I ruled the world

(Still living for today, in these last days and times)

Ayo, we got history together, y'all (a'ight?)

Ayo, is somebody in this motherfucker?

Ladies full in this motherfucker?

Ayo, where's Queens at in this motherfucker?

All my Queens-

Where Harlem at in the parts?

Oh, shit (yeah)

Harlem in this mothefucker

This that New York City (yeah)

Where this shit started at

We can't be having niggas sell out our shit (for real)

This is New York for real man

Ayo, it's the boogie down Bronx in this motherfucker