(Vídeo + Letra) Nas – If I Ruled The World

Nas – If I Ruled The World

[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!!

(Vìdeo + Letra) Pearl Jam – State of Love and Thrust

Pearl Jam – State of Love and Thrust

Oh …
State of love and trust as I busted down the pretext
Sin still plays and preaches, but to have an empty court, uh huh
And the signs are passin, grip the wheel, cant read it
Sacrifice receiving the smell thats on my hands … hands, yeah
And I listen for the voice inside my head
Nothin, Ill do this one myself

Lay her down as priest does, should the lord be a countin
Will be in my honour, make it pain, painfully quick, uh huh
Promises are whispered in the age of darkness
Want to be enlightened like I want to be told the end … end, yeah
And the barrel shakes and, a-directly at my head
Oh, help me, help me from myself
And I listen, from both sides of a friend
Nothin, Ill do this one myself
Myself … myself

Yeah, yeah …

Hey, na-na-na-na, hey thats something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey thats something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey thats something
Wanna back, back it away, yeah
And I listen, oh, for the voice inside my head
Nothin, Ill do this one myself
Oh, ah, and the barrel waits, trigger shakes
Aimed right at my head, wont you help me
Help me from myself

Hmm … state of love and trust, and a …
State of love and trust, and a …
State of love and trust, and a …
State of love and … yeah

(Video + Letra) Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone

Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone

Beautiful girl lovely dress
High school smiles oh yes
Beautiful girl lovely dress
Where she is now I can only guess
Cause its gone daddy gone
Your love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away
When I see you
Eyes will turn blue
When I see you
Thousand eyes turnin blue
Tell by the way you that you switch and walk
I can see by the way that you baby talk
I can know by the way you treat your man
I can love you baby til its a cryin
Beatiful girl lovely dress
15 smiles oh yes
Beautiful girl lovely dress
Where she is now I can only guess

Gordon gano: guitar, violin, lead vocal
Brian ritchie: xylophone, electric bass
Victor delorenzo: snare drum and trancephone,
Scotch marching bass drum, vocals

Engineers: glen l. loribecki and john tanner
Recorded at castle recording company, lake geneva, wi, july 1982
Produced by mark van hecke

(Vídeo + Letra) Fugees – How Many Mics

Fugees – How Many Mics

How Many Mic´s Do We Rip on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

[LAURYN:]
I get mad frustrated when I rhyme
Thinking of all the kids who try to do this
For all the wrong reasons
Seasons change, mad things rearrange
But it all stays the same like the love Doctor Strange
I´m tame like the rapper,
Get red like a snapper when they do that
Got your whole block saying”TRUE DAT”
If only they knew that,
It was you who was irregular,
Sold your soul for some secular
Muzak that´s wack,
Plus you use that loop over and over
Claiming that you got a new style
Your attempts are futile, Ooo chile
Your puerile,
Brain waves are sterile
You can´t create, you just wait to take, my tape´s
Laced with malice
Hands get calloused
From grippin´ microphones from here to Dallas
Go ask Alice if you don´t believe me,
I get Inner Visions like Stevie
See me, ascend from the chalice like the weed be
Indeed be like Khalil Muhammad
MC´s make me vomit
I get controversial
Freak your style with no rehearsal
Ooo, contraire mon frere
Don´t you even go there
Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare
I dare to tear into your ego,
We go, way back like some ganja and pelequo
Or Coleco-Vision
My mind makes incisions in your anatomy
And I´ll back this with Deuteronomy
Or Leviticus, God made this word
You can´t get with this
Sweet like licorice,
Dangerous like syphillis, yeah.

[CHORUS (REPEAT 4X):]
How Many Mic´s Do We Rip on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

[CLEF:]
I used to be underrated
Now I take iron, makes my s*** constipated
I´m more concentrated.
So on my day off,
With David Sonnenberg I play golf
Run through Crown Heights screaming out Mazel Tov
Problem with no man
Before black, I´m first human
Appetite to write like Frederick Douglass with a slave hand
Street pressure word to poppa, I ain´t goin´ under
One day I´ll have a label and make deals with Tommy Motolla
Momma always told me “You´re one in a million”
Always watch your back, never tangle with Haitian Sicilians
Now I got a record deal, “How does it feel?”
I´m never gonna survive unless I get crazy like Seal.
Cause the whole world´s out of order
So at night the fiend´s dance on Grease with John Travolta
One got slaughtered as he coughed blood from his mouth
The other tried to duck and caught a left with my Guiness Stout
Brother brother can´t you get this through your head
It´s a set up by the fed´s they´re scoping us with their Infra-reds.

[CHORUS (REPEAT 3X):]
How Many Mic´s Do We Rip on the Daily
Say Me Say Many Moni Say me say manymanymany

[PRAZ:]
Too many MC´s not enough Mic´s
Exit your show like I exit the turnpike
Dice and dynamite like Dolomite
Double deuce delight, I don´t Dick Van Dyke
Startlight to starbrite the freaks come out at night
Like my man Wyclef (I wear my sunglasses at night)
And my panache will mosh your entourage
Squash your squad and hide your body under my garage.
And when the cops come lookin´
I´ll be bookin´ to Brooklyn
Leave the trails broken flippin´ tokens to Hoboken
A clean getaway like Alec Baldwin
Drivin´ in my fast car playin´ Tracy Chapman

[CHORUS (Repeat to end):]
How Many Mic´s Do We Rip on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

(Vídeo + Letra) Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy

Everything is good and brown
Oh I’m here again
With a sunshine smile upon my face
My friends are close at hand
And all my inhibitions
Have disappeared without a trace
I’m glad, oh I found
Somebody who I can rely on

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone
Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Maybe I’ll have to get high to get by, hey
I got that Cheeba-Cheeba vibe

Everything is good oh and green
Say I’m red again
And I don’t suppose I’m comin’ down
I can see clearly, so high in sky
A man with psychedelic picture frames
Of happiness to shade his eyes
He’s glad, oh that he found, ooh
Somebody who he can rely on

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone
Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Hey now, maybe I’ll have to get high just to get by, hey
Maybe I’m gonna have to get high
Hey maybe I’m gonna have to get so high, hey
So high yeah, so high yeah, you and I
Hey

Now this is the return of the space cowboy
Oh inter-planetary good vibe zone

Gettin’ high, oh gettin’ high
Oh this is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone

This is the return of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary good vibe zone
Say at the speed of Cheeba, oh you and I go deeper
Hey now we’ll go deeper, oh now we’ll go deeper
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
Now we’ll go deeper yeah