Nas Interlude

[Intro]

Yo, what up? This is Nas with the official (-), J. Period

"If I Ruled the World" was originally a Kurtis Blow record

You know? Somebody who I love and saw him in crèche school

And his song wit' "These are the breaks"...

I used to breakdance to his music, you hear what I'm sayin'?

So "If I Ruled the World" was a tribute to him

And also speakin' out to the world

And, um, I used to work wit' the Fugees on tour

And, you know, they would open up for me wit' our first albums

And our second albums, it flipped

And he sold, like, you know, thirty million albums

And I'm — now I'm openin' up for them

So, um, we was — we was cool like that

And, you know, Lauryn came and got on the record

Who I felt was — would make the record even more incredible

Me and her, I really appreciate her work

And, um, and talked to her well

You know, not just my projects, but every projects in December

Everywhere in the world

So I thought that would be the perfect record

[Outro]

If I ruled the world

Still living for today in these last days and times