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Illmatic

2 september 2026
Whose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?
I sip the Dom P, watching Gandhi ’til I’m chargedThen writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the marginTo hold the mic I’m throbbin’, mechanical movementUnderstandable smooth shit that murderers move withThe thief’s theme, play me at night, they won’t act rightThe fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipeThe mind activation, react like I’m facin’ time likePappy Mason, with pens I’m embracin’Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streetsSuede Timb’s on my feets makes my cipher completeWhether crusing in a Sikh’s cab, or Montero JeepI can’t call it, the beats make me fallin’ asleepI keep falling, but never falling six feet deepI’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
Whose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?
To my man Ill Will, God bless your life (it’s yours)To my peoples throughout Queens, God bless your lifeI trip, we box up crazy bitchesAiming guns in all my baby picturesBeef with housing police, release scriptures that’s maybe Hitler’sYet I’m the mild, money-getting style, rolling foulThe versatile, honey-sticking wild golden childDwelling in the Rotten Apple, you get tackledOr caught by the devil’s lasso, shit is a hassleThere’s no days, for broke days we sell it, smoke paysWhile all the old folks pray to Jesus, soaking their sins in traysOf holy water, odds against Nas are slaughterThinking a word best describing my life to name my daughterMy strength, my son, the star, will be my resurrectionBorn in correction, all the wrong shit I did, he’ll lead a right directionHow you living? Large, a broker charge, cards are mediocreYou’re flipping coke or playing spit, spades and strip poker?
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?Yo, the world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)
Break it down(It’s yours)(It’s yours)(It’s yours)(It’s yours)
I’m the young city bandit, hold myself down single-handedFor murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remandedBorn alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throneI’m deep by sound alone, caved inside, a thousand miles from homeI need a new nigga for this black cloud to follow‘Cause while it’s over me it’s too dark to see tomorrowTrying to maintain, I flip, fill the clip to the tipPicturing my peeps, now the income make my heartbeat skipAnd I’m amped up, they locked the champ up, even my brain’s in handcuffsHeaded for Indiana, stabbing women like the PhantomThe crew is lampin’, Big Willie-styleCheck the chip-toothed smile, plus I profile wildStash through the flock wools, burning dollars to light my stoveWalk the blocks with a bop, checking dames, plus the gamesPeople play, bust the problems of the world today
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this? (Yeah)The world is yours, the world is yoursIt’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mineWhose world is this?(It’s yours)Break it down
Yeah, aightTo everybody in Queens, the foundation (it’s yours)The world is yoursTo everybody uptown, yo, the world is yours (it’s yours)The world is yoursTo everybody in BrooklynY’all know the world is yours (it’s yours)The world is yoursEverybody in Mount Vernon, the world is yours (it’s yours)Long Island, yo, the world is yours (it’s yours)Staten Island, yeah, the world is yours (it’s yours)South Bronx, the world is yours (it’s yours)Aight