Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nas
Vocals
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Songwriter
Stephen Marley
Songwriter
Nasir Jones
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Stephen Marley
Producer
Marc Lee
Recording Engineer
Eric “Twizted” Young
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Chris Athens
Mastering Engineer
James Caruso
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
[Verse 2]
Yeah
Got out the six hundred
Blunted
Chicks hunt him
Neighborhood know he comin'
Jake hate him
Snakes could not violate him
Pumps memorize his lines verbatim
He reps N.Y., yo
Give C-notes to winos
Not church, it's how he tithe though
He walks the tenement, sleeps at his super fly condo
My kinda ****, my icon, my idol
No certificate, for this misfit who handle business
The odds stacked against him, he flights back mackin' Benzes
Never puts cash or ass before friendship
He laughs last, as some die young
He is still existing, somehow he got around the pitfalls of the system
When he walks we watch, when he talks, we listen
Leaders
[Verse 3]
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
[Verse 4]
Who do I follow?
Who do I copy?
Look into the mirror
And it's you and I see look at me
Everything new, like it fresh from the factory
Everything you do, it impact me
Your lifestyle attract me, parents try distract me
When I grow up, I want to be like you exactly (Exactly)
And as soon as I get over this acne
There's no way anybody coulda stopped me
[Verse 5]
Me gravitate toward the aura
And all the mannerism
The sending out of orders, and man start moving busy
The locking of the corners, the streets and all the buildings
Me love you like a father, me ready and me willing
Anything where you are taught
Is law in my dominion
And we have similar thoughts
I share the same opinions
Me have it say you smart, with me best interest at heart
I'm following your path, your mind when you walk
[Verse 6]
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
[Verse 7]
They appeal to the conscious, the paramount
The Caesar, the monsters
The grandiose, the martyrs
The hell on earth pompous
Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson's
The Harlemites, the Garveyites
Black as the credit card we swipe
Poppin' Dom tonight, for all of mine
I can see myself back at the Autobahn
Malcolm on the podium, shells drop to linoleum
Swipe those, place 'em on display at the Smithsonian
Next to only gems that were left behind
By holy men, infectious
Charisma of those who gave us direction, the anti-sexes
Resistance against oppression, progressive thinking
Ghetto speakers, protestors against the colored
Only section to the Jena 6 and the Frost / Nixon
The contradiction, the cross, the crucifixion
The loss we took for sinning, on Esau's back inscription
That it was written, that nothing is coincidence'n
They took our leaders and they lynched them
[Verse 8]
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
This one's for all the leaders
Leader
Let's all change the world
Change the world
Change the world, change the world
Change the world
Change the world, change the world
You change the world
Written by: Damian Marley, Nasir Jones, Stephen Marley