What would you do if you ruled the world? It’s a question all of us have thought about. Nas even wrote a song about it. It’s a big question and all of us have ideas, right? I Want Change decided to ask some of Hip Hop’s leading voices what they would do if they ruled the world. Here are some of the responses:

Common



“I’d let God come on through and I’d let a lot of the spiritual leaders just get together and institute some type of unity as far as the spiritual leaders go, so that we could… give it to the people. Really I would just let people know about God and let them know about the truth through spirituality, through living life… that’s really it… I’d let God rule.”

Blackalicious



“Straight up, off the bat, if I ruled the world there would be no money and there would be no rich people, there’d be no more poor people. (There) would be no more upper class, (there) would be no lower classes. Everybody would have the same thing. There wouldn’t even be money. People would grow their own food. I think that nature provides everything for us… I think the universe would work itself out ‘cause there’d be people who were gardeners, there’d be people who make houses; I think it’s called a bartering system, right? It would be more based on that…It would be about getting to people and getting to their soul, ‘cause there’s a good person in everybody, and it (would be about) really trying to change people, to reform people…”

Chief X-cell

“I guess the thing off the top of my mind is there would be no imperialism on this planet, ‘cause right now, muthafucka’s like George Bush are on a mission to destroy the planet, straight up.”

Medusa



“Whoa…you know what I would do, I would have music on every corner in the ghetto so all the musicians that play and they’re not getting paid, the city would fund them to be on every corner. They would fund the children to receive lessons on certain days, during certain times. They would have a shut down time for liquor stores and certain paraphernalia stores…I would have some sort of forum where men and women could come together and really discuss how they feel.”