I used to dream, I used to dream, oh whoa   About the money and the cars and girls and the girls   But now I sing, now I sing, oh whoa   Because I'm sitting on top of the world, the whole world      And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world   And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world      Man, I remember before I say that wait, let me issue this statement   No way should reflection be mistaking for glorification   Now I remember so vivid me and my niggas was living   Sub standard condition still handling business      Still laughing and tripping, still having the bitches   I'm rapping now reminiscing and goddammit we did it   From trapping standing and pitching with rich we stand in the kitchen   Splitting it eight ways flipping it 8 days      Thought that wild and unruly was just the way to behave   Kept the weight and the yey for most the paper   We made in all dimes, I ain't lying, the pleasure was all mine   Have big work to move but we served the small time      I always out shined the niggas with small minds   Who would of thought we would be arguably the greatest of all time   Around here we developed such a sound down here   But duplicate it off the steel it can only be found here      Only listen to G's that other shit I don't hear   Shit they so far in the rear how would I even care   I'm too busy being a player staring at nigga's careers   But talk about it for years and now we finally here      I used to dream, I used to dream, oh whoa   About the money and the cars and girls and the girls   But now I sing, now I sing, oh whoa   Because I'm sitting on top of the world, the whole world      And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world   And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world      They say what goes up must come down   But I ain't reached my cruising altitude   Take a look at what I did but can you imagine what I'm about to do   The places I'm 'bout to go and the money I'm bout to see   Gave Bill Gates some binoculars and said, look out for me      Exceeded expectations even at def jam   'Cause I married the streets and Atlanta has been my best man   My momma quit her job and now she works for six figures   'Cause I'm a self made nappy headed rich nigga      Private planes help me travel in peace   To four cities in one day and four countries in one week   'Cause I work for myself and no one else cause I'm too smart too   Put one of my partners right through culinary art school      Now he my personal chef so that bread he get it   Put 'em all in houses cleaned up all of my friends credit   And now they witness all the glitz and the glamor   Catch us eating at straits Atlanta with women with table manners      Order in Singapore and lobster   Celebrating coming from nothing to winning Grammy's   And rappers winning Oscars   And they say rappers shouldn't act, nah suckers   We see Samuel Jackson like what's up motherfucker      I used to dream, I used to dream, oh whoa   About the money and the cars and girls and the girls   But now I sing, now I sing, oh whoa   Because I'm sitting on top of the world, the whole world      And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world   And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world      I know them haters don't stop plotting and wish you would fall   'Cause I'm standing on top looking down at it all   Know from down there to ya'll it seem like I got it all   Homie I ain't get enough, I'm still trying to triple up      So all we got is street cred and akoo building up   Say I'm doing too much shit, I say I ain't did enough   Remember saying damn if I could just get to a million plus   And now I'm like shit what the fuck is a million bucks      Triple that on my bond thanks to Bigs and Ron   But never mind what I've been through, just look at what I become   All the shit I've avoided, what I done for my sons   And daughters and momma just call her      I sold dope and dropped out of school seems its all they can see   They don't notice none of my family did that since me   I broke that cycle now my family live a life of   Mandatory minimals but not when the judge sentence them      Cousins in college where you think they get tuition from   Just from standing around wishing, huh   And while you standing around looking dumb   I make it happen taking action over time got damn good at it      I used to dream, I used to dream, oh whoa   About the money and the cars and girls and the girls   But now I sing, now I sing, oh whoa   Because I'm sitting on top of the world, the whole world      And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world   And now I sing, sing, sing, sing   'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world