“everything” is the fifth track from Nas' eleventh studio album, NASIR. The chorus features singing from both Kanye West, and The-Dream. The instrumental is atmospheric, and epic, resembling 808s and Heartbreak-era Kanye. The song also features background vocals from Caroline Shaw.

On June 11th 2018, Kanye published a tweet showing the definitions of the 7 deadly sins from Urban Dictonary. Each one of the 7 songs on the album is based on one of the 7 deadly sins, with “everything” corresponding to greed – wanting too much of something.

Kanye’s chorus sets the tone of the song for wanting too much:

If I had everything, everything
I could change anything
If I changed anything, I mean anything
I would change everything, oh yeah

Nas echos that sentiment with:

Some people have everything they probably ever wanted in life
And never have enough

Nas further addresses the Starbucks acquisition of Nestle, being arrested for not purchasing an espresso, and how his own mansion and Murcielago as signs of greed. He later concludes that

buyin' back the land owned by the slave masters

would be a way to solve the the racial economic inequality from the results of greed.