Dynasty - Emilio Rojas, Gene Noble

Sometimes you gotta let people know where you been

So they can appreciate where you at

Growing up, I seen a lot of things go crazy though

Product of the 80's though, mama played Madonna

While my father played Willie Colon

When I was seven, he left us, that’s when he fled our home

Ain’t give my mama nothing, not a cent to help her feed or clothe

And we were cold as hell, everybody broke as well

The market saturated, couldn’t give away a soul for sale

Your choice was go to jail or go to school and go in debt

Or work a nine to five and live the rest of your life with no respect

Some of us done went to early graves or early funerals

Sad it happened but it’s sadder that it ain’t unusual

Selling drugs or using ‘em, my cousin was abusing ‘em

He tryna rehabilitate, he saw what they was doing to him

I got a girl I’m living with because I love her

But her family hate my ass, her mama tryna break us up

And her father got the monster, no one even knows what stage it’s in

But if you poor and a minority, you can’t get AIDS and live

And she just take it in, carrying the weight of it

And she don’t shed a tear, I never seen such an amazing chick

I wanna give the world to her but can’t because the space I’m in

Somewhere in between unknown and blowing out the frame of this

Showing y’all the way it is, showing y’all the way we live

Showing y’all the truth behind the bullshit they place us in

And I was lost but now I finally found my way again

I’m ready for the fight of my life, it’s time to weigh me in

So much more than just what meets the eye

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

We’re on our way somewhere up in the sky

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

And it’s so big that even when we die

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

We’re gonna be a dynasty, we gotta be a dyntasy

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

And this for all my people tryna eat

I done grown so much, I’m everything that I was tryna be

Used to think they cats was out to get me

I was blind to see that people wasn’t using me

They really just relied on me

When homie first reached out to me, I thought I hit the lottery

I’m standing in them BET Awards like they gon' ride for me

Yeah, I was finally part of a team, in the city that never sleeps

Now I find it’s harder to dream, ain’t no rest

Up with anxiety all inside of me, sirens passing me by

In the city where all the violence be (brrrrrraaatttt)

Ain’t no economy here ‘cause there’s only poverty

Section 8 apartments but we dressing in the finer things

She got her mother’s figure, never knew her father figure

Now she strip for figures, her father could be the guy that tip her

They on the block again, putting kids through college

And drug money turning ‘em toxic instead of scholarships

But I don’t play the politics, I don’t think I’m even voting

Obama probably in pocket with all them CEOs

And y’all could live for the moment, I’m living for the future

I got some sins to atone ‘cause I put some women through hurt

And what’s a king if the throne has been sitting in manure?

And what is living if you just living for getting through it?

It’s gon' be different for any kid that I bring into it

I don’t see the sky as the limit to it ‘cause I’mma build a dynasty

So much more than just what meets the eye

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

We’re on our way somewhere up in the sky

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

And it’s so big that even when we die

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

We’re gonna be a dynasty, we gotta be a dyntasy

(Now I just wanna build a dynasty)

So much more than just what meets the eye

We’re on our way somewhere up in the sky

And it’s so big that even when we die

We’re gonna be a dynasty, we gotta be a dyntasy