Kanye West - Family Business

[critikaldesignz]

Artist: Kanye West feat. John Legend
Album: The College Dropout (2004)
Song: Family Business
Typed by: critikaldesignz


[Kanye West: Intro (Sample)]
How your son? (all / all / all / the things / things)
He make the team this year? (all / all / all / the things / things)
Ayh-- they said he waddn't tall enough (all / all that glitters / is not gold)
Ma we yeah we gon' cook this Sunday up k? (ahh gold is not a reality)
Just come by. That's a new girlfriend? (real is what you layyy on me)

[Kanye West: Verse 1]
This is family business..
And this is for the family that can't be with us
And this is for my cousin locked down
Know the answer's in us / that's why I spit it in my songs
So sweet like a photo of your granny's picture
Now that you're gone / it hit us
Super hard on Thankgiving and Christmas / this can't be right
Yeah you heard the track I did man / +This Can't Be Life+
Somebody please say grace so I can save face
And have a reason to cover my face / I even made you a plate
Soul food / know how Granny do it
Monkey bread on the side / know how the family do it
When I brought it why the guard have to look all through it?
As kids we used to laugh / who knew that life would move this fast?
Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
And look / you tell me you ain't did it / then you ain't did it
And if you did / then that's family business

[Male Singer: Chorus (Sample]
And I don't care 'bout (all / all / diamond rings / diamond rings)
They don't mean a thing (all / all / all / the things / things)
All these fancy things (all / all / the things / things / things)
I tell you that all (all / all that glitters)
My waiting gold (is not gold / ahh gold is not reality)
Now all I know / I know / all these things (real is what you layyy on me)

[Kanye West: Verse 2]
Yea.. yea..
This is family business / And this is for everybody standin' with us
Come on / let's take a family Grammy picture
Abby / remember when they ain't believe in me?
Now she like "See / that's my cousin on TV"
Now / we gettin' it / and we gon' make it
And they gon' hate it / and I'm his favorite
I can't deny it / I'm a straight ridah
But when we get together be electric slidin'
Grandma / get 'em shook up
Aw naw / don't open the photo book up
I got a / Aunt Ruth that can't remember your name
But I bet them Polaroids'll send her down memory lane
You know that one auntie / you don't wanna be rude
But every holiday nobody eatin' her food
And you don't wanna stay there cuz them your worst cousins
Got roaches at their crib like them your first cousins
Act like you ain't took a bath with your cousins
Fit three in the bed if it's six of y'all
I'm talkin' 'bout three by the head and / three by the leg
But you ain't have to tell my girl I used to pee in the bed

[Female Choir & Child: Chorus 2]
Rain / rain / rain go away
Let the sun come out / and all the children sing
Rain / rain / rain go away
Let the sun come out / and all the children sing

[Kanye West: Verse 3]
I woke up early this mornin' / with a new state of mind
A creative way to rhyme / without usin' knives and guns
Keep your nose out the sky / keep your heart to God
And keep your face to the risin' sun
All my niggas from the Chi / that's my family dog
And my niggas ain't my guys / they my family dog
I feel like / one day you'll understand me dog
You can still love your man and be manly dog
You ain't got to get heated at every house warmin'
Sittin' here / grillin' people like George Foreman
Why Uncle Ray and Aunt Shiela always performin'?
Second she storm out / then he storms in
Y'all gon' sit down / have a good time this reunion
And drink some wine like Communion
And act like everything fine / and if it isn't
We ain't lettin' everybody in our family business, uh

[Female Choir: Interlude (Sample)]
(all / all / diamond rings / diamond rings)
They don't mean a thing
(all / all / all / the things / things)
They don't mean a thing
(all / all / the things / things / things)
(all / all that glitters / is not gold)
They don't mean a thing...
(ah gold is not reality)
(real is what you layyy on me)
A thing........

[Male Singer & Female Choir: Chorus 3 w/ variations (Sample)]
And I don't care 'bout (all / all / diamond rings / diamond rings)
They don't mean a thing (all / all / all / the things / things)
All these fancy things (all / all / the things / things / things)
I tell you that all (all / all that glitters)
My waiting gold (is not gold / ahh gold is not reality)
Now all I know / I know / all these things (real is what you layyy on me)

[Male Singer & Female Choir: Outro w/ variations <child speaking>]
[F:] All these things (oooh)
[F:] All these things (these things)
[M:] All these things (oooh)
<CRK Mercedes Benz>
[M:] All these things (these things)
[F:] All these things (oooh)
[F:] All these things (these things)
[M:] All these things (oooh)
[M:] All these things (these things)
[F:] All these things (oooh)
<all out of money>
[F:] All these things (these things)
[M:] All these things (oooh)
<mommy and daddy can you please stop fighting>
[M:] All these things (these things)
[F:] All these things (oooh)
[F:] All these things (these things)
[M:] All these things (oooh)
[M:] All these things (these things)
<lets get Stevie outta jail>

 

[jflballer]

I think in the outro it's "CLK Mercedes Benz" & "a whole lotta money"...I don't know if he says "Abby" in the 2nd verse or if it's "Aunt B"...and I don't know what that last chopped part after "gold is not reality" is, I doubt it's "real is what you lay on me." I thought it was something like, "real is what you live and breathe."