Kanye West Lyrics

Album: College Dropout

Family Business Lyrics

[Intro: Kanye West]

 How's your son? (all, all, all the things, things)

 He make the team this year? (all, all, all the things things)

 Aw th-, they said he wasn't tall enough?

 (all, all, all the glitter is not gold)

 Yeah me we gon' cook this up (now gold is not a reality)

 (real is what you live to be)

 

 [Verse 1: Kanye West]

 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 had guard have to look all to 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, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it

 And if you did, then that's family business

 

 [Hook: Choir]

 And I don't care 'bout (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)

 They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)

 All these fancy things

 I tell you that all (all the glitter) I'm waiting for

 Now all I know I know all these things

 

 [Verse 2: Kanye West]

 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 y'all gon' hate it and I'm his favorite

 I can't deny it, I'm a straight rider

 But when we get together be electric slidin'

 Grandma, get 'em shook up

 Aw naw, don't open the photo book up

 I got an 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 while 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

 

 [Interlude: Choir]

 Rain, rain, rain go away

 Let the sun come out and all the children say

 Rain, rain, rain go away

 Let the sun come out and all the children say

 

 [Verse 3: Kanye West]

 I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind

 A creative way to rhyme without usin' nines 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'?

 The second she storms 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

 

 [Interlude: Choir]

 (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)

 They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)

 They don't mean a thing

 (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)

 They don't mean a thing, a thing

 

 [Hook: Choir]

 And I don't care 'bout (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)

 They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)

 All these fancy things

 I tell you that all (all the glitter) I'm waiting for

 Now all I know I know all these things

 

 [Females:] (oooh) All these things (these things)

 [Males:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [F:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [M:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [F:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [M:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [F:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)

 [M:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)