Lyrics

EMPIRE

Music by: Berndt
Baumgartner

Lyrics by:
Johnny Burks – Ike Bell, & Michael Bell

 

 INTRO

LOVE AND
LOYALTY

GREED AND
JEALOUSY

 

VERSE 1

All my motivation come from everybody hatin

Brick by brick I'm gone build a foundation

Three seeds to carry my legacy

Live & loyalty – greed and jealousy

It's a cold dirty world – I was raised in these streets

I aint never been no coward – want the money and the power

Try to keep me from the top – you'll be pushing up flowers

I done husled & grind

Put n work on the block – now it's time to shine

I done earned my strips

I done paid my dues - a 
bad dude that refuse to lose –

Mess around and put yo face on the news - I leave you
battered and brused

U either wit me or against me – boy you better chose

Well connected – highly respected

One phone call everythang str8 rubble

Want war wit a lion – I'm the king of the jungle!

I'm the kink of the jungle!!!

 

HOOK

I'M BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – I'M BUIDING MY – EMPIRE

STEADY BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – I'M BUILDING MY  - EMPIRE

 

VERSE 2

We trying to build an empire from
the ground up

Being broke wasn’t something I was
proud of

I done made it out the hood so I
gotta keep my eyes open for them fools trynna rob us

Cause being rich is a problem -
people jealous of the fact that they not us

So when you see me in the streets
keep cool  - I got heat for you fools who
be acting all rowd up

But I’m not trynna catch a case
naw- I’m trynna hit a home run like baseball

I just wanna make music to move
this new generation - the label bout to take off

Like a jet on the runway someday -
I’ll be able to say it all payed off

Me giving it a hundred percent of
my sweat and my tears - see I never took a day off

Yea

 

HOOK

I'M BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – I'M BUIDING MY – EMPIRE

STEADY BUILDING MY

 

HOOK 2

LOVE AND LOYALTY

GREED AND JEALOUSY

(Repeat Hook2)X2

LOVE AND LOYALTY

 

VERSE 3

Nah I done did a couple things that i can't take back

Tried to lie about it - had to gone state facts

I done dug me a ditch with a deep impact

Be surprised if i escape with my soul intact

So twisted.... love is

Temptation's a blip - so hard to resist it

One way to fix this

All work no play gettin straight to the business

I'm-a get it till I cant - till it aint no mo

Then I'm-a take it to the top where they aint gone go

When I was going thru the struggle they were all no show

Now I look at these fool's - whats your angle bro

But Any all means for the money & the power

Success brings greed an betrayal from the coward’s

Step in any room - I’m the man of the hour

Put it all on me and we gone reign like a shower

 

HOOK

I'M BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – STEADY BUILDING MY – EMPIRE

I'M BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – I'M BUIDING MY – EMPIRE

STEADY BUILDING MY

I'M BUILDING MY – I'M BUILDING MY - EMPIRE

 

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