[Intro: Emilio Rojas] Sometimes you gotta let people know where you been So they can appreciate where you at [Verse 1: Emilio Rojas] Growin' 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 nothin', 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 d** or usin' ‘em, my cousin was abusin' ‘em He tryna rehabilitate, he saw what they was doing to him I got a girl I'm livin' with because I love her But her family hate my a**, 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, carryin' the weight of it And she don't shed a tear, I never seen such an amazin' chick I wanna give the world to her but can't because the space I'm in Somewhere in between unknown and blowin' out the frame of this Showin' y'all the way it is, showin' y'all the way we live Showin' y'all the truth behind the bullsh** 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 [Hook: Gene Noble & Emilio Rojas] 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) [Verse 2: Emilio Rojas] And this for all my people tryna eat I done grown so much, I'm everythin' that I was tryna be Used to think they cats was out to get me I was blind to see that people wasn't usin' me They really just relied on me When homie first reached out to me, I thought I hit the lottery I'm standin' 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 pa**in' 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 dressin' 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, puttin' kids through college And drug money turnin' ‘em toxic instead of scholarships But I don't play the politics, I don't think I'm even votin' Obama probably in pocket with all them CEOs And y'all could live for the moment, I'm livin' 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 sittin' in manure? And what is livin' if you just livin' for gettin' 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 [Hook: Gene Noble & Emilio Rojas] 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