[Intro: Kanye West]
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How's your son? (all, all, all the things, things)
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He make the team this year? (all, all, all the things things)
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Aw th-, they said he wasn't tall enough?
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(all, all, all the glitter is not gold)
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Yeah me we gon' cook this up (now gold is not a reality)
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(real is what you live to be)
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[Verse 1: Kanye West]
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This is family business
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And this is for the family that can't be with us
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And this is for my cousin locked down, know the answer's in us
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That's why I spit it in my songs so sweet
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Like a photo of your granny's picture
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Now that you're gone it hit us
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Super hard on Thankgiving and Christmas, this can't be right
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Yeah you heard the track I did man, this can't be life
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Somebody please say grace so I can save face
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And have a reason to cover my face
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I even made you a plate, soul food, know how Granny do it
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Monkey bread on the side, know how the family do it
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When I brought it why had guard have to look all to it?
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As kids we used to laugh
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Who knew that life would move this fast?
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Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
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And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it
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And if you did, then that's family business
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[Hook: Choir]
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And I don't care 'bout (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)
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They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
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All these fancy things
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I tell you that all (all the glitter) my weight in gold
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Now all I know I know all these things
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[Verse 2: Kanye West]
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This is family business
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And this is for everybody standin' with us
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Come on, let's take a family Grammy picture
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Abby, remember when they ain't believe in me?
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Now she like "See, that's my cousin on TV"
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Now, we gettin' it and we gon' make it
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And y'all gon' hate it and I'm his favorite
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I can't deny it, I'm a straight rider
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But when we get together be electric slidin'
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Grandma, get 'em shook up
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Aw naw, don't open the photo book up
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I got an Aunt Ruth that can't remember your name
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But I bet them Polaroids'll send her down memory lane
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You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude
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But every holiday nobody eatin' her food
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And you don't wanna stay there cuz them your worst cousins
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Got roaches at their crib like them your first cousins
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Act like you ain't took a bath with your cousins
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Fit three in the bed while six of y'all
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I'm talkin' 'bout three by the head and three by the leg
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But you ain't have to tell my girl I used to pee in the bed
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[Interlude: Choir]
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Rain, rain, rain go away
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Let the sun come out and all the children say
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Rain, rain, rain go away
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Let the sun come out and all the children say
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[Verse 3: Kanye West]
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I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind
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A creative way to rhyme without usin' nines and guns
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God
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And keep your face to the risin' sun
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All my niggas from the Chi, that's my family dog
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And my niggas ain't my guys, they my family dog
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I feel like one day you'll understand me dog
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You can still love your man and be manly dog
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You ain't got to get heated at every house warmin'
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Sittin' here, grillin' people like George Foreman
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Why Uncle Ray and Aunt Shiela always performin'?
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The second she storms out then he storms in
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Y'all gon' sit down, have a good time this reunion
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And drink some wine like Communion
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And act like everything fine and if it isn't
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We ain't lettin' everybody in our family business
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[Interlude: Choir]
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(all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)
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They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
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They don't mean a thing
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(all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)
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They don't mean a thing, a thing
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[Hook: Choir]
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And I don't care 'bout (all the, all the diamond rings, diamond rings)
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They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
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All these fancy things
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I tell you that all (all the glitter) my weight in gold
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Now all I know I know all these things
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[Females:] (oooh) All these things (these things)
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[Males:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)
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[F:] All these things (oooh) all these things (these things)
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[M:] All these things (oooh) all
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Family Business
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| Kanye West |
