The Oath (From "Empire: Season 6")

Featuring: Yazz
Produced by: Derrell Jackson & Kosine
Loyalty and honor,
ride to the death.
Learn from your struggles then apply it to the test.
Be like David and Goliath, to these giants, when they press
If living through the worst got you dying for the best.
You're a Lyon in the flesh,
Yeah, you a Lyon in the flesh.
Thank God I'm a Lyon in the flesh.
(God, I'm a Lyon in the flesh)
No more hurt, no more crying when I'm stressed (Nah)
I took the oath to be a Lyon in the flesh (Yeah)
It started out in Philly,
When a cutie from the streets.
Named Cookie met Luscious,
It was Beauty and the beast.
Was it lust at first sight?
Or was it love till the end,
Only thing we know for sure,
It was more than just a friend.
He would look into her eyes to see the fire within
She looked back into his eyes and saw messiah in him.
This was destiny, fate, like it was higher than them.
And three boys later, let the empire begin.
See Andre, the oldest son, though it ain't a surprise,
Like his father, dedicated, educated and wise,
But Jamal, the middle child, felt the greatest divide,
A lifestyle that Luscious didn't hesitate to despise.
The tension between the two, recipes for demise.
Cause everybody know a Lyon’s legacy is its pride (Uh-huh)
I arrived the youngest child.
But I'm right in the zone.
The last descendant of the king,
Willing fight for the throne.
I was bred for this,
How could I ever fear at this point?
My own mama did 17 years in the joint.
I'm here for everything they own me.
I ain't make it close,
Born ready, so I'm taking the oath,
It goes:
Loyalty and honor, ride to the death.
Learn from your struggles
Then apply it to the test.
Be like David and Goliath
To these giants when they press
If living through the worst
Got you dying for the best.
You're a Lyon in the flesh,
Yeah, you a Lyon in the flesh.
Thank God I'm a Lyon in the flesh.
Yeah, no more hurt,
No more crying when I'm stressed.
I took the oath to be a Lyon in the flesh.
(EMPIRE!)
Any type of success breed hate, don't it?
Holding your family name, come a weight, don't it?
The grind is long, victory show up late, don't it?
I can't fall, I know my enemies waiting on it.
See, life teach you lessons can't nobody learn for you,
I watched my mother and father going through turmoil,
The ones that stab you in your back were never fit for you.
Imagine marrying somebody so they won't snitch on you.
Yeah, my family fell out, had clashes,
But we rose like the phoenix from the ashes.
You ever had somebody ride for you.
I mean, go out in a blaze that’ll die for you.
My father said, “Never borrow a beat.”
Cause tryna shine might cost you an arm and a leg.
Sometimes, it's furious from the thought of that
Mama knows life gets serious as a heart attack
I love my brothers, no matter what
We just take the good with the ugly and add it up.
Pop signed, Andre and Jamal,
Went through it all,
And patch it up.
But found something great in it all,
And that was us.
We took the oath,
Family over everything.
LOVE, Lyons, yeah~