The Oath (From "Empire: Season 6")-Empire Cast/Yazz

[00:00.000]Featuring: Yazz [00:00.100]Produced by: Derrell Jackson & Kosine [00:00.150]Loyalty and honor, [00:01.780]ride to the death. [00:02.900]Learn from your struggles then apply it to the test. [00:05.070]Be like David and Goliath, to these giants, when they press [00:08.260]If living through the worst got you dying for the best. [00:09.770]You're a Lyon in the flesh, [00:12.510]Yeah, you a Lyon in the flesh. [00:13.900]Thank God I'm a Lyon in the flesh. [00:15.700](God, I'm a Lyon in the flesh) [00:17.100]No more hurt, no more crying when I'm stressed (Nah) [00:19.280]I took the oath to be a Lyon in the flesh (Yeah) [00:21.600] [00:21.790]It started out in Philly, [00:22.920]When a cutie from the streets. [00:24.790]Named Cookie met Luscious, [00:26.100]It was Beauty and the beast. [00:27.640]Was it lust at first sight? [00:28.780]Or was it love till the end, [00:29.730]Only thing we know for sure, [00:31.370]It was more than just a friend. [00:32.740]He would look into her eyes to see the fire within [00:35.440]She looked back into his eyes and saw messiah in him. [00:37.800]This was destiny, fate, like it was higher than them. [00:40.510]And three boys later, let the empire begin. [00:43.450]See Andre, the oldest son, though it ain't a surprise, [00:46.110]Like his father, dedicated, educated and wise, [00:48.500]But Jamal, the middle child, felt the greatest divide, [00:51.220]A lifestyle that Luscious didn't hesitate to despise. [00:53.750]The tension between the two, recipes for demise. [00:56.360]Cause everybody know a Lyon’s legacy is its pride (Uh-huh) [00:59.100]I arrived the youngest child. [00:59.700]But I'm right in the zone. [01:01.799]The last descendant of the king, [01:02.979]Willing fight for the throne. [01:04.700]I was bred for this, [01:05.719]How could I ever fear at this point? [01:07.030]My own mama did 17 years in the joint. [01:09.900]I'm here for everything they own me. [01:11.420]I ain't make it close, [01:12.299]Born ready, so I'm taking the oath, [01:14.250]It goes: [01:15.159]Loyalty and honor, ride to the death. [01:17.360]Learn from your struggles [01:18.680]Then apply it to the test. [01:19.980]Be like David and Goliath [01:21.120]To these giants when they press [01:22.700]If living through the worst [01:24.099]Got you dying for the best. [01:25.280]You're a Lyon in the flesh, [01:26.709]Yeah, you a Lyon in the flesh. [01:28.730]Thank God I'm a Lyon in the flesh. [01:31.200]Yeah, no more hurt, [01:32.980]No more crying when I'm stressed. [01:34.250]I took the oath to be a Lyon in the flesh. [01:35.750](EMPIRE!) [01:37.010] [01:37.610]Any type of success breed hate, don't it? [01:39.900]Holding your family name, come a weight, don't it? [01:42.780]The grind is long, victory show up late, don't it? [01:45.120]I can't fall, I know my enemies waiting on it. [01:48.090]See, life teach you lessons can't nobody learn for you, [01:50.360]I watched my mother and father going through turmoil, [01:53.080]The ones that stab you in your back were never fit for you. [01:54.890]Imagine marrying somebody so they won't snitch on you. [01:58.340]Yeah, my family fell out, had clashes, [02:01.090]But we rose like the phoenix from the ashes. [02:04.079]You ever had somebody ride for you. [02:06.120]I mean, go out in a blaze that’ll die for you. [02:08.960]My father said, “Never borrow a beat.” [02:11.080]Cause tryna shine might cost you an arm and a leg. [02:14.490]Sometimes, it's furious from the thought of that [02:16.699]Mama knows life gets serious as a heart attack [02:19.990]I love my brothers, no matter what [02:22.120]We just take the good with the ugly and add it up. [02:24.129]Pop signed, Andre and Jamal, [02:25.900]Went through it all, [02:26.300]And patch it up. [02:27.580]But found something great in it all, [02:28.960]And that was us. [02:30.720]We took the oath, [02:33.000]Family over everything. [02:34.979]LOVE, Lyons, yeah~