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La Familia Lyrics
[Intro: Reign Mosley, Jay-Z]
"You're busy?"
"I wanna love you back, I, I wanna love you back, I, I wanna love you back, I love you back, the group of my fam."
Family first
Honor, integrity
R.O.C
[Hook]
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Verse 1]
Niggas wanna kidnap wifey
Good luck with that bruh
You must gonna hide your whole family
What you think we wearing black for
Ready for that war, ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio, you ain't really ready
Real shit chyea, Alpo bought his bricks here
Elvis got his records took, it's like we got our seventh gear
NFL investigations, oh, don't make me laugh
FBI investigation, we stood up to that
Facts only, everything real in my raps only
Every nigga real in my clique really
Everyone's a movie star you got to film me
La familia
"You're busy?"
"I wanna love you back, I, I wanna love you back, I, I wanna love you back, I love you back, the group of my fam."
Family first
Honor, integrity
R.O.C
[Hook]
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Verse 1]
Niggas wanna kidnap wifey
Good luck with that bruh
You must gonna hide your whole family
What you think we wearing black for
Ready for that war, ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio, you ain't really ready
Real shit chyea, Alpo bought his bricks here
Elvis got his records took, it's like we got our seventh gear
NFL investigations, oh, don't make me laugh
FBI investigation, we stood up to that
Facts only, everything real in my raps only
Every nigga real in my clique really
Everyone's a movie star you got to film me
La familia
[Hook]
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Bridge]
Ready for that war
Ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio
You ain't really ready
Head of the Family
El Padrino
[Verse 2]
My brothers is my brother like my brother is
My niggas is my brother like my mother kids
Not just in good times, that's that sucka shit
But in war times, it's just what it is
Head of the family, all my niggas bosses though
Y'all don't understand we? We talk that shit bosses know
Triple fuckin' OG, what's up to my nigga Juan
Tell these niggas pull their fuckin' skirt down, I could see their ovaries
Niggas snitching switching teams, out here telling bitches things
Industry talk behind your back, ain't nobody got time for that
Facts only, everything real in my raps only
Every nigga real in my clique really
Even the girls keep it two hundred and trilly
It's la familia
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Bridge]
Ready for that war
Ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio
You ain't really ready
Head of the Family
El Padrino
[Verse 2]
My brothers is my brother like my brother is
My niggas is my brother like my mother kids
Not just in good times, that's that sucka shit
But in war times, it's just what it is
Head of the family, all my niggas bosses though
Y'all don't understand we? We talk that shit bosses know
Triple fuckin' OG, what's up to my nigga Juan
Tell these niggas pull their fuckin' skirt down, I could see their ovaries
Niggas snitching switching teams, out here telling bitches things
Industry talk behind your back, ain't nobody got time for that
Facts only, everything real in my raps only
Every nigga real in my clique really
Even the girls keep it two hundred and trilly
It's la familia
[Hook]
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Bridge]
Ready for that war
Ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio
You ain't really ready
Head of the Family
El Padrino
Head of the family
El Padrino
Welcome home to Emory
Let's get back to this dinero
[Bridge]
Ready for that war
Ready for that war, ready
You ain't ready yo, you radio
You ain't really ready
Head of the Family
El Padrino
About
Genius Annotation
Track 15 off of Jay-Z’s highly anticipated Magna Carta Holy Grail project.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Translations
Genius Answer
What family is Jay speaking on?
Genius Answer
He’s talking about both his biological family, the family he’s helped to create (with wife Beyoncé), and the people surrounding him that he considers to be his family, hence the mention of Emory Jones, formerly incarcerated and the topic of “Do U Wanna Ride?”
Jay positions himself as the head of all these families. He’s the main breadwinner (just) in all three. He’s helped his friends and cousins find jobs, he helped his mother cultivate the Shawn Carter Foundation, and facilitated a lavish upbringing for Blue Ivy.
- 1.Holy Grail
- 2.Picasso Baby
- 3.Tom Ford
- 5.Oceans
- 6.F.U.T.W
- 8.Crown
- 9.Heaven
- 13.BBC
- 14.Jay Z Blue
- 15.La Familia
- 17.Open Letter
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Recorded At
Jungle Studios
Release Date
July 4, 2013
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