Empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, Babylon too

Aboriginals still here, that's true

We an empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, Babylon too

But Aboriginals still here, that's true

Uh, don't box me as a conscious rapper

If you want to label me, call me a natural disaster

I'ma take heads and rip shreds off any actor

Lad in the lab, I'm a chemical reactor

Matter of fact, I've had enough of all the chatter

So in the latter let me clear all the clatter

Let's get down to business of what really matters

Black lives splatter all up on the avenue

Ain't nothing new, we got nothing to prove

Fifty thousand years of proof, we do what it do

And to you who choose to move our artifacts

Fuck it, I'm bringin' a bat, yeah, I'm proud to be black

Proud of the fact we the oldest people on the map

And they tried to move our history, how fucked up is that?

Whites rewrite white lies in the hope the globe don't realize

It's a privilege to have our ties

We an empire, so just hold your head high

We survive, yeah, we thrive, we've got nothing to hide

It's black pride, black lives built this country we got black ties

So you know that you come from a long line

Empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, Babylon too

Aboriginals still here, that's true

We an empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, Babylon too

But Aboriginals still here, that's true

Sheesh, scared of me, it's scary

Educated black man, I'm a visionary

We rarely vary when they cherrypick our itinerary

On the contrary, it's very necessary

To answer arbitrary questions that they bury

In the hopes that they can still carry on

This wary history, hysteria got them throwin' Hail Mary's

But beware, we gon' be singin' Swing Low Sweet Chariot

I will never stop till we reclaim the top spot

What I plot, got these enemies on the trot

They ought to rot for what they got caught

Tryna pull up, but revenge ain't my mascot

See we been through it all from the summer to the fall

But no matter what, we always stand tall

We an empire, so just hold your head high

We survive, yeah, we thrive, we've got nothing to hide

It's black pride, black lives built country we got black ties

So you know that you come from a long line

Empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, Babylon too

Aboriginals still here, that's true

We an empire, empire, we an empire

Empire, empire, we an empire

Rome has fallen, ay

Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, let it burn

I said Rome is fallin'