00:01.584Producer:Kanye West
00:02.584Writer:Kanye West
00:03.584Sample:Fonky Thang,Diamond‘Rang(1972)—The Dells
00:04.584How's your son? (all the things)
00:06.935He made the team this year? (all, all, all the things things)
00:08.790Aight, they said he wasn't tall enough
00:10.357(...all all that glitters is not gold and all gold is not reality real is what you lays on me)
00:12.656Ma we here we gon' cook this Sunday ok?
00:18.638That's a new girlfriend?
00:19.840This is family business
00:21.068And this is for the family that can't be with us
00:23.654And this is for my cousin locked down
00:25.326Know the answer's in us
00:26.344This why I spit it in my songs so sweet
00:28.460Like a photo of your granny's picture
00:30.472Now that you're gone
00:31.386It hit us super hard on Thanksgiving and Christmas
00:33.789This can't be right
00:35.409Yeah, you heard the track I did man, "This Can't Be Life"
00:38.126Somebody please say grace so I can save face
00:40.633And have a reason to cover my face
00:42.331I even made you a plate, soul food, know how Granny do it
00:45.492Monkey bread on the side, know how the family do it
00:48.183When I brought it why the guard have to look all through it?
00:50.873As kids, we used to laugh
00:52.023Who knew that life would move this fast?
00:54.139Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
00:55.732And look, you tell me you ain't did it then you ain't did it
00:58.292And if you did, then that's family business
01:00.852And I don't care 'bout
01:01.740(all the diamond rings all the diamond rings)
01:04.248They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
01:08.402All these fancy things
01:10.517I tell you that all is my weight and gold
01:14.593(all that glitters is not gold, now gold is not reality)
01:16.787Now all I know I know all these things
01:17.832(real is what you lease on me)
01:20.444This is family business
01:22.246And this is for everybody standing with us
01:24.806Come on, let's take a family Grammy picture
01:26.557Abi, remember when they ain't believe in me?
01:29.038Now she like "See, that's my cousin on TV!"
01:31.860Now, we gettin' it and we gon' make it
01:34.628And they gon' hate it and I'm his favorite
01:37.032I can't deny it, I'm a straight rider
01:39.644But when we get together be electric slidin'
01:42.204Grandma, get 'em shook up
01:44.607Aw naw, don't open the photo book up
01:46.906I got an Aunt Ruth that can't remember your name
01:49.466But I bet them Polaroids'll send her down memory lane
01:52.209You know that one auntie, you don't mean to be rude
01:54.586But every holiday nobody eating her food
01:57.120And you don't wanna stay there cause them your worst cousins
02:00.072Got roaches at their crib like them your first cousins
02:02.501Act like you ain't took a bath with your cousins
02:05.192Fit 3 in the bed if it's 6 of y'all
02:07.308I'm talkin' 'bout three by the head and three by the leg
02:10.181But you ain't have to tell my girl I used to pee in the bed
02:12.872Rain, rain, rain go away
02:16.581Let the sun come out and all the children say
02:22.668Rain, rain, rain go away
02:27.004Let the sun come out and all the children say
02:32.777I woke up early this morning with a new state of mind
02:35.938A creative way to rhyme without using knives and guns
02:38.994Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God
02:41.476And keep your face to the risin' sun
02:43.748All my niggas from the Chi, that's my family, dawg
02:45.969And my niggas ain't my guys, they my family, dawg
02:48.372I feel like one day you'll understand me, dawg
02:50.984You can still love your man and be manly, dawg
02:53.440You ain't got to get heated at every house warmin'
02:56.340Sittin' here, grillin' people like George Foreman
02:58.926Why Uncle Ray and Aunt Shiela always performin'?
03:01.512The second she storm out then he storm in
03:04.124Y'all gon' sit down, have a good time this reunion
03:07.442And drink some wine like Communion
03:09.296And act like everything fine and if it isn't
03:11.647We ain't letting everybody in our family business, uh
03:14.599(All all all the diamond rings diamond rings)
03:17.786They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
03:21.809They don't mean a thing (all, all, all the things)
03:25.309(All all that glitters is not gold, now gold is not reality)
03:28.366They don't mean a thing a thing
03:30.508(All, all, all the things)
03:31.526They don't mean a thing a thing a thing
03:34.322I don't care what they don't mean a thing
03:40.643(All, all, all the things) all these fancy things
03:44.170I tell you that all is my weight and gold
03:50.256All I know, I know all these things
03:57.440All these things, all these things
03:58.798All these things, all these things
04:00.366CLK Mercedes Benz
04:04.624All these things, all these things ...
04:09.535All these things, all these things ...
04:14.681All these things, all these things ...
04:15.621A whole lotta money
04:17.842All these things, all these things
04:19.357All these things, all these things
04:19.905All these things, all these things
04:21.107Mommy and Daddy, will you please stop fighting?
04:23.510All these things, all these things
04:24.999All these things, (and I don't care why) all these things
04:27.481All these things, all these things
04:29.988All these things, all these things...
04:36.963Let's get Stevie outta jail