Lyrics
Legacy
Turn the beat up just a little bit.
Sex, money, and drugs recipe for rap anthems
How we brand them
Wonder why we can't win
Add the guns, murder, Mayhem death
Street cred for those who have no rep
Storyline fantasies that seem to go to your head
More than prophetic
Principalic and unapologetic
Write it how I see it on the spot with the edits
Let the film role mark my name down in the credits
Odds are in my Favor if I gambled I would have bet it
Imagine being one out of a million emcees
How to stand out in this cookie cutter industry
Identity original I’m major their minimal
Playing this straight
This is how it goes We take the weight
I told you that New York would be back on top
You know, the boulevard its hip-hop
Like Common I used to love her
Didn't know that I'd be taking care of her
Writing the next chapter
It just comes not where we're going after, Legacy.
Chorus
Legacy
It’s all about the legacy
Legacy
Its all about the legacy
Ooo oooh
Dearly departed didn't know we wouldn't finish what we started
Kept it going Even though yours hit me the hardest
We did so much together Irreplaceable
Sometimes I look over and wish that I was facing you
Its still for the love
You know why we do it
But now there’s More at stake as I get into it
As I live this life
I find myself paying the price.
There's a cost to everything even picking up this Mic
I'm not after the fame and fortune
I'm after the long run
Pass the Baton to the Next Generation
Holding value in recession or inflation
Carve out my section in the Smithsonian
Going line by line for my daughters and my son's
Put the hundreds next to the fives tens and the ones
Stack it up building up the family Bank
Trust funds for the seed to learn the family way, its Legacy
Chorus
Legacy
It’s all about the legacy
Legacy, can’t you see
What you mean, to me to me to me
Its all about the legacy
Brooklyn days had impact and paved the way
Lots of wisdom was learned inside the gate
Big Poppy imprinted words as my grandfather
You can be anything in life and listen to your father
Grow up from a boy become a man
Keep the focus on purpose and stick to God's plan.
I didn't always make the right choices, but I can hear them in the world full of wrong voices
There’s things out here that will push you to the Limit
No luxury to think for a minute
Ready or Not the go guns been shot
Race to the Finish or get stopped
Crossing the Finish Line
We keep the finish in mind
Break the tape
Walk it off check the time
In the winners Box
Reporter Hawk for their Op
No you didn’t do it by yourself
Thank God for those that gave up their best its Legacy
Chorus
Legacy
It’s all about the legacy
Legacy, can’t you see
What you mean, to me to me to me
Its all about the legacy
ADAN PEREZ, KIRON DAWKINS
Songtrust Ave