age of empires

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you

yeah

they gon' know my name for generations

for these revolutionary revelations

and as humanities headed for devastation

i'mma be the only thing standing when it caves in

weapons carved from the bones of my enemies

war paint with the blood of my critics

keep my kingdom in control with telepathy

get up in your mind

when i'm done

you'll admit it

i'm the king

see my name engraved on the monuments

don't remember how i was embraced by the populous

from my castles excavated by the paleontologists

and they read my tales written by the ancient astrologists

got the strength of a warrior

the legend that they can't see the stories of

at the apothecary sipping on the formula

i could rain down fire when i'm scorching the

earth

right underneath you

beat you down

defile

defeat you

and just leave you

nobody'll try to reach you

can't win when i rise

my design is lethal

world domination i don't got no time for peaceful

i

rule the land with the love and touch of an iron fist

battle scars running deeper than my epidermis

cause when the crown's in your clutch

there's a higher risk

just take a seat upon the thrown

you'll be getting nervous

sweating

second guessing the stressing that you could easily fall

the traitors and snakes will cheer and applaud

then the second that your back's turned

kill you in broad day

light

then paint your story on the pyramid walls

i've witnessed it all

believe me

the son of nefertiti with the brain of archimedes that's tucked up under my beanie

no peace treaty

i'm greedy

i'm leaving these lands cauterized

until my name is immortalized

yeah

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you

yeah

philosophic as pythagoras

skin bronze as jesus of nazareth

that and my woolly hair

police seem to think it's hazardous

i ain't rodney but i'm the king of l.a. they just unaware

my crown is unanimous before i was standing on this land with indigenous people cheefing on cannabis

i ruled half of the africas

and my word to brought patience like the back of a ambulance

you just wasn't there

that's why i brought in this historical columnist

herodotus to document my father in his sarcophagus

so write a history piece

and take it back to fifth century greece

tell him he was omniscient

while you at it tell em' that i'm the shit

even theologists

put my name on colleges and philosophy scholarships

dissertations written on my thoughts and accomplishments

then they'll use my memoirs to shape modern politics

they'll put my name in great books

and holy scriptures

when the snakes and crooks want you to forget how my face looks

they'll hire artists bigger than michelangelo to paint a false image of me

in phony pictures

conspiracy theorists dig deeper

when my body's deceased my name will defeat the grim reaper

put my face on the sphynx

like all hail egypt

but king wherever i roam

like all twelve caesars

even when i'm enslaved

and captured like a titan

the gods

on mount olympus will be frightened at the mere sight of my songwriting

ballad of lifelong fighting

and soon as i'm free

i'm striking zeus with his own lightning

bounce back from more challenges until i'm back in my palace

sipping elixir from fabulous chalices

known as a top war strategist

my name strikes paralysis

into all my antagonists

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you

they'll know my name

after the stars are passing through

they'll know my name

when they forgot about you