i promise once you been with me
queens'll always have your back
i'm thinking roberta flack
first time i ever saw your face i fell in love just like that
i know your burden gets bad
you take and carry my bags
hold you down the days you broken and sad
and i'ma always keep it real
no i don't care if you mad
i'm here to make you better
i'm just like coretta in fact
see only kings would understand just how that metaphor match
i'm just tryna follow her path
winnie fought through all of the wrath
i got a number if you want it
i think all of us are good ones
even if we different than claire
i know we all different when we paid
we got a lot still to repair
i hope he treats her better than tommy boy treated keisha
you gotta love your queen 'cause god knows that you need her
even living single we connected by the tribe
and love one and raise a king
when he's older i'll describe how to love 'em
queens come in all shapes and colors
though we sit on thrones we don't look down on each other
i learned how to rule from my mother and my aunties
got the blood of the asante
i could be cleo or ghandi to protect mine
a queen's pride stronger than the lions
the day you try to test me
look homie i wish you would
open doors for the ladies as a queen like i should
that's why i'm queen latifah in every village
and why i been reigning for the last twenty five
so all hail the queens and the next ones to arrive
came out of jersey with naughty dudes and hella drive
just another day above ground working my thighs
member the days me and 'pac
we had some fun with this
when i would bust you dead in your eye
i'm a child of god versus son of men
it's a clear shot to the top and i ain't talking guns and gin
just so all the queens know that every single one of them
crown that i been proud to rock
all my blood royal and that's word to lancelot
came to water and nourish the crop
that's why we flourish on top