For making me do this s...And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...is is the last call for alcohol, for the ...I take my chain, my 1...They expected that College Dropout to ... all the good beats for himself ...fella's only niggas that help ...logne fill the air, here ...Won't you please stop talking...I'll have a buzz bigg...'Til the night I almost killed mysel...m Kwa-li or Kwe-li, I put him on songs wi...I'm the Gap like Bana...Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Sour...And I was almost famous, ...I'm almost Raymond' ...ar shoppin my demo, I was tryin' to shine...otherfucker told me that I couldn't rhyme ...Now I could let these dre...I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed ...But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh ...So I don't listen to the...You niggas wear suits 'cause you can't dress no more...You can't say shit to K...I rocked 20,000 people, I was just on tour, n...I'm Kan, the Louis Vu...I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards ...I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars ...I went to the malls and I balled too hard ...'Oh my god, is that a black card?' ...I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term ...back on his hustle, you know what I've been up to ...lin y'all niggaz on that lyrical shit ...naise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips ..."Last call for alcohol, for my niggas" ...cked the Truth beat for Beanie. And I was in the session ...I had my demo with me. You know, like I always do ...I play the songs, he's like "Who that spitting?" ...I'm like "It's me." H...ack and forth, just asking me to send him beat...And I'm thinking he's try...old him, "look man, you want to mess with K...You need to tell him that you like the way he rap...[No ID:] "Yo, you want to sign him, tell him you like how he rap" ...I was all, I dunno if he was gas..."I'll sign you as a producer and a...I'm like oh shit ...I was messing with, u...But that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be here ...So you know. After they picked that Truth beat ...I was figuring I was gonna do some m...nt popping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just beats for local acts ...get a TechnoMarine, that's what we wore back...I made this one beat where I sped up this Hal Me...I played it for Hip over the phone, he's like "oh, yo that shit is crazy ...Jay might want it for this compilation al...And at that time, like the drum...So I went and um, I was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time ...And really I just, like picked t...And that was like, really the first beat of that kind that was on the Dynasty ...I could say that was the, the resurg...You know, I got to come in and ...I was still with my other management. I really wanted to ro...Hip hop, cause I, I just needed some fresh air, you know what I'm ...Saying, cause I been there for a while, I appreciated what th...For me, but, you know there's a time...the next level. And that day I ...Came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z a...You a real soulful dude...s verse by the time I got ...To the studio, you know how he do it, one take. And he said ...s out, tell me what you think of this, right here") ..."tell me what you think of this." And I heard it, and I was thinking ...Like, man, I really wanted more like of the simple type Jay-Z, I ain't ... he asked me, "what you think of it?" ..."so what you thinkin?" ...And I was like, "man that shit tight" ...You know what I'm saying, man what I'ma tell him? I was on the train ...Man, you know. So after that I went back home. And man I'm, I'm just ...In Chicago, I'm trying to do my thing. You know, I got groups. I got ...Acts I'm trying to get on,...t should have been. One of my homeys that was one ...Company. So, like I'm just straight hol...News that dude was tryin' to leave my company. And I got evicted at ...The same time. So I went down and tracked the beats from him, I took ...That money, came back, packed all my shit up in a you-Haul, maybe about ...Ten days before I had to actually get out. So I ain't have to deal ...Newark, New Jersey. I hadn't even seen my...I remember I pulled up ..."Kanye, baby, we're here" ...I unpacked all my shit. You know, we went to IKEA, I bought a ...Bed, I put the bed together myself. I loaded up all my eq...The first beat I made was, uh, 'Hear...ing on his album at that time, so I came up ...matter of fact, and I ...e seven beats. And, you know I could see he's in t...ready had the beats that he wanted, I did nothing like al...That time. But then Jay walked in. I remember he had a G...Hat on. I remember it like, l..."yo play that one beat for him." And I played 'Heart of th...Really I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to give that beat to DMX. ..."No I think Jay gon' like this one right here". ...And I played another beat, and I played another beat. And I remember that ...r his face and made one of ...OH.' Two days later I'm in Baseline and I seen ...ame didn't know who I was and I was like "yo what's up I'm Kanye." ..."Yo, you that kid, Kanye?" ..."You that kid that gave all them beats...You know I ain't talking shit....I'm like "oh shit." And all this time I'm starstruck, man. I'm ...ill thinking 'bout, you know I'm picturing these n...treets is Watching, I'm looking, these we...And they still are, you know. So, Jay came ...These songs like in one day, and in two days, I gotta bring up one ...Thing, you know, come back to the story, the day I did the 'Can't be ...ife' beat on track, I remember Lenny S, h... Hip hop was there, I think Tata, John ... a bunch of people. I didn't know all the...as in the room, and I said, "yo Jay I could rap." And I ...Spit this rap that said, uh "I'm killing y'all niggas on that lyrical ...naise colored Benz, I push miracle whips." And I saw his ...Eyes light up when I said that line. But you know the West, the ...l wack and shit, so that's all the response....He said "man that was tight." ..."That, that was cool. That was hot." ...That was it. You know, I ain't get no deal t...rst hit single. And I just ...Took that proudly, built rela...With KwelI I think was one of the best ones to... a rapper. Because, you know, of course lat...tour with him. Man, I appre-- I love him for that. And at ...This time, you know I didn't have a deal, I had songs, and I had ...They'd call me up, I'd play them some beats. "Gimme a beat that sound ...Like Jay-Z." You know, they dick riders. Whatever. So I'll play them ...r whatever and then I'll play my shit. I'll ...Be like, "yo but I rap too." Hey, I guess they was look...'cause you know, 'cause I ain't have a jersey...dy out there listen here. I played them 'Jesus ...Didn't sign me. You know what happened, it was some A&R's that fucked ...Company that'll say "naw." 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That, you ...Know, 'cause I told him I was gonna do it, and I'm a man of my word, I ...onna roll with what I said I was gonna do. Then, you know, I'm ...Rapper" and told 3H that told the heads of t...The day I'm talking about, I planned out everything I was gonna do ...Man, I had picked out clothes, I already started boo...Sessions, I started arranging m...Man I was ready to go. An...And, you know I told them that Rocafella was inter...And I don't know if they thought that was just something I was saying ...ice up or whatever. I went up... I ...Called G, I said, "man, you think we could still get that deal with Rocafella

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