And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...stop savin' all the good beats for himself ...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...Girl he had with him, ass coulda won the horse awards ...And I was almost famous, ...I'm almost Raymond' ...ar shoppin my demo, I was tryin' to shine...fucker 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...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 ...I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term ...stle, you know what I've been up to ...naise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips ...eat 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'...I'm like "It's me." H...And I'm thinking he's try...I was all, I dunno if he was gas..."I'll sign you as a pr...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 ...I was figuring I was gonna do some m...ping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just...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 ...So I went and um, I was listening to Dr...And really I just, like picked t...I could say that was ...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...level. And that day I ...Came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z a...s verse by the time I got ...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 ...And I was like, "man that...You know what I'm saying, man what I'ma tell him? I was on the train ...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,...Company. So, like I'm just straight hol...ave my company. And I got evicted at ...The same time. So I went down and tracked the beats from him, I took ...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 ...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...um at that time, so I came up ...matter of fact, and I ...eats. And, you know I could see he's in t...ats that he wanted, I did nothing like al...then Jay walked in. I remember he had a G...Hat on. I remember it like, l... beat for him." And I played 'Heart of th...Really I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to gi..."No I think Jay gon' like...And I played another beat, and I played another beat. And I remember that ...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." ...You know I ain't talking shit....I'm like "oh shit." And all this time I'm starstruck, man. I'm ...ing 'bout, you know I'm picturing these n...treets is Watching, I'm looking, these we...y, and in two days, I gotta bring up one ... 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 ... rap that said, uh "I'm killing y'all nig...naise colored Benz, I push miracle whips." And I saw his ...Eyes light up when I said that line. But...t was it. You know, I ain't get no deal t...rst hit single. And I just ...With KwelI I think was one of th...tour with him. Man, I appre-- I love him for that. ...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 be...iders. 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 lookin' at me crazy ...se you know, 'cause I ain't have a jersey... there listen here. I played them 'Jesus ...I'm not gonna say not...id". Let's just say I didn't get my deal....that was behind me, I mean, ...Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to ...was in the room. So I played, actually it...ver hear, but maybe I might use it. So, i..."I go to Jacob with 25...I got eleven plaques ...t bite that chorus, I might still use it....I play that song for ..."I ain't gonna front, ...Like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured...I told Hip hop and Hi...That I was still about to ...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 ...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 Roca...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 thi