I could see your words hang in the air But they did not spell out what I thought that I heard I could see the dude in your next room by himself So I took one look around walked back out N...

I could see your words hang in the air But they did not spell out what I thought that I heard I could see the dude in your next room by himself So I took one look around walked back out Now th...

I could see your words hang in ... not spell out what I thought that I heard ...I could see the dude in your next room b...So I took one look aroun

I could see your words hang in ... not spell out what I thought that I heard ...I could see the dude in your next room b...So I took one look aroun

And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...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...fucker told me that I couldn't rhyme ...Now I could let these dream kil...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 o...So I went and um, I was listening to Dr...And really I just, like picked t...I could say that was the, t...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...You a real soulful dude" (you a real soulfu...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...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 ...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 the zone ...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 look...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 think we could still get that deal

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Now I used to walk with the gun now I walk like a man ...And I walk what I talk and I walk never ran ...And I never say never but I mean hardly ever ...e is so precious it could never be measured ...oon as he walked by I was ready to bust ...Now I'm all punked up wit...walk with a gun but I never did use it ... you can't tell but I figured what the he...s dark tag couldn't see through the black ... start to laugh and I knew it was a trap ...But I couldn't roll out c...Now I'm lookin at this ni...I tried to dismantle ...he Lex snatched the dude at his hat ...I put it in park jump...But as I did that, I heard two shots ...I turned to my right and I see my dude drop ...udln't believe what I seen ...I was struck by reali...I saw his killer stan...I remember his face but what I remember most ...Was when I got to my knees and...t he's gone and all I got left is his blo...For weeks I sat alone in my roo...And I tried to pretend ev...I thought I'd use this time for...I broke out the Hen' ...So I said a quick prayer...And I shook in the lab pl...And I headed up saw the h...I asked him what he d...A clown, I rolled down my wind...I hit you on the shir...I couldn't dream of a...I slid up behind him ...d to breakin' stuff I said I didn't want a dime ...When I split his face with the Glock right before he could reply ...He cried as I pressed the heat ag...The I squoze two times fo...For weeks I sat alone in my roo...And I tried to pretend ev...For weeks I sat alone in my roo...And I thought that's what I wanted until the pr...Now I'm haunted by remorse that I wished I hadn't done it

ots and say fuck it I'm sunk...I put it in a limeric...I am the one who scor...I will tell a cop that I know my fucking rig...He said if I had nothing to hide...Then of course I wouldn't mind if he...Uh, no I'd really rather you...Firmly, I didn't lose my mind...I didn't let him brea...I said a better verse...Last week I keep an even keel a...Never could see my homey comin' til... my way all the day I couldn't laugh...Oh by now I'm chill with it...Bare ass in my face I'm ok but Chad's lik...So I proceed to hear him...th my flow although I thought it funny...I probably wouldn't care if I smoked more kind bu...d chillin' rude but I'ze a real cool dude...n front of his face I got him...The one time I hadn't wasted till I got mine...But before I jet "Hey yo Chad sn...I can see a lot of people who feel like I do...I can see a lot of people who feel like I don't...I go on step lightly even when I'm heavy...Sweet what am I displayin' forgot what I was saying...I know I must be laying a pi...With the way I get high...To make room for a dude who has sold

You know I'ma keep it real wit...I was December in the...When I saw you walking by ...And I walked up to your s...So I asked you how you f...I want you to keep it...See that dude is a mark ...And I knew that from the ...Cause I ain't that type of ...I'd rather see you happy ...I don't want to see you cry ...Like I have for you, reall...e he never had love I have for you ...I know it hurts but y...oesn't love ya, but I can treat you bette...That's why I think me and you sh...oesn't need ya, bet I can please ya ...I'm willing to do wha...I'm your keeper, my w...Fresher, I could be the reason why y...I ain't your daddy gi...What we could be, why can't you see ...What we could be, why can't you see ...I'm the one for you

ndin' ovation while I'm bangin' your face...With another banger I call it the cliffha...You could see the way I make 'em mad sick...down bottom the way I got 'em give me my ...Because I'm 'bout to shake sh...' me dap, as far as I'm concerned in this...Like how I got 'em now they re...Now you see the alcohol spillin...traditional the way I keep my money falli...How I'm whylin' niggas wonderin' when I'm gonna bring the h...t really want it my dude...I'm sayin' most my ni...That nothin' could fuck with the kid, ...Every time I'm in the spot, I hope you know it ha... you know that when I'm in the place I change the mood aga...I be whylin' wit raun...ked up just because I flaunt it...See I be the type to alwa...I keep a smile on my ...You already know I said it word to mot...You see me nigga back in th... gettin' this money I give you all a stoc...by a nigga till you see the sweat drop drip

ndin' ovation while I'm bangin' your face...With another banger I call it the cliffha...You could see the way I make 'em mad sick...down bottom the way I got 'em give me my ...Because I'm 'bout to shake sh...' me dap, as far as I'm concerned in this...Like how I got 'em now they re...Now you see the alcohol spillin...traditional the way I keep my money falli...How I'm whylin' niggas wonderin' when I'm gonna bring the h...t really want it my dude...I'm sayin' most my ni...That nothin' could fuck with the kid, ...Every time I'm in the spot, I hope you know it ha... you know that when I'm in the place I change the mood aga...I be whylin' wit raun...ked up just because I flaunt it...See I be the type to alwa...I keep a smile on my ...You already know I said it word to mot...You see me nigga back in th... gettin' this money I give you all a stoc...by a nigga till you see the sweat drop drip

Cause the things I seen (We know too m...Cause the things I seen (We seen too m...On the streets I was invincible ...I never knew daddy, h...Why wasn't I a child of a doctor...I'm the provider, wit...It is I that step up ...I gotta get back, for...We can see 4 miles the land it...Yo you could see the sea ...I'm a mad man, this i... pray for me hopin' I come back ...Yo, I'm sittin' behind th...I got this pen and pa... brothers innocent, I pray that I could just escape ...And yo I'm wishin' I was in your shoes ...Yo I'm startin to think ...I know the warden is ...But yo I swear, it's a billi...ves in this system, I'm bout to rebel ...I remember yesterday ...I just saw the first dude I met here, his head ...I just buried 8 of mine, at night I hear grown man cryi...You know I'm spittin' mine ...I ain't goin' out her...Every time I hear the wind I think a slug went i...I'm checkin' my chest...I don't know what the...Everyday I'm feelin' like you, I want to escape

Cause I think not, I pop shots, I double what y'all g...And I could drop my chain in co...That's how ice be, I'm priceless, the ic...And I dont gotta wear fat... bullets thump when I'm laced in some fly...But if I pop the trunk, its ...Must I brag? My shit paid...Ayo I hope you aint tongu...Cause I be fuckin her in th...before you know it, I'ma have her stuffin...Jada, if I kiss you now, you'l...I been nice since nig...uttin y'all faggots could do but gossip ...Cause everytime I turn around y'all o...iggaz thats narrow, I just smack em wit t...Show me the money, I'll show you a gun, ...I clap you, I clap him, and thats...Suckin my dick, and I dont give a fuck wh...Cause I sell records, plus I got a jail record ..."Can I get some?" Lick yo...b, if you want, til I come, uh ...I be the D-R, A-G, da...ey call me Drag-On, I'm hot scorchin ...In my eyes you could see what summer's holdi...Realizin, every guy I'll fry or dead rowd...I burn to a degree of...Cause I'm comin through wit...y'all like half-ass dude ...Everyday I show another how a I love a slaughter ...Wit these, I shoot the breeze, a...up in somethin that I cant control ...es like a cold, and I stay slick so face ...Make me chase it, I take your life and ...er the earth quick, I ...So i snatch up my man an

Excuse me! I'm trying to earn a ...I'm locking it down n...I'm the bigga nigga, ...Hold your gat, I can't control the s...I love it when my jew...Could see stars, like the ban...ght now, so my crew could flash ...hat got the average dude ...With a blow, you could of sworn Roy Jones ...our team all day so I suggest you change ...Cause I'm hype again, with ...I'm Sammy Sosa, and P...I'm lethal, take it b...I jump out the plane ...atus, correct me if I'm

Cause I think not, I pop shots, I double what y'all g...And I could drop my chain in co...That's how ice be, I'm priceless, the ic...And I dont gotta wear fat... bullets thump when I'm laced in some fly...But if I pop the trunk, its ...Must I brag? My shit paid...Ayo I hope you aint tongu...Cause I be fuckin her in th...before you know it, I'ma have her stuffin...Jada, if I kiss you now, you'l...I been nice since nig...uttin y'all faggots could do but gossip ...Cause everytime I turn around y'all o...iggaz thats narrow, I just smack em wit t...Show me the money, I'll show you a gun, ...I clap you, I clap him, and thats...Suckin my dick, and I dont give a fuck wh...Cause I sell records, plus I got a jail record ..."Can I get some?" Lick yo...b, if you want, til I come, uh ...I be the D-R, A-G, da...ey call me Drag-On, I'm hot scorchin ...In my eyes you could see what summer's holdi...Realizin, every guy I'll fry or dead rowd...I burn to a degree of...Cause I'm comin through wit...y'all like half-ass dude ...Everyday I show another how a I love a slaughter ...Wit these, I shoot the breeze, a...up in somethin that I cant control ...es like a cold, and I stay slick so face ...Make me chase it, I take your life and ...er the earth quick, I ...So i snatch up my man an

Now I be, in the club hol...I could see from how she lookin...re lil' mama so you could babysit me...Pretend I'm Mystikal and (Sha...Man I know her type I know she gon' rock...I treat that ass like...Lil' ma what's up, I see you in the party...w you with somebody I can tell how ya movin' ya body that I...wanna fuck, you and I might get a ticket ...while I'm takin' you home in that blue Maserati and I...When I'm around look at ho...ookin' at me behind dude back (watch her)

Cause I think not, I pop shots, I double what y'all g...And I could drop my chain in co...That's how ice be, I'm priceless, the ic...And I dont gotta wear fat... bullets thump when I'm laced in some fly...But if I pop the trunk, its ...Must I brag? My shit paid...Ayo I hope you aint tongu...Cause I be fuckin her in th...before you know it, I'ma have her stuffin...Jada, if I kiss you now, you'l...I been nice since nig...uttin y'all faggots could do but gossip ...Cause everytime I turn around y'all o...iggaz thats narrow, I just smack em wit t...Show me the money, I'll show you a gun, ...I clap you, I clap him, and thats...Suckin my dick, and I dont give a fuck wh...Cause I sell records, plus I got a jail record ..."Can I get some?" Lick yo...b, if you want, til I come, uh ...I be the D-R, A-G, da...ey call me Drag-On, I'm hot scorchin ...In my eyes you could see what summer's holdi...Realizin, every guy I'll fry or dead rowd...I burn to a degree of...Cause I'm comin through wit...y'all like half-ass dude ...Everyday I show another how a I love a slaughter ...Wit these, I shoot the breeze, a...up in somethin that I cant control ...es like a cold, and I stay slick so face ...Make me chase it, I take your life and ...er the earth quick, I ...So i snatch up my man an