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Cause they don't fucking ...And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...Ain't nobody expect Kanye...Won't you please stop tal...I'll have a buzz bigg...It's funny how wasn't nobody interested ...'Til the night I almost killed mysel...Though the fans want the feeling of A Tr...But all they got left i...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 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 suits...uits 'cause you can't dress no more ...You can't say shit to Kanye W...I rocked 20,000 people, I was just on tour, n...I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don ...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 ... on his hustle, 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...him, "look man, you want to mess with Kanye ...[No ID:] "Yo, you want to sign him, tell h...I was all, I dunno if he was gas...But he's like he want to manage me as a r..."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 ...So you know. After they picked ...I was figuring I was gonna do some m...But shit just went popping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just...hts on, and then to go out and buy ...I made this one beat where I sped up this Hal Me...I played it for Hip o...Jay might want it for this compila... drums really weren't soundin' right to m...So I went and um, I was listening to Dr...And really I just, like picked t...rapped on 'This Can't be Life.' ...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...For me, but, you know there's a time in every man's life where he ...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 ...To the studio, you know how he do it, one t...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 ...Want like the, the more ...And I was like, "man that...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, and like there wasn't nothin really like ... way it should have been. One of my homeys t...sts, he got signed. But it was supposed to really go through ...production company, but he ended up going s...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 ...Come on, let's just go" ...Newark, New Jersey. I hadn't even seen my apartm...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 ...ven beats. And, you know I could see he's in t...ats 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... 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 ...Dame. Dame 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 ...thinking 'bout, you know I'm picturing these n...treets is Watching, I'm looking, these we...they still are, you know. So, Jay came in an...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 these people at...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 you know the West, the rap ...t was it. You know, I ain't get no deal then, h...rst hit single. And I just ...With KwelI I think was one of th...To go on 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 on or... there listen here. 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