e listening to what I'm going to say, ...ant to believe what I'm going to tell you...'t any way in which I can make you believ...I can only state the ...osed to meet me now I got to testify...I waited hours for you guess that all was just a lie..."Peace Out! I'm gone and won't be back!" I head your echo cry...Oh how the seconds fly left without a seco...I check and try to recollect how I just let you die...And now I wallow in these sev...Of Yesterday [woman's voice]...rl your really gone I guess that's how it just should be...I had big plans for u...ery you took pieces I miss of me...I keep on diggin deep...ly good discussions back then didn't we?...And all I got is memories...Of yesterday [woman's voice]...s are priceless and I'm really glad you l...There etched inside I take a ride when dr...It's just at times I dwell and dwell and then I have to catch up...To now while back in time it ceased to march it just kept on...I want you back I want you back when it was here I slept on...What I appreciate a little...Now I'm complaining and r...About yesterday [woman's voice]...And I'm just goin nowhere fast...I don't try to stay h...I just fly away here...I am not complacent...I am today I'm all that ever was...Just listen to the now a...I am the mission, the...I'm just today, I'm just the way I am...I am ever single day I am...I'm February, April, March and even May I am...I'm only what you make me hope I'm what you pray I am...Today I am, I'm never really far away I am...unter does the prey I am...You play "I am" out in the picture yes today I am...I'm everything your memory say I am...So seize me, I'm here to serve you if you serve me back...An inkling, a hint, I'm moving faster tha...So treat to just a slice of heaven w...Deceive me and now I'm hell inside these... soul it's bound to I was truly made to b...Instead I'm going nowhere fas...I'm only saying this ...man or beast sleep away there gift of time ...and never know the beauty of ...I'm bout to change the way I'm livin homey...I'm eatin vegan, no h...I'm startin off my da...I'm bout to master se...I'm swearin off the w...I won't be affected b...'s the limit, watch I'm bout to ball...I'm spendin every sin...I'm writin songs that...I'll have the answers...I'm buildin to the fu...I'm through talkin the talk, I'm bout to live it...t even started yet, I'm at the finish lin...Man I can't wait until it's here I'm sayin...in? What, you think I'm playin?...You think I ain't just go ahead and watch ...I'll use the lessons yesterday has taught me...I'm countin hours, mi...Man I can't even sleep, I'll build my Heaven...Don't even trip, just give me one more da...don't know how much I appreciate your par...Do it just how you talk it...I caught this vision when I met a fortune telle...Sorta scary looking elder woman showed ...hat heat, purifying I believe.

I see the world it slips so far away...Looking back on yesterday...I'm on my knees, I start to cry...I live my life, that'...It feels good, I'm not proud to say...But I'll just put off my guilt, i...I search you out and ...learn a lesson only I can teach...Now I'm checking it, now I'm checking out...Now I start to scream, it...Now you know what I'm all about...Scrambled brains I got a toasted mind...I turned my back to all responsibili...I got no place for al...Now I'm checking out, now I'm checking in, now I star to pray...Just another fuckin' sin, why can't I ever win?...Seems like I never win, it's a sin aft...Why can't I ever win?...I feel no pain...I close my ears and now I see so clear...I slip away just left all fear... a sound, but still I hear-Controlled by ...rld it slips so far away...Looking back on yesterday...I didn't think that I could ever try...Now tears of joy I start to cry...I free my soul and now I fly-Controlled by hatre...I'm controlled by hat...I feel no pain!...I've gone insane.

I am very far away...Looking back, on yesterday...When I died...Just above the line of f...time and time again I'm shown...That I have never been alone at all...And I'm the sun...at home or learn to fly

And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...And come back next year with the ...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 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, nigga ...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 ...Your boy back 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...Going back and forth, just asking me to send h...And I'm thinking he's try...his other kid named Just Blaze he was messin...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...But shit just went popping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just beats for local act...Just to try to keep the ...that's what we wore back then ...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 ...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 holdin' th...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...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, like it was yesterday. And Hip hop said ... 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 ...ing, you know, come back to the story, the day I did the 'Can't be ...ife' beat on track, I remember Lenny S, h...ers on, he think he fly. And 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...s is stupid". Let's just say I didn't get my deal....that was behind me, I mean, ...Okay man, just make sure it's not ...Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to ...was in the room. So I played, actually it...Never 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, ... they still weren't looking at me ...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 ...e told me, "oh he's just a producer ...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

I was just a normal guy...Life was just a nine to five...She never asked...She knew I been...Looking for some other way to fly...I'd pass out on the b...My life was just an old routine...I couldn't even tell I was alive...I tell you...Is where I'd go to smoke my po...Just reminded me that I was lost...And it just never seemed to point the...as Jesus turned his back...I find my way across ...Lookin' just to score... another...With my back against that damn e...I didn't have to thin...My life was just an old routine...I couldn't even tell I was alive...I tell you...I had a job and a pie...But I traded that for coc...I've got the time to ...Of all the things I had . . . and threw away...That one that I was locked up in just yesterday...My life is just an old routine...Hell I can't even tell if I'm alive...I tell you...I tell you