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For making me do this shit mother...Cause they don't fucking ...(I'd like to propose a toast)...And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...ody expect Kanye to end up on top ...Won't you please stop talking...ow infectious, give me 10 seconds ...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 Banana Republic and...Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Source awards ...And I was almost famous, ...I'm almost Raymond' ...ar shoppin my demo, I was tryin' to shine...y motherfucker 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 ...I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term ... power, and muscle, like Dame, Puffy, and Ru...back on his hustle, you know what I've been up to ...naise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips ...So this A&R over at Rocafella, named Hi...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's like "Who that spitting?...I'm like "It's me." He's like "Oh, well okay." ... started talking to me on the phone ... forth, just asking me to send him beats ...And I'm thinking he's try...Cause he had this other k...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 gassin' me or not ...But he's like he want to manage me as a rapper AND a p..."I'll sign you as a producer and a...I'm like oh shit ...I was messing with, u...People were like this, started talki...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 pi...I was figuring I was gonna do some m...st went popping 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 i...And at that time, like the drums really weren't soundin' right to me ...So I went and um, I was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time ...And really I just, like picked the drums off Xxplosive and put it like ...nd now it's kind of like my whole style ...I could say that was ...You know, I got to come in and track the beat, and at the time ...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...ke a change, try to move up to 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...h, played the song 'cause he already spit his verse by the time I got ...To the studio, you know how he do it, ...heck this out, tell me what you think of this, righ..."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 ...Want like the, the more intro... he asked me, "what you think of it?" ..."so what you thinkin?" ...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 ...Poppin' off the way it should have been...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 ...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 ...With the landlord 'cause he's a jerk. Me and my mother drove...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...orking on his album at that time, so I came up ...matter of fact, and I ...Played like seven beats. And, you know I could see he's in t...ats that he wanted, I did nothing like already at ...then Jay walked in. I remember he had a G...Hat on. I remember it like, like it was yesterday. A... 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 this one right here...And I played another beat, and I played another beat. And I remember that ...ket, he took it and like put it over his fac...Them faces like 'OOOOOOOOOOH.' 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 ...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 these people at 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 you know the West, the ...Was like real wack and shit,...That 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... a rapper. Because, you know, of course later he allowed me ...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 be...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 lookin' at me crazy ...'cause you know, 'cause I ain't have a jersey... there listen here. I played them 'Jesus ...Didn't sign me. You know what happened,...With me though, but then like the heads, it'd be somebody at the ...Nigga Mel brought me to a bunch of label..."Man, you niggas is stupid if...I'm not gonna say not...id". Let's just say I didn't get my deal....that was behind me, I mean, ...asn't even a nigga, you know? .... He wanted to sign me really bad. ...Dame was like, "yo you got a deal with Cap..."you gotta make sure it'...Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to ...Play some songs, 'cause you know Cam was in the...was in the room. So I played, actually it's a song that you'll ...ver hear, but maybe I might use it. So, i..."I go to Jacob with 25 thou, you go with 25 hundred,...I got eleven plaques ...You got your first gold...Like the chorus went. Don't bite that chorus, I might still use it....I play that song for him, and he's like "oh shit" ..."I ain't gonna front, ...Like they still weren't looking at me ...Like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured, 'like man. If he do a who...if his raps is wack at least we can throw ...Save the album, you know. So uh Dame took me into the office, an...Like "yo man, we, we on ..."you don't want to catch...You gotta be under an umbrella, you'll get rained on. ...I told Hip hop and Hi...That I was still about to take the deal with Capitol 'cause it was ...y on the table and 'cause of my relationship with 3H. 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 ...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 stil

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I said a hip hop the ... the hip hip hop, a you don't stop ...Now what you hear is not a test--I'm rappin to the bea...ds are gonna try to move your feet ...See I am wonder mike and I like to say hello ...But first I gotta bang bang the...Let's rock, you don't stop ...Well so far you've heard my voice but I brought two friends...Check it out, I'm the see-a-s-an-th...Ya see I go by the code of t...And these reasons I'll tell ya why ...Ya see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun ...And I dress to a t ...Ya see I got more clothes than muhammad ali and I dress so viciously ...I got bodyguards, I got two big cars ...I got a lincoln conti...So after school, I take a dip in the p...I got a color tv so I can see ...Hear me talkin bout checkbo...But I wouldn't give a suc...Not a dime til I made it again ...Ya say I'm gonna get a fly g...arts actin up, then you take her friend ...Master gee, am I mellow ...Its on you so what you gonna do ...I said m-a-s, t-e-are...I said I go by the unforgett...I'm goin down in hist...Now I'm feelin the highs ...vin your body while you're sittin in your s...I said damn, right ou...Now, I'm not as tall as th...But I rap to the beat jus...I dot a little face a...All I'm here to do ladies...Like a hot buttered a po...I guess by now you can take a hunch ...And find that I am the baby of the ...'but that's okay I still keep in strid...Cause all I'm here to do is jus...I'm gonna freak ya here I'm gonna feak ya the...I'm gonna move you outta this atmosphe...Cause I'm one of a kind and...I said 1-2-3-4, come ...Cause I'm guaranteed to make you rock ...I said 1-2-3-4 tell me wonder mike what are you waitin for? ...I said a hip hop the ...The hip hip hop, a you don't stop ...hat america we love you ...Cause ya rock and ya roll...You could rock till you're a hundred and on...I don't mean to brag I don't mean to boast...But we like hot butter on our b...I said a hip hop the ... the hip hip hop, a you don't stop ...I said I can't wait til the end of the week ...When I'm rappin to the rhy...w your mind so that you can't speak ...I know a man named ha...Well, I'm imp the dimp the ...But I'm the grandmaster w...And when you come inside, into t...You do the freak, spank...I sit down and write ...I've created a devast...I'm gonna rock the mike til you can't resist ...Everybody, I say it goes like this ...Well I was comin home late...A reporter stopped me for a interview ...That I'm vicious on the mi...This young reporter I did adore ...So I rocked a vicious rhyme like I never did before ...e said damn fly guy I'm in love with you ...I said by the way baby what's your na...Said I go by the name of l...And you could be my boyfiend you surely can ...Just let me quit my boyfriend c...I said he's a fairy I do suppoose ...But he looks like a sucker in a blue ...I said you need a man who's go...fly all through the night ...He can't satisfy you with his little wor...But I can bust you out with my super s...I go do it, I go do it, I go do it, do it , d...An I'm here an I'm there I'm big bang hank, I'm everywhere ...And party hardy like you just don't care ...tick a tock why'all you don't stop ...Go hotel motel what you gonna do today(say ...I'm gonna get a fly g...You say if your girl starts actin up then you take her friend ...I say skip, dive, what can I say ...I can't fit em all in...So I just take half and ...I give the rest to ma... o'clock one Friday night ...I was rockin to the b...So I said to myself, its time for me to release ...My vicious rhyme I call my masterpiece...se this is just for you ... little rap to make you boogaloo ...And let me tell ya somethin we...uttin' the jams and making it free ...For you to party ya got to ...right down and give you the groove ...For you to dance you gotta get hype ... get right down for you tonight ...But let me tell ya somethin th...en the party's over you're makin it home ...Yeah, a name you know that was right...Rockin ya down cause ya know we could ...Now I got a man comin on ...der mike do what ya like ...Like a can of beer that'...Like a millionaire that ...Like a rainy day that is...Like a gamblin fiend tha...Like dracula with out hi...Like the boogie to the b...Like collard greens that...Like a tree that's not m...Like goin up and not com...Is just like the beat without th...Have you ever went over a fr...I mean the macaroni's... the chicken tastes like wood ...So you try to play it off like you think you can ...By sayin that you're full ...t starts pumpin and you think of a lie ...And you say that you already ate ...So you pile some more on y...And then you look at your plate and your...omething that looks like cheese ...Oh so you say that's it I got to leave this p...I don't care what the...I'm just sittin here ...So you bust out the door w... sick from the food you ate ...And then you run to the store fo...And then you call your friend tw...And he says I understand about th...The hip hip a hop a you don't stop the rock...I say hank can ya roc...Can ya hip me to the shoobie doo ...I said come on ...I go to the halls and...Because I am the man with the...And if ya ask me why I rock so well ...A big bang, I got clientele ...And from the time I was only six years ...I never forgot what I was told ...he best advice that I ever had ... said sit down punk I want to talk to you ...'t say a word until I'm through ...I let them know that I'm versatile ...I got style finesse a...led with rhymes and I know you want to look ...hing that separates you from me ...es are on from what you heard ...I didn't even bite an...And I say a little more l...r mc's can bite all night ...Ya say I'm gonna get a fly g...tarts actin up then you take her friends ...A like that why'all to the...A master gee am I mellow? ...Its on you so whatcha gonna do...Well like johnny carson on th...A like frankie croker in s...Well like the barkay's singin...Its like my man captain sky ...Get off why'all I'm here to give you whatcha got ... beat that it makes you freak ...A like a perry mason witho...Like farrah fawcett with...Like the barkays on the ...Like gettin right down for you tonight ...Like movin your body so ...Like comin alive to the ...I said the age of one...At the age of two I was doin the do ...At the age of three it was you and me ...At the age of four I was on the floor ...At the age of five I didn't take no jive...ter gee its all the way live ...At the age of six I was a pickin up sti...At the age of seven I was rockin in heaven dontcha know I went off ...I got right on down to the beat you see ...eat beat that makes you freak ...At the age of eight I was really great ...Cause every night you see I had a date ...At the age of nine I was right on time ...Cause every night I had a party rhyme ...Like a hot buttered de p...Cause I'm a helluva man when I'm on the mike ...I am the definite fea...Cause I'm a helluva man when I'm on the mike ...I am the definite fea...e to the master gee you see

t, it ain't go hold me back, I gotta go all out to...I'm frustrated, chumps are making me mad ... to understand that I'm just that bad ...The man to respect 'cause I'm ripping up blocks...I gotta get the dough...I'm flipping like a kilo, stash a mil...Go for what you feel and deal wit t...'Cause I'm dangerous, I come real wit this ...ny means necessary, you can't get buried ...I may come wit a smile but I've been known to ge...So when you scheme, yo, I scheme too ...And I've been out here and yes, I've seen you ...I know your face, I know your name and ...I've got mad connecti...I make the moves, I'm never faking ...'Cause the loot is for the...rderer stalk in the night when you walk ... stone to the bone, I'm a rock ...rets for doing shit I had to do ...I was hard headed and yea, I still am too ...But you know I got things under co...So you should slow your roll that's my advice to you bro ... veteran, sometimes I'm trife as a juveni...I'll beep your style, you can't fuck wit the ...That's why you're riffing but you know you're just ass kissing...You wanna meet'cha maker, I'm a take ya ...'Cause I'll be ready to get you open, ain't no joking, I jam ...So if you wanna know who's re...our game, lamb, and end up taking a big los...If I don't get my way, you're history ...To you, I'm a mystery, you never understand me ...I came to grab the ta...I came to get what's due to me 'cause I got clout ...I make the moves, I'm never faking ...'Cause the loot is for the...I'm sinister, I'm selling no wolf t...ts in the city make me bitter ...And I ain't taking no shi...I move swift, always looki...I need the cash flow, I got a lot at stake ...And I could never go out like a crab ...Hand it over smooth like ...I need fat dough, I got things to do to...I'm always on my job,...Being broke, nah, I can't fuck wit it ...I'm making moves, never faking...'Cause the loot is for the

I love you momma, I love you momma ...Wish I could holla at you physically ...Listen ma picture me shitting, came far ...Hated when I was a thug, couldn'...Put me through school, swore soon I'd be in a position ...Look at me now, your only child breathing through you ...For you by you, the science...I'm still lying for that day I wake up ... of this dream, see you kinectly move, a se...Deep like Elijah, mommy's onl... momma love said if I ever get rich ...And I'm not alive, watch for the snakes, cause they got to survive...I love you mommy forever ...Mom's so strong you one of my hearts pr...And you told me I would shine in time...Never win but you know, through you I spit ...I zone on all the things you ever did for me ...Predicting I'll see fame, change...You my heart for life, ...traight royal, look at your boy now ...Taught me young and intern I spoil you now ...Don't even worry I'm a hold you down not far from n...When you see me and the way you've been ...ce my born day, and you proud ...No matter what, so I'm touched when I spit it this way ...I pray you'll be smiling for t...Always at my best, that's cause of you, always calm...You rise me to be top notch ...Yo I'm keep this gansta,... seeds, my moms for me ...en by my side, when I needed her the most...When I was locked in a cel... cry, wouldn't shed at tear ... when she would see me walking in state gr...I be like ma chill, cause it's all good ...ust two more year's I'll be back in the h...She called me the night he died, said he ai...Ma calm down you got hi blood pressu...See I understand that I got to be a man ...y for all the times I made you hurt ...I know it was hard wo...You told me to stick to the dea...I lusted the cream, 5...I'm going no where fast , that's what you said ...Didn't want to lose me to jail ...ome quick bread, or end up died ...Damn a nigga making his bed ...About to lie in, I want to change, but I ain't trying ...Mom's I'm sorry for the pai...Can I make you happy, I love to you smile ...I'll protect you from fears, always ...I'll protect you from fears, always