For making me do this shit motherfuc...(I'd like to propose a toast)...And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...The all around the world Digital U...I take my chain, my 1...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 Sour...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 ...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...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 more work ...st went popping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just...echnoMarine, that's what we wore back then ...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 Dr...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 ...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 they did ...For me, but, you know there's a time...level. And that day I ...Came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z a...You a real soulful dude...s verse by the time I got ...To the studio, you know how he do it, one take. And h...("check 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...n. So 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 ...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 ...'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...um 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 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. ...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, it was so...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 ... 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 whole ...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 ...ship with 3H. That, you ...Know, 'cause I told him I was gonna do it, and I'm a man of my word, I ...Was gonna 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 ...s them up to try to push the price up or whatever. I went up... I ...Called G, I said, "man, you think we could stil

To give you what you need ...B.I.G. mutha fucka's ...Got dough like the Hanson's ...come fast went out like Helly Hanson ...Mr. Bristal you will never catch me dancin' ...In the party I'm high and drunk I see you glancin' ...it hit the fan then I got the cannon ...You can call the cops, I never get ran in ...All that bullshit you talk? Can it, we ow...You delicate, far away in the country where you better get ...Ya'll need to get wit' some ve...You don't want to play around ...You don't want to play around ...You don't want to play around with me ...No more, I'll kill you ...You don't want to play around ...You don't want to play around ...You don't want to play around with me ...No more, I'll kill you ...want to start shit, push the button ...Me and Bris' about to ...be -Roc I'mma die for you ...Till this day, I'mma ride for you ...When you pull that gat, I'll be right beside you ...That's the real-la, you're talkin' to the r...t to upset New York like Reggie Miller ...Once they say you turn thug, you turn killer ...That's why they tell ya you're nobody 'til somebody kill ya ...Cause if you get too close, my n...Fuck all you hoes, I blows like suits ... behind us, ballin' like Utah ...Bitch think I'm rich, I could rock a fool b...When I come through ...You be on the side holdin' ya cups like the bums do ...I pull out a 'G' and ...I promoted this shit, so I got's to make a pro...Me and Lil' Cease, it's part two, me partners ...Layin' niggas down like carpenters ...So pardon us, like Nike's, we just do it ...And all the bodies I killed, keep 'em on...Take it how I gives it, you talk it, you live it ...top tryin' to sound like her too, bitches ...Ya'll muthafucka's do not want to play wi...e will fuckin' kill you ...I'll fuckin' kill you ...I don't give a fuck w...You don't want to play around

[Immens] Yo man.. I'm hungry man ...y whatchu want man? You want some breakfast...[Immens] I want a lil lil some...[Common] Mmm I don't know man (ay) let's see what I got in my cabinet ...Immens] Hold on let me see what I got in my cabinet ...Somebody hit me with a little, base...[C] When you wish ...[I] When you wish ...[C] And where you are! ...[I] And where you are! ...Look! I made ya look, ya di... your pocket, watch me book.. ..... like Guinness I'm a Menace, so call me hip-hop's Dennis ...And I'ma slide my yolk, i...I'd share a scoop, Runnin shit like Rebels ...You can call me Barney, cause I took your Fruity - ...Dibble like an office on Top Cat, top that, I'm fat troop ...n a scooper hoop ya like a hula ...To school a fool I present, a church t...I get you Guess'n like jeans, you're just a hill of b...I'm all that jazz, and I kick, kick, kick, k...oh please just give me just one more blast...I +Gett Off+ like Prince, but I don't have to show ...Pass the rest, like a test, if you slip then you'll get ripped ...I whip on that ass like base ba-bay ...Come follow me now (BO! Where's Sue?) I don't know ...En Vogue, be tellin me ya don't go ...cause I never slip, kick it like a Damme Van flip ...th your judo, cause you're just a Menudo ...emcee gettin chewed like vegetables ...I'ma tear this whole ...I bust raps, perhaps ...n Wilt the Stilt so you can call me the Stiltest ...You're takin shorts like Arnold, so what chu talkin bout, Wi...[Common] Well you can have your Wheat...[Immens] You can have your Flake...[Common] You can have your Kix ...[Immens] And you can have your Trix ...[Common] You can have your POUND...[Immens] You can have your Loops...[*both*] But you still gotta get you...o keep the hot raw, I'm rollin, rollin ...alcohol's excessive like a Jefferson ...And when I get through, you say -- aww hell man...Styles that I free won't, stop ti...Paper I go on and go on wit...n the dumber rhyme, I'm not a print ...but I'm fresh, heatin up like the summertime, sum...I'm a dime a dozen, but I keep you buzzin ...like a bee, a dozen atte...Cause I flush the dime and I'm not a Leader ...cause I Busta Rhyme, a rhym...If I kick with Rakim, you +Run For Cover+ bro...But I kick it with Petey cause I'm just another moth...but I wear, I wear I wear it well like DeBarge ..., makin ya eye pop, like you ain't spinach ...n it's, time to let you know ...[I] Food tip? Well you just check ...[C] Cause you know what we need ...[I] What can I have? ...[Common] You can have your Life ...[Immens] You can have your Bran ...[Common] You can have your Puffs...[Immens] You can have your Pebbl...[Common] You can have your Krunc...[Immens] And you can have your Loops...[*both*] But you still gotta get you...Around and round and upsid...WHOAHHHHH! I'ma sneak in the fro...Not Jethro, I'm not a Jethro, on ...I don't wear Monie's hat, but I was a Monkey +in th...Hey diddle diddle, you can Kibble a Bit ...I take a squat, and b...Yo, I turn Bucktown into ...You're just a field goal kid, and I'm a touchdown ... the next joint, so tell Spike about it ...I'm all that, that yo...Cause when I do ya, come down come down after me come ...ugar Plums but umm, I gotta run ...I'm down with the be ...You jive-ass turkey, a-...You can get ill, but don't, HURT ME, HURT ME ...r urk me, cause see I'll outsmart you like the Urkel ...s blunt, yeah stud, you ain't know? ...I want to go bang, I said, bang-o, bang-...hip, hooray, oh now you want to be all lova...Don't push or pull, or you'll see, I'ma wreck it out ...I leave em out on the

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