Had to throw everybody out the motherfucking room ...(I'd like to propose a toast) ...asses, your glasses to the sky ...This is the last call for alcohol, for the ...get your ass up off the wall ...The all around the world Digital Underground...The Rudolph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc ...hain, my 15 seconds of fame ...back next year with the whole fucking game ...nobody expect Kanye to end up on top ...hat College Dropout to drop and then flop ... he stop savin' all the good beats for hims...ultier cologne fill the air, here ...'Til the night I almost kill...Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Ye...Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Ye...Though the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Ques...I'm the Gap like Banana Rep...un-B when I met him at the Source awards ...him, ass coulda won the horse awards ... demo, I was tryin' to shine ...use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams ...be last, so I ought to laugh ...So I don't listen to the suits behind the desk no more ...You can't say shit to Kanye West no more ...I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don ...I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I...I prayed to the skies and I changed...I went to the malls and I balled ...hy yes but I prefer the term ...w what I've been up to ...So this A&R over at Rocafella, named Hi...Picked the Truth beat for Beanie. And I was in the session with him ...I play the songs, he's like "W... he started talking to me on the phone ...rth, just asking me to send him beats ...hinking he's trying to get into managing p..."look man, you want to mess with Kanye ...You need to tell him that you like the way he rap" ... ID:] "Yo, you want to sign him, tell him ...t he's like he want to manage me as a rapp...People were like this, started talking about the Ghost production ...that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't ...Just to try to keep the lights on, and then to go out and buy ...yed it for Hip over the phone, he's like "o...bum he doin, called The Dynasty." ...And at that time, like the drums really weren't soundin' right to me ...um, I was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time ...I just, like picked the drums off Xxplosive..., and now it's kind of like my whole style...at was like, really the first beat of that kind that was on the Dynasty album ...d say that was the, the resurgence of this whole sound ...You know, I got to come in and track the beat, and at the time ...nt. I really wanted to roll with ... make a change, try to move up to the next level. And tha...Came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z and he s...Uh, played the song 'cause he already spit his verse by the time I got ...To the studio, you know ho...l me what you think of this, right here") ...l me what you think of this." And I heard ...ly wanted more like of the simple type Jay-Z, I ain't...Want like the, the more introspective,...me, "what you think of it?" ... tell him? I was on the train ...Chicago, I'm trying to do my thing. You kn...Acts I'm trying to get on, and like th...Poppin' off the way it should have been. One of my homeys that was ...Of my artists, he got signed. But it was supposed to really go through ...going straight with the ...st straight holdin' the phone, gettin' the bad ...hat 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 t...n 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 to .... You know, we went to IKEA, I bought a ...Bed, I put the bed together myself...The first beat I made was, uh, 'Heart of the City.' ...orking on his album at that time, so I cam...There to Baseline, it was Beans' birthday, matter of fact, and I ...I could see he's in the zone ...He already had the beats that he wanted, I did nothing like already at ...And I played 'Heart of the City.' And ...eally I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to give that beat to DMX. ...s face and made one of ...like 'OOOOOOOOOOH.' Two days later I'm in B...gave all them beats to Jay? ...ing these niggaz on the show ...The Streets is Watching, I'm looking, these were superstars in my ... in one day, and in two days, I gotta bring...you know, come back to the story, the day I did the 'Can't be ...Minnelli, a bunch of people. I didn't know all these people at the ...Time they was in the room, and I said, "... line. But you know the West, the rap ...shit, so that's all the response. ...So, Blueprint, H to the Izzo, my first hit ...elI I think was one of the best ones to ever happen to my ... Because, you know, of course later he all...To go on tour with him. Man, I appre-- I love him for that. And at ...ss they was lookin' at me crazy ...ough, but then like the heads, it'd be somebody at the ...igga Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Riv...t gonna say nothing to mess my promotion u...The nigga that was behi...The person who actually...Records. He wanted to sign me really bad...."We gonna change the game, buddy." ...played it, I wanted to ...you know Cam was in the room, Young Guru, a...Dame was in the room. So I played, ..."I go to Jacob with 25 thou,...Like the chorus went. Don't ...ill weren't looking at me ...if his raps is wack at least we can throw ...Save the album, you know. So uh Dame took me into the office, and he's ..."you don't want to catch a brick" ...t I was still about to take the deal with Capitol '...Already on the table and 'cause of my relationship wit...o it, and I'm a man of my word, I ...d told 3H that told the heads of the Capitol, and right-...The day I'm talking abo... my album, thinking of marketing schemes ...Man I was ready to go. And they had Me.... Capitol pulled on the deal" ...pitol pulled out on the deal." ...To gas them up to try to push the price up or whateve