And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...This is the last call for alcohol, f...The all around the world Di...I take my chain, my 1...aybe he stop savin' all the good beats for ...Rocafella's only niggas that he...nner than Sean Paul's goatee hair ...Now Jean Paul Gaultier ...I'll have a buzz bigg...It's funny how wasn't no...'Til the night I almost killed mysel...Now was Kanye the most ...Now is Kanye the most o...h the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Q...But all they got left is th...m Kwa-li or Kwe-li, I put him on songs wi...I'm the Gap like Banana...Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Sour...And I was almost famous, now everybody loves Kan...I'm almost Raymond' ... he arrogant, can y'all blame him? ... embarrassing how y'all played him ...Last year 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, n...I'm Kan, the Louis Vuit...ght my mom a purse, now she Louis Vuitton M...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 ...is hustle, you know what I've been up to ...Killin y'all niggaz on that lyri...naise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips ..."Last call for alcohol, f...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 spit...I'm like "It's me." He's like "Oh, well okay...And I'm thinking he's trying to get into ...I was all, I dunno if he was gas...But he's like he want to man..."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 more work ...ping off like that. I was stayin in Chica...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just... TechnoMarine, 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 s...ly weren't soundin' right to me ...So I went and um, I was listening to Dr...And really I just, like picked t...ed up, sampled, and now it's kind of like my who...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 ...but, you know there's a time in every man's life where he ...ext 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 ...k this out, tell me what you think of this, right here") ..."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 ...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 ...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, a... way it should have been. One of my homeys t...Company. So, like I'm just straight holdi...ave my company. And I got evicted at ...The same time. So I went down and tracked the beats from him, I took ..., came back, packed all my shit up in a you...Ten days before I had to actually get out. So I ain't have to deal ... landlord 'cause he's a jerk. Me and my m..."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 equipment, and ...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 the zone ...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, 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 this one right here". ...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." ... that kid that gave all them beats to Jay? ...You know I ain't talking shit....I'm like "oh shit." And all this time I'm starstruck, man. I'm ...Still thinking 'bout, you know I'm picturing these nig...treets is Watching, I'm looking, these were...came in and he spit all ...y, and in two days, I gotta bring up one ...k 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 niggas on that lyri...naise colored Benz, I push miracle whips." And I saw his ...Eyes light up when I said that line. But...k and shit, so that's all the response. ...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 ...Relationships with all these A&R's, and th...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 ...t sign me. You know what happened, it was some A&R's that fucked ...ggas is stupid if y'all don't sign Kanye, f...I'm not gonna say nothing to mess my promotio..."y'all niggas is stupid". Let's just say I didn't get my deal....that was behind me, I mean, ..."We gonna change the game, buddy." ..., just make sure it's not wack." ... gotta make sure it's not wack." ...Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to ...was in the room. So I played, actually it's a song that you'll ...ver hear, but maybe I might use it. So, it's called 'Wow.' ..."I go to Jacob with 25...I got eleven plaques on my walls right now ...t bite that chorus, I might still use it....I play that song for him, and he's like "oh shit" ... "Oh shit it's not even wack." ..."I ain't gonna front, it's kinda hot." ..."it's actually kinda hot....Like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured, ... the office, and he's ...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 ...Was gonna roll with what I said I was gonna do. Then, you know, I'm ...Not gonna name no names, but people told me, "oh he's just a producer ...of the Capitol, and right-- ...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 my album, thinking of marketing scheme...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...Copyright : Lyrics © EMI Music Publis