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Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye...And we caught onto something...I hold onto the night...'Cause it seems to me, this t...I don't feel welcome ...'Cause one second it was perfect, now you're...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when he said forever and always...Oh, and it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...Was I out of line?...Did I say something way too honest, mad...I looked into your ey...Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure...Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core...this going? Thought I knew for a minute, but I don't anymore...You didn't mean it baby, I don't think so...Did you forget everythi...Did you forget everythi...'Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...Oh, I stare at the phone,...lashback to when we said forever and always...And it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...You didn't mean it baby, ...You said forever and always,

Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye...We caught onto something...I hold onto the night...Cause it seems to me, this t...I don't feel welcome ...Cause one second it was perfect, ...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when he said forever and always...Oh, and it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...I was there when you said forever and always...Was I out of line?...Did I say something way too honest, mad...I looked into your ey...Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure...Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core...Thought I knew for a minute, but I don't anymore...You didn't mean it baby, I don't think so...Did you forget everythi...Did you forget everythi...Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...Cause I was there when you said forever and always...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when we said forever and always...Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...I was there when you said forever and always...You didn't mean it baby, ...You said forever and always,

Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye...We caught onto something...I hold onto the night...Cause it seems to me, this t...I don't feel welcome ...Cause one second it was perfect, ...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when he said forever and always...Oh, and it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...I was there when you said forever and always...Was I out of line?...Did I say something way too honest, mad...I looked into your ey...Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure...Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core...Thought I knew for a minute, but I don't anymore...You didn't mean it baby, I don't think so...Did you forget everythi...Did you forget everythi...Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...Cause I was there when you said forever and always...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when we said forever and always...Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...I was there when you said forever and always...You didn't mean it baby, ...You said forever and always,

Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye...And we caught onto something...I hold onto the night...'Cause it seems to me, this t...I don't feel welcome ...'Cause one second it was perfect, now you're...And I stare at the phone,...lashback to when he said forever and always...Oh, and it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...Was I out of line?...Did I say something way too honest, mad...I looked into your ey...Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure...Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core...this going? Thought I knew for a minute, but I don't anymore...You didn't mean it baby, I don't think so...Did you forget everythi...Did you forget everythi...'Cause it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...Oh, I stare at the phone,...lashback to when we said forever and always...And it rains in your bedro...It rains when you're here and it rains when you're g...'Cause I was there when you said forever and always...You didn't mean it baby, ...You said forever and always,

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he Storytellers and I were doing a show d... read this old book I'd ... write a song about it. ...And they did and I did and I called it more About John Hen...t of all John Henry was a black man ...He was born where the sun ...He was six feet tall he di...But he did not swing the hamme...There was a woman cross the s... Selma just like he was quitting work ...He loved that stinger of Julie An...And what is it a stinger is something else you understand...There was a man named Stacker...He had to quit it John Henry laid him...Then he said I've got a say so to ...broke out in a song that was wrote by Blind Leon...He said Julie Anne I'm singing my say ...He said I love you but I do not like your lo...Said this misery ain't n... Henry." she said, "That's just the way thin...Said I'm tormented deep in...Well, that hell buster prayed ...And they tell me that the thunder did roll ...From that day on John Henry was a changed man ...All he did was just work all the t...Don't do it cause a man ain't s...Julie Anne said John Henry I love you ...Poor Selma said John Henry you're m...Ruby said I'm gonna cook ye up ...ings but John Henry was a different kinda m...Well, they allow that hard work killed Jo...I'm gonna leave that allowing up to you,...Well, was he killed by hard work or was he killed by bad wo...Be sure that this ain't happenin...And ain't that just the way the th...A stinger is something else you understand

(I said toast motherfucker)...And I am ...sk me, they ask me, I tell them ...I take my chain, my 1...They expected that College Dropout to ...fella's only niggas that help ...My money was thinner than Sean P...I'll have a buzz bigg...It's funny how wasn't ...'Til the night I almost killed mysel...Now was Kanye the most over...m Kwa-li or Kwe-li, I put him on songs wi...I'm the Gap like Bana...It come out sweeter th...Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Sour...And I was almost famous, now ...I'm almost Raymond' ...It was straight embarrassi...ar shoppin my demo, I was tryin' to shine ...otherfucker 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 ...'Oh my god, is that a black card?' ...I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term ...stle, you know what I've been up to ...lin y'all niggaz on that lyrical shit ...naise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips ...eat for Beanie. And I was in the session with...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 "O...And I'm thinking he's try...named Just Blaze he was messing with ...And um, he was friends with my men...ou need to tell him that you like the way he...I was all, I dunno if he was gassin' me or not ..."I'll sign you as a pr...I'm like oh shit ...I was messing with, uh, D...But that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be here .... After they picked that Truth beat ...I was figuring I was gonna do some more ...nt popping off like that. I was stayin in Chicago ...I had my own apartment, I be doin' like, just...get some Jordans or something ...get a TechnoMarine, that's what we wore back...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 is crazy ...Jay might want it for this compilatio...And at that time, like the drum...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 ...With it sped up, sampled, and now it's kind of like my w...When it started, when he ra...And that was like, really the first beat of that kind that was on the Dynasty albu...I could say that was the, the resurgence...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 ...the next 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 ...t, one take. And he said ...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 shit tight" ...You know what I'm saying, man what I'ma tell him? I was on the train ... 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,...Poppin' off the way it should have been. One of my homeys that was one ... he got signed. But it was supposed to really ...Company. So, like I'm just straight hol...News that 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 took ...That money, came back, p...Ten days before I had to actually get out. So I ain't have to deal ...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...And Beans was still working on his album at that time, so I came up ...There to Baseline, it was Beans' birthday, matter of fact, and I ...eats. And, you know I could see he's in t...ready had the beats that he wanted, I did nothing like alread...That time. But then Jay walked in. I remember he had a G...Hat on. I remember it like, like it was yesterday. And Hip hop said ..."yo play that one beat for him." And I played 'Heart of th...Really I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to give that beat to DMX. ..."No I think Jay gon' like...And I played another beat, and I played another beat. And I remember that ...ccI bucket, he took it and like put it over his face and m...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." ..."Yo, you that kid, Kanye?" ..."You that kid that gave all them beats...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 ... the story, the day I did the 'Can't be ...ife' beat on track, I remember Lenny S, h...he fly. And Hip hop was there, I think Tata, John ... a bunch of people. I didn't know all the...Time they was in the room, and I said, "yo Jay I could rap." And I ...Spit this rap that said, uh "I'm killing y'all niggas on that lyrical ...naise colored Benz, I push miracle whips." And I saw his ...Eyes light up when I said that line. But you know ...Was like real wack and shit, so that's all the response....He said "man that was tight." ..."That, that was cool. That was hot." ...That was it. You know, I ain't get no deal t...rst hit single. And I just ...Took that proudly, built rela...With KwelI I think was one of the best one...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 beats. "Gimme a beat that sound ...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 lookin' at me crazy...se you know, 'cause I ain't have a jersey... there listen here. I played them 'Jesus ...know what happened, it was some A&R's that fucked ...hen like the heads, it'd be somebody at th...Company that'll say "naw." Like,...I'm not gonna say not...id". Let's just say I didn't get my deal....The nigga that was behind me, I mean, ...cked everything off was Joe 3H from Capitol...Dame was like, "yo you got a...man, just make sure it's not wack." ...you gotta make sure it's not wack." ...Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to ...'cause you know Cam was in the room, Young ...Dame 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 ...us went. Don't bite that chorus, I might still use it. So ...I play that song for him, and h... "Oh shit it's not even wack." ..."I ain't gonna front, it's kinda hot." ..."it's actually kinda ho...Like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured...I told Hip hop and Hip hop was all, "oh, word?" Ac...That I was still about to take the deal with Capitol 'cause it was ...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 ...Rapper" and told 3H that told the heads of t...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. And they had Mel call me, they said ...And, you know I told them that Rocafella was interested ...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 still get that deal with Rocafella

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