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How could you be so? The coldest story ever told He lost his soul To a woman so heartless How could you be so Cold as the winter wind when it breeze yo Just remember that you talking to me yo You need to watch the way you talking to me yo I mean, after all the things that we been through I mean, after all the things we got into Ayyo, I know of some things that you aint told me Ayyo, I did some things but thats the old me And now you wanna give me back and you gonna show me So you walk around like you dont know me You got a new friend Well I got homies But in the end its still so lonely In the night The coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road He lost his soul To a woman so heartless Hey, heartless How could you be so heartless? How could you be so Dr. Evil? You bringing out a side of me that I dont know I decided we werent gonna speak, so Why we up 3 AM on the phone? Why do she be so mad at me for? Homie, I dont know shes hot and cold I wont stop, wont mess my groove up Cause I already know how this thing go You run and tell your friends that youre leaving me They say that they dont see what you see in me You wait a couple of months, then you gon’ see Youll never find nobody, never find nobody better than me In the night I hear em talk The coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road He lost his soul To a woman so heartless Hey, heartless How could you be so heartless? Talk, and talk, and talk, and talk Baby lets just knock it off They dont know what we been through They dont know about me and you So I got something new to see And you just gon’ keep hating me And we just gon’ be enemies I know you cant believe I could just leave it wrong And you cant make it right Im gon’ take off tonight into the night In the night I hear them talk The coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road He lost his soul To a woman so heartless How could you be so heartless? How could you be so heartless? How could you be so heartless? How could you be so heartless? How could you be so heartless? How could you be so? How could you be so? In the night I hear them talk The coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road He lost his soul To a woman so, a woman so… There is no Gucci I can buy There is no Louis Vuitton to put on There is no Y.S.L. that they could sell To take my mind out of this hell Or my heart out of this jail There are no clothes that I could buy That could turn, back in time There is no vacation spot I could fly That could turn back, a piece of real life Real life, I ask you tonight What does it feel like? What does it feel like, I ask you tonight What does it feel like? To live a real life I just wanna be a real boy Pinocchios story goes, to be a real boy People say, you keep it too real boy Pinocchios story goes, to be a real boy With a woman so heartless So heartless Is it my fault that I make you heartless? Maybe I made you heartless, but regardless That don’t give you the reason to act retarded Yeah we fall, but you started You started No, no, no, nobody knows Nobody knows Did it have to go that far? Did we have to take it that far? You say things some time that you just can’t take back Take back, take back You’re gonna hit me one day, so take that, so take that And that’s something you just can’t take back Take back, take back Never do nothing you can’t take back, take back Does this hurtful comment have a receipt? Does this staggering piece of truth That was never told, have an expiration date? Or can I take that back? Take that back And I guess it’s in the nighttime, I hear ‘em talk, talk The coldest story ever told, the coldest story ever told The coldest story ever told, the coldest story ever told Ever told, never told When I say the coldest story I mean the voices in my head When I lay down in my bed, the voices in my head When another woman is beside me in my bed In the night I hear ‘em talk Coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road He lost his soul To a woman so heartless How could you be so heartless? Did I make you be heartless? Did I make you be heartless? 50, look at me now Singing on the ground With my pink shirt on Does this look gay to you? Well, I don’t know what else to say to you Look at me now I’m on the ground And my heart can still not be found ‘Cause I’ve looked all around And my heart will never be found I looked all around And my heart’s nowhere to be found Where is my heart right now? With a woman so heartless How could you be so? How could you be so heartless? How could you be so? In the night I hear ‘em talk Coldest story ever told Somewhere far along this road I lost my soul To somebody so heartless How could you be so heartless? How could you be so heartless?

In your high honour All over my skin thats art splattered And everything happened this part mattered I tattoed your name on my tongue Then my heart shattered But for effort I get an A, girl So tonight be the VIP guests of JYJ Malik Yusef and Kanye West Living life like theres no damn rules Tonight Im finna hop up in that hotel pool Grab your hand, white dress, you gon hop in too Get everything that bein at the top includes Whats your friends attitude, why she so damn rude? huh? Tell her smile for a change If a baller come around, she gone smile for the change I know they type, I know the life I know youre living your life for the night, another night Ask the city what they got for us That mean it wasnt even poppin if it not for us Then isnt isnt this all that I said itd be I want the best for you, but want better for me, ugh I paid the price of fame, icy chain Stack my money tall, height advantage Lets do it, flashing light Have the time of your life Living it up for tonight Yeah she living it up for tonight Ayy girl, I tried to make you my baby Ayy girl, instead you make me go crazy Just run through me What have you done to me Ayy girl, I tried to make you my baby Ayy girl, instead you make me go crazy Im losing my cool Playing me for a fool Ayyyyyy, ayy, ayy girl I know your type, I know the life I know you living your life for the night Another night I know your type, I know the life I know you living your life for the night Another night Were so high, we touch the sky You broke my heart, tore me apart I never lost like this, now its you wholl miss Like I did give, cause for the night you told me Im not the type Flashing lights Have the time of your life Livin it up for tonight Yeah she livin it up for tonight You came and shut it down Suddenly you run this town Wanted to be with you All I needed was me and you Now everything is changed You act differently You do me wrong I knew all along So cold in the rain Gave my heart in vain You got me goin insane Get out of my brain

Yo Monica, I know you shootin that video in there Aw, you just aint gon let me in the video, huh? No no, i-its me, Kanye West You know, th-throw your diamonds up? Through the wire? You aint seen my video, heh? You know, I- like me and Missy we did this song Together whatever Um, okay, well I cant keep knockin and keep rockin and keep poppin I keep droppin and keep poppin and keep rockin But I cant keep knockin and keep knockin And keep poppin and keep rockin Lets get it poppin So upset This that hot shit Uh huh, yeah New Monica! Now you aint let me in the video Play me like Semi did Arsenio Im Kanye from the Chi city yo Im the nigga that did the beat yo You know we too old for this like Holyfield still boxin Ya will watch and I look back, ya still watchin What he got that I aint got? I got Benz I got rims, not 20s but I got 10s Real real clean, come and get your rear wheel cleaned She did what with who? Man I hear things Like when I was doin my dirt and she heard things Up worryin while she wore her ring Now she got a fling and wheres her ring? That is in the purse now, feelins in the dirt now Somebody buyin the bar, quenchin her thirst now Somebody bought her a dress, she in the church now And whats worse now, she ain gotta work now She cuffed an NBA player from the first round I grabbed her neck and made it hurt to breathe She said "Security, this jerk could leave" And uh So do just what you want anytime that you really like I put a payment on my place, youll be sleepin alone tonight So dont you come knockin Knock knock knock, stop knocking Dont come knocking at my do Ring ring ring, let the phone stop I dont want you calling me no mo [Kanye West {*overlaps chorus*} Yo this the remix, and Im Kon the Louis Vuitton Don Or you can call me Louis XIV By the way cause I dropped out of the fourteenth grade I used to be so gone You were someone I could lean on My life support system And I thought I couldnt breathe, ah ah When you used to leave, yep yep I see you put yo clean on Big chains, gold teeth, and yo gleam on All night wanna be gone Wanna tell me stay home like I got a ring on Now you say Im not your wife, right right So why should I be chillin? goodnight goodnight Now pack up my things for a flight I got a place and its fixed up nice So dont come knocking at my do I got company comin round fo So whoa whoa, haha, yeah I dont want you callin me no mo Knock, knock, knock, stop knocking Dont come knocking at my door And I cant keep knockin and keep rockin Lets get it poppin and thats stoppin Ring ring ring, let the phone stop I dont want you calling me no mo What up Really Doe, I see you Hey the gon be mad as hell when we go on tour You see I already got GLC up outta there Aw we finna blow man You know we got the game on smash John Monopoly, Don C Plain Pat what up? Yeah, you know I got that boogie And Jay boogie well Yeah, what up Roc? Yeah, What up Tiffany, I see you Changed my locks, took my things Cant come in Changed my locks, took my things Cant come in I dont want you calling me no mo

Wise man say Wise man say Wise man say Do you think Id sacrifice a real life For all the fame and flashing lights? Do you think Id sacrifice a real life For all the fame and flashing lights? There is no Gucci I can buy There is no Louis Vuitton to put on There is no YSL that they could sell And take my mind out of this jail And my heart out of this hell There are no clothes that I could buy That could turn back in time There is no vacation spot I could fly That could bring back a piece of real life, real life I ask you tonight: what does it feel like? What does it feel like I ask you tonight: what does it feel like to live a real life? I just wanna be a real boy Pinocchios story goes to be a real boy Pinocchios story goes to be a real boy I just wanna be a real boy The funny thing is Pinocchio lied, and thats what kept him from it I tell the truth and I-I keep running Its like Im looking out there, tryna find something I looked on the TV and I see me and see nothing So what does it feel like to live real life, to be real Not some facade that no one can really feel Do you really have the stamina? For everybody that sees you that say: "wait a second, wheres my camera?" For everybody that sees you to say: "can you sign an autograph" For everybody that sees you cryin that say you oughta laugh You oughta laugh There is no Gucci I can buy There is no Louis Vuitton to put on There is no vacation spot I could fly That could bring back a piece of real life Real life, real life Real life, real life Dont miss, dont miss— The cameras on, you gotta do it like, this— And move your other leg like, this— And uh, dont get nobody pissed Aye nigga, aye nigga dont miss! Everydays the Super Bowl— You better not miss! Everyday is the playoffs or the championship, aye Nigga dont miss! Because uh— If you miss one step we gon, we gon treat you like this We gon talk shit about you like this We gon beat you up like this We gon say that people dont like you We gon try to make the whole world hate you Dont tell, dont never say what everybody else is thinking Nigga, nigga, nigga dont miss— Walk perfectly in this town And I feel down again, when Im down again And Im down again Can you imagine how many times they told me That I would never work in this town again? In this town again And I felt down again, and I felt down again And I felt down again, do you get it? Can you imagine how many times they told me Id never work in this town again? But now two nights at the Hollywood Bowl sold out! Aye, dont let em bring you down, ont let em bring you down, down Its more ways than they way to do it And Im here to prove it Im here to prove it, Im here to prove it Im here to prove it Nigga dont miss, nigga dont miss Walk like this, do it like this Dont get nobody pissed Walk like this, or we gon beat you Aye, aye, aye, aye And they told me, told me For 6 years that aint nobody love me And they told me, they told me You better not show your face in public boy They told me Better stand still Emmett Till, better stand still Emmett Till They told me, they told me, they told me Like Pinocchio they must have lied Cause I feel so much love tonight They must have lied cause I feel so much love tonight Oh, they must have lied cause I feel so much love tonight They must have lied cause I feel so much love tonight They must have lied, lied

I told you. But if I would have voted, I would have voted on Trump. Now, there’s people that I love that did vote that voted for Hillary and I don’t love them no less because they had their opinion. I love friends that I have that voted on Hillary. My manager, Scooter Braun, voted on Hillary. One of my management team. My other manager, Izzy, I’m gonna assume voted on Hillary. Everybody said that if you voted on Trump you have to go back to like Montauk or shit. And guess what? That entire team still put together this show tonight with people with differences of opinion, still put this show together tonight and still came together and made this show for y’all. They told me, “Ye, do not say that out loud. Whatever you do, do not say that out loud.” And I just said it! I wanted to say that before the election and they told me, “Do not say that out loud. Whatever you do, do not say that.” That don’t mean that I don’t think that Black Lives Matter. That don’t mean I don’t think that I’m a believer in women’s rights. That don’t mean I don’t believe in gay marriage. That don’t mean that I don’t believe in these things because that was the guy I would have voted for. Run the next song. Believe that there are people here enjoying, or before I start talking at least, enjoying a Kanye West show. By a show of screams do you believe that there are people at a Kanye West show who voted for Trump? Oh, it sound differently from before, huh? It sounds different. Why did we boo the first time on something that wasn’t, “Hey, do you like Trump?” That wasn’t what I asked. I asked you to give me your facts because the internet was giving you their facts based on what you wanted to hear and a lot of you guys got blindsided. How that make you think, though? The fact that I just asked that undeniable question? That in most music situations you have the Democrats always since the beginning of time. The Democrats were considered to be more liberal. The Democrats were supposed to be more futuristic in their approach. The Democrats were supposed to have more empathy and be more about the people and that relates directly to music and it also relates to celebrity and the idea of what music does for you. Democrat is like music to your ears or something. Bye. Your voices. Do you believe–what percentage of people here–and by the way, I’m not setting y’all up, I’m not setting y’all up I’ve got no time for bullshit–what I’m saying is, what percentage of people here do you think voted for Trump? Do you think it was two people here? Do you think maybe it was 100 people? Do you think maybe it was 1,000 people out of the 15,000 people here? No, I’m asking you, what do you really believe? One person. Two people. What do you really believe? What do you really believe? What do you really believe? What do you really believe? What do you really believe? What do you really believe? I haven’t talked about anybody’s stances on anything. I haven’t talked about any quote that anybody gave from either side. That’s not what I’m talking ’bout. That’s not what I’m asking you. What I’m asking you is what you really believe. I put something that I would bet on. I bet that it might be 20 percent or maybe even 30 percent of this very audience right here that might have voted for Trump. I bet you 15 percent, 50 percent of them, would never say that at a Kanye West show because of the climate right now. And they don’t know they might think I’m like, “Oh, they voted for Trump... y’all should go ahead and….” It’s the opposite of that. People got the right to vote for whoever they want to vote for. That’s the right to vote! That is our right! I did not vote. Aww, no. The Saint Pablo ticket sales are going down now. Aww no, t-shirts. “Aww nah, you just got out of jail Ye. You had to deal with the Taylor Swift shit for seven years now you gonna go say some... naw, Ye don’t say shit. Just step out.” Fuck that, bro. That’s the reality. Well, Ye, how you gonna expect people to vote for you if you ain’t even vote? I’m concerned not about the idea of being president or the actual job of it. I’m concerned about putting our concept of how to do the job in a new way. And if no one will do it in that way I will take position in 2020 and do it myself. “Aw you ain’t gonna get it now because of what you just said.” It was proof that it didn’t matter what nobody just said! It doesn’t matter! It might have been a reporter who wanted to use this as an opportunity to say, “Oh, this rapper” because when they call me a rapper they try to say that I’m less than thinking, less than a philosopher. But rappers are the philosophers of our now. The rappers all form a sense of our now. The celebrities are the influencers of our now. Just look at the president. He wasn’t even in politics and he won! That shows you not if you mad about him winning, but that shows you the level of possibility that is out there if you go and find information and don’t believe everything the fucking internet is telling you! There is possibilities! There’s possibilities inside of books. There’s possibilities when you call grandmother. Motherfuckers be on the internet way more than they calling they mother or they grandmother. To get information that would have you wrong as fuck like everybody knows a couple days ago! Do you ever want to be blindsided like that? Don’t trivialize what I was saying when I talked about our president’s approach to the campaign when I said it was entertaining. I don’t think his approach was just entertaining, because that trivializes it, I actually think that his approach was absolutely genius because it fucking worked! Next song. Oh shit, you threw something at me. Does anyone else wanna throw something at me? But, you know what, I got the power to get that guy kicked out, or whatever, roughed up. No. Stay here. What do you believe? That’s your opinion. Express your opinion, bro. Express your opinion. Thank you. That’s a woman right there saying, “I love you,” after I just said that there was things that I liked about Trump’s campaign. That’s not supposed to happen, right? No! That’s not supposed to happen, right? Case in point. Aw, no. Well, no. I guess we’re not gonna sell out the rest of the tour now. There’s methods, nonpolitical methods to speaking that I like that I feel were very futuristic and that style and that method of communication has proven that it can be a politically correct way of communication. And I fuck with that. You threw something at me! Naw, he wanted me to sign his Yeezy. I don’t say 2020 out of disrespect to our president at all. I’m not saying that, “Aw man, that just mean that anybody can win.” That’s not what I’m saying when I say 2020. I’ll just say I got some ideas about the way that we should connect our ideas. And we should use opposite parties that the Republicans, that the Democrats, that everyone that ran that had an idea that people agreed with should be the collective ideas that are used to run the country. And that should mean more. So theres things that Benjamin Carson believes in... that I believe in. I believe that Benjamin Carson should still be a consultant. I think that Hillary Clinton should still be a consultant. I think that Bill Clinton should still be a consultant. Obama said... I think Obama should still be a consultant. It’s that, “Oh, I don’t fuck with your principles so now I’m not gonna give you no information that could help you help all of us.” Make sure this dude that got the Yeezy get his Yeezy back, specifically. Hey, security, get it back. Man, and you know what also? I’m not saying this to diss celebrity and that all who are particularly on the Democratic side, that’s cool, I just like... I hate the fact that because I’m a celebrity everybody told me not to say that I loved the debates. I loved his approach. It’d be like white people that’s racist running around saying “niggas” now. If people are racist and they feel more inspired to say how they feel then they exposing themselves, bro. This is what I’m saying. It’s already the beginning of change. Sometimes things that you might think are bad have to happen in order for change to fucking happen. Sometimes you might have to not get your way to really understand what to do in the future to be able to get your way.

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DJ Hannah Ohios best DJ Killer Instinct Tiller Instinct I don’t know man, it’s just... Why are you so paranoid Why are you so paranoid Dont be so... They say to me Don’t worry bout it I’ll be famous Keep on dreamin’ about it I worry bout the wrong things, the wrong things I worry ‘bout the wrong things, the wrong things I’m tryna do my own thing, my own thing And put on for my home team, my own team Ya Everybody tellin’ me I should never think about it Sometimes, I just don’t really give a fuck Anyway, they dont know you like I do They never know you Anyway, they dont know you like I do They never know you I’m paranoid, yo And sometimes I be thinking this ain’t for me But when I hit em with the flow Everybody up, everybody standin’ at their feet They never would’ve guessed Somebody so talented would ever give up, no I made a whole mixtape just to show a nigga I deserve a deal Show em I could go If they sleepin’ on me then I’m Freddy, Kroeger Time to win it all, man Forget these losers Haters won’t befriend me But that goes against my killer instinct Anyway, they don’t know you like I do They never know you Anyway, they don’t know you like I do They never know you

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s She dont believe in shooting stars But she believe in shoes and cars Wood floors in the new apartment Couture from the stores department You more like "love to start shit" Im more of the trips to Florida Ordered the hors doeuvres, views of the water Straight from a page of your favorite author And the weather so breezy Man, why cant life always be this easy? She in the mirror dancing so sleazy I get a call like, "Where are you Yeezy?" And try to hit you with the ol-wu-wopte til I got flashed by the paparazzi Damn, these niggas got me I hate these niggas more than a Nazi As I recall I know you love to show off But I never thought that you would take it this far What do I know? I know its been a while sweetheart We hardly talk, I was doing my thang I know it was foul, baby Aye babe, lately, youve been all on my brain And if somebody woulda told me a month ago Fronting though: yo, I wouldnt wanna know If somebody woulda told me a year ago Itll go get this difficult Feeling like Katrina with no F.E.M.A Like Martin with no Gina Like a flight with no visa First class with the seat back, I still see ya In my past, you on the other side of the glass Of my memorys museum Im just saying, hey Mona Lisa come home You know you cant roam without Caesar You know, I’m ‘sposed to talk about what some of these songs mean And some of the stuff is so personal to me And some of the things I’ve been through is so real In the form that I’m ‘sposed to break down certain things And this is one of the first times, because I feel like I’m placed in front of the audience right now And uhm, certain things are just hard for me to talk about And I’m sorry VH1 for that But it uhm, certain things are too serious And I stand before you, just a human being trying to improve under the microscope Just the star of the Truman show As every day I take as calculated Every time I put on my shoes Under the flashing lights Just got an email today A new book coming out Doctor Adams: the Truth about Donda West What the media doesn’t want you to know And you know, now that my momma passed Would she really want me to put myself in a situation where I go to jail? FOR KILLING ‘EM Under the flashing lights And the public perception Where I feel like I’m always in defense of myself And I realize that I’ve made some mistakes, but I grow from them It’s like I’m fighting to be me, but I have to leave the fight ‘Cause it helps everyone else be who they wanna be That’s a story for your ass…

Drive slow, homie Drive slow, homie You never know, homie, might meet some hoes, homie You need to pump your brakes and drive slow, homie My homie Marty used to stay, Sunny 9th and May One of my best friends from back in the day Down the street from Calumet, a school full of stones He nicknamed me K-Rock so theyd leave me alone Bulls jacket with his hat broke way off And walked around the mall with his radio face off Plus he had the spinner from his Daytons in his hand, keys in his hand Reason again to let you know hes the man Back when we rocked the leases, he had dreams of Caprices Drove by the teachers, even more by polices How he get the cash the day his father passed away Left him with a lil somethin, 16 he was stuntin Al B. Sure nigga with the hair all wavy Hit Lakeshore girls, go all crazy Hit the freeway, go at least bout 80 Boned so much that summer, even had him a baby See back back then then if you had a car You was the Chi-Town version of Baby And I was just a virgin, a baby One of the reasons I looked up to him crazy I used to love to play my demo tape when the system yanked Felt like I was almost signed when the shit got cranked Well take a Saturday and just circle the mall They had they Lakers and our Royals, we was hurtin em all With the girls a lot of flirtin involved, but Dawg Fuck all that flirtin Im tryin to get in some drawers, so Put me on with these hoes homey He told me dont rush to get grown, drive slow homey Drive slow homey... Drive slow You never know homey, about these hoes homey You need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey What it do; Im posted up in the parkin lot, my trunk wavin The candy gloss is immaculate, its simply amazin Them elbows pokin wide on that candy llac Trunk open, screens on, neons lit with 5th relaxed Im on a mission for dime pieces and sexy ladies Allow me to introduce you to my CL Mercedes Its a star-studded event when I valet park Open up my mouth and sunlight illuminates the dark You see them fos crawlin, you see them screens fallin The disco ball in my mouth insinuates Im ballin Im leanin on the switch, sittin crooked in my slab But I could still catch boppers if I drove a cab A young Houston hardhitter all about the scrilla Ridin somethin candy coated, crawlin like a caterpillar Im tippin on them 4s, Im jammin on that Screw Im lookin for them hoes baby what it do Drive slow homey... Turn your hazard lights on when you see them hoes Drive slow homey... If you ridin around the city with nowhere to go Drive slow homey... Live today cause tomorrow man, you never know... You never know homey, might meet some hoes homey You need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey My cars like the movie, my cars like the crib I got mo TVs in here than where I live And that dont make no sense, but baby Im the shit And everything I flip, you know its somethin serious I got the custom grill, I got the Bravis rims I got the baller genetics baby this evidence You see a player flickin and how you aint convinced That you should go on and kiss it, "Just a Little Bit" Just a lil bit I got my custom kicks, I got my Jesus chain My canaries is gleamin through my angel wings They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green My woodgrain oak, Im ridin on Vogues My cylinder quiet, like tip-toes I sold Os, and this I know When you see them hoes, lil homey drive slow... Drive slow homey... Drive slow homey... You never know homey, might meet some hoes homey You need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey Drive slow homey

Im gonna blow your mind, hold you close Squeeze you tight, the next time that I see you Im gonna tell you I love you, cross my heart And I hope I die The next time that I see you I grew up, talking Chi-town slang Never played soccer but loved to kick game Loved chicks with thick frames And big-lipped dames Might see em on my arm Cause I charm like thick chains I was at the Knicks game, they were playing the Nets Courtside so I could hear the shit they say to the refs Thugs, this type of stuff you cant express in a text See the section of girls who be dressing for checks Thats when she stepped in front of me Light-skinned, long hair like a school days wannabe A big ol lets just say she was blessed She had got it from her mama, God gave her the rest We was being introduced by mutual friends Like Kobe in the 4th, thats when the game begins Game begins, games begins Im from the windy city, so I play to win Im gonna blow your mind, hold you close Squeeze you tight, the next time that I see you Im gonna tell you I love you, cross my heart And I hope I die The next time that I see you We conversated tough about life and stuff Told her, tonight was just right for us She was, flavor most and I can spice it up Be my black Victoria Beckham once I wife it up Asked when the next time we could speak I might Khloe you, marry you in 3 weeks Seen cheeks, she was like she dont remember my name Thats when I realized aint no gender in game I thought, like "Man! You dont know me?" Im the black guy in the flick with Angelina Jolie Boldly, she told me Oh you got moves Her friends said No, really though, hes a good dude After couple months of dating and pairs of good shoes Being snapped by the papps, we shared the good news We were engaged, though many was confused Im from the windy city, so I will not lose...come on Im gonna blow your mind, hold you close Squeeze you tight, the next time that I see you Im gonna tell you I love you, cross my heart And I hope I die The next time that I see you She had a dope figure, yall can go figure Should of listened to Ye, cause she was a gold digger I aint a dumb nigga, she was able to pull it Love happy, blindsided like Sandra Bullock Or could it be, things go the way that they should From the, unexpected, love could be understood And in the real game, only love can win I got to win, cause I fell in love with her friend Im gonna blow your mind, hold you close Squeeze you tight, the next time that I see you Im gonna tell you I love you, cross my heart And I hope I die The next time that I see you

Grab a seat, grab a seat. So, you remember this place? Graduation? . I was also thinking about some of the other things we’ve done as well with the BBC, like Abbey Road sprung to mind with the strings Oh yeah. That was good. That suit was like, I would’ve worn something different if I could look back right now. I could still do a suit, I just wouldn’t have done that exact lapel situation But talk about really putting yourself on the line with that. That was so early on for you to be stepping in a room with that many players and that kind of – to give yourself that objective. What are your thoughts when you think back about Abbey Road, where…it’s just nuts I thought it was good. I thought it was what I was supposed to do at that time. If I see something, if I see an opportunity, I’m gonna go for it. You know what I’m saying – We’re all gonna die one day Yeah, that’s true So live like that. Live like you could die tomorrow. Go for it. Those steps have been the, you know, the platforms that allowed me to make it this far And you have, man, and you’re here. Six original albums of your own, a Throne record, various records with G.O.O.D. Music to talk about, man. But seriously, man, Yeezus. Bravo, dude. I mean, that is one of the most creative records of any genre I’ve heard in a very, very long time, and you know, just in terms of your output, your most exciting-sounding record, I think Oh, thank you very much. Yeah, I feel I was able to start making exactly what was in my mind again, not having to speak with the textures of the time. Cause, you know, Cruel Summer is definitely Kanye West, and there’s something weird and kind of off about “Mercy,” like when it has the high-pitched, that type of sound. It sounds like art still a little bit, even thought it obviously was a radio smash But it’s still – when I get into the idea, the trap drums and things like that, certain songs that are blatant radio hits, it’s like I’m speaking with today’s textures. And that’s – if you look at it 200 years from now, it’s not going to stand out in the way that 808’s or Yeezus stands out, and can completely push or redefine or make people say, you know: hey, I completely hate that, or I completely love that, but let me just think differently. Because everybody is bound to these — no pun intended — they’re bound to sixteen bars or eight bars, and you know the normal radio – the radio thing I was talking to Frank Ocean about this, and said, my mom got arrested for the sit-ins, and now we’re more like the sit-outs. Like, sit off of radio, and say, hey radio, come to us. We need to find something new, because it’s being controlled in a way, and manufactured in a way, that really awesome artists can make amazing music and not break as far past as, like, something that’s very formulaic So it almost feels like a duty to you in a weird way? Having the peoples’ ear, having peoples’ attention for great music, to be able to say, well, if I’m not challenging them enough, I’m not challenging myself, not challenging radio, what am I doing? Yeah. I’m not trying to regurgitate myself. I showed – showed people that I understand how to make perfect. Dark Fantasy could be considered to be perfect. I know how to make perfect. But that’s not what I’m here to do. I’m here to crack the pavement and make new grounds, you know, sonically and society, culturally You’ve done that with Yeezus. It’s fascinating for us to sit here and talk about this record now, because normally when I talk to artists about records of this nature, it’s in the lead-up to something. So we’re all kind of playing a guessing game, you know what I mean? You could tell me what you think of the record, but I’m trying to find my way around it, the audience probably won’t have heard it. In this case, it’s been out for a minute, so we can reflect on it with the benefit of hindsight, too. You’ve seen what everyone else has had to say about this record, both good and bad. But I’m fascinated to know, today, how you would describe Yeezus, as someone who made it. How you would describe that record. You know? I just think that I’m a production person, I’m a product guy, I’m a producer. So if I’m working on a John Legend album, I’m gonna try to give John Legend the best home for him to stay in. And I’m gonna try to push Pusha T — no pun intended once again, this keeps happening to me — to make the thing that represents what I like about his music the most. And then for me as Kanye West, I gotta fuck shit up. Ah-ha-ha! And you did, dude, seriously. From the minute it starts. I mean, seriously. . It’s disgusting So you’re up in the loft probably at this point, and you’re kicking around ideas, and you’re putting things together, and this sound comes into your head, and you’re like, this is what I’m looking for? Nah. This is me going to the studio with Thomas and Guy-Manuel, who’s Daft Punk. They had a synthesizer the size of that wall right there. This is just one session right here. This beat was originally like 14 minutes long, and that part in the beginning was something we completely just distorted, and I ended up making that the intro You know, I got a beef with you over this track. It’s too short! I wanted more out of it. Cause it’s one of the best beats on the record for me, and it feels like you’re just getting warmed up. Was that kind of deliberate, you know, to pull back after only a couple of verses and go, you know what, we’re going to get on with the album now? Nah, it’s just what I felt, like it should be And you know, originally “Blood on the Leaves” was supposed to be first Wow Which, psychologically, I know would have changed certain Yeezus naysayers about the album. It wasn’t that time for me. I – I – I didn’t want to come up there and perform. A lot of times, music can be presented as a service position. But I wanted to take a more aggressive approach with music You know, people go on a vacation and say, you got the drugs, you got the music, you got the wine? It’s in that territory. But I wanted to speak up and say, okay, so my voice is only compressed to express myself artistically through music. It’s the only place where I actually have a deal, so I can only consistently make things in music. So I’m gonna take music and I’m gonna try to make it three-dimensional, like – like – like on Star Wars and the hologram’ll pop up out of R2D2. I’m gonna try to make something that jumps up and affects you, in a good or bad way. Whether it’s, I’m going into a scream in the middle of the track because that’s just the way I feel. But I’m not here to make easy listening, you know, easy programmable music No. You’re so off the reservation on this album in the best possible way. Like you talked about, the way you use your voice in different ways, you don’t rely on conventional rhyming flows. Your opening line, “Yeezus season approaching,” you know? “A monster’s awoken.” You’re laying it out there, this isn’t My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Part 2. I’m wilding out on this record, straight away . And then from nowhere as well, we just get treated to these wonderful moments where, like you say, it’s almost like a collage. Like you’re sitting here going, you know, why can’t I go into this? Why not? You can And you did That’s how life is. It’s like a car crash. You could just be driving, and just out of nowhere it happens At what point did that very deliberate feel to the record, whereby breaks come in and join this really discordant electronic moments and everything seems to exist in this very – very contradictory but it works kind of way, at what point did that start to take shape? Because it is very omnipresent through the record as a whole, the way it flips between one and the other. Was that in your head early on, or did that come towards the end when you started to reduce the record? Well, I didn’t reduce it. Rick Rubin reduced it. He’s not a producer, he’s a reducer. Nice – but was it always part of the process for you, to say, why don’t I take elements of this and this and just bolt it together? Yeah. It’s just the way I was consuming information in my life at the time. Negative information to positive information, from the Internet, just going to the Louvre, going to furniture exhibits and understanding that, trying to open up and do interviews with this, learning more about architecture. Taking one thousand meetings, attempting to get backing to do clothing and different things like that. Like, getting no headway whatsoever. It was just that level of frustration. This is what frustration fucking sounds like This is what frustration sounds like. Like, for me, as Kanye West, I would not be Kanye West if it wasn’t for Michael Jackson. I was with Quincy Jones a couple days ago at John Legend’s wedding. Quincy was telling me, it wasn’t just Mike, but these guys broke down the barriers. Of course you know Michael Jackson, he had to fight to get his video played because he was black. This is Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson’s not even black, he’s Michael Jackson — you know what I mean? It’s like he’s – he’s so crazy, how can he even be classified as this black artist? So for me, in my life and creativity it’s been challenging yeah, it’s been challenging and everything. But I was able to ascend to massive heights because of the foundation that my mother and my father and my grandfather laid through civil rights, what Michael Jackson did with music videos and the ground he broke. There would be no Kanye West if it wasn’t for Michael Jackson – that allowed him to be that, right? Ya Now let’s take people who have issues with me as Kanye West. They classify my motivational speeches as rants – like “Why is he saying that? Why is he doing that?” Well I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. And I’ve got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I have reached the glass ceiling – as a creative person, as a celebrity When I say that it means I want to do product. I am a product person. Not just clothing but water bottle design, architecture, everything that you could think about. And I’ve been at it for 10 years, and I look around and I say, “Hey wait a second – there’s no one around here in this space that looks like me.” And if they are, they’re quiet as fuck! So that means – wait a second – now we’re seriously in a Civil Rights movement. Like people used to joke about – remember our South Park photo – Yeah, I do Remember how funny that was? Do you think there would be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn’t for that South Park photo. But no one thinks about that – no one thinks about the names I got called for wearing tight jeans You reference that in the record, you talk about that. “No one’s liked him since he’s been wearing tight jeans.” Everybody knows you brought back real rap. I mean you reference that in the record I’m saying y’all had all that, but I brought real rap back. I’m going to do dope things. And I wanna take this opportunity to speak to something, because I go to Hypebeast sometimes to look it up, the new things that’re coming out. And every time my name goes up, there’s a series of people who write just negative comments – they wanna joke around and say, “Why is he still trying? Why is he doing this?” Why is he – they like diss me as a person for trying. Now mind you, I’ve brought 10 years of product that has added to humanity Ya You know, and now, what they don’t realize when I say “Hey this is Pusha T, this is what it is” I have to remind Pusha T that he’s Pusha T. Because the radio, if they’re not playing a song of his that has an R&B hook on it or works at a certain level of trap tempo and plays in , it’s like we forget about that Clipse album that meant everything And the reason why I relate it to design and what we do in design is saying that’s the music that us as creatives that wanted to get into design – we looked at Clipse as the gods, and this is our soundtrack to creativity. And it’s not a trap beat that comes in on that soundtrack to creativity. You know what I’m saying. No knock to trap, cause I did “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” – I like it. But it’s been commercialized to the point where – and I’m not mentioning no names – but what – but people used to use the term “R&B nigga” but then it was “rappers.” But then rappers didn’t wanna be no R&B nigga. Now the rappers is the new R&B niggas! The rapper’s the new radio! Like where’s the culture at? Where is the culture at? So then I scream – and I’m sitting in the middle of it – whether I’m at a dinner with Anna Wintour, or you know, I’m at a listening session with Pusha, or me and Virgil are in Rome giving designs to Fendi over and over and gettin’ our designs knocked down. Brought – brought the leather jogging pants 6 years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many motherfuckers you done seen with a leather jogging pant? Meaning when I see Hedi Slimane and it’s all like, “OK this is my take on the world” – yeah he got some nice $5,000 jeans in there, it’s some nice ones here and there, some good shit here and there But we culture. Rap the new rock n’ roll! We culture! Rap is the new rock n’ roll! We the rock stars! It’s been like that now for a minute It’s been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane! It’s been like that for a minute. We the real rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of ’em. I’m the number one rock star on the planet We are the real rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of them. I’m the number one rock star on the planet There it is. That record, it says that. That’s what your album says when you come out, and there were songs on there, you make that very clear So what I want to explain to everybody out there, it’s like, I make music I can do it, but I shouldn’t be limited to only one place of creativity. And it’s literally only like one or two or three reasons why I haven’t been able to break that down But why would you feel that you are, because and I’m just… This is the thing you guys don’t understand. You guys don’t understand. You guys don’t understand that I did the Yeezus and they eBay-ed it for $90,000 Right And people wanted them bad as whatever, right? But I didn’t get a call from Nike the next day. You guys don’t understand that I’ve met with companies and they say, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you and control that”. If you’re a architect, if you’re a world builder, if you have all these ideas and you’re Gaudi, and you want to build buildings, if you don’t ever get that out, what’s going to happen? Isn’t that why you do it? Isn’t it the process? Isn’t it the point to do it? I don’t think you’re really hearing what I’m saying But I’m trying to As a creative… Yeah For you to have done something to the level of the Yeezus and not be able to create more and you cannot – you cannot create that on your own, with no support, with no backing. So when I say “clean water was only served to the fairer skinned” what I’m saying is we’re making products with chitlins. T-SHIRTS! That’s the most we can make! T-shirts. We could have our best perspective on t-shirts. But if it’s anything else, your Truman Show boat is hitting the wall And what’s more important to me about this than everything that I can do sonically and everything is, if I go somewhere and someone says, “Hey, we don’t like Kanye West” you’ve heard that before, right? What people don’t realize is I want to make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy. I want to make that one step, and then make another step, and then eventually do uniforms for the entire city Then I want those uniforms to be hot and make money and make – that I eventually want to be the anchor and the force behind a billion dollar company and after I make that billion dollar step, then I can go in and say, “Hey I’ve got an opinion on this and that could be a ten billion dollar step, and I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion dollar company But when you sit and you have a meeting with a company and show them the most innovative take on theatre because you thought of it one night while you’re sitting on top of Watch The Throne set which you designed with Es Devlin, and I designed the set with Es Devlin and I thought of, okay, surround vision, there should be a screen above you, below you, to the left, to the right of you and front of you also. Then I paid my own money that I get paid for doing Gold Digger, which I never really liked that song but I always knew I would get paid for doing Gold Digger Then I shoot a film in Qatar with three camera crews, with Nate Brown, Virgil, Matt Williams, Nabil, all of these crew – all of the people that every video that pops up every other day on Hypebeast that’s my crew, right? So, we go out and shoot that, three camera crews over five days, edited over 30 days, show it at amfAR – no, show it in Cannes, the night before amfAR on the beach, build it in a pyramid with Rem Koolhaas’ agency, design the entire thing, put editors in it, blah blah blah, people give a standing ovation, I do an interview in New York Times the next year to say, “Hey, I did this and I want to let you know I did it”, right? Yeah And then, it doesn’t get mentioned in the interview and a week later they do an interview with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and they’re talking about what the next frontier of theatre will be and how it’ll be higher priced tickets and it will be something that’s surrounding you and blah blah blah, but maybe it’s in the goggles, I said, “Wait a second, I just only did the interview to tell people that I invented it. I made it.” Like I went, I remember when I was, dropping William Morris, right, and then Sarah Newkirk at that time said “Before you drop them, go meet with Ari Emanuel” and I sat with him and I said, “Ari, I’m an inventor” and he goes on to tell me about the way it works and what he said is “You are a celebrity. So basically what’s going to happen is, there’s product here, and this is where you end up, right here. If you can communicate this product, you can make money off the product, because look at Gaga. She’s the Creative Director of Polaroid.” I like some of the Gaga songs. What the fuck does she know about cameras? So it becomes all of this thing where all of the musicians, the musicians try to get more money by promoting other products, right? So you’ll say “Hey, you know what? I’ve got this water and we’ve got, you know, we’ve got this red version. We got a red bottle, and we’ve got a David Beckham version here, then we got a blue version.” So my opinion is no more than the patina on top of it, when I understand the reason from my core of why something should work all the way through So, I understand we want to make it about music but I wanted to take this step to say, we got this new thing called “Classism”. It’s racism’s cousin. This is what we do to hold people back. This is what we do. And we got this other thing that’s also been working for a long time where you don’t have to be racist anymore it’s called “Self-Hate”. It works on itself. It’s like real estate of racism. Where, just like that, when someone comes up and says something like “I am a god”, everybody says “Who does he think he is?” I just told you who I thought I was, a god! I just told you! That’s who I think I am! Would have been better if I had a song that said, “I am a nigga”? or if I had song that said “I am a gangsta”? or if I had song that said “I am a pimp”? All those colors and patinas fit better on a person like me, right? But to say you are a god? Especially, when you got shipped over to the country that you’re in, and your last name is a slave owner’s. How could you say that? How could you have that mentality? I mean, I know in the past you’ve talked about, like, you know, building hotels, doing things that are beyond people’s normal frame of reference Yeah They know you as Kanye West, an artist. They know that you’re moving into fashion, but these things I guess in a way are hard for people to comprehend because they don’t have that level of drive. Do you know what that mean? Has it always been like this for you? Have you always felt like you can set your mind to anything and you will achieve it, ultimately? I always felt like I could do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by, thoughts, their perception of themselves. They’re slowed down by their perception of themselves. If you’re taught you can’t do anything you won’t do anything. I was taught I could do everything, and I’m Kanye West, aged 36. So just watch the next ten years Yeah, yeah, yeah One thing I want to express to people also, people think a lot of my motivation is very like megalomaniac, and self-oriented. To the contrary completely I just want to help, from day one, I just wanted to help Like my father was a black panther, my father was a journalist, a paparazzi, a photo journalist. He was a paparazzi. We had a dark room in our house. Like seven years ago, he lived in a homeless shelter, not because he was homeless because he wanted to help the ex-drug addicts. He wanted to get that close. He started a foundation called Good Water and moved to the Dominican Republic to help right there, to help with the prostitution, to help with the extortion, to help right there, he stays in Dominican Republic right now. My mom was the first black female chair of the English Department. There is no award show, there is no amount of Billboards, there is nothing that – that can define me or make me pass what my parents made me. And that’s exactly who I am. And I put on that pink polo and say broke, broke and broke through the TV and now you got to interview with me. Because their President who is coming out the gate, he was like it ain’t going to work, but me I’m here. You know what I mean by I’m here like meaning like I got no play on Yeezus on a radio. Right, no No, not entirely true by the way A little bit but no number one records, no Kanye West, blah blah right. So then I was going back at forth, with the company I’m in touring right now. And I said I want to perform in the round and then creatively we just couldn’t find it, so I said put me against the corner like how we did in Watch the Throne, well just do that instead. They said, well you know we just can’t technically do it, because why, technically why. Why can’t you do it? They said, look if you do that you are going to be in breach of contract, right. So basically meaning like if I didn’t sell the tickets, I would go into debt Right So they pushed me – my back against the ropes, right and I said I’ll take that chance. I’ll take that chance right. So pre-order 9,000 the first day in Chicago doubling Watch the Throne, four pre-orders in one day. That made the people stood up said, we like what Kanye is saying. We like New Slaves But we do that all the time Yeah, but not through radio Well, yet but I’m a radio broadcaster and I love your records. I mean for me… No I’m not pin-pointing just you, I’m talking about the overall radio, there is no, “Get Lucky” on the album, and perhaps you know it’s just because that just wasn’t the song, and maybe it could be that, but it sounds like there’s hits on that album to me. But it sounds like this hits that is distracted by the statements “fuck you and your corporation, ya’ll niggas can’t control me” on the first single Yeah I mean this to me sounds like a radio hit where I’m coming from, but you said yourself back in the start, you made a record that was built out of frustration and then you were trying to create cracks in the pavement. I like that description more than you made an album for the radio hits. As a Kanye West fan, I don’t turn to your … I never described it as an album for the radio hits No, no, no, what I’m saying like I preferred than you to describe it as cracks in the pavement than to have made a record just full the radio hits. You know what I mean, I want to hear where you are at Pause that, pause that. That song is a hit song, minus the line, “fuck you and your corporation, ya’ll niggas can’t control me” on your first single I think it’s a great record But you ain’t hearing what I am saying Go ahead That song is a hit record minus, “fuck you and your corporation, ya’ll niggas can’t control me, said on your first single. Because if you can’t control me then you can’t control him, then you can’t control him, then you can’t control him, and then the information age starts, where it occurs while I was talking about starts where Steve Jobs has left as starts. Steve Jobs made the internet usable. This is the information age, we barely scratched the surface Yeah There is things that are moving. The entire music industry was hit by a fucking glacier by the internet and Sean Parker, just like that glacier up in there, and Steve was like no, no, wait a second, come on, give him a little time. There won’t be any music, if you just give it away like that. You know what I’m saying, but shit it’s changing. People are going to look at this interview and say, “Hey, I understand what he’s talking about.” “People are going to look at this interview and say, ‘I don’t like Kanye. Look, he looks mad. I don’t like his teeth.’ They’re going to say, ‘Why doesn’t he just focus on music? I liked him as music.’ They’re going to say, ‘Hey, I want the old Kanye, blah blah blah.’ But one thing they will do, they will play this interview in five years. They will play this interview in ten years and say, he called that, he called that, he called that, he said that was going to happen, that was going to change You’re a futurist Yeah. I’m a postmodernist, as best as a career. I’m a futurist, mentally Talking about the Internet where you feature into that. Obviously, it’s just a small part of the future and being a futurist. It’s not only just isn’t aspect of it. It’s changed the way everything moves, but it certainly with regards for music It’s the biggest part. It’s our earth. Like you remember like, that you see future movies and everything was in the sky, like it moved to the sky That’s where it is That’s the Internet Right That’s what it is. That’s our sky Yeah That’s our future sky. We kind of thought we knew it was in its flying cars. We didn’t get flying cars, but we can send movies like in two seconds Yeah, it’s a very good point. It’s a very point Yeah So you talk about it being in its early stages and it being really not even yet at a point where it’s developed to its true potential. I mean, what are the key things that you’ve learned in your journey. I’m fascinated to go down this road for a minute if you want Yeah We could talk about this because I’d love to Yeah But while we hear… This record is just the codes of that. Go listen to all my music. It’s the codes of self esteem. It’s the codes of who you are? If you’re a Kanye West fan, you are not a fan of me. You’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the expresso. I’m just the shot in the morning to get you going, to make you believe that you could overcome that situation that you are dealing with all the time Can I ask you a question about that? Yeah, yeah I want to talk to you about that aspect of your personality because you said that you’re not here to be – talk about you – you’re here to help, and I believe you, when you say that man. You know, I think, you know, you’ve given us great records. You’d like to think about where things are going to appear in the future. You keep your eye on things. You want to make like you said, you want to make basketball tops for you. If you’re in high school, you want to do things right Yeah, yeah Do you allow yourself the time to be good to yourself? Do you allow yourself anytime for yourself at all? Do you know what I mean, I know you’ve got a good self esteem and who you are, but you seem to be doing a lot for the bigger picture, for everything that’s moving around you Yeah Do you give yourself time? Yeah, it’s like family time. Yeah, it’s what Kim gave me Yeah She gave me everything. She gave me a family. She gave me a support system. She was in a powerful enough situation, where she could love me without asking me for money, which is really hard for me to find Yeah. What are the some other things you know, that you’ve learned about yourself since you became a family man? You know, I can’t pinpoint that I don’t have the answer right on me. I got to think about a little bit and give you a really good answer Okay, cool I’ve got a lock and loaded amount of information that I like to express on a very wide scale that I’ll give you. But if you ask me a question like that I’ll go back and think of it maybe I’ll have an answer for you in a couple of days Okay. No problem, no problem Yeah. When you get other outlets, you can relax and give other outlets more breathing room, meaning like, okay. When I did the Coachella performance, I had 30 dancers on stage, modern performance artists and I had this lift, and I had the Roman wall and I had like the Celine shirt and above all this types. So when Jay told me to watch it, I always say I didn’t want to use dancers of course. And I said, that’s fine, because I was doing a fashion show in Paris. So I still had 30 girls on the stage, but you know, I still had these elements of the emotion You must have been recognized that wasn’t to through anything either I mean, that was I mean this only what throwing was about that type of performance necessarily Um, what I’m saying is it’s about what I want to make it about. This is my world But you’re with Jay on this start. It is a collaborative project. It’s not just your vision on throwing Yeah. So then I would have to separate my world, but still get to my world out to the fact that I had a fashion show. You see I’m saying, so it’s like right now, people could say oh, he is frustrated, He is that. He is that. No, all I need is the breakthrough. The joint venture for of my clothing, same as Stella McCartney has, same as – I can name so many people. They have joint ventures of backing to be able to express themselves that way. Okay, bam! I need that – that outlet, and then, you’ll get things closer to watch the throne. You get things closer to bound because obviously people – more people are adept to like ‘Blood on the Leaves’ and ‘Bound’ and ‘Watch The Throne’, it’s just more of an overall like happier vibe, right. But Jay is more realized than me meaning more of his dreams and hopes and aspirations from above has come true and hopefully, God willing, by the time I’m his age, that thing will happen for me also, and I’ll be in that place of a more zenned-out place Even it’s like I couldn’t have done this album without Rick Rubin. I had to have a Zen master come in and say, okay. This is just what we’re going to do. You don’t realize I am so frustrated, like I am so frustrated. Like I am so – I’ve got so much, I want to give. I’ve got ideas on color palettes. I’ve got ideas on silhouettes and I’ve got a million people telling me, why I can’t do it, you know that I’m not a real designer. I’m not this. I’m not a real rapper either. I’m not a real musician either, like I don’t know how to play the piano. Like I’m a artist, I went to Art College. I went to Art College and was looked down like I’m soft because I like wore like Italian clothes You know I’m saying, when I’m rapping in front of camera and my pant is tight, trying to spit a verse for . You know, that’s the same when I’m sitting there, you know, like sitting there at a fashion show. Like I’m there, because I appreciate Phoebe Philo; I appreciate Raf Simons. I appreciate Riccardo Tisci, and I look at them as my peers, as creative people who dedicate their entire life to making something better for the world Let me explain what anybody that knows a artist and you know someone that’s giving that. If you know artist, there is only one thing you can say, give or ask them when you see them. There are two words “thank you”. There is no, why didn’t you do this? Yo, I want that, what’s up – that. No. We dedicate our entire life to making our current time in civilization better to adding something to the culture, and there is only two words that you can say, “thank you” Give us an insight to the fashion world though, what you’ve been going through there with that whole experience. The biggest challenge you’ve had clearly to get your vision across? Yeah Yeah Well, be helping me Is that partly and please don’t take this the wrong way I just mean this in for the process of conversation. Is that partly do you think because some of the people who are making fashion look at you and they go well, you say it yourself they dedicate their whole lives to one thing, you are exceptionally successful and gifted in this area. To move into the area, it’s understandable, there is a human aspect of suspicion involved there because they are like “well, hang on a minute, this is our life”. So what is it you are trying to achieve there? Do you think it plays a part of that what’s going on do you think? I’ve dedicated the past 10 years of my life to this. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think this song Niggas In Paris is called Niggas In Paris, because Niggas was in Paris, because I had a office and a small courtyard across the street from Colette, where I couldn’t even find a good pattern cutter. That’s why we were in Paris I put in the 10,000 hours. I’ve got a very particular, specific take on men’s footwear. No one can say I cannot design or understand how to design, a guy’s sneaker. When I was in fourth grade, I was drawing Jordans, when my mama couldn’t afford them. I was drawing those Jordans, getting kicked out of class for drawing them And when I get that opportunity to work with Nike, I went to that emotional space and place of my life and said, what was it about that? What were the queues that I can add when I make the Yeezy’s. You know, I don’t have to do interviews. And I wasn’t the one rapper that had the opportunity to do a shoe at Nike for no reason It means, it has to be another step. It means, it has to keep going. People didn’t love the Yeezy’s the way they did for no reason. Picture this, for me to do the Yeezy’s and not have a joint venture backing deal with Nike, the next day would have been like if I made ‘Jesus Walks’, I was never allowed to make a album. If Drake made his first mix tape and was never allowed to be signed, if 2 Chainz only have 1:16 and then, people say, why you mad? Do you know how many 60s 2 Chainz had in them? He did 100 features in one year, 100 Yeah 100… Okay, so let’s … …features Let’s get to the solution Kanye, let’s work out. How are you going to kick that door in as well? How are you going to get in to that world in you’re way, in your terms? I’m not trying to get into that world. I’m trying to make a higher level of product for the real world because people say life is unfair and unless you’re Kanye West, you know, this pretty girl that dates this soccer player, or your parents had money, you don’t get to wear Versace all the time. And you hear it, we love Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace. We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time. We love Versace. But unless you set a point or you rap so good, and knock down so many doors to produce so much shit, that you was able to actually get Dame Dash to give you a record deal because he was a producer, not because he liked your raps because he was a producer This because Dame knew it was up and he was downtown with the models and the artist and all that say yo, look at you, this kid got some talent. You are not affording Versace. The creators they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing is on as they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the fab, the cost of silk is too expensive and they won’t lower their quality level. So I can spend 2 million on a record and give it out at a democratic – in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it’s just impossible to hand-make that many Let me explain to you what a fashion office is like, right. Sometimes if you are working on a album once it gets down to the last moment, there is two or three people in the studio, a engineer, a manager, the artist, a label guy; saying the masters to do tomorrow. Okay, they do a day after tomorrow but let’s get them in. It narrows down to that At a fashion office, you’ve had people who have dedicated their entire life to this that are working 12 people 15, 20 people interns coming in, working till 4 a.m. that night slaving to be able to put that thing on the run way pending things right before they go out, all 20 collections everyday for fashion month. That is the level of dedication heart and soul that goes into that. But what happens is for real people, the democratic public – the people who have a normal amount of money that work everyday, that like nice things, we’ll just make these same cuts well by and provide this at a democratic cost. The only thing about it that’s different than Nike and Apple is there is never a time when someone can walk in with some non-Nikes and you feel less in yourself Right You still feel like the greatest version of you… Right …when you have those Nikes on, right? But you can have on a ZARA pant, right? Right And a girl walks in with the Celine version, and you feel like shit. That is the problem. That is the problem I mean, obviously not my problem because I live like a… Yeah I mean, I dress the same way I do it all the 12… But I’m talking about, I’m talkin’ about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I’m talking about us, you know? Because I’m a slave to it. I love it Oh, dude, I can tell like… I love it! Yeah I love it since age five, when my mama brought me to a discount fur spot. And she asked me what I like? Everything I liked was too expensive for us. That’s five years old. I went to my grandfather’s funeral like three weeks back, and my cousin that works with me, stood up and he told the story about you know, how his mother was a tailor, so he won best dress. I worn best dress in the high school too. A bunch of people in the lineage and my family worn best dress. But his mother was a tailor right? His mother was a tailor, a black, an African-American tailor My grandfather was a hustler. He used to take old vintage furniture and reupholster it. Then he had a store and he sold all of these different items that he thought would be good for people. Do you know how many times I sat with people and said, ‘Hey, I wanna make a store!’ And he said, ‘How could you make a store? Blah, blah, blah… It’s in my code. It’s in my code! Have you all ever seen Wreck-It Ralph?” Yeah Remember, remember how that girl in there, the people that was raising here were… Glitch Yeah, she was the glitch Yeah You telling me they don’t look at me like I’m the motherfucking glitch? You telling me people don’t look at Kanye West like the Glitch? Right now. And she was on the side of the video game, the whole time! It’s in my code. It’s in my code I mean, I watch what happens when you get on the mic or you get on stage, and you say what you want to say, and I don’t want to refer this back to you comment about the glitch, right. And I watch people, you know, I see what some people say in comments and whatever after these things get posted, and I go, all right, those are the people that think you’re the glitch Yeah, they broke Vanellope’s car! But, but, but… Vanellope Von Schweetz, they broke her car! Yeah Like But there is also a lot of people in the audience that love what you have to say, love hearing what you have to say. You know… Yeah …appreciate what you have to say Yeah Do you focus on them as well? Yeah, 100%. But I’m doing it for everyone. I’m doing it for the people who don’t appreciate it because they’ll appreciate it later, and of course, I’m doing it for the people who appreciate it. If no one appreciate it, I know, there is couple of people up there to appreciate it For sure. I appreciate it So and thank you very much. And then people will say your voice was so strong, why are you so focused on just clothing or why would you focus on just that award show or why will you focus on that? The same reason why I sat there and focused on that Otis beat You know people didn’t like HAM. And Miami Heat was losing and I’m in the Mercer and I literally write on the screen who is watching the Thrones, and show a picture of the brownie stuff. And I’d say I got to watch up Thrones and make Odes, right and say this I know ‘Niggas in Paris’ doesn’t work without Odes. You have to bring the flowers to the door first and we delivered Odes and then we did this So wait a second. That’s just a step towards this, because people could say, what do you mean, you want to help the world and you are so concerned about fashion. It’s illegal to be naked. It’s not illegal to not listen to music. That is a very high opinion to have. That is something that is extremely important. Shoes. You put on shoes everyday. You walking down the street with no shoes, somebody might think there’s something wrong with you Sure You’re walking down the street without a headphones, it’s like, ‘Oh what’s up? How you are doing today? No headphones today? Cool! No music today’. What you did, you know. No shoes? ‘Look, man. What’s going on? Yeah You’re having problems with the family?’ Is he okay? Wear your socks, at least Yeah. Sandals Sandals. Yeah Flip-flops, very rarely Flip-flops Very rarely Sandals with socks. Keep it gangster I mean. I’m from New Zealand flip-flops are far more standing Yeah, exactly. But not for black dudes, though. No flip-flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. I don’t care where you at. No flip-flop for black dudes. Wear some hot-ass Jordans on a beach Dude! We’ve covered some stuff What about you? Now can you do me a favor, like my brain is just like. I walked into his house, two more of the guys there sipping in, man I hope I’ll learn some stuff today, my god I have no idea, but would you indulge in me for five or 10 minutes and would you let me just geek out on a music label, because you know me Yeah I love hearing what you have to say, some of it I love, some of it upsets me, because as a fan I think you are too out on yourself but that’s you, that’s who you are, that’s not for me to say Yeah But… What points do you think I’m hard on myself? Well I think you expect a huge amount of yourself on every level, as well you should and I think that you expect a huge amount of everybody else to understand your motives at all times Oh no, I don’t expect to be understood at all Okay, but Like I don’t expect to be – I think that there’s people who are wired by their parents to understand what I’m saying Sure And there’s people who are wired by their parents to reject what I’m saying, but that doesn’t mean that after I make what I’m saying, that they won’t use it, because they will And I’m just saying “I want to make things, I want to be able to make things and I’m not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West, just by making T-Shirts, at a certain point it has to connect; “I would not be here if it was not for a Roc a Fella chain If it wasn’t for Jay Z’s blessing and his co-sign and his protection when I was in New York City, dolo I would not be here in the way that I am. Through the category of the drug dealer filled rap game, me as Kanye West, a young revolutionary coming out of Chicago, would have not made it as far without Jay Z being my big brother and watching my back at all times And this new place that I’m going to and what I want to do it has to be someone that says because I’m – the thing is I’m speaking to everybody, but I’m also speaking and sending queues to the right people to say, “come and help me, help everybody else, you will win with me” you will win Lets talk about the production side of things, because you’ve opened the door to collaboration in a big way on this record and even though you produced every song on this record you’ve been very, very open to the idea of working with all sorts of very talented individuals Yeah Have you enjoyed that aspect of it, I mean in the past you know it hasn’t necessarily been that much of a group mentality in making records It’s the only way I can do it at this point. I can’t do it by myself, I can’t, like I won’t, it is – I have no interest in sitting down in the studio by myself and making a track. When I made ‘Overnight Celebrity,’ which is great, like; I sat down there by myself and made it. And there’s people like, ‘Yeah, that’s the answer, make the music by yourself again ‘Ye, we want the old ‘Ye.’ But – No, I don’t feel like doing that Yeah I want to utilize the best resources that we have and have a conversation, as you see I would rather have a conversation Was ‘Throne’ a turning point for that, because I felt I would ‘Throne’, there was a freedom there that didn’t necessarily feel like you were carrying the whole thing on your own, and also you are free to be an MC, to be upfront and be a part of that process with Jay and it wasn’t like oh Kanye the producer rapper or the whole encompassing thing. Did that began around that time? Yeah around it – but Dark Fantasy though. When we sowed that fabric so tight you know like for eight, nine months Pete Rock, and No I.D., and Q-tip everyone coming down to Hawaii, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, we like textured – and Jeff Bhasker we created those textures collectively, you know like I would be eating breakfast with Ross in the morning, and just come up with a line and stuff and we all go play ball and Naz would come out there and play ball with me and Common and stuff, come up with another line, then go there and then Virgil will have a idea we say that and has a idea and like these are really great people that came together to make that and where I – and I learned that process a bit from working on , because its that communal process a lot of times You can’t do it all on your own Yeah You can’t handle everything on your own Hey how about us as a people, we can’t do it on our own That’s true We have to understand that we’re not each other’s enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position. We have to say “wow that is the best version, lets use it, lets bring it, lets bring it to light, lets move forward, lets push forward as a civilization” because we are so jacked up on our own egos and so misguided by mainstream marketing, we don’t know what the fuck is real, we would be out again to a fight, this quick for the dumbest reason, definitely something that’s like racially, there is a gender set, you know its like, you know which is like we are pitted against each other, we are mentally not in a place to be accepting, to not be jealous and that – part of that jealousy and that frustration that goes across an entire globe is due to some of these other high corporation level limitations, everybody is being served a nasty lunch food. Like you know you heard the word minimalism a lot on this project Yes of course Even this is like, you gave us what you need, may not be what you want, give us what we need to proceed Not what we necessarily want, because we can’t be trusted to a certain extent, you know Yeah, because we don’t have the education Yeah To know what to want Yeah, yeah We don’t know what to want, this is what I was telling that writer in NW I’m learning what I want, this is the reason why I’m working at five architects in a time, but that time that I’m spending in a bad apartment, I can’t get that back, and that education that I could get from working on it is priceless, and there is very few people that are in the position to educate themselves as much as I can educate myself. For me its constant information intake, I hang around architects mostly Yeah I want to talk about that side of things, because I know that that’s how you know that was – that’s been talked about in relation to this record as well and that blows my mind, I mean for me I try and connect the dots to my favorite records as much as I can Yeah But I need you to help me connect the dots and how architecture and how certain type of design that you surrounded yourself with Walston Paris has somehow manifested itself into this and how – they are not separate things Yeah, it all parallels, its like you know synesthesia seeing sounds, it all parallels. People will tell you this business inst like this business, it’s the same people every where you go, the same type of guy you might meet in Hollywood, you might meet that same type of character in fashion, you might meet that same type of character in music You got some straight up people to do it for the love and they want to promote it, its all about that, you got some people that’s trying to like make their way, its like – lets just say its 5%, 10%, or 85%ers,and its like there’s the 10%ers, the media. For the most part, the 85%ers don’t really know what it is. And the 5%ers that know what it is can’t get it past the 10%ers So this alone would be a beak, this is a jump past, this going to get taken off the internet quick. Send the paparazzi at him, send the paparazzi at him lets do that get him locked up blah, blah, blah. That’s what’s going to happen. And paparazzi is going to come by me, I’m just standing like, I know what you are trying to do right now sir, I know exactly what you are trying to do, somebody sent you at me, somebody is trying to set me up. Somebody is trying to shut me up You know people will look at what is being going on with you and the cameras, that’s been going on with other people for a long time as well and I need you to help people who don’t live your life and look at those magazines and there is millions and millions of people that do – and look at those pictures who don’t understand what it is that you go through in that situation, what is it from your perspective, you have got this platform, you have used this to talk about a bunch of things, so use it now to explain to them why is it – what is it, what is it like to go through that? Okay, for me first of all Dopeness is what I like the most, Dopeness – People who want to make things as dope as possible and by default make money from it The thing I like the least are people who only want to make money from things whether they’re dope or not and especially making money at making things as least dope as possible Photography used to be a sexy profession, It was like being a ball player, like a rapper or like a venture capitalist or something like that, right it was they used to get all the girls and everything, like a photographer – you go for a photographer studio like that, they completely changed what photography is supposed to mean, same is how there is like plenty of musicians that have sold the fuck out and change like the art and music where people don’t hold that to the highest level of genius anymore, meaning like, if there’s a high level artist like visual artist or a high level clothing artist, they’ll be held at a higher level of genius points than a musician, because the things in music that are selling the most are the least inspired for the most part and the least genius. So, it confuses things. So I take that to paparazzi it confuses it, Paparazzi is necessary, not even a necessary evil, It just needs to be legalized. Meaning at a certain point, there’s cutoff switches, you know what time it is, you know what is that. Like Paparazzi currently like is… Understand, give it rules, give it boundaries Yeah and obviously like publishing, like because publishing, like because they’re selling our image. And they’re selling it in a bad way, and if — But let me get this straight, what is offending you more, the fact they are selling your image or the fact they are selling your image in a bad way, in a bad way? In a bad way, a bad way and I’m not getting paid for it Right, there you go So it’s like the dopeness which makes the money, I want the dopeness and the money Yeah I’m changing things for my daughter. I’m going to tell my daughter, by the time she understands what it was, Man, me and your mother were in a completely different situation than you’re in. At that time, Paparazzi wasn’t legal, people could take pictures, people could climb over your fence, people could do that you wouldn’t even get paid for it. You see all these checks that you’re getting at age six, because people taking your picture? You don’t have to worry about thing, a thing ever again just because people want to take your picture, like and I made that happen, Lowe. That’s what I’m going to tell her So to be done, oh I want to talk to you about control, I want talk to you about the verse and control. About Kendrick verse and ‘Control’. Because obviously he credited you, he put you at the table where he rightfully should be with the M&Ms and the Jay Z’s, he put you on that side of the equation and then and then raddled off the list and I thought okay its great you deserved to be at the table, but 10 years ago if you hadn’t been at the table and you had been on his list, how do you think you would have reacted, would you have been appreciative of his message or would you have come out swinging do you think and written a response? Yeah I don’t diss records Yeah, yeah. You are looking forward to two with him; I mean that’s an incredible double bill Yeah its 100%, its 100%. I’m just looking forward to the opportunity to speak to this brother as much as possible. That – those conversations is going to be more than everything I even say it right here. Because that he is one of our future messengers and I’m going to give him them jewels Let’s talk about this track here, which was the first track that we were given off this album to play on the radio which we did. He said no singles, but we ran with this one early and we proven to be right. So just talk about this track here and who you worked with, you worked with Daft Punk on this in part, and how the song came together? Daft had the drums, and I then just took the reck and I just started, both this song, ‘I Am a God’ and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn’t let me into his first Saint Laurent show, but it wasn’t that – he wanted me to go, but he just told me I couldn’t go to any other shows other than that Right, right, right, right And I was like, wait a second. I can’t go? You’re not telling no editor they can’t go to any of these shows. I’m not your boy you can control me in some way. So I made – off of that, I went into the studio with the producers that made the music for his show and made ‘I Am a God’ and ‘Black Skinhead.’ That was your reaction to that situation again That was my reaction That was the aspect of frustration you talked about that’s important to this record Yes Yeah right on. I mean just talking about another track on here as well. New Slaves which is one of my favorite songs on the record and you know its just as far as beats go its just remarkable, before you even get stuck into the subject matter which is a whole other level. I mean you know you are talking about the materialism, about communist, about corporations and everything else, but at the same time you know there is a blurred line between whether or not you are part of it, whether you are objecting to it or where it stands. I mean just give us some insight into what this song is I’m 100% a part of it, I’m 100% in it, and 100% I want to over come it, sometimes I’m the communicator of it, some times I’m the maker of it, some times I’m the consumer of it, I’m in it, I’m in the game. But for me – yeah I say I am a New Slave, you could be a slave to a lot of things At this point obviously I’m a slave to my passion; I’m a slave to my mission. It’s funny; you drive in a Maybach past a homeless person and you ask Who’s more free? You could be trapped to your possessions. You got to do this next deal because you got to do this with your house and you got to get this car and you got to keep up, everybody stay next to you last name is Jones, and you trying to keep up with all of them. And that’s what it’s like to be a celebrity a lot times Especially every rap is about how much money you make how many spends you get, how many cars you got, what house you get, you know what house A Rock got. We like you know Rappers and musicians trying to compete with ball players with way bigger contracts. Meanwhile, the music is the Titanic that’s going down like this and everybody from the execs to the musicians are running around trying to see how they could still keep that certain house level, that certain car level that certain thing – up And of course for me I’m blessed and I’m blessed and I’m privileged because I made such a powerful impact that I can make a certain amount on tour. But also I’m blessed and cursed by my level of education, you know to be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory. I mean so at the moment of the MTV awards, I made that decision based off of my eyes: I was like, that’s not correct, that is invalid, completely invalid. And everybody else don’t move, that’s off they ears. Oh, he going to get in trouble. That’s off they memory. They don’t move. They’re slaved, they’re slave to what could possibly happen, we are constantly slaved, there is glass ceilings, there is glass fences, there is invisible walls, don’t think I have not been many a’ times singing like five heart beats in Paris, I have been up there singing, you want to diss one of my outfits, don’t want to say that, don’t want to like try to diss one of my girlfriends outfits blah, blah We are just singing, y’all sing aintcha? we can come out of that totally Yea we sing aintcha? Sing something here. And what do we sing? We sing Pyrex, we sing Beentrill, we sing Snapbacks, we sing Yeezus but we want to sing that Nike, we want that clean water, I tasted and I see what it is like, we want to sing Louis Vuitton, we want to sing on a Gucci level, we want to sing as high as we could when we have Pyramids, we don’t want to just have a little print on the back of our jacket that costs $2000, making us feel like a king again for a day We don’t want to just have jewelry that’s just trying to make us feel good, we want to be good. That’s creation, that’s that thing that people slave over. That’s that thing that people are slaves to. That’s that thing that I’m a slave to. That’s passion, That’s that thing where you can hold it. That’s that dreaming of a new pair of Jordans. That’s the process of opening up a Nike box. That thing that Steve gave us when you open up your new iPhone and you got the iPhone5 whether you stood in line for it or whatever it is you did or stuff, but you open it up, and you got this new product That’s that Transformers in a box that you open up for Christmas or that new TurboGrafx16 or Sega Genesis or Amiga computer or a 3DO or a Nintendo or it’s like when you just open that packaging. The process of the packaging, that’s that porno mag that drug addict bought for you when you was 14 that was in that package and you figured out how to pay that drug dealer before there was internet to buy you – and you open up that and you know you are going to make 5 of those your girlfriend all weekend. That’s why I’m on that runway, until I’m at the end of it Good luck Thanks All right, thank you crew Thank you Oh my god, that was the most intense fucking interview in my life Not since Pac right?

"People looked at me differently and they knew I was with somebody. I didnt have to wait in the line at bakery on Sunday mornings anymore for fresh bread. The owner knew who I was with and hed come from around the counter. No matter how many people were waiting, I was taken care of first. Our neighbors didnt park in our driveway anymore, even though we didnt have a car. I mean at 13, I was making more money than most of the grownups in the neighborhood. I mean I had more money than I could spend. I had it all!" Im up in the woods Im down on my mind Im building a still To slow down time Im lost in the world Im down on my line Im new in the city And Im down for the night Down for the night Said shes down for the night Im lost in the world Im down on my line Im new in the city And Im down for the night Down for the night Said shes down for the night Look at my situation, I couldn’t ask for more I’m the real Situation, I should be on Jersey Shore Look what that kilo sent me, that Porsche is key less entry That girl is high and drunk, I swear the rest is elementary We found a superfreak, no, she won’t know what hit her I’m on my Rick James, minus the beads and glitter You’ve got to beg my pardon, this shit here is money talking You don’t get good dick too often, I’mma have you funny walking See that shit I pull up parking, make your neck snap the fuck off and Damn, too late you lost it, back to that world you lost in Back to that world you lost in Run from the lights Run from the night Run for your life Im new in the city, but Im down for the night Im down for the night, down for the night Im lost in the world, been down my whole life Im new in the city, but Im down for the night Down for the night, down for the night Who will survive in America? Who will survive in America? Who will survive in America? Who will survive in America? Im lost in the world, been down my whole life Im new in the city, but Im down for the night Down for the night, down for the night Im lost in the world, been down my whole life Im new in the city, but Im down for the night Down for the night

Yeah, Kanye, Bump J, and Im Rick James, bitch Coming at you live You wanna lock me down, cuff me up Since we hooked up, baby Im on the run And I cant stop now Im driving at top speed now, top is down You hear the cops shout cause baby Im on the run And I cant stop now, oh no Id be a fool to stop now, Im on a roll If I aint on these blocks hustlin Im on and off the road Id rather be in the seat of the 645 with two shotguns Or in a suite taking off your clothes And yes, the connection and sex is crazy But you just want to be like Jodeci, forever my lady I dont think we on the same page see I just wanna kick it, hit it, and you tryna have my baby Lock me down while Im young, but Im livin my life Shawty I cant stop now, Im on the run This is not the end, we can still be friends Just as long as you understand that you cant Lock me down, cuff me up Since we hooked up, baby Im on the run And I cant stop now Im driving at top speed now, top is down You hear the cops shout cause baby Im on the run And I cant stop now, oh no Dont think that we a couple cause Im with you tonight I gotta hit the streets, I gotta move this white And when it comes to spoilin you, Ima do you right You tryna put the cuffs on me like the blue and whites Do what I can for ya, shoes on that brand new Lamb for ya Carats on ya neck and hands for ya, ya man love ya He got plans for ya, you know now Ya moving too fast, slow down We can do it up, private jet around the land Go tan on the yacht, dock by the sand Ill put it all in your hands Just as long as you understand that you cant Lock me down, cuff me up Since we hooked up, baby Im on the run And I cant stop now Im driving at top speed now, top is down You hear the cops shout cause baby Im on the run And I cant stop now, oh no I got this girl in LA, shes so Hollywood Got a whole bunch of paper cause her father good Take me shoppin round town, and she want Bump J to settle down And for the , I probably should Im just jokin, I told her when Im in town Ill call her I dont see her much, she done found herself a baller Good for ya, I was no good for ya You deserve somebody like that, Im way too hood for ya And every other girl that Bump mightve ran They got a mixed signal, thinkin Ima be they man It aint over, I probably am Just as long as you understand that you cant Lock me down, cuff me up Since we hooked up, baby Im on the run And I cant stop now Im driving at top speed now, top is down You hear the cops shout cause baby Im on the run And I cant stop now, oh no Lock me up Tie me down Let it go Lock me up Tie me down Let it go Lock me up Tie me down Let it go Why you wanna be Lock me up Tie me down Let it go Why you wanna be

dragon 🐉 energy Natural born leaders Very instinctive Great foresight ... to be great is to be misunderstood never a master. Always a student. spread love ... 2024 ... Free thinkers dont fear retaliation for your thoughts. The traditional thinkers are only using thoughts and words but they are in a mental prison. You are free. Youve already won. Feel energized. Move in love not fear. Be afraid of nothing. You dont have to agree with trump but the mob cant make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I dont agree with everything anyone does. Thats what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought. If your friend jumps off the bridge you dont have to do the same. Ye being Ye is a fight for you to be you. For people In my life the idea of Trump is pretty much a 50 50 split but I dont tell a Hillary supporter not to support Hillary I love Hillary too. I love when people have their own ideas. You dont have to be allowed anymore. Just be. Love who you want to love. Thats free thought. Im not even political. Im not a democrat or a republican And also Im all the way out the sunken place. And Im not scared anymore. Im not scared of the media. Im not scared of the past and Im optimistic about the future. This tweet is in love not fear. with love I am invincible. Truth is subjective but love is the most powerful force in the world and the world needs to express more of it. I said express love more because we have love but we dont express it. My friend Tmills will always say "I love you" and it used to make me feel weird to hear that. Now I tell everyone I love them. He sparked me to start expressing love more. When my daughter acts out she actually says afterwards I just want to hear you say I love you more. no race religion region or political party can argue with the power of love fear takes strategy Unlearn linear thinking Hit you with these zig zag thoughts decentralize burn that excel spread sheet 🔥😂 Yeezy VC invests in and develops food clothing shelter and communications my wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I dont agree with everything Trump does. I dont agree 100% with anyone but myself. ... I’m nice at ping pong we got love my MAGA hat is signed 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Im so happy to hear that Peter Thiel would like to take a meeting. I feel very optimistic about the future. ... whenever someone mentions the word "fan" to me its super manipulative. Its like "dont do or say this because of your fans" My fans are fans of themselves. And any fan of me wants Ye to be Ye even when they dont agree because I represent the fact that they can be themselves even when people dont agree with them. Drops mic 🎤Yeezy shrug 🤷‍♂️ lets move in love not fear Love is the most powerful force in the universe Claudio Silverstein is a free thinker Claudio will be awesome when me and Chance build new homes in Chicago Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed. cant wait to meet caption this photo 2 of my favorite people

I spit it I spit it so you could feel it You know what Im saying Im saying I put my personality into it These hoes is all the same They all want a nigga hollering out "money aint a thang" Bout pathetic as a player that lost his game How a motherfuckin hoe turn a pimp to a lame See these sheets is like the street you gotta stay strapped up Cause thats how these hoesll get you wrapped up Calling you later saying what she crying about Put that bitch on now what she lying about Talking about how she late and how she eat a lot See she eat a lot cause she smoke weed a lot Why all the bogus hoes want to front on k Why the fine hoes cant have one on the way I prolly tell her to keep it, itll be our little secret Boniquan now my shorty looking fine: Puerto Rican As long as she dont flip it tell her man that we creepin What we doin is all day When I hang up it aint called hate its called wait When you get popped dont call me call Clayton Thats your man aint it Thats the plan aint it When she told me it was mine I damn near fainted I told you that I want you Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I’m gonna leave my man today I just stabbed the first time bout a week ago Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I got your baby on the way Now these hoes run gun I aint finna say nothing She tried to pop my pockets before I even got paid Dont trip, this bitch was a whip You could learn something from her but you might get burned from her We smoked a couple of dimes I hit it a couple of times Now she say she pregnant and its mine Im thinking she was lying by the looks on her face But she started paging me like every single day She said her man going away the judge gave him three Mustve thought she was gon make a fool out of me To bail this nigga out all she need was a G Now she mustve came to me so I had to change the beat I said look hoe you must be crazy off that dope Thats when I snatched the rope then I kicked her on the floor And all that shit I bought you bitch I want it back You lied to me return of the Mac I told you that I want you Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I’m gonna leave my man today I just stabbed the first time bout a week ago Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I got your baby on the way All yall niggas is new with it I paid my dues with it Gave hoes abortion loot they bought shoes with it Say they pregnant whos is it Tell em you did it Forcing these niggas out of abortion cheese Paid a couple of hundred now or later more than Gs have a kid by a lame ass broad I knocked up this girl I barely liked cause she bugged me She aint even cute, our baby prolly by ugly And I aint happen to have that baby and your stomach doing having that How much it cost to get rid of it? I give you half of that But I didnt know that she was on the pill Needed the money for her hair and her nails And her cell phone bill Hoesll get you its like getting robbed without a pistol What up on a nigga Come up on a nigga Then you wait a month like you not the one cause she aint got no proof What happen nine months later when she was telling the truth I told you that I want you Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I’m gonna leave my man today I just stabbed the first time bout a week ago Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I got your baby on the way I just stabbed the first time bout a week ago I told you that I want you Let em put you on peep it though I aint even want to freak the hoe I’m gonna leave my man today I just stabbed the first time bout a week ago

Man Mel, G I gotta pour my heart out on this track you made It just made me feel like I had to say something Like what Im going through right now Im Kanye-to-the and the Roc is in the building right now Feel me on this Oh, oh Let me call some, call some girls that I know, know I dont mean the bougie ones from before, fore I need some girls thats really down to get low, low Now if my man Benzino got a Benz and they call him Benzino When I get my Bentley, they gon call me Bentlino A lot of shit changed since I hooked with Jay-Z, yo For the tracks, charge around 800 C-notes So glad I aint take the job at Home Depot Right now my car and home would be repod I broke up with my girl today around 3-0 My man said, "Lets call some girls that we know" Sometimes I wanna say, "Fuck my bitch" But I dont want nobody to fuck my bitch Even if a modelin chick sucked my dick It wouldnt make me not feel so sick Just because, they came over to cheer me up Smoked, drank, and yeah we fucked But nothin that they did couldve been enough Oh, oh Let me call some, call some girls that I know, know I dont mean the bougie ones from before, fore I need some girls thats really down to get low, low Oh, oh Ima need to take a hit of that dro Ima smoke l never smoked before And bring some girls thats really down to get low Now this weed, drank got me faded That Malibu is so underrated She mad at me, thats an understatement I can just see your girlfriends hatin Girl, told you dont leave his ass And when that nigga blow he gon leave your ass But when he get low, he gon need your ass If he cryin, callin, bawlin Yallve been together too long for all this name callin Yallll be back together in a day or two Yeah we be makin up but when we makin up All were makin up is the truth Damn, I know she love me, oh But Im in the Matrix and Im feelin Im Neo She could fight for my love like Aaliyah Or write a four page letter like Aaliyah But Im a Gemini thats bossy like a Leo And sometimes I dont know what side Im on I just know this Patrón got me gone And Ive done fucked up so bad that I cant go home Oh, oh Let me call some, call some girls that I know, know I dont mean the bougie ones from before, fore I need some girls thats really down to get low, low Oh, oh Ima need to take a hit of that dro Ima smoke like l never smoked before And bring some girls thats really down to get low

She under the influence Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin She under the influence She rich nigga drunk A broke nigga text her She roll her eyes like, "What this nigga want?" She under the influence Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin She under my influence, she rich nigga drunk All you got is chump change cause you been with a chump You should be on Punk cause you been with a punk I been ballin all year, yeah, he been in a slump Lets spend a weekend in the TRUMP, we can get rich nigga drunk Drink up everything in the minibar, to make you call to fill it up Yeah, thats that rich nigga drunk, she say she sick of gettin up 8am, tryna wake up kids, barely got time to fix her lunch Well come get rich nigga drunk, kiss my dick, kiss it once Okay, just one more kiss, this time with a little tongue Woo, she rich nigga drunk, gon let a rich nigga fuck Said she never been a quitter, but she finna give it up, agh She under the influence Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin She under the influence, she rich nigga drunk A broke nigga text her, she roll her eyes like, "What this nigga want?" She under the influence Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin Keep doin what you been doin Cause I look too good to be workin this hard I look too good to be workin this job She back up on me, she back it up on me She, she back it up on me, she back it up on me, uh Back it up on me, she back up on me She back up on me, she back up on me She back up on me, she back up on me Yeah, she back up on me, she back up on me She got , and wanna see Want all her girls to see, she back up on me She back up on me, she back up on me She back up on me, she back up on me She want girls to see, wantin her girls to see Wanna get down for me

Just another one champion sound Yeah, Estelle, we bout to get down Who the hottest in the world right now? Just touched down in London town Bet they give me a pound Tell them put the money in my hand right now Tell the promoter we need more seats We just sold out all the floor seats Take me on a trip, Id like to Take me to New York, Id love to I really want to come kick it with you He said "Hey Sister, its really, really nice to meet you" I just met this 5 foot 7 guy whos just my type Like the way hes speaking, his confidence is peaking Dont like his baggy jeans but Imma like whats underneath them And no I aint been to MIA I heard that Cali never rains and New Yorks heart awaits First lets see the West End Ill show you to my brethren Im liking this American boy Take me on a trip, Id like to Take me to New York, Id love to I really want to come kick it with you La la la la-ladida La la la la-ladida La la la la- American boy, American boy? Can we get away this weekend? Lets go shopping, maybe then well go to a café Ive never been to Brooklyn and Id like to see whats good Dress in all your fancy clothes Sneakers looking fresh to death Im loving those Shell Toes Walking that walk, talk that slick talk Im liking this American boy Take me on a trip, Id like to Take me to New York, Id love to I really want to come kick it with you Tell em wagwan blud Would you be my love, my love? Would you be my love, my love? Could you be my love, my love? Would you be my American boy? Take me on a trip, Id like to go some day Take me to Chicago, San Francisco Bay I really want to come kick it with you Take me on a trip, Id like to go some day Take me to New York, Id love to see L.A. I really want to come kick it with you Youll be my American boy, American boy La la la la-ladida La la la la-ladida La la la la-ladida American boy, American boy?

Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A UCLA, Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Im going cr-Im going cr- Im going cr- Im going cray Im going- Im going cray, Im going UCLA Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Im going- Im going cray Baby mama going cray Going cray, Im going UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Fuck with the dude, she L.A Asian and fuck from that UCLA Maybe he work at CCA Maybe he working at that UA of A I got that something, that favorite Bape Something and something that send me for days They was just up in so many ways They aint gotta stand up, clock em no more Until they bumping, then he stuck down backpage We just selling pussy, he selling the bunk Selling the bunk and he bump with the picks Pop a new something and fuck on the bitch Got a little something and having the bitch Walk on the water but we- Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A I lost, sayin I lost that money I couldnt dance, some line, no Wear your love, so you see him Eyes on you, eyes so you see L.A. Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Welcome to UCLA Tell me how you see L.A Im going- Im going cray Baby mama going cray Going cray, Im going UCLA Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Go to bed, Ye Go to bed, Ye Get out of your head, Ye Get out of your head, Ye Did you hear what I said, Ye? I didnt say that Uh, what did you said, Ye? Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Take your meds, Ye Go to bed, Ye You need some Nyquil Go to bed, Ye What did you think, what did you see Uh, go at your set, Ye Yeah, I just said it No, I aint say it Ayy, what did you said, Ye? Im going UCLA

Woo, woo Somebody Gotta be the bad guy I had a bad day at work Dont wanna have a bad night, ayy Woo! Toppin on like Im Nina Woo! Toppin on, you gon need one Woo! If I say somethin indecent Woo! She gon suck me off like a Capri-Sun Haan? Fuck is you talkin bout, bitch, you offendin me Checkin em off when you niggas is into me Fore I go turn it out, I bet I can, ah Jumpin up off, you better get out Doin for something on that thing Though Im not in my feelings, man up Somebody Gotta be the bad guy I had a bad day at work Dont wanna have a bad night I aint new to this shit, fuck-nigga Im trappin from the other side So get outta your seat, stand up Stand up A fuck-nigga hate me while his old lady participate Please tell that lil nigga man up Stand up Stand up Hey, hey, stand up, stand up, stand up First of all, let me tell you somethin, boy I dont give no fuck bout no niggas I dont give no fuck, Im not givin two fucks Roll up and pop one of these niggas I do this shit for my woadies You do this shit for your shorty, you bitch Shut the fuck nigga, fresh out of the bottle The hood be callin, sell the plug Ima wipe a nigga nose, shatter like a picture Ima fuck his ho like these bitches up on this missile Ima get a whole lotta lead for these pistols And my money long like the nose on a prince But she gon fuck, she write, no pen But you know Im gon suspend her I aint new to this shit, fuck-nigga Im trappin from the other side So get outta your seat, stand up Stand up A fuck-nigga hate me while his old lady participate Please tell that lil nigga man up Stand up Stand up Hey, hey, stand up, stand up, stand up Somebody Gotta be the bad guy I had a bad day at work Dont wanna have a bad night, ayy I might have to jump from the three-point line, uh I can see you down up, ah, she straight lyin, uh She might dumb it down up, but I know she nine Throw it back up on it when I know she got it, uh, sheesh Cant be my baby with no maybes Cant roll it down up with my lady You know that all these niggas still crazy Been two months since I talked to Jay-Z

Welcome to Jay Zs poetry reading Halt, who goes there? Do this, do this {*does poetry snaps, audience follows*} It was the winter It was cold It was the cold winter Welcome ladies and gentleman once again As if we never left Its MTV Unplugged Ill be your host this evening I go by a couple of names People call me a lot of names, couple to my face you know Sometimes they call me Jay Z Sometimes they call me Jigga Sometimes they call me Young Hov Iceberg, tonight Im You gotta love that I got the most incredible Roots band with me tonight yall Its a beautiful thing Welcome everybody to the 8th Wonder of the world The flow of the century Always timeless Hov We gonna thank everybody for coming out You couldve been anywhere in the world, youre here with me I appreciate that Lets rock H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA Was herbin em in the home of the Terrapins, got it dirt cheap for them Plus if they was short with cheese I would work with them I Brought in weed, got rid of that dirt for them Wasnt born hustlers, I was birthing em H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For sheezy my neezy keep my arms so breezy Cant leave rap alone, the game needs me Haters want me clap that chrome, it aint easy Cops want to knock me, D.A. wants to box me in But somehow I beat them charges like Rocky H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Still not guilty, he who does not feel me Is not real to me, therefore he doesnt exist So poof! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Still not guilty yall got to feel me H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! I do this for my culture To let them know what ya boy look like when ya boy in that Roadster Show them how to move in a room full of vultures Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over Label owners hate me, Im raising the status quo up Im overcharging labels for what they did to the Cold Crush Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us We can talk, but money talks, so talk more bucks H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! Hov is back, life stories told through rap They acting like I sold you crack Like I told you sell drugs; no, Hov did that So hopefully you wont have to go through that I was raised in the projects, roaches and rats Smokers out back selling their mamas sofa Lookouts on the corner focused on the ave Ladies in the window, focused on the kinfolk Me under a lamppost, why I got my hand closed? Thats in my palm, watching the long arm of the law So you know I seen it all before Ive seen Hoop Dreams deflate like a true fiends weight To try and to fail: the two things I hate Succeed in this rap game: the two things thats great H O V A Yeah! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Thats the anthem, getcha damn hands up! H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Fo sheezy my neezy keep my arms so greasy

I hope you forget me not Forget me not I wont forget you ever, ever Man I promise After this remix Forget Red Lobster Cause I got reservations at Mr. Chows tonight And you can get any, and I mean anything that you want Cause Im about to bang em in the head with this paper Word So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, Quence lets go get em It wasnt until I got money, that I became a conscious rapper Cause now Im conscious of the fact of who they gon go after When they tryna find a back up for a team in the park So they run up on my car before I can even park But I guess theres no harm in hearin out his proposal But how you wanna stack and we arent even social? See this the kind of trash that if I choose to say no to They gon trash talk about me like a garbage disposal And say that I changed like a dress rehearsal And try to line me up with the intent to hurt you But that aint nuttin more than a test of virtue Cuz my promise to the hood is that Ill never desert you For years I was swingin at air But then a wing and a prayer Became the seats on the wing of a Lear Yeah they kickin theyself cause they should have stuck wit em Its Cons to the Quence and you wont wont forget em uh So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, Ye lets go get em When I finally get my first real money Fuck keepin it real, Im gonna act real funny Why? Cause these dudes try to Sanford and Son me I, sit there and act like a big dummy When, A&Rs saw what they could get from me I just do what B.I.G. said, go ahead get money Had to humble myself just to play these beats One of my side Geminis just reminded me About, the two ways how you bein your contact They laugh for two days when they heard that Kan rap Cocky ass rappers aint need no contracts Now they fell off and they need a contract Ha, its funny how I got what I got And I aint never seen it get quite beyond that Got a chip that wont quit, a grudge that wont budge These niggas give you pounds and go in for a hug Naw homie hold up Naw dude slow up Yall aint never show love You aint never know us No nigga, no sir Uh, I gotta bounce here comes my chauffeur So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em So if you made that money, boy They say dont you forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Since we made that money boy They say dont you forget em Since we made that money boy They say dont you forget em Since we made that money boy They say dont you forget em Since we made that money boy They say dont you forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em Dont forget em, dont dont forget em

Theres only one girl on my agenda Naw Im talking bout Linda, from last September Now Linda love lace like Linda Lovelace LaFace says she like Mase but she love Face And I know that Linda was a hip-hop-head And I know that Linda gave Hip-Hop head But I feel I could convert her Cuz I aint here to hurt her mayn And she was messin wit me when I was still at Burger King She aint hop in my bed cuz of the whips and cream Cuz when I had her in bed I had whip cream Shakespearian midsummer night dream I unzip things and pull out big things They was flashin gr-green, she was like "ch-ching" Got em, but she know a rreeal nigga when she, spot him So now shes pickin dresses from Vera Wang Scratchin out her maiden and heres my name Now Im sittin at the bar wit all my guys They sayin "Cheers to you for your future years of pain" Like "Dog you ready to give all this shit up? The summers on its way and these hoes doin sit-ups And when they see the way the G5 lights lit up Youre gonna wanna have two like John Ritter" But naww, I bought her a brand new BM He said "Dog, slow down like Brand Nubian now" I just feel the need to purge my soul from the work load Couldnt watch another nigga get burnt slow She said her man was busy, always bored her with work load Never takes her out and falls asleep in his work clothes She needs some excitement, which leads to this indictment Believe what you like kid, according to her When we recorded with her, Linda changed her name to Nicky Sang along to Darlin Nicky, co-star of my quickies That foot is so pretty, but Im sure you recognize That bra holds titties, those are her titties Solars so pretty, but not to rub it in But that white Russian did make her lonely like the wind So the over right thats in, on the over night depends If you take heed the game, and please keep ya name, word Cause shes just a playa playa Thats playin games wit me I cant see myself getting out the game, no time soon Ooooh, as I continue as I, Ooooh, as I continue as I Oooh, Oooh Cant see myself getting out the game, no time soon Ooooh, as I continue as I, Ooooh, as I continue as I Oooh, Oooh

Look at you Look at you Look at you Look at you And I always find, yeah, I always find something wrong You been putting up with my shit just way too long Im so gifted at finding what I dont like the most So I think its time for us to have a toast Lets have a toast for the douche bags Lets have a toast for the assholes Lets have a toast for the scumbags Every one of them that I know Lets have a toast for the jerk-offs Thatll never take work off Baby, I got a plan Run away as fast as you can She find pictures in my email I sent this bitch a picture of my dick I dont know what it is with females But Im not too good with that shit See, I could have me a good girl And still be addicted to them hood rats And I just blame everything on you At least you know thats what Im good at And I always find, yeah, I always find something wrong You been putting up with my shit just way too long Im so gifted at finding what I dont like the most So I think its time for us to have a toast Lets have a toast for the douche bags Lets have a toast for the assholes Lets have a toast for the scumbags Every one of them that I know Lets have a toast for the jerk-offs Thatll never take work off Baby, I got a plan Run away as fast as you can Run away from me, baby, run away Run away from me, baby, run away Doesnt have to get crazy, why cant she just run away Baby, I got a plan Run away as fast as you can Okay 24/7, 365 groupies stay on their grind I, I, I get it, alright I’ll help you get it But now that you’re here either leave or get with it I’m not a chauvinist, this is just reality You can’t afford guilt on a rock band salary Mickey full of vodka, you’re looking like Mallory Fuck counting money, you should stick to counting calories Let me tell you this thing here is wearin thin Unless you’ve got a couple friends that want sharing in Yesterday you were outside staring in And now you’re here and next week you’ll be here for them Every tour bus visit every laminate Comes with expectations from that band you’re with This is everyday business, so manage it Or runaway now if your ass can’t handle it Never was much of a romantic I could never take the intimacy And I know I did damage Plus the look in your eyes is killing me I guess you knew of an advantage Because you could blame me for everything And I dont know how Im a manage If one day you just up and leave And I always find, yeah, I always find something wrong You been putting up with my shit just way too long Im so gifted at finding what I dont like the most So I think its time for us to have a toast Lets have a toast for the douche bags Lets have a toast for the assholes Lets have a toast for the scumbags Every one of them that I know Lets have a toast for the jerk-offs Thatll never take work off Baby, I got a plan Run away as fast as you can

Do you feel that Im feeling? Do, do you feel that I’m being free And Im thinking free? Yes Do, do— I actually dont think you’re thinking anything Baby, were gonna try and see If were still here Ayo, Im drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes  They cant fuck with me, Allah Im drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes I rebirth the fuck out these niggas I’m drinkin’ Pérignon out of Pyrexes Puttin holes and stains on these niggas I’m drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes Ayo, bullets hangin over, word to Jesus, Mary, Joseph Moses sandals, Valentino camo with the eagles posin Posted by the samples, fiends trample "West, you got that Van Gogh with the stamp, yo?" Extra-extra hot from Nando’s, Dadas with the five-panel Prada bucket with the triangle Hung the nigga, his Supreme fives dangle, my eyes lay low Low-top Fear of Gods with the drawstrings, please If you could cook one or two when I shop, by all means Ayo, back-to-back Bentaygas , rockin flavors, jewelry on me major Name one greater, city full of neighbors, but they seem like strangers Shoot him now, we meet in Vegas , hundred shots to drop him painless Hundred pots we watch, so say less, Mama used to shop at Payless Tucked it up, thats just the dangers, bakin soda used for yay Come fuckin with me, nigga, say what? Adam Cole was fightin Bálor Dapper Dan, my Gucci tailored, Balmain ankle traced to sailors Fuck the cops, you niggas failures , funerals to sing to Hell Yeah, I dont even gotta tell you Ayo, Im drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes I love symmetry, so I broke his face in half Im drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes The WatchTV on all over the lab Most villainous, my city is the deadliest Im drinkin Pérignon out of Pyrexes New York City notorious like the Congo Machete to his neck like I work for El Chapo Torch your house down while you and your family asleep Put you out your sorrow, just call me Plum Pyro Well, the thing about being the very best is If, if you ever start in your own mind to say youre not the one If youre not the very best in your own mind Then youre gonna be a loser in the ring Theres nothing personal with the Road Warriors This doesnt mean theres dissension within the Legion of Doom? No, this is a business, man, Im in here for money

Yeah, uh, man Thanks for the love and support baby, thank you I hate you Hate who I love, blessed with the curse I was born to die, best of the worst Wings but cant fly, but first things first I will until Im stretched in a hearse Niggas dont get me, but I aint complicated Thing about the truth is most niggas hate it Didnt ask God for what I wanted, I waited Until He felt like I earned it, then he gave it Anything worth havin is worth earnin The true nature of man is definitely worth learnin Cause why youre concerning yourself with the sermon Whether its worth savin, its usually worth burnin I knew from the start that this life wasnt mine Thats why from the start, I put my life on the line Gangstas runnin round cryin about dyin I got faith, Ima go when its my time! How many of us? How many of us, how many jealous? Real friends Its not many of us, we smile at each other But how many honest? Trust issues Switched up the number, I cant be bothered I cannot blame you for havin an angle I aint got no issues, Im just doin my thing Hope youre doin your thing too Im a deadbeat cousin, I hate family reunions Fuck the church up by drinkin at the communion Spillin free wine, now my tux is ruined In town for a day, what the fuck we doin? Who your real friends? We all came from the bottom Im always blamin you, but whats sad, you not the problem Damn I forgot to call her, shit I thought it was Thursday Why you wait a week to call my phone in the first place? When was the last time I remembered a birthday? When was the last time I wasnt in a hurry? Tell me you want your tickets when its gametime Even to call your daughter on her FaceTime Even when we was young I used to make time Now we be way too busy just to make time Even for my... Real friends I guess I get what I deserve, dont I? Word on the streets is they aint heard from him I guess I get what I deserve, dont I? Talked down on my name, throwed dirt on him I couldnt tell you how old your daughter was Couldnt tell you how old your son is I got my own Jr. on the way, dawg Plus I already got one kid Couldnt tell you much about the fam though I just showed up for the yams though Maybe 15 minutes, took some pictures with your sister Merry Christmas, then Im finished, then its back to business You wanna ask some questions bout some real shit? Like I aint got enough pressure to deal with Please dont pressure me with that bill shit Cause everybody got em that aint children Oh youve been nothin but a friend to me Niggas thinkin Im crazy, you defendin me Its funny I aint spoke to niggas in centuries To be honest, dawg, I aint feelin your energy Money turn your kin into an enemy Niggas aint real as they pretend to be Lookin for real friends How many of us? How many of us are real friends To real friends, til the reel end Til the wheels fall off, til the wheels dont spin To 3 A.M., callin How many real friends? Just to ask you a question Just to see how you was feelin How many? For the last you was frontin I hate when a nigga text you like, "Whats up, fam? Hope you good" You say, "Im good, Im great," the next text they ask you for somethin How many? Whats best for your family, immediate or extended Any argument, the mediall extend it I had a cousin that stole my laptop that I was fuckin bitches on Paid that nigga 250 thousand just to get it from him Real friends Huh? Real friends I guess I get what I deserve, dont I? Word on the streets is they aint heard from him I guess I get what I deserve, dont I? Talked down on my name, throwed dirt on him

Just to be where you are... I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no Wake up, new day, same shit Get dressed, gotta pay my rent Little off for the money I spent Next week til I get my check And I dont even wanna work at this job Matter fact Ive been workin too hard Lets say I quit today Come back, go postal tomorr This time Ima take shit too far I dont give a fuck who you are When you broke they do you so wrong When you blow they knew you was raw Two strikes so you cant sell coke Two kids so we cant stay broke But the street life all we know So you know one thing? I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no If it wasnt for the fact that I so happened to be rappin Id prolly be jackin, prolly be trappin Somewhere traffickin packages Takin this shit back to the bases But thats the past and Im tryin to erase this But how the hell am I sposed to live When the government want half on every mil? The cost of gas still climbin rapidly And I pay the city, the county, state And mothafuckas still out there tryna tax me I gotta sell more ringtones I gotta cut back and stop usin my juke phones Cause at the rate Im goin Im bound to lose my home off the interest rate alone I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no I cant say no How can I say no? How can I say no after all this time? If it wasnt for the ghetto, where would I be? If it wasnt for those food stamps and welfare checks mama used to give me Where would I be? If it wasnt for the hood, if it wasnt for the addicts If it wasnt for the fact that they was on drugs That they didnt know enough not to get on drugs Shit wasnt for the struggle Wasnt for bad luck Wouldnt be nothin

*Possible Lyrics* Recording massacres Bastard said its spectacular He went from selling herb on the curb to preaching word to the birds Getting head while Im swervin on all the feds *Possible Lyrics* What would you describe as a criminal? Dark skin pigment Fuck a sumliminal, leaving all these niggas disfigured, triggers and chemical Bodybags is coming, you running, praying for miracles They coming gunning inside of a bullet-proof vehicle, destined to be questioned What they reckoned was insanity Nicotine and listerine, they taking all our vanity

Sem medo Do, do Uh, sufferin déjà, déjà, déjà You gimme déjà, gotta get me that vu Déjà, déjà, déjà, you gimme déjà I need that vu, let me get that vu Déjà, déjà, give me that déjà vu, aha Told her, déjà, déjà, give me that déjà vu Yeah, thats true Hit em with the one some of em, uh Since we, since we pullin up on the e-way Make me wanna hit the floor like Freeway we in-in a cab, we in-in a cab I had it one I had to decide, almost had cried I seen-a her ass, I swear a nigga almost done died, I say Déjà, déjà, your so flavor, ya Ye, forgave ya Girl you give me that déjà vu True, what you tryn do? Déjà, déjà, you so major Got a somethin on a pager, you give me that déjà vu Uh, what that money tryna do? What the fuck they want do? Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy Déjà, déjà, you so major The flavor, the pager, you give me that déjà vu Ay, and thats what Im sayin though, You need to stop playin though, like on a Like on the piano, I am though with the and the And all my favorite Nikes was Mandals my cousin Randall, handle I was underway a nigga hand though With the DC crossed over with the handle Ayy, I had the socks with the Polo and the Girbaud and you know, thats the déjà vu Yeah niggas know what they do Thats how Chi Town do South, Southside and you with the vu , uh If I had a chance for, a chance to rap poor And a ass so fat with a actor I would probably grab more Or sound like playin mad court Me and my cousin play full court one-on-one one on none raps you hearin, one of one That means not before that year, none to come Just know when I was there was nothin done Niggas talk a lot of shit, but aint nothin done Ideas is like assholes , everyone got one But Im the number one asshole, if you not one And from the last one Couldnt match em, they couldnt match him Serena got ass and Wimbledon wins got , uh Vu, vu watcha doin Sem medo Sem medo

Ask who do I live on, Take some, rain, nonstop, rain dont want war Rain come, rain come Come shine, come rain, come up Let it sound, let it bang Let it fall, let it rain Rain down on the plane Rain down on the plane Rain down on my mom Rain down on the mom Shower us with Your love Wash us in the blood High stomp for the thug I done spend it in the mud Grew up life, tryna uh I know all my friends thugs And, uh, oh, my phone buzz Everybody dun-dun One up in the club No choice to sell drugs No choice, locked up No choice on thugs Rain down on us Rain down on us Shower down on us Wash us in a flood Wash us in the blood Whole life bein’ thugs No choice, sellin drugs , what it does Rain down on us Genocide, what it does Slavery, what it does Rain down on us Whole life sellin drugs Wash us in the blood Wash us in Your blood Wash us in the blood Wash us in the blood Wash us in the blood Holy Spirit, come down Holy Spirit, come down Holy Spirit, help now Holy Spirit, help now Holy Spirit, come down Holy Spirit, come down Holy Spirit, help now Whole spirit, dun-dun Wash us in the blood Whole life bein’ thugs No choice sellin drugs Genocide, what it does Mass incarc, what it does Cause a cause, what it does Nother life bein lost Thats all for the cost Executes in thirty states Thirty states still execute Thou shall not kill, thou shall not throw Stomp, stomp with the residue Cashed on, what the leather do Last song what the better do Now its time for the residue Ones that never do, hunnid they never do Rain down on us Rain down on us Wash us in the blood Wash us in the blood Holy spirit, come down Holy spirit, come down And they tryna control ’Ye They want me to calm down They don’t want me to Kanye They dont want Kanye to be Kanye They wanna sign a fake Kanye, they tryna sign a calm ’Ye I call that nigga Calm-Ye, cause hes down with an army That song is what I all make, everything you see is all me They wanna edit the interviews, they wanna take it to interludes Cut a whole sentence to inner loose Tryna put something in interview long as Im in the booth Hot as the sun when they bend the truth Livin’ cause nobody livin And nobodys different, and doin it different Rain, rain down on us Holy Spirit, come down Holy Spirit, come down We need you now Wash us in the blood Whole life bein thugs No choice, sellin drugs Genocide, what it does Slavery, what it does

Mmm take the number, I cant Foldin up, but somethin, I been on a minute Know that I got nothin, nothin, if they with it Fuck with , I got somethin if you did it I been water Thats not the kid that I Foldin on it, be complete opposites to another Same on it, same on it, same on it, ohh Same numbers on it, same number on Dont you know, never wrong to me Somethin losing, ultimate That would be, oh, the ultimate lie Yeah, Im bout to tell the ultimate lie Oh, Im ultimate, tonight take the number, I cant Foldin up, but somethin, I been on a minute Know that I got nothin, nothin, if they with it Fuck with , I got somethin if you did it I been water Thats not the kid that I Foldin on it, be complete opposites to another Same on it, same on it, same on it, ohh Same numbers on it, same number on Dont you know, never wrong to me Somethin losing, ultimate That would be, oh, the ultimate lie Yeah, Im bout to tell the ultimate lie Oh, Im ultimate, tonight

Nobody ever really loved loved loved loved Me me me me me me me me… She say she gotta do her nails and condition her hair Find a pair of shoes and a fittin’ brasier Slick shorty describe her description it’s fair But say no other chick in this world can compare And no other nigga got permission to stare I say I never listen Never mention I care When they gone I never miss em Never diss em a tear Cause other women to fill that position is there It’s the same game just a different affair Different dame, different name, different distance from here She say well things gon change Now her mission is clear Let her get off the phone and get off to homes She knock on the door Its business from there Start strippin her gear and switchin’ her rear Im not flinchin Cartier on my vision impaired And enough ice To condition the air Now the boy got game and the girl got hurt The boy got brains and the girl got worth Cause the boy got fame Do whatever he say Now the boy get paged like every other day Nobody ever really loved me Its just the birds and the bees The hers and the hes The his the ma’ams The sirs and the shes C’mon, c’mon And u know this man And if somebody ever loved me She say she gotta get him dressed and hit him with rules Feed ‘em breakfast and send ‘em to school She say she need a rest her mind she finna lose I tell her recline ke’ and just keep cool She sick to her area her she fixin to move In physical fitness her own business Can I get a witness, this chick is a jewel And she tired of the things that I’m sendin’ her through She say when I’m gon see you And don’t say whenever, you Know I wont leave you But wont wait forever and Got my own paper And don’t take your cheddar And no Im not finished I wont take the check And I say chill you my winner from the door so Step for set and dinner and a show She say I be wearin blue in the worst way Don’t wear your chain, just the watch I bought for your birthday Boy on the town and older woman down cause Boy make her laugh when older woman sad And older woman freak and he hold her ‘til she sleep And he gotta send her flowers like every other week She say she get off work at a quarter to nine So don’t be late stop ignoring the time Unless you got something more important in mind Like wildin wit them whores I’m filin for divorce I’ll see yo ass in court just send me child support she Wanna get married and child wanna carry My child, her smile, my ears in her belly She even got Fias-wife typed in her cellie She been there from the start she there from the heart From the walk, to the bike, to the bus, to the cars The flights and the kites the lonely lonely nights From please leave on the lights when she was scared of the dark And she got the pin if I ever hit the pen I gotcha baby say I’ve got her crazy Ever since that party at the Rex I locked down her heart in cardiac arrest Now the boy got a wifey and the wifey wanna ring Cause she wanna be his wife But the boy had it right That you just ain’t ready Its too early in your life But whatever the weather that boy will have her ever

High lights Tell my baby Im back in town High lights Tell everybody Im back in town High lights Tell my baby Im back in town High lights We only makin the highlights Tell my mama, tell my mama, that I only want my whole life to only be highlights We only makin the highlights Tell my mama, tell my mama, that I only want my whole life to only be highlights Can we play that back one time? And after that night Im gon wanna play this shit back I dont know Sometimes Im wishin that my dick had GoPro So I could play that shit back in slo-mo I just shot an amateur video; I think I should go pro We only makin the highlights Diamonds in the sunlight We only makin the highlights Tell my mama, tell my mama, that I only want my whole life to be only be highlights One life, one night Uh High lights Shine like me Livin the life til I die I bet me and Ray J would be friends If we aint love the same bitch Yeah, he might have hit it first Only problem is Im rich High... Lights... 21 Grammys, superstar family We the new Jacksons, Im all about that action Im about that Farrakhan Life is a marathon Ima shift the paradigm Ima turn up every time Ima bust a coachs head open on some Diddy shit If he ever talk to my son like an idiot So conflicted Petty and specific Got a hundred stories in the building Yall niggas is midget Advice to all my niggas Impregnate Bridgette So when she have a baby she gon make another nigga And eventually its gon be so many niggas Great pool party and the weekend thats the business This one white girl told me she hate white cock Thats when I knew hip-hop was the new rock Might tell a lesson and still is my mentor Famous people act so damn pretentious huh What you need just a hour or some interest huh thick dick huh Got the Fruit of Islam in the trenches huh? Even though they know Yeezus is a Christian huh? She spent her whole check on some Christians huh? And that bitch aint even religious huh? Walkin, livin, breathin, girl you know my past well Hard to believe in God, your nigga got killed Bad bitches fuckin Rob, though he overweight I wish my trainer would, tell me what I overate So when Im on vacay, I need to kick back, hah! What you want? You want a boss or an R&B nigga with a six pack? I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I need to know right now if you a freak or not I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I need to know right now if you a freak or not I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not Oh lord Ooh na na na na na Oh lord Ooh na na na na na I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not Oh lord Ooh na na na na na Oh lord Ooh na na na na na I need every bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not Bad bitch up in Equinox I wanna know right now if you a freak or not Oh lord Oh my lord Ooh na na na na Delete Delete

Not enough time in one lifetime To love you like you deserve Not enough time in one lifetime To love you like you deserve Not a minute more Not a second more Not infinite though Watchu waitin for? Never nah, no, say Takin off time Takin off day Whatchu fightin for? When yo booty flow Who that known it though Whatchu waitin for? If you runnin from love You love her like that You runnin from nuns She running right back Because its And Im on a road And Im backin? No To love you no more To look back and forth Till you got it from the You got it what what Baba ba ba baa One a 44 Till Im on the road Till you know I know we would know Till a Im backin on up Im makin mine Till I cannot stop in the night Oh oh yeah Oh yeah Throw your hands up Uh, throw your hands up And keep em up now And keep em up high No no no Baby no And we aint goin down baby Oh no no No, we aint goin down You gotta keep em up high, high And we aint going down baby Walla boom mena Ive been on that money Days of the Money done side Paper lined up all fallin And they linin club poppin And they down to throw Im just zonin Eh... nah Actin like purple salt Ive been on that rhyme till I get it now Puffin up Making money Grindin paper Make it witch you

Im gonna have a sweet life, sweetest life youve ever seen And when the day is over, gonna go to sleep and I feel the greed Momma can you hear me? Im pushin a Cadillac man, its black man And Im a black man, in a Cadillac man, see what Im saying is? Aint no diamonds in the back, diamonds on my neck D-Diamonds on my neck, D-Diamonds on my neck Im so fresh, so clean, edge sharper than a ginsu Look at the soul of my Air 1s, see what I been through Been through the struggle and drove through the fire Kanye on the track, that nigga spittin through the wire I spit that pain rap, every chorus need a choir Like feinds need suppliers, like Daytons to the wires Im rollin, rollin Turn my music up and keep rollin, rollin.. Man, we just rollin, rollin Turn the music up, we just rollin, rollin Let the windows down and keep rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Picture me rollin, rollin System on blast, just rollin, rollin Foot on the gas, we just rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin I got my back on the wall like a hustler Smokin like a muffler, waiting for the customers I got that that weight, that they push up state for Feinds cant wait for, enemies hate for Me to make that cake or drive through the state for P-H-X, A-Z is what I came for Rock my chain for, hooked up with Game for Headed to the booth, shotgun in the Range for I could make change more, and my shit bang more Bitches screamin my name when I open them Range doors When my ribs was touchin, aint nobody know em So tell them niggas, picture me rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Turn the music up, we just rollin, rollin Let the windows down and keep rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Picture me rollin, rollin System on blast, just rollin, rollin Foot on the gas, we just rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Homie Im just rollin, rollin, thinkin bout the past They said I would never last, so even if you trashed Keep rollin, rollin, and I got a stashspot Niggas is killin so my stashspot, got a stashspot Roll up the window, roll up the endo Blow it out the sunroof, share it with my kinfolk My niggas in the grave, my niggas behind bars Man, theres too many of yall, but yall know who you are Gangbangers in the hood, and they shootin like stars And the gangbangers I know dont wear shoes with the stars They tie bandanas, and they shootin out cars So I had to turn it around, and start shootin out bars Man, we just rollin, rollin Turn the music up, we just rollin, rollin Let the windows down and keep rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Picture me rollin, rollin System on blast, just rollin, rollin Foot on the gas, we just rollin, rollin Man, we just rollin, rollin Yeah, its a Blackwall Street recording We got the Juice now niggas Haha, gone

Yo Bumpy, I just want to make sure everybody knew who did the track Kanye-to-the, with the GOON SQUAD! Shawty you know the games about picking and choosing You dont know when you won you so used to losing Move around , move around Move around , move around I know you see me tryna party homey, give me that room Dont make me up this 40 on me and click-ta-clack-boom! Move around , move around Move around , move around I aint going back to doing a book a day Im at this rap full time, my futures looking great Feds not convinced, think Im still moving weight Move around clowns, dont even look my way Bumps a hustla, got cheddar to check in You real you would die for whatever you reppin You smart, you would carry a weapon Minesll make you do a back flip better than Mary Lou Retten Ill shoot something up, Im from Grimmyville You know its shoes on that truck if Im behind the wheel They know me and so I got it locked I remind them still Cause every line that I put up in a rhyme is real And you wonder why the label shoot you down Your album will never leave the shelf cause yous a clown Look at me, flicking something serious through the town You rap niggas couldnt be serious, move around now Shawty you know the games about picking and choosing You dont know when you won you so used to losing Move around , move around Move around , move around I know you see me tryna party homey, give me that room Dont make me up this 40 on me and click-ta-clack-boom! Move around , move around Move around , move around See there, it aint popping less we there Your barking better stop before I hit you with the three squared Thats a nine if you failed math, I bail pass in that pale Jag Cause I push weight and you sell bags Come and cop that from me My diesel have cluckers nodding off like they aint slept in weeks You ever disrespect the chief Ill have the Tec put you pets to sleep Thats all you birds I catch singing to detects police You aint my dogs, you rats and you cats could rest in peace I post up on a deck for weeks You can ask K-West, Imma mess up beats I got a good name, and I spit good game Tried ya baby mama out, and she got good brains I look lames in the face and tell em You aint a goon, yous a fruit, Im a gansta mella Shawty you know the games about picking and choosing You dont know when you won you so used to losing Move around , move around Move around , move around I know you see me tryna party homey, give me that room Dont make me up this 40 on me and click-ta-clack-boom! Move around , move around Move around , move around Look, I got a crazy flow so while you hatin Joe Im off in Mexico posing, frozen H20 Around my neck and wrists, a couple ladies so If I was to go tonight, its all gravy Joe Went from the US to USSR In the best private jets nigga, you just test cars But when I am on my land, Im stylin My rims chop like a karate man from Shaolin And the Goons hit the club and pile in We in these streets wildin, chumps where yall been? We move around, Im off on the islands sipping daiquiris See why you niggas so mad at me Im enjoying the rewards of this hip hop On the West Coast in my tank top and flip-flops Smoking some you can smell through the Ziploc Never find another nigga this hot, no Shawty you know the games about picking and choosing You dont know when you won you so used to losing Move around , move around Move around , move around I know you see me tryna party homey, give me that room Dont make me up this 40 on me and click-ta-clack-boom! Move around , move around Move around , move around Chicago, Bump J Rappers, move around, its my turn Goon Squad

Im tryna keep my faith We on an ultralight beam We on an ultralight beam This is a Gods dream This is a Gods dream This is everything This is everything Deliver us serenity Deliver us peace Deliver us loving You know we need it You know we need it You know we need it You know I need it Thats why we need you now, oh Pray for Paris Pray for the parents This is a Gods dream This is a Gods dream This is a Gods dream We on an ultralight beam We on an ultralight beam This is a Gods dream This is a Gods dream This is everything This is everything Im tryna keep my faith But Im looking for more Somewhere I can feel safe And end my holy war So why send oppression not blessings? Why, oh whyd you do me wrong? You persecute the weak Because it makes you feel so strong Dont have much strength to fight So I look to the light To make these wrongs turn right Head up high, I look to the light Hey, cause I know that youll make everything alright And I know that youll take good care of your child Oh, no longer am afraid of the night Cause I, I look to light When they come for you, I will shield your name I will field their questions, I will feel your pain No one can judge They dont, they dont know They dont know Foot on the Devils neck til it drifted Pangaea Im moving all my family from Chatham to Zambia Treat the demons just like Pam I mean I mess with your friends, but damn, Gina I been this way since Arthur was anteater Now they wanna hit me with the woo wap, the bam Tryna snap photos of familia My daughter look just like Sia, you cant see her You can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in braille Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail I made Sunday Candy, Im never going to hell I meet Kanye West, Im never going to fail He said, "Lets do a good ass job with Chance 3" I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy Lets make it so free and the bars so hard That there aint no gosh darn part you cant tweet This is my part, nobody else speak This is my part, nobody else speak This little light of mine Glory be to God, yeah Ima make sure that they go where they cant go If they dont wanna ride Ima still give them raincoats Know what God said when he made the first rainbow Throw it at the end if its not too late for the intro Oh, Im just having fun with it You know that one that was lost I laugh in my head Cause I bet that my ex looking back like a pillar of salt Eh, theyll flip the script on your ass like Wesley and Spike You cannot mess with the light Look at lil Chano from 79 We on an ultralight beam We on an ultralight beam This is a Gods dream This is a Gods dream This is everything This is everything Im tryna keep my faith But Im looking for more Somewhere I can feel safe And end my holy war

: Fashion is obviously very important to you. You’re designing again, in fashion. Tell me, what’s the difference in how you approach fashion to how you approach music? Is it similar, is it completely different? : Everything in the world is exactly the same. : Alright, great. I don’t think we’re done but I think I’m going to sign off. : Meaning like, you can do comparable people like - who would you compare Daniel Day-Lewis or Phillip Seymour Hoffman to musically, or in fashion, directing, architecturally? Who was your favorite teacher when you were growing up? It’s certain people that when - that teacher when you’re in eighth grade, that this person really cared and you knew this person cared about you as a student and gave everything they had and they were meant to do that. It’s other people that were just like getting a check or something. It’s all the same. You know, for me I give you paintings, sonic paintings. I have synesthesia; I can see sound in front of me. So, when I want to do fashion, I just want to give you sculptures. So it’s like Michelangelo; the church wanted him to paint, and he just wanted to do sculptures. So the hard – the difficult thing for me that everyone doesn’t understand, I just want to be able to use marble and make sculptures. But, due to the fact that I’m a celebrity, all these different things they’re like “no, you can’t do this, you have to do this kind of line.” So, it’s kind of the first of its kind so that’s the reason why there’s been a lot of confusion as to why I want to do it, to why is he getting so frustrated about it. It’s like: why don’t you just do music? It’s an overall creative expression. Like I have a friend, Yves Béhar, that designed the Jawbone wristband and stuff, and the Jambox and everything. As a designer, you know, hes not in a box to only design, you know, a speaker. He can design whatever he wants and Im like, thats the type of creative expression and freedom any creative, you know, wants. And as, you know, get really successful at one thing you start to grow, and youre like - you feel like you can do more things, and your shoe starts to get a little bit tight, and you do everything you can to get a bigger shoe so you can walk further and run faster. And people are like now in this day and age, if you dont believe it, its like theyre like "No, Kanye, you cant run faster. This is the limit that was made. This is the walls that Michael Jackson broke down for you, and Jay Z and Russell Simmons broke down for you. This is the end of it. So Im in the process, 2013 all of the controversy about why - Im in the process of breaking down walls that people will understand 10 years from now - 20 years from now.

Its amazing, Im the reason Everybody fired up this evening Im exhausted, barely breathing Holding on to what I believe in No matter what, youll never take that from me My reign is as far as your eyes can see Its amazing, so amazing, so amazing, so amazing Its amazing Im a monster, Im a killer I know Im wrong Im a problem Thatll never ever be solved Im a monster, Im a maven I know this world is changing Never gave up, never gave in Im the only thing Im afraid of So amazing, so amazing, so amazing No matter what, you’ll never take that from me My reign is as far… Bring it back down though Its amazing, Im the reason Everybody fired up this evening Im exhausted, barely breathing Holding on to what I believe in No matter what, youll never take that from me Never take that from me No take it back down, take it back, keep going It feels like youre on trial sometimes And in a relationship, you can also be on trial And be convicted with no jury And this song was sort of like that moment where someone tells you aint, you ain’t - you gotta say I am - an emancipation, if you will Cause you cant take that from me My self-esteem So whether it something in your own home, or a situation like mine Where youre under the microscope of the media Never let them take that from you I never let them, let them take that from me You have to be amazing sometimes I and I know I do not always state popular opinion Amazing, Michael Jackson, amazing Michael Phelps, amazing OJ Simpson, amazing Is he not?! What he did when he did what he did, was he not amazing though? I think I saw in a movie - I get my quotes from movies cause I dont read Or from like, go figure, real life or something Like live real live, talk to real people, get information, ask people, questions And it was something about, you either die a superhero or you live to become the villain IM CHILLIN *Kanye chicken noise* Im chillin So many times they try to make me out to be the villain I dont understand what I did I apologize for acting like a bitch at award-shows Its an award-show, didnt kill anyone But yet and still I apologize for my ungraciousness I was a spoiled little Chicago-boy, who got all these awards as he came in the door and people clapped and sang his praises And he soaked it all up and believed his own hype To the point where he could not lose And if anyone didnt pick him, they could not choose As he swooves with the whos-whos and broke all the rules And even lost his cool Hey, nothing new Now they dont like you, hey they dont like you Look at what youve done boy, trying to be the number one boy And Im thirty-one years now and Ive leaned from my mistakes Just play pianos... Super-hero music, pain This hardcore, so hardcore Thats why I sing: Im a monster, Im maven I know this world is changing Never gave up, never gave in Im the only thing Im afraid of No matter what, youll never take that from me My reign is as far as your eyes can see Its amazing

Well, Im a make a lot of money And Im-and Im gonna quit this, quit this Crazy scene Well Im a quit this crazy scene Cause being famous aint all what they make it to be But back then yall this was my favorite dream But now, I wouldnt hesitate I would leave Cause Imma Im a quit this crazy scene Cause everything you see aint really how it be Please dont believe in that TV screen Im sorry kids but theres no such thing Im gonna Well Im gonna quit this crazy scene Its funny Cause this is what I waited to be Bein on stage was amazin to me But now Im in the game, it aint the way that it seems Imma And I dont know how to feel When this Dream of mine used to be so real I would anything just to sign a deal But now I trade it all for a home cooked meal I wanna Oh, what? You say it could be worse? Well step in my shoes, put yourself in my shirt Im only human yall so we all gotta work But sometimes I wonder why I even came to this earth Imma Look Cause they dont care about us They just use us up Leave us in the dust And it roughs me up So much I could cuss But Enoughs enough I want out of these cuffs Im gonna Sometimes I just feel hopeless Pacin back and forth, man I cant even focus So Im always smokin in the booth recordin Cause my mind races Like Jeff Gordon Imma It aint supposed to be so hard I always said Id quit if it felt like a job Id rather be pissed than pretend that Im not And try to play along with the whole facade I wanna It aint a question to me Look at me I know what Im destined to be This is spiritual yall Im wrestlin beasts But pretty soon Ill be restin in peace Imma And I dont even wanna be famous And all my close friends become complete strangers Dont try to tell me this is one of these stages Man you dont know me, you only know what my name is Imma But still it just aint enough Cause the rest of the world still just wakin up So all the real niggas can relate to this stuff But those who asleep, still hatin on us Cause Imma It couldnt be more fake When they wine and they dine and they smile and wave But when it comes time to decide your fate Theyll sign you on the line right next to Satan Imma Come yall, yall actin like I cant feel you I can look in your eyes and tell you what you done been through And I could give a fuck because I got bigger issues So at this point in my life How can I get through? Okay Yeah, Ill play yo game Im in Ill dance, Ill rap, Ill sing And use it as a chance to provide some change Just know Ill walk away at the end of the day Right when I Look This is my stress reliever But somehow, it became my stress for demons So I get up in this booth and Im heated Like Ye said Im turnin atheists into believers Im Look A lot of haters attack but Its my job to speak the truth on the track So say what you like, you just givin me gas So by now, I got enough to drive to Venus and back So Imma Fuck the money Im leavin Im goin back home after I break even I said what I said so as long as Im speakin B.o.B got the upper hand as long as Im breathin Well I guess I got problems Dropped outta school aint think about college So apologies to my mother and father For being stubborn ever since I was a toddler Well Im a quit this crazy dream Cause when I hit the stage all the ladies scream And when I pass by they all waving at me But I be getting tired, yall pray for me

Sh-sh-sh-shady Aftermath, haha G-G-G-G-G-Unit!, haha Ive become so numb Can I get an encore Do you want more Ive become so numb Can I get an encore Do you want more Ive become so numb Can I get an encore Do you want more Get your ass up for the doctor One more time, get your ass up for the doctor Come on now, here we go Cliff hanger, its another club banger Got you hangin on the edge of your seat Get on down Times up, games over, you lose, I win bout to show these knuckleheads how to do this here Ooh yeah, new year, next phase, begin Look whos got you goin crazy again Im a trend, I set one every time Im in I go out and just come back full circle again You a fad, that means your something that we already had But once youre gone, you dont come back, too bad Youre off the map now, radar cant even find you We stay on the grind, you slip, we out-grind you You walk around mad, you let your anger blind you We walk around just playin the violin behind you Enough with all the pissin and moanin, whinin and bitchin Sit and observe, listen, youll learn if you pay attention Why ten multi-platinum albums later, three diamond World-wide, were on the charts with a bullet and still climbin Now can I get an encore, do you want more Cookin raw with the Brooklyn boy So for one last time I need yall to roar Now what the hell are you waitin for After me, there shall be no more So for one last time, nigga make some noise So all my people on the left, all my people on the right Scream one last time When Dr. Dre say crunk, you will get it crunk, get it crunk Crunk, crunk, crunk And when 50 cent says jump, you get on one foot and jump Jump, jump, jump, jump The buzz is tremendous, we drop you all to sense it I dont gotta promote it for you to know that doc is off the benches We keep the party rockin off the henges We aint showin off, we just goin off popular consensus But critics say that Doc is soft, Doc is talk Doc is all washed up, knock it off Who the f*ck is Doc impressin? Doc is this, Doc is that, you got the wrong impression You must be on the cock of Doc, cause Doc left you all guessin So DJ take the needle and just drop it on the record We gon have this mutherf*cker hoppin in a second Thats why we always save the best cut last To make you scratch and itch for it like fresh cut grass Cause we done swam with the sharks, wrestle with alligators Spoke to a generation of angry teenagers Whom if it wasnt for rap to bridge the gap Maybe raised to be racist Who may have never got to see our faces Grace the cover of Rolling Stone pages Broke down barriers of language and races Just call on the cape crusaders And leave it to me and Dre to pass the mic And we can play the back and forth all day Like the hot potato game, thats why we came to First we came here to set this party off right Lets bounce tonight Now what the hell are you waitin for After me, there shall be no more So for one last time, nigga make some noise Ive become so numb So for one last time I need yall to roar One last time I need yall to roar Every step that I take is another mistake to you And every second I waste is more than I can take Ive become so numb I cant feel you there Ive become so tired so much more aware Im becoming this all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you Ive become so numb Can I get an encore, do you want more Bounce now, hands up, you know how we do We make the club jump everywhere we go Its no secret, everybody know When Dres involved, theres plenty money involved And plenty honeys involved, the sunny Sundays and palm trees Cali, everyday its just another party from the valleys All the way to them 8 Mile alleys, lets rally Hands up for the grand finale Now raise up out your seat, Dre is about to speak Blaze a pound of weed six days up out the week You could catch me in the studio bangin out the beats to Provide you with the heat that keep blazin out your speaker So never say never cause Shady Aftermath together Along with G-Unit Records presents the return of the-the Doc No one could do it better We tear the club up and leave without a strand of evidence and uh Now can I get an encore, do you want more Cookin raw with the Brooklyn boy So for one last time I need yall to roar Ive become so numb So for one last time I need yall to roar One last time I need yall to roar

Seasons changing Fore life start for me Fore life start for me Thoughts and thoughts to me 80 degrees Warmin up to me I did it free I did know, indeed And I run out to sea I can walk on the water Honey, I want you I can float on the water Father, hold me close Dont let me down I know you wont I chose not to be a slave Dropped the Wave Runners, now we run the wave Like we aint had all the hood rats and mud rats Like you aint had em at good stats and all that Nobody gon ruin me I just called my wife up, lets get Hoover free I put all my ice up and my Louis V I just copped my mom a crib, Im back over East Let me get your ear like Holyfield From the home of Soldier Field Coming home, thats how a soldier feels All that killin over, thats just overkill Yeezy back in the Chi, this that Oprah field See this in 3D Fore life start for me Fore life start for me Thoughts and thoughts to me 80 degrees Warmin up to me I did it free I did know, indeed And I run out to sea I can walk on the water Honey, I want you I can float on the water Father, hold me close Dont let me down I know you wont Woah, woah, yeah, yeah Look, my life is exciting as Dennis Rodmans Stars intertwine, my soul back in alignment If we dont have the same vision, no point in exchanging contact Only ex I love running into is at the end of my contracts, yeah Bottom line, Im seeing through the mask of the fakes Like were at the Comic Con, I point em out from time to time Speaking of time, me and my mom been gettin closer Either I took her for granted or didnt know her Or is it, Im getting older? Or is it, Luke is finally turning into Yoda? Only new beginnings, no such thing as over We should have just stayed friends That never opened up or needed closure God, give me directions like Noah I dont know some hopeless romantic shit But I cant wait to see Ye get back with HOVA Look bitch, this the new chain of command Might bring the Pow chains back like me and Ye in Japan Cudi back at it again, Push, yeah thats till the end, yeah Just like it should have been Nothing but that G.O.O.D. and the G around us I knocked down the walls and my head free my mind up I didnt chase the game, ho, I helped redesign it, yeah Goin against us, you need logic, Muhammad Im so fuckin conscious, that shit is my compass, yeah, yeah Don

I dont think people necessarily understand what happened last week with the Make America Great Again hat. What are you trying to do with the message youre sending? It was really just my subconscious. It was a feeling I had, you know like, people, were taught how to feel. Were taught how to think. We dont know how to think for ourselves. We dont know how to feel for ourselves. People say feel free, but they dont really want us to feel free. And, uh, I felt a freedom in first of all, just doing something that everybody tells you not to do. ... I just love Trump! Thats my boy! You know like, so many rappers, youll look at a video of Snoop Dogg loving Trump, but then he get into office and now they dont love him. Trump is one of raps favorite people right? But we talked about this, that before he was elected president, people in hip-hop it was an in thing to put Donald Trump in your rhymes somewhere. And by the way, Im in hip-hop but Im not just in hip-hop. Im a black person in the black community but Im not just that. I feel like one thing is that people try to minimize me to artist, hip-hop, black community...Yeah, Im always gonna represent that but I also represent the world. ... You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sound like a choice! . You was there for 400 years and it was all of yall? Its like were mentally imprisoned. I like the word prison, because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. Its like slavery Holocaust, Holocaust Jews, slavery is blacks...So prison is something that unites us as one race. Blacks and whites being one race. That were the human race.Do you feel that Im being free? And that Im thinking free? I actually dont think that youre thinking anything. I think what youre doing right now is actually the absence of thought. And the reason why I feel like that is because Kanye, youre entitled to your opinion, youre entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact, and real-world, real-life consequence behind everything that you just said. While you are making music, and being an artist, and living the life that youve earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years that you said, for our people was a choice! Frankly, Im disappointed. Im appalled. And brother, I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, thats not real.

Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come Mind right, money right Red flag, red hat I’m alright fuckin’ right Fuckin’ right I do it for the money And if I don’t do nothing I’mma ball I said if I don’t do nothing I’mma fuck you up If you fuckin’ with me, who fuckin’ with me? Fuck with me!!! And where will I be, without my E Yeah without my street, and that’s Apple & Eagle bitch Haha and how can I see When my E-Y-Es are C-L-O-S-E Or I-C-U N I-T, D-R. C-A-R-T-E… R Or, R-I-P hahaha Yeah and it’s M-O-B ’til I D-I-E Flow D-O-A since my D-O-B Mr. D-R-E talk to ‘em Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come Woke up this morning, feeling all horny Picked up my pistol, fucked my opponent The roof on dismissal, the feet are enormous They on the same shit we switched up the toilets I looked in the mirror and I said what’s happening? The mirror said “you are, you conceited bastard!" Well that’s true, the Coupe look like it came with the wheels Because it got a paper tags still And the passengers a pill away from being DOA Down on her ass freak for the chips, Frito lay And the waiter shorty move throw it thisa way When the players hit the club nigga leave some way Cause we as real as they soldiers in the field Cause we fighting for something but we don’t know what it is I’m trying to get higher than last months bills Cause this months here, this ones clear This ones brown, this ones beer Man we got it lookin like a bar in the VIP The flow is contagious and deadly like Rabies Had your girl in the suite swallowin babies But that is irrelevant it was all a pre-requisite Nigga I’m ill, nigga I need medicine Like Excedrin cause it’s this big Broke my dishwasher and bought a new crib Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come Staring at the mirror looking down into its eyes I can see why niggas hate ya, I can see why they despise Don’t worry, don’t worry No worries, no worries Cause I’m as real as they come

I told you I dont want you all the time Cause youre not mine Im not in love, but Im in light So far its working fine But when I need you then Im desperate Im a little child Just like an animal, down on my knees and beggin Yeah, all wrapped up, I wanna be your little baby now Put my head on your shoulder You can rock me, rock me now In the middle of the night you can hear me crying loud Put my head on your shoulder and rock me Open the door, unlock me Weve got tonight, so rock me now Im in my bed, and Im possessed Im lying wide awake I need someone like you to come And put me in my place Cause in the day, I cant be tamed Boy, you dont wanna know But in the night, my hands are tied You tell me where to go Yeah, all wrapped up, I wanna be your little baby now Put my head on your shoulder You can rock me, rock me now In the middle of the night you can hear me crying loud Put my head on your shoulder and rock me Open the door, unlock me Weve got tonight, so rock me Open the door, unlock me Weve got tonight, so rock me now Rock me now Rock me now Yeah, all wrapped up, I wanna be your little baby now Put my head on your shoulder You can rock me, rock me now In the middle of the night you can hear me crying loud Put my head on your shoulder and rock me Yeah, all wrapped up, I wanna be your little baby now Put my head on your shoulder You can rock me, rock me now In the middle of the night you can hear me crying loud Put my head on your shoulder and rock me You and me, sitting on a tree You be the daddy, Ill be the baby

Yo its your boy, super pro-huhum, I mean super RAPPER Kanye West I want to shout out all my Heavy Hitters. Yo, G & Hop what up? Was it because of the Roc That she wanna rock with West? Because after the Blueprint I got lots of checks She dont play X-Box but got a box of X That make her tongue move faster than Das EFX Uh, white Benz, dyke twins I aint gon lie they only fives but together they tens And would I do them again? Hummm, its like old folks pissin cause it all Depends And theres no coke sniffin, just juice and gin Grey Goose will get you loose then hit the nigga producin The track that got you movin I never hit a lady but my game might abuse them Buyin boots just to tell em that I Jimmy choose em And take em back to confuse em See she dont know if shes comin or goin Cause mommy after Im cummin Im goin Back to the show Just frontin and flowin Jewelry stuntin and glowin Its like somethin outta nowhere Yeah, and Ive been known to have a ho or two Cause my diamonds yellow like a smoker tooth I tell em, "Step into the vocal booth" Roll a joint, smoke a few After that Im pokin you After that its over boo Baby grab your coat and peeeeuuuun She said, "I love you K." "I know you do. If I was you Id love me too." Yoooooooou Not used to what I got to offer Please get up off me baby, you cant boss me I wish I would let her dictate All she can tell me is how the dick taste How she gonna tell K about L.A.? When I got three hoes that stay in Marina Del Ray Well paid, they dont park it, just valet Waist small like the Motorola Cingular cell-y Voice high like Michelle I step back like, "Haha You ever ran for Miss L.A.?" Cause you holdin down the city officia-lly Next time you fuckin your man, just yell, "K"

Over the past few months, the habitués of a central Paris neighborhood, one that’s home to many upscale law offices and accounting firms, have been noticing some unusual activity. A chauffeur-driven Porsche Panamera Turbo, painted matte black and resembling a late-model Batmobile, frequently zooms up to an elegant 19th-century building and disgorges various nonlawyer and nonaccountant types, including Kim Kardashian and the rapper Nas. Late at night, thumping hip-hop beats have been emanating from a loftlike apartment within the building, occasionally provoking complaints from the neighbors. If the voice in the songs sounds familiar, it’s because it belongs to the notorious man of the house, who’s been working on his latest album in a studio he’s had installed in the middle of his living room. “There’s leaders, and there’s followers,” he raps on one track. “I’d rather be a dick than a swallower.” Yes, Kanye West is in town. The rapper–producer–designer–scandal magnet, now a part-time Parisian, is bringing his trademark raw-nerved swagger to one of Europe’s most discreet and tradition-bound capitals. But anyone who makes it inside West’s apartment will quickly realize that his impact on Paris has been far less consequential than Paris’s impact on him. Visits with the Kardashians have been punctuated by the arrivals of people like the haute-minimalist architect Joseph Dirand and the Belgian interior designer and antiques guru Axel Vervoordt, along with deliverymen hauling in West’s latest purchases: rare Le Corbusier lamps, Pierre Jeanneret chairs, and obscure body-art journals from Switzerland. For West, it’s all part of a crash course in the rarefied upper reaches of design, architecture, and overall good taste. The goal? “To make Kanye West as dope as possible,” he says, sitting in a midcentury swivel chair and wearing a plain dark hoodie and black cotton pants by a label he declines to identify, since he no longer believes in dropping brand names, except for his own When it comes to personal dopeness, of course, West is not known for admitting that there’s much room for improvement. Even by hip-hop standards, his boastful self-regard is so extreme that it has inspired several analytical essays and countless jokes, not to mention an entire South Park episode. Addressing the crowds at his concerts this year, West has likened himself to such fellow creative geniuses as Pablo Picasso, Steve Jobs, and Michelangelo. And in the course of our interviews, which take place over several days in March and April, West goes even further, favorably comparing himself to Le Corbusier, the Beatles, Marlon Brando, Tiger Woods, Azzedine Alaïa, Kate Moss, and the Soup Nazi, among others But for all his brazen posturing, West, 36, is one of the rare top artists in any field who’ll eagerly embrace the role of subordinate when he knows he’s got something to learn. This is the guy who moved to Rome for four months to work as an intern for Fendi before launching his own fashion line. His current exile in Paris—a town famously lacking in yes-men, where even a star like West is just another outsider who can’t get a table at his favorite restaurant if it happens to be full—seems like his latest exercise in self-abnegation, in the name of self-improvement. “In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles,” West says. “You can just trip on inspiration—there are so many people here who dedicate their lives to excellence.” And inspiration is particularly crucial to West these days, given his ultimate ambition, which goes way beyond making hit records or developing a discerning eye for console tables. He’s plotting to create operas, stores, films, product packaging, amusement parks, and, possibly, entire cities. West is essentially out to redesign the world, if the world will let him do it “How do you spell Mies van der Rohe?” West has logged on to his MacBook Pro laptop—custom-finished in matte black, just like the Porsche—and is Googling modernist architects while playing around with new beats for his album. As usual, there are several collaborators, friends, and minions milling around his living room studio, including the producer No I.D. and the Canadian rapper the Weeknd. When West is at the microphone, alternately freestyle rapping and bouncing up and down, it’s clear why his bona fides are unquestioned, at least in the realm of music. He blasts a new track at top volume, and its wailing Deep Purple–esque guitar riffs have the Weeknd holding his head in disbelief. “That shit is awesome,” the Weeknd says. “Just fucking reckless. A lot of people who hate you are just going to hate you so much more.” West says he wants the record—whose title, Yeezus, is a mashup of “Jesus” and West’s nickname, Yeezy—to be like a “one-man gangbang.” He plays one intensely dark, primal track that he worked on with the French electro duo Daft Punk: the defiant anthem “I Am a God,” which he debuted live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York in May It turns out this song was inspired by a serious diss—not from another rapper but from a major fashion designer. Last fall, a few days before Paris Fashion Week, West was informed that he’d be invited to a widely anticipated runway show only on the condition that he agree not to attend any other shows. “So the next day I went to the studio with Daft Punk, and I wrote ‘I Am a God,’ ” West says. “Cause it’s like, Yo! Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go. Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.” West is not smiling as he says this, and his voice is getting louder with each sentence. “You can’t say that you love music and then say that Kanye West can’t come to your show! To even think they could tell me where I could and couldn’t go is just ludicrous. It’s blasphemous—to rock ‘n’ roll, and to music.” Later, West gives a more measured take on the incident, explaining that he was “just very hurt” by the designer’s attempt to control him. “How can someone stop my opportunity to see something that he can teach me, that I can help teach the world?” West asks. But it’s precisely those types of outbursts, as well as the tortured semi-apologies that often follow them, that have come to define West’s public image. Whether it was his onstage ambush of Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards or his declaration during a live telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” , West’s eruptions have made it all too easy for people to forget that he’s spent the past decade creating some of the most brilliantly original music of any genre. Rolling Stone, in its rhapsodic five-star review of 2010’s Twisted Fantasy review” My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, lauded him for “blowing past all the rules of hip-hop and pop, even though…he’s been the one inventing the rules.” Last year in The Atlantic, David Samuels hailed West as “the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music.” Of course, West’s bright and dark sides are fully interdependent, and they’re equally essential to his art. Both are very much on display during our conversations in Paris. It’s a big deal for West to invite a journalist into his house: He hasn’t given many interviews in the past few years. This is due in part to a string of PR disasters, the last of which was an on-air clash with Matt Lauer about the George Bush accusation, which led West to cancel a live performance on the Today show. West is especially wary of print interviews, since the writer retains the power to choose which of his quotes are relevant . Another issue: West’s opinions evolve so quickly that by the time a profile comes out, he might have totally changed his mind. And finally, there’s his self-acknowledged deficiency in the eloquence department. “God’s little practical joke on me—as an intellect who doesn’t like to read a lot—is like, I’ll say some superphilosophical shit, but I’ll say it the wrong way,” he says, laughing. “I’ll use the wrong word, so it goes from being really special to completely retarded.” For a while, West’s communications strategy involved pouring his heart out on Twitter, where his droll one-liners and 80-tweets-in-160-minutes rants earned him almost 10 million followers. But a few months ago, West deleted all his posts. He agreed to do this interview because he feels like he’s reaching peak creative potential—“bubbling at the highest level of output”—and he’s ready to talk publicly about his thoughts and theories and plans, in entertainment and beyond West knows the risks of extending himself beyond the music world; he learned that the hard way in 2011, when he debuted his women’s fashion line in Paris. Many reviewers panned the collection, deeming it sloppily overwrought and marred by unfortunately placed zippers, but they were kinder about the second, which showed more focus and discipline. West is convinced that the critics got it backward. “The first collection was way better than the second,” he says. “It was more artful. It was 30 collections in one. It just takes time for me to slow down and think like a normal person.” Established designers, West notes, are already “in a position to go crazy. I tried to come out of the gate going crazy. And it didn’t work. So now I have to somehow put out something that says, ‘I look sensible!’ ” That might be accomplished by his new men’s capsule collection of jeans, T-shirts, and hoodies for a hip French brand, to be unveiled in July Lately, however, West’s biggest impact on the fashion world has come not through his designs but through his personal wardrobe choices and those of his equally camera-ready girlfriend, Kim Kardashian. Having evolved beyond his earlier signature looks—the pink polos, the shutter shades—West now favors streetwear crossed with Parisian edge, confidently pairing the right Air Jordans with tuxedo jackets or Givenchy leather pants. And when Kardashian began surprising everyone last winter by stepping out in high-end European labels, she made it known she was dressing to please her man. For some people, that would mean more Victoria’s Secret, but pleasing Kanye West these days means more monochromatic and structured looks, more Dries Van Noten. West tells me he hasn’t been masterminding Kardashian’s makeover to the degree that everyone assumes. “Nobody can tell my girl what to do,” he says. “She just needed to be given some platforms of information to work from.” Since virtually everything Kardashian wears is instantly broadcast around the globe, West adds, “one beautiful thing is that as she discovers it, the world discovers it.” This includes Kardashian’s inevitable stumbles. “For her to take that risk in front of the world, it just shows you how much she loves me. And how much she actually loves the opportunity to learn. You got, like, a million companies saying, ‘This is impacting your brand! This is impacting your fans! And blah blah blah.’ But she still sees this light of beauty.” One night when I’m scheduled to meet West at his apartment around 10 p.m., I walk in to find some Kardashians in the house. Kim has just headed back to Los Angeles after one of her brief Paris visits, but her brother, Rob, is sprawled on West’s gigantic Living Divani sofa with his girlfriend, the English model Naza Jafarian. They both offer friendly handshakes, then return to their smartphones. Next, Kim’s mother, Kris Jenner, drops by and looks around the apartment, which she’s seeing for the first time. “This is amazing!” she says as West shows her some of his favorite objects, including a new set of ceramic cups by Frances Palmer. Jenner’s rapport with West evinces equal parts jokey affection and in-law awkwardness. He plays her some of his unfinished songs, including “Awesome,” which is clearly about Kim. When she exclaims, “Great job!” West doesn’t find it as flattering as Jenner evidently intended. He raises his eyebrows. “Great job?” he says and sets off on a comic riff that cracks up everyone in the room. Toasting with his champagne glass, he says, “Great job, Baccarat, for making a glass that can hold liquid!” He looks down at his waist. “Great job, belt loops, for keeping my pants up!” Jenner laughs off the mockery but soon is ready to leave. Hugging West goodbye, she tells him, “I love you. You know where to find us, at the George V. Call us tomorrow, if you want.” It seems apparent to everyone, including Jenner, that West will not call Much has been written about the celeb mega merger known as Kimye and about whether the match was made in heaven, or hell, or some unknown strange place. Undoubtedly, the West-Kardashian union further validates and indulges both stars’ unerring knack for making headlines. But given West’s current thirst for refined Euro cool, one might expect him to fall for some chicly cerebral French artist rather than a trash-TV queen who epitomizes the kind of branded mass culture he’s rebelling against. West dodges several of my questions about Kardashian and their future child. But when I ask him if he has any qualms about making appearances on shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, he says, “Oh, that’s just all for love. It’s simply that. At a certain point, or always, love is more important than any branding, or any set of cool people, or attempting to impress anyone. Because true love is just the way you feel.” Some intellectual ambivalence clearly remains, however. “Thoughts and feelings can disagree sometimes,” West says In recent months, West has been dutifully making his homes more baby-friendly, working closely with the architect Oana Stanescu, a tall, coolheaded Romanian from the New York firm Family. In Los Angeles, he and Kardashian are redoing their recently purchased 9,000-square-foot manse in a gated community. The house is very L.A., a faux-French-Italian-whatever style that West admits does not quite meet his newly elevated aesthetic standards. Stanescu puts it bluntly: “It’s so bad, seriously—it couldn’t be any worse.” Both West and Stanescu have much higher hopes for the pared-down Paris loft, where they are streamlining the surfaces and spaces and adding a baby room. West’s hunger for expert opinions has led him to simultaneously consult with several competing designers and architects for the project. This is a huge no-no in the design world, but West is not the type to let etiquette get in his way; so far he’s been meeting with Dirand, Vervoordt, Tristan Auer, and a few others, sometimes on the sly. “I mean, it’s uncomfortable for every single person,” acknowledges Stanescu. “But it’s supposed to be—that’s what I think is the cool thing. Right now Kanye is just sponging things up, observing how these people work. He’s going to take an idea from Joseph and one from Tristan and make it his own.” One afternoon I join West and Stanescu on one of their many educational field trips—a visit to Le Corbusier’s iconic Villa Savoye, the 1929 house turned museum outside Paris. We weave through highway traffic as West makes calls about an upcoming Jetsons movie on which, he tells me, he is creative director. Giving West a tour of the Villa Savoye, Stanescu explains why the reinforced-concrete structure, with its open plan, ribbon windows, and flat roof, was so radical for its time. West, fascinated, begins ruminating about how visionaries like Le Corbusier and himself can be misunderstood by their unenlightened peers. “Someone else’s negative opinion, it just doesn’t matter,” West says. “I bet there were people at the time who said to the owners of this house, ‘Why would you spend your money on this?’ And those people, I bet you that today nobody is visiting their house.” Last year, when someone threatened to go public with a recording he’d made of himself and an unidentified woman in a hotel room, West was on the verge of releasing his own copy of it, to neutralize any threat of extortion. “For the most part, I’d rather people have one of those home videos than some of the paparazzi photos that get published,” he says. “At least I recorded the shit myself. That tape couldn’t have hurt me in any way if it came out—it could only have helped.” He finally decided against releasing it, but don’t be surprised if he changes his mind. “Now, I just do exactly what I want, whenever I want, how the fuck I want,” West says. “ ‘Fuck you’ is my message.” Sometimes it can seem as though West has a gift for making his life as complicated and difficult as possible. It’s a tendency he doesn’t deny. “I’m not comfortable with comfort,” he says. “I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.” His creative process, like that of many of the geniuses he compares himself to, can be perfectionist to the point of masochistic. In March, when West first plays me some of his new songs, he says the album is almost finished. In April he tells me it’s only 30 percent complete. Noah Goldstein, West’s chief sound engineer, says this is typical of West, who thinks nothing of throwing out half an album if he composes a new beat that inspires him to change direction In person, as in his song lyrics, West’s bombastic hotheadedness alternates with endearing displays of vulnerability and clear-eyed self–awareness. In the 2007 hit single “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” which came out as his growing fame was bringing new degrees of both adulation and ridicule, he rapped these lines:I feel the pressure, under more scrutiny And what do I do? Act more stupidly Bought more jewelry, more Louis V My momma couldn’t get through to meAt one point I ask West why awards shows—where his occasional losses have sparked several of his most memorable public tirades—matter so much to him. He has already won an astonishing 21 Grammys, more than any other rap artist, including his friend-collaborator-rival Jay-Z. His five solo albums have all gone platinum and been mainstays on critics’ best-of-the-year lists, and he’s considered by many to be the top producer in hip-hop, with an unequalled gift for discovering talent. Who cares about getting more Grammys? West glares at me. “I care,” he says. “I care about everything. Sometimes not giving a fuck is caring the most.” Friends say that for anyone trying to navigate the knotty terra incognita that is West’s psyche, all roads lead back to his mother, an iron-willed college professor whose goal was to instill in her only son the belief that he could accomplish anything. Donda West died in late 2007, from complications following a plastic-surgery procedure. Earlier that year she had published the book Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar. Donda devoted an entire chapter to the subject of West’s alleged arrogance, which she preferred to see as confidence. Back when West was in kindergarten in Chicago, she recalled, his teacher pointedly told her, “My, he doesn’t have any problem with self–esteem, does he?” Even then, Donda knew the remark wasn’t entirely a compliment, and in later years she was repeatedly advised that her “snot-nosed kid” needed more parental discipline and, perhaps, some time in the Boy Scouts. But although she wasn’t proud of some of West’s off-the-handle histrionics, she had no regrets about always nurturing his self-assurance and conviction. “When Kanye was very young, I began teaching him to love himself,” she wrote. “As a black man and as a man, period, he would need to be strong.” “Basically, Kanye is hardwired to believe that anything is possible,” says Virgil Abloh, West’s close collaborator at Donda, the creative agency that oversees his nonmusical ventures. Abloh—who once spent a month holed up at Tokyo’s Grand Hyatt with West in the aftermath of his mother’s death and the Taylor Swift debacle—believes that today, West’s triple threat of talent, ambition, and fearlessness puts him “one meeting away from becoming Walt Disney.” West would not disagree. Across several fields, he predicts, “people are going to look back 10 or 20 years from now and say, ‘Man, I remember such and such was like this, but then Kanye got involved, and now it’s like this.’” Signs of West’s artistic drive are visible in the installation he debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival: a “surround-vision” film linked to his album Cruel Summer, with seven moving images projected simultaneously on separate screens in a pyramid-shaped tent The details of many other projects remain fuzzy, since West is still dreaming them up. He’s planning his return to fashion and has set up an atelier in Milan, but right now, he says, his priority is “absorbing as much as possible” and finding the best people in every field to work with. The idea of failure seems to serve not as a deterrent but as a stimulus. Whenever he tries something new, West observes, “people say, ‘Why do you want to destroy your name?’ But I don’t care about my name as much as I care about my ideas. I could do something completely wrong, and people could hate it, but then someone else could see it and do it completely right. And it’s a push forward for civilization.” West is not oblivious to his own narcissism. “On one end, I try to scale it back,” he says. “Because I don’t want to close any of the doors needed to create the best product possible. But my ego is my drug. My drug is, ‘I’m better than all you other motherfuckers. Kiss my ass!’ ” The people on West’s team seem to tune out his boasting, since they realize it serves a purpose. “I understand how it can be off-putting for people to hear it,” Stanescu says. “But I think it’s how Kanye pushes himself. If he didn’t have this belief that he could do major things and have a global impact, he would just go close himself off in a room.” One afternoon, while West is taking a break from recording, eating stir-fried vegetables off an Hermès plate, we talk about some of the tracks on the new record. Few musicians like explaining what their songs mean, and West is no exception, but if you write one called “I Am a God,” you can’t avoid certain questions. I ask West outright what he’s getting at there. “Hmm,” he murmurs and stays silent for a few seconds, looking out the window “I made that song because I am a god,” he says finally. He laughs for a second, then stops. “I don’t think there’s much more explanation. I’m not going to sit here and defend shit. That shit is rock ‘n’ roll, man. That shit is rap music. I am a god. Now what?”

Where we met, I had to give her her respect She was with her man, he took a drag from her cigarette He told her hell be back He jumped in the meter cab, just took her cell and told her where to meet him at Now she was mad, And I was looking for my car She had some plastic bags, coming from the supermarket Cooking for his ass..how she gone get to the projects? She ain’t got no cash, and she struggling while walking So I drive past, "Yo" I say "I ain’t no stalker wit yo big ole ass Here’s my help I’m tryna offer, I give you a lift" Who woulda knew it turn to this? Now we in the mix Baby moved up in my crib and she left my ex, damn we speedin I’m a king, you the queen His and her 6’s and diamond rings You don’t have to look back at him Just get your bags packed and then.. A new life soon begins Like I told you when I’m in, I’m in Baby girl had a son He was 3, yea I took him in Now she call him little me, I even look like him Naw, I mean he look like me, a couple shades darker She be calling him Blackie..that’s cause his real father jet black So she treat him like it’s a setback.. I don’t respect that Now his pops calling collect at the new crib on the new number Now how he get that? See, now I knew we was a mismatch I’m laid back, you too used to getting pimp smacked I see where I went wrong at I just tried to bring out the queen in you.. But when you make a girl leave a man.. You never really know where she stand.. How you know she really yours? Somebody could do the same to you..!

I aint innocent, Jesus walked me to the Grammys Thank you God, now I can sin again! I had the "Jesus Walks" sample and a dope idea If K hook it up then this could be the song of the year So I give my nigga the sample and the joint took off But the verse that Fest did somehow got lost Somewhere got tossed Homie, I aint mad at ya, doin your thing Let every man be his own king With no fear ladies and gents, what you finna hear "Jesus Walks" Rhymefest verse world premiere God show me the way cause the Devil trying to break me down And the only thing that I pray is that my feet dont fail me now You know what the Midwest is? Young and restless Where coppin that work is your best investment And none of my niggas gonna answer questions Cause none of my niggas know who the feds is We hustle hard for dollars like we grew up checkless Pops wasnt around, moms smokin the breakfast Before I sold weed, we was roach infested The two girls downstairs was both molested I promise if I ever made it out of this hellhole I wouldnt sell blows, I would just sell flows My niggas had Nikes, I had Pro Wings shell toes Kids knew it was Payless, Footlocker aint sell those I got a girl that aint my girl That got my baby so she bug me She aint even cute so my baby prolly ugly Man sometimes I feel like God dont love me Maybe the problem is I dont love me My granny think Im crazy, the streets is a virus Sometimes I just want to rest in peace like Osiris Wait, rest in peace like Osiris

Fallin, dreamin, talkin in your sleep I know you want to cry all night, all night Plottin, schemin, findin Reason to defend all of your violent nights Promise me you will see Dont you grow up in a hurry, your momll be worried, aw It was all part of the story, even the scary nights Thank you for all of the glory, you will be remembered, aw Thank you to all of the heroes of the night They gotta repaint the colors, the lie is wearin off Reality is upon us, colors drippin off Colors drippin off Couldnt kill me if you tried, couldnt kill me if I died Im gon always be alive, you were always in denial Heard your song, you stole my vibe, so I brought back my old vibe Funny every time you lied, how that turned into more lies Im too nice to all my dawgs, stand by me when I go wrong Please dont love me for the stuff like you never did nothing wrong Why did you do something to me? Man, Im still mad at my dad, uh I fucked that bitch, she was bad, I fucked that bitch, on the rag Years ago, might get physical Might get something, might digital Life do something like digital, all romance got digital How low something? Life critical And this conversation critical and Im something so pitiful Why you standing, looking so pitiful? Dont you know that you are beautiful? Everything bout you beautiful Everything bout you beautiful That was without you, new to them We can do it now, what you do to them? Maybe the- maybe the world will be without me Maybe we sleep with- sleep without me Maybe life signs off, days was cloudy Maybe God, dun-dun, signing off Down for life, still ashamed August Ames, all the same All the pain, all the lames and all the lames live the thing Everything, everything

Lyrics from Snippet Sacrifice, drop out school to , if you gun him down Always have grateful vibe, thinkin’ bout my other side Look into my eyes, do you see the love inside?

I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old Liquor all night, love it Untamed youths, the Coupes moves like bullets I guess the fact my father smoked and drank Made it a young nigga destiny to do the exact same Young wyling and all, me and my Codys Watch the phonies, and hoes that claim they blew me Dark skin China doll with the fake tits Ice grillin my Spanish chick, word We all in together, now we off it Cops be buggin, shotguns on the whip Fuck em, I would never sweat for a piggy You can catch me high, its all good, no Biggie I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old Yeah Yeezy Ugh Wylin cuz Im young, I be wylin cause Im young She be wylin cause Im hung, they be violent where Im from Fee, fi, fo fum, bitches so dumb On a balcony making out with me, like she so drunk Got me feeling like a damn hunk Headed home Im bout to slam dunk Pray to the box of mags, protect me when Im old Pop a few Vi-rags, resurrect me Geezer, Ebenezer Grab titties, probly catch a fucking seizure But keep a big ass crib with a theater Remind me of my money when I catch amnesia, oww! I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old Rage, cause Im paid Take the grey, and create another shade Awesome, no mo bitches playin possum Pop and lock em and send em on home Tired of hoes, all they want is to get chose Know the code, when a women with some toes Optimos, takin trips to Australia Do some blow and hope you make it through the show Hands, high, go with ya soul and try floatin through the sky Hide the pain with some pussy and mimosas Costa Rica, next on the agenda I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old I be wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young Wildn cuz Im young, wil-wildn cuz Im young I be wildn cuz Im young, I be wildn cuz Im young And Ill be wildn til Im chill and old

You gotta watch your face I got am million dollars for every bump in your face And next year, youre gonna have an acne problem Ahh! Yeah Showtime, Im gonna make it look easy I told niggas Im a hustler, its like they keep on forgetting 36 mil in eight months, you still think Im bullshitting? Catch me on top of Fortunes Hot 100 Head of G-Unit Enterprises, still getting blunted Went from selling crack to rap, thats two different games But theyre parallel to each other, homie, so theyre quite the same You know that crack spot so hot, you better off playing the block Fiends cant help but be fiends, they come and cop for the cops Back in the pens again, penitentiary doors spin The game full of heartbreaks, can I win for Christsakes? Ace after ace, Lady Luck just wont fuck with me Thats why I got this attitude, nigga, dont say "what up!" to me I took something heart-pumping, move and Ill pop something Cop bricks, break em down to pieces and prop something Niggas stay in stunt mode so I stay strapped up My body language saying, Fuck around and get clapped up I sip on Coke when its with Henny, go for broke with the semi Niggas talk behind my back, but they dont really want it with me Pussy niggas pop shit; me, Im on that block shit That rubber band, hundred grand in that night box, bitch You know the raps bought the Benz, and the cracks bought the rims Vivica she bought the gym, told you Im a fuckin pimp I was born a bad seed, I defied the odds I aint play the hand that I was dealt, I switched the cards Still I keep a poker face, frontin, Imma catch a case Flip out, poke your face, youre laid out, now, what a waste Im Super Fly, Ron ONeal of this rap shit When that drama pop and you get shot Lets see you bounce back, bitch You nigga, you come around this bitch frontin Ima have to chase you outta here You nigga, you come around this bitch frontin Ima have to chase you outta here You nigga, you come around this bitch frontin Ima have to chase you outta here You nigga, you come around this bitch frontin Ima have to chase you outta here

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First you get the respect and then you get the money After you get the money, thats when the power come You dig? Im only 23, living like Im 32 I just made a 100K and spent it all out with my crew I be blowing money fast, what the fuck Im supposed to do? All this paper I done made, I cant take it to the grave In a R8 Audi with the motor in the rear I was nominated youngest baller of the year Just think a couple months ago, I was locked up on the tier In a cell but now Im dropping on these niggas like a tear For the way I got that Lambo in the back of me Phantom in the front of me Stunting on my old hoes, look what this money done to me Shout out all them niggas in my hood that ever fronted me Cause Im a put them all on and better they run to me Cause real niggas do real things If you was real you wouldve went and bought a real chain Fake ass niggas playing in the real game Frontin on they old block, saying that the deal came They asking how I get all this power Cause I be on the grind like 24 hours 365 dream chasing for a dollar, I been here since yesterday, I aint even take a shower More money more power, more power, more business, more bitches Tryna holla when they see you by the dollar And the problem when you on that cake And when you shine, a lot of niggas they be on that hate If I dont grind then who the fuck gon put it on my plate? She say Im Hollywood, well shit I must be on my way With my Louis luggage straight to Californ-ia I hit my nigga K, like meet me by the port by eight Uh, I had a dream like Mr. King That I was in a phantom, color Listerine No top, bald headed like Mr. Clean Shit I aint claiming these bitches like Billie Jean Im just doing something to these niggas really mean He got the money without the power, what do he mean? He like the nigga that ride the bench thats playing for a team That win the champ aint get no ticks but he still get the rings You dig me? You like a nigga Yall niggas got five rings But you been riding the bench for five years So that dont make you a nigga with power You know what I mean? That dont make you a Kobe nigga Cause you was riding the bench while niggas was putting in the work But you was just there and got the rings You dig me? Thats like a nigga with no power, Im gone

For my theme song My leather black jeans on My by-any-means on Pardon, Im getting my scream on Enter the kingdom But watch who you bring home They see a black man with a white woman At the top floor they gone come to kill King Kong Middle America packed in Came to see him and his black kin My homie was number one draft pick They still burned his jersey in Akron If I dont get ran out by Catholics Here come some conservative Baptists Saying he overreactin Like them black kids in Chiraq bitch Four in the morning, and I’m zoning Think Im possessed, its an omen I keep it 300, like the Romans 300 bitches, where the Trojans? Baby we livin in the moment Baby we livin in the moment Baby we livin in the moment Baby we livin in the moment So follow me up cause this shit bout to go down Im doing 500, Im outta control now And nowhere to go now But theres no way to slow down Runnin outta time Just close your eyes and enjoy the crash Four in the mornin, and Im zonin I think Im possessed, its an omen I keep it 300, like the Romans 300 bitches, where the Trojans? Baby, we livin in the moment Ive been a menace for the longest But I aint finished, Im devoted And you know it, and you know it Stop all that coon shit Early morning cartoon shit This is that goon shit Mess up your whole afternoon shit Im aware Im a wolf Soon as the moon hit Im aware Im a king Back out the tomb bitch Black out the room, bitch Stop all that coon shit These niggas aint doin it Them niggas aint doin it What do you say to a masked man This Inglorious Bastard that’s rapping We might have to burn this whole shit down Like the theater that Hitler was trapped in Four in the mornin, and Im zonin I think Im possessed, its an omen 300 girls, and we know it 300 girls, and Im zonin Baby, we livin in the moment Baby, we livin in the moment Baby, we know it, keep it goin Keep it goin, keep it goin So follow me up cause this shit bout to go down Im doing 500, Im outta control now But theres nowhere to go now And theres no way to slow down Runnin outta time - movin fast Just close your eyes and enjoy the crash

“I’m not gonna mention him no more, I’m past that,” Yeezus said of the president on Philadelphia station Hot 107.9. “That’s out my thoughts. That’s lowering my priority of thinking at this point.” “Oh, you talking about how he use to come and visit me and my mama and tell me he’s about to run for president?” Ye replied when asked if he would ever "break bread" with the president and continued, “I just think that we’re pop icons, and the president likes to use that type of thing just to be down. People was fine with me being everyone’s punching bag for about five years — ‘This is the person we love to hate, so if you want to distract people from everything that’s going on … just say you hate Kanye and there’s going be 30 other people who say they hate Kanye.’ That was kind of my position in culture and he kind of used that too — ‘Oh, he’s a jackass’ — because that’s how the world felt." “I don’t care if someone’s the president or not,” Kanye finished. “I care about thoughts and how you helping people and what you bring to the world.”

Well the song says no one man should have all that power right? There’s definitively been times I let Let power, get the best of me… And let the world take the rest of me I look in the mirror and say “God, is this, is this my destiny? Is this what I’ve done After all the years of you blessin’ me?” Well maybe this is just a moment A moment of you all testin’ me To see if I can still act professionally To keep me at bay Like the Chesapeake Guess it’s me Just a ‘G From the C.I., Honest… And why? Why would you give me that Power? Knowing I was just an artist Knowing exactly where my heart is And I will only work the hardest And sometimes, put art, before being the smartest And sometimes act retarded Just look at what I started And they wanted me to be dearly departed Die, nigga die, and I had no reply And I still looked her in the eyes And said that I could touch the sky And after all the drama I wonder where I would be if I still Had my Momma, Common And everybody I was promising around me You know how niggas from Chi town be, sometimes we wild Act like a child Get fouled Stay in style As of now …? ... flows through the veins of a modern day Pharaoh. In American Apparel Standing down the barrel of the media For the man that face never made it in the encyclopedia His story, His glory …and they re-write history right in front of us - in front of us But what happens? When one of us is on the other side of that T.V. screen? You know what I’m sayin’. Real niggas you know what I mean - you know what I mean - you know what I mean - you know what I mean Or at least that’s what I thought But when they sayin’ “Hey that’s what the real nigga do, right?” Naw not right, that’s just mean, that’s just me that’s not, right Now how long did it take me to realize? And open up my fucking eyes! That this shit is just a disguise All the fame! And the power! And the hour! In the showers! Of the diamonds! And the jewels! And the gold! Everybody say you cold! Everybody screaming at mothafucking shows And you know what? You wake up in the morning And in awe you’re a real person And worse you got the …?... Got a little bit harder A little bit more insignificant You was the terrific shit Buying expensive shit Last year worked for Louis or Ford Too much for me to even record The only thing I had to do was get my heart out The greatest blessing in the world is the fact you let me get my art out The fact that you accepted me and didn’t neglect me Even when I was a …?... Even when I went to these meetings straight dolo I had to go solo. I used to have a group That group used to wear Adidas and …?... and then I got stupid and left them niggas And said I’m better than ya’ll when it was true Now when I finally got the power man what the fuck did I do? And I’m so sorry to yall, how every one of ya’ll had to fight for my name Every one of ya’ll a year ago, that all waited for this change Everyone who said “Kanye is that nigga, quit talkin’ names” And all yall: I am the one to blame And the people that I-I-I, let down I want to tell you right here - right here, right now That I’m a new man that understands why people abusing the power *Crowd erupts drowning out the lyrics* And make more music for the world to love! And there’s so many people I could thank there’s my Mom and God and above So all ya’ll, and everybody throw your hands in the sky! Everyone touch the sky before the day never dies! Dies! No one man should have all that power! They say no one man should have all that power! They say no one man should have all that power! They say no one man should have all that power! ?...drums, give it to em or something right quick! {Kanye West} Feel good, right? Uh-uh Kalil, keep time with that Lets add some 1-2-3-4 lets go! {Kanye} In about 2 more bars I want you to give me a ? you feel, right Create a feel, I want the whole building ? like ? Lets go {Kanye} They say no one man should have all that power The clocks ticking, I just count the hours Stop tripping, Im tripping off the power Til then, fuck that, the worlds ours No one man should have all that power The clocks ticking, I just count the hours Stop tripping, Im tripping off the power Til then, fuck that, the worlds ours

Lets get it on You made me You made me You made me the way I am today Youre the reason why I live how I live Cuz you made me the way I am First of all, I was the worst of all The first born, took my first breath, it was on And thanks to my moms, and some help from Nicky Barnes I was raised in ways of a Don They gas me like Exxon Had me dealin with ex cons, frontin with they Rolex on Get sexed on a regular basis, grown women puttin they faces In all the wrong places, molesting me, now you see why my destiny Was fucked up cuz my recipe But I blame my mother cuz I cant blame no other And thats how my game was discovered My mom was a sucker, did that bullshit to my brother But no matter what, Imma love her She gave me life, even though she got high undercover If she die, I cant find me another But look what you made me You made me You made me You made me the way I am today Youre the reason why I live how I live Cuz you made me the way I am Yeah, you made me this way, since the day I was born When you slid on that crack shit, mom be strong Fore long, I realized the same old song Another cat that done bounced on his kid and his spouse At the beginning, I knew my pops just had to be kidding Hes coming back any day, he wouldnt leave us that way But anyway, the time got longer, my anger got stronger Its no time to wonder the money I hunger Without a blunder, I vowed to be all I could be Started running guns O.T., me and my code D Leave from the backstreets of A-T-L to N-Y-C When the gunspot got hot, I switched to the D When the D spot got hot, I went low key Now that Harlem World spot hot, and Im on TV I dont need no fake calls from yo ass at all Just leave me the way you left me and watch me ball You made me You made me You made me the way I am today Youre the reason why I live how I live Cuz you made me the way I am What, what, uh You the reason And I thank you, what Check it out Yo, yo, stormy night, September 73 Would you believe what my mom recieved from heaven was me? Second from me, my younger brother desperate as me We see the world alike, type of girls he likes, the girls I like The shit that make him mad, it make me hype, bug like that Share the same blood like that, grew up around thugs poppin and shit Cardboard boxes and shit, dirt bikes But now we hoppin whips and merc, right? Moneys my birthright, my righteous birth so I floss Its up to you to look inside yourself, see whats yours Consecutive times, New Years Eve, light off nines in the skylines Imaginary graves, poor the Henney on it Share with my dogs whos here, cuz theres so many gone Yeah, Meeno, Ill Will, all my people Big Stretch, well never forget, Allah keeps you Until we meet again, through my pen yall can speak through, uh You made me You made me You made me the way I am today Youre the reason why I live how I live Cuz you made me the way I am

What are they gon tell me? You know what Im saying I used to be in gym class like "Nigga, Im finna be a rapper" I didnt do my homework for my last three years of high school, nigga So Im assuming yall niggas dont know what you doing Youre not hot cause your tapes dont work We cant stop, our brakes dont work Man I heard you spit your favorite verse Its the softest place on Earth Yall some motherfucking idiots Dropping enough bricks to build a city with What the fuck is on your mind? You sniffing that shit My own blood, go on stud Probably the reason that the phone bugged Always talking fast as hell like Bone Thugs You act like you dont know what the chrome does Like what 2 shots to the dome does Plus you kind of slow man But if we listen to you We all be broke like Gary Coleman Im trying to blow like Pokémane And I dont want to have to choke you man Id rather go to bed, getting head on the sofa man Yo but, aigh, its over man Nothings gonna stop Nothings gonna stop Nothings gonna stop me! Nothings gonna stop Nothings gonna stop Nothings gonna stop me! Niggas cant be serious, you the only Nigga I know experience Y2K You the only Nigga who lights went out fucking ?? 2000! Lets go man I hate a gold digging bitch that want to get in my whip Fuck fucking, I make her kiss the tip of my dick You know what Im here for cut all that crying and shit Plus my nigga want a fit Why dont you buy him some shit? Im from the land of the P-I-M-P I got these hoes buying the weed and the optimos Why you think my neck froze? Why I got these clothes? PSSH Man I gots to pose Next to the, lex to the, benz fit ya, next time we, fuck, bring ya, friends with ya And he doesnt take American Express And he dont take hoes with small breast keep it moving I hate lame niggas, I hate gay niggas, I hate a dick riding I-I-I I know Kanye niggas save the talk and save the game how you gon con me when Kan half my name? Nigga I did about 4 or 5 beats for Nas This nigga dont know how to pronounce my name because they always spell it wrong Shit, you know Im saying, Imma Imma tell it real, you know what Im saying? Thats not cool, yall cant even...

I just got off the plane, Chicago Its ya boy Kanye West on the beat Ay, White Boy I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, this boy here finna blow Southside up in here, Westside up in here Eastside up in here, throw your hands in the air Kanye the best in the game, now we got that, that thing clear Kanye West is the name, Southside up in here Yall niggas stole the soul, yall niggas all some clones Yall need to change yall tone, nigga, I control the go Motherfucker close the do, light the weed and let the douja blow Why you keep bawlin though girl, you aint been around niggas before? Why my chain rosey gold, why my wrist below zero? How the hell I know B-Lo, why them girls tell you no means no? No means no just as sure as green means go Green means paper, dream team caper We see haters like shorty on the Sixth Sense Yall finna see some dead people Come through ya block and air people My people aint scared people, only FIG-I-AIR people White Boy back in the mix and Im in the atmosphere Crunkin for stackin the fifth and we got them gats in here This is not a game, Cris is not a lame Chi-town drop the flame, White Boy got them thangs White Boy a hot damn shame, White Boy hot like mars Yalls flow hot like March, yall cant stop these bars White Boy drop these charts, White Boy got the ball Lyrics gon shock you all, Cris gon cop them cars Get a couple foxy broads, out they shoes socks and bra This is not so hard, Cris got a rocky heart Pimp wit a monster walk, Cris got hostile thoughts Yall better watch it dawg, me and West rock you dawg Rap profit, plat Gothic, slash convict raps jock it, phat Pockets mac, hopin crack, poppin stacks Droppin cakes, stoppin wakes, knockin hate And you fakes, watchin base, on relate Gossip fakes and I make, opt, yeah In case I catch a case gots to pay, confrentrate Need ya way, from this place cause it aint common If this aint the way, Kanye, then its straight Colleges in ya veins cause you spit what you came from Straight knowledge, I was raised in the street Praised in my heat, holdin on my Nextel Hopin for the next cell, focused on the best cell Smokin on a fresh L, posted like FedEx mail

REMIX! Ay man, ay its by popular demand pimp, I need a fix, man Dey demandin a remix, man! Its confirmed like a Don King perm You got ya boy E-40, you got Kanye West {ITS ICE CUBE NIGGA!!} Ooooooooohh... Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... This bourbon and Carlos Rossi got me feelin like da Man of Steel Energy hyphy drink ; spinner steerin wheel Mardi Gras beads around my neck , invisible set Pull-outs diamonds on my mouth Rally stripes, hustle cars, vans and campers My dude got handle bars, get out yer cameras Wet the tar down, break out the crates We on the swerve ice skatin, doin figure eights The King of Slang, they call me Ebonics I get stupid and dumb like Just Ice and Mantronix ...hear me out The first motherfucker to even SPEAK about a "Drought" 40, ya fool, I heard hes growin out his hair Sweaaar - yea, he takin it dere UUHHH! - its party music Get used to it - the hyphy music! AHH! Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... Who you know could get Kanye West on the remix? Ay Ye, you know they love you in the Yay, boy! Speak on it! Ay, ay pimp, its Ye, pimp 40 told me dey fuckin wit me in The Bay, pimp So Ima, ride down with the dos open Yeah - thats whatll get the hoes open High-inch stilettos wit the toes open Yeah - and any haters get they nose broken Now, tell me when to go, tell me where the hos You told me they was cold, now you act like they dont know like - ...Ummmmmmm , Ummmmmm Imma hit the liquor sto, Imma be on the low Imma have my hoodie on Call out my name and you know dey gon go You fuckin up my mode manye I tell you only call me by my code name Dey aledy recognize me from my gold chain The same one I gave Keyshia Cole manye Now go duuumb, like Cole On Martin, Im retarded Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... YAY, tell me when to go, niggas get sick Ice Cube on the mic, fifty-one-fifty Nuttin but a fool, yall know who wit me A West Coast nigga named E-Fo Liquor We can drink malt liquor til the party get thicker Then I get sicker, and go-go dealer Rollin thru the bank, doors open manye Freaks on the side, walk hopin mayne That dey can jump in, get a lil sum-thin Yo Geronimo, bitch cause I gotta go! Burn rubber, leave it in the streets Leave it them dope-ass Little Jon beats To make you go berserk til it hurts Put in work, if youre scared "Go to Church" Shake them dreads nigga, FUCK them feds Im wit the E-4-Oh! Tell me when to go.. Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO... Tell me when to go Tell me when to GOOOOOOO...

Yeah, DC Stand up for your boy Ka Ree I go by the name of Kanye To The The Roc is in the building And as far as Im concerned We about to bring that real soul back to the game John Legend on the backgrounds by the way Lets go From what I hear Kanye is killing the game very bad My girl rocking the little lamb that Mary had A l ittle bit of Ghost’s style mixed with Mos style Im versatile Im the poster child Getting cheese so Im suppose to smile, get it We making hits like Sosa now, hit it And I hate when girls acting bougie as hell And I already seen them naked like Blu Cantrell If I talk to people like they stupid as hell Do that mean God gone make my kids be stupid as well? Well, our father please forgive me Im sinner slash winner slash soul inventer Its so soulful man Its so soulful man So soulful man And when you hear it, is where it feels like soul food man It was so soulful man Its so soulful man Its so soulful man And right here is where it feels like soul food man Look, my mami dont be playing Cause she know I got my game intact I spit them lines that make a rapper have a brain attack And chickens know Im gonna do it how I wanna do it And miss communication, no we never run into it I got chicks like Simone and Cala Stay with lip gloss and Fendi bag beside her And your girl said you aint ready for me Im in love so Mommy got me singing Tina Marie How you bomb in Giovanni, she in Gucci and Prada Chilling in a Mirada, studying like a scholar So I dont even bother, I be popping my collar I can get into your soul when I call you tomorrow Come on Its so soulful man Its so soulful man So soulful man And when you hear it, is where it feels like soul food man It was so soulful man Its so soulful man Its so soulful man And right here is where it feels like soul food man I know you got a lot of stress today Lets hit the party like we just got paid And if you really want to get away And say yeah, yeah Got people on your back constantly And you never get a second to breathe You know you gotta get a way with me so say Yeah, yeah Imma worry about the trade then ball then try and trade it all Id rather catch up on my paper and invade the mall You sore losers picked the wrong guy to take the fall I probably trade in the fall what they made in the fall Went from a never quite was to an overnight was Cause the way I flip metaphor nobody quite does By the time I leave the club, Im wearing a public arms Cause he must have been a pro the way see the pros and cons They calling this the army, money boys are we Say jay b hopping down when Im trying do my laundry But I aint even sorry for the way I get my dough Cause J, Khayree and Kan got that food for your soul Its so soulful man Its so soulful man So soulful man And when you hear it, is where it feels like soul food man It was so soulful man Its so soulful man Its so soulful man And right here is where it feels like soul food man

Fuck you, its the alien Its the monster and I dont know what to say to him I got a date again, I was late again Head up ate it then, and I was faded then Well fuck it then, got a gun, tuck it then Real friends, ya stuck with them Like Jada said "when you thinkin then you thinkin of a problem" And I come from Harlem, click pow, revolve em You dont want no problems, yall nigga will starve em I dont give a fuck, click pow, revolve em A lord will save em, empty wave em Come through flame em, the dollar engrave em Im hopin Ye save em, comin with the- I invented "save a hoe", save the flow I invented going broke, I didnt save the dough But they paid me though Aint it though, and the most hated though Fuck, yeah, yeah, A$AP, eh, Ferg He invented "save a hoe", I saved it though I like "neverhoe" and Navajo Not a hoe, come through a lot of dough Getting cream, artichoke I oughta choke a lot of you niggas on the block Come through with the Glock Trap Lord on my stomach and Im feelin like Im Pac You will get shot dont play with the kid Aim to your wig, I spray at your bed Niggas better lay on the , and I do it how I do it Niggas still ridin in the Buick, lookin all stupid Lookin foolish Above you like God, and like the lord said Tell that bitch to suck my fuckin long golden sword Swore to lord, I said it before Man curious like George I fuck ya broad when Im bored Never gave a fuck about shit I cant afford I just get it then I explore it and then ignore it Until the day came when I got a chance or an advance And I bought what I wanted for my parents Fuck you niggas know chain hangin from my pants Never on the low in the stands I dont dance In the club by the door, with the gun by my hands By my pants a motherfuckin eighty- Ima tell all you niggas, yall niggas owe me Im gettin cheese you still gettin baloney You think you on top but you niggas below me Bitch you could blow me, homie, you dont know me This the D-F-E-R-G with the homies A-$-A-P, T-R-A-P, L-O-R-D, nigga, pay me Yeezy comin through, please, believe me Yall niggas cheesy, lookin all greasy Yall nigga dont wanna mess with yeezy I got the motherfuckin cheese in my deesy We might have to call Jeezy for the adlibs Or Weezy for a bad bitch With my 700 Yeezys on I got 700 Yeezys, homes Believe me, homes

Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where they strung up a man they say murdered three Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic Vegas on acid, seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses And Ive realized that Ive arrived Cause it take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe Does he write his own rhymes, well sort of, I think em That mean I forgot better shit than you ever thought of Damn, is he really that caught up? I ask if you talked about classics, do my name get brought up? I remember I couldnt afford a Ford Escort Or even a four-track recorder So its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche Its for yourself, thats important If your stripper name "Porscha" and you get tips from many men Then your fat friend, her nickname is "Minivan" Because- Because- Because- Because- I Am A God I Am A God Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where they strung up a man they say murdered three Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree Just like that When someone comes up and says something like "I am a god" Everybody says "Who does he think he is?" I just told you who I thought I was, a god! I just told you! Thats who I think I am! Would it have been better if I had a song that said, "I am a nigga"? Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where they strung up a man they say murdered three Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree

Ich bin grade aufgestanden, es ist Viertel vor 12 Egal, ich hau dir jetzt in deinem eigenen Viertel eins auf die Zwölf Lauf zu Mama, sonst erhältst du von der Faust von K-O-Doppel-L nen Schlag aufs Trommelfell Du stehst vorm Traualtar, gibst deiner Frau das Ja-Wort Doch sie antwortet nicht, denn sie ist aufblasbar Du bist neidisch auf mein Schwanz Motherfucker, was kann ich dafür? Hab ich ihn nur halb drin sagen Hoes, ich wirke distanziert Ich besuche deine Stadt, bewaffnet mit nem Golfschläger Und verursache mehr Kieferbrüche als ein Holzfäller Deine Mom ist lustig, wenn ich zufällig vorbei komm Springt sie mir sofort an meine Eier, nenn es Eisprung Du hast Homies in der Jury und solltest du gewinnen Dann höchstens durch Schiebung, so wie beim Sumoringen Ich bin der Bitcheskenner und Gewichtestemmer im Fitnesscenter B-O wird gepuncht und ist schwer mitgenommen wie dicke Tramper Ey Kollegah, digga, ich weiß du hast mich schon mal gefickt wie ne Bitch. Aber ey ich hab zum Schluss noch eine Bitte so. Ey kannst du vielleicht nochmal so richtig geil abflowen? Geht das klar? Ey für meine Fans doch gerne, pass auf! Ich zerficke deine billigen Parts mit der Fist Und verbrenne deine Mutter mit Napalm Geschütz Deine Bitch ist auch bei meiner geworden Und ich hab mit einigen Homies zusammen ihr Grabmal bepisst Pass auf, ich kille dich zum Beat, ficke deine Bitch Gib ihr dann paar Tritts, ficke deine Hits Nigga, du bist weak Penner, geh mir bitte nicht auf die Eier Laber mich nicht voll mit "Gib mir bitte Feedback" Punk, ich amputiere deine Füße und du flehst mich an von wegen "Nigga, gib mir doch mal bitte meine Feet back" Ich fick mit deinem Girl Motherfucker Ich hab das Gefühl, ich bin jetzt in die Ho verliebt Und kann nicht ohne sie, ich geh Kondome ziehen und komme wieder Und dann popp ich sie die ganze lange Nacht zu dopen Beats von Jordan C Oder von dem Nigga Timbaland Bitch, ich trage meine Timbalands Viele nennen mich den deutschen Twista Doch ich selber nenne mich den deutschen Killa Cam Ich kille deine Family mit einer Gilloutine, Nigga Bis du ganz alleine bist und keiner dich mehr lieb hat Nein, ich gebe dir kein Feature, weil ich busy bin ich ficke grade Gina Wild und laber dann wie zwei wie Nina Sky, Nigga

Long Beach, stand up! Its your hometown boy Mark Spitz and uh Now Ive been getting fucked up all night long This weed and this drink I got is almost gone And Ive been doing wrong my whole life long So heres my song Heres my song Five pounds of dro Five rounds or mo Tore from the flo Two sets of hoes K. West to go (Okay no more for me Okay one more for me) Let me talk on this Let me walk on this Mark Spitz extra clips of hollow tips Im full throttle with Chicago trips Hits model chicks without the bread Moet bottles flip, Im out my head Yeah Okay no more for me Fuck it, one more for me Send another round around for all my Gs Quarterback in the streets Throw a zip for three Mr. MC on the beats that still spin when I freeze In the city by the sea, bitch Feel the breeze Hot head, I got steel to squeeze See easy The west is on my back, K. West is on the track kay? Now we fiend to get it jumpin like the jacks Dimes and hoodrats, get down on the flo And pop that ass til its time to go I came to the club with a gang of niggas But I left from the club with a gang of bitches Just got my pimp cup now my name is Bishop In a money green suit, ice cane and lizards The P chain still hangs but its changed to Spitz The blues always authentic gangsta shit Now take this and run with it Go have fun with it But make sure you bring it back when youre done with it Long Beach done done it again Its been ten And weve been it since then as little kids You niggas cant tell me shit on how to sell with this Im hot as hell, we done done it again Dont worry Chi-town Its ya boy Kanye To The I got this! You at the bar tryin to ask what that Hypno hit fo If you gotta ask that you cant afford to get mo Dawg, slow down you cant afford to sip Mo Leave the club now, come back when you get dough Many hoes, many many many many many hoes Centerfolds, especially Im in the Go Cadillac back to back, red, black to indigo Tell me that I aint pimpin yo Especially they in a row? Keep a least two, that cant keep they cool Cause I stay Gd up like the first week of school Broke girls, I take em to the Section 8 Where I pass the dick around like a collection plate White girls said, "La Di Da Di, we love to party" And that bitch aint broke so that mean she sniff coke And she only 17 so that mean she cant vote So if we do anything, that mean you cant quote

Ohh, woah, woahh Ohh, woah, woahh I was so high I did not recognize The fire burning in her eyes The chaos that controlled my mind Whispered goodbye as she got on a plane Never to return again But always in my heart Oh, this love has taken its toll on me She said goodbye too many times before And her heart is breaking in front of me I have no choice Cause I wont say goodbye anymore Ohh, woah, woah I tried my best to feed her appetite Keep her coming every night So hard to keep her satisfied Oh, kept playing love like it was just a game Pretending to feel the same Then turn around and leave again, but Oh, this love has taken its toll on me She said goodbye too many times before And her heart is breaking in front of me I have no choice Cause I wont say goodbye anymore Ohh, woah, woah Ill fix these broken things Repair your broken wings And make sure everythings alright Oh, my pressure on your hips Sinking my fingertips Every inch of you Cause I know thats what you want me to do Oh, this love has taken its toll on me She said goodbye too many times before And her heart is breaking in front of me I have no choice Cause I wont say goodbye anymore This love has taken its toll on me She said goodbye too many times before And my heart is breaking in front of me She said goodbye too many times before Oh yeah, yeah... And she will be loved...

Now Im the newest member of the rockafella team And Ima bring Dame and HOV mad more cream Hooks galore Leave your city shook for sure And Ima bring em back where Beans took em before For the last time its Kanye and not Kane Everybody mispronouncing the name So I spell it over and overlike my dog Fab in the game Pick a bad chick up like a cab in the rain All the girls that I had was the same Cuz all they seemed to care about is what I had in the chain Nevertheless, Ill say it again Drop the bad bitch off take a cab in the rain Go! Why she wanna say hello, Cuz my Rock-a-fello piece is all yellow? Yeah! She tryna get nice Get a crib, get a ring, throw rice No, keep that raggedy chick Shes so masculine and I aint on that faggoty shit My diamond ornaments help me fornicate Girls that look like they on a porno tape My dogs is warning me bout girls is wanting me For child support, this money born to make They stick safety pins in my magnums Steal my condoms, I swear thats a problem Its like gettin robbed without a pistol For 18 years the job is not an issue Cuz I made a mil off instrumentals Classify me as husband potential Niggas aint think I rhyme for real I got a You Hear It First fore I signed a deal Yeah, now its time to bail Cuz five years from now Im tryna chill Peep the wordplay, Im kinda ill I dont rap about guns dog Im kinda real Thats how I feel To be down you must appeal To the crew, were rated R OC, OG Bobby Johnsons son Ask me "Ray Ray is that your car? I seen MTV I know who you are You did Takeover, do you got beef with Nas?" I DID take-over the game, brought back the Soul Got tracks to go, got plaques thats gold Platinum and gold, yeah thats the flow All I, know, I gotsta blow And I dont play pause, Im from Chica-GO

{*The song starts with Jay-Z - Izzo *} Ladies and gentlemen lets put our hands together for the astonishing H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world The flow of the century, oh its timeless, HOV! Thanks for comin out tonight You couldve been anywhere in the world, but youre here with me I appreciate that, uhhd *The song changes to: The Jackson Five - I Want You back* *The song changes to: The Doors - Five to One* Yo this song right here, I remember I used to play This sample for people before I hooked up And I used to tell people "you know, this, this gon be like The Truth But its gon better than The Truth", and to all my niggas, my nigga ??? said: "I mean ask these but it aint no Truth, that aint no Truth right there!" And he was all like, the Takeover Five to one, baby, one in five No one here, gets, out alive, now Youll get yours, baby, Ill get mine Gonna make it, baby, if we try The old get old, and the young get stronger May take a week, and it may take longer They got the guns, but we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah were, takin over Come on! *The song changes to: Jay-Z - Takeover* R.O.C., we runnin this rap shit Memphis Bleek, we runnin this rap shit B. Mac, we runnin this rap shit Freeway, we runnin this rap shit O and Sparks, we runnin this rap shit Chris and Neef, we runnin this rap shit The takeover, the breaks over nigga God MC, me, Jay-Hova Hey lil soldier you aint ready for war R.O.C.s too strong for yall Acright nigga! *The song changes to: Jay-Z - Heart of the City * Uh, uh, listen First the Fat Boys break up, now every day I wake up Somebody got a problem with Hov Whats up yall niggas all fed up cause I got a little cheddar And my records movin out the store *The song changes to: Bobby "Blue" Bland - Aint no Love in the Heart of the City* Aint no love, in the heart of the city Aint no love, in the heart of town Aint no love.. *The song changes to: David Ruffin - Common Man* Yeeehh *The song changes to: Jay-Z - Never Change* I never change, this is Jay every day I never change, this is Jay every day I never change, this is Jay

Its no facade or no chapard Well acquainted with Audemars and all that shit Its Ricky Ross the rich boss Wet bars on the boat, what broad wont elope Crib like Scott Storch all from the coke Maybachs were a dream now its all real Its hard to get sleep layin next to five mil Still got the chills, I call em the goosebumps Yeah Alexander vision, Im buildin like two Trumps Steppin guce bumps Im the main event We got a pocket full of game, brain it made me ten Six bitches numbers all on the same napkin Now thats what the fuck I call a chain reaction You see it these niggas livin of the past I ran a hundred miles but I did it all with class Hands all glass, wrist all glass Mirror on the wall, how long will the crystal last Champagne pours, celebrate the cause Hover above the laws at the mercy of the Lord This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga Whats worse, a testimony from you homie? Tables turn fast, I told you not to fuck me, Tony Started with the dishes, endin with the digits I had to cross friendship, its rules to the business All the time with a sister like Gina Beauty salon dream, got the keys and the Beamer On the way to cheetahs pointin an army Land my spaceship with the spoilers only Seen the UFOs, FBI, ATF, let ‘em know how a nigga ride Fo-fo and fo-five and six fos Half a pill, two dime, six hoes I need a slice of the pie, fo five six As I throw my dice in the sky Head crack nigga Bread stack nigga Convertible Bert yeah I let my hair back nigga This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga Lamborghinis and Maseratis for mediocres When the beats over, back to the street, soldier Call cold shoulders might make me bring the heats over When the beefs over, might see the peach rover We eats but we try to reach each quota No soda, Rolls roller one on her Rodeo eighty gram, one coda Louis Vuitton, bright sides don’t want ‘em They trippin, I’m drippin in Tiffany stones Get a mop, Peter prop, I’m livin it homes Chauffeur I blow purp and no skirts Four chains I’m puttin down with more work This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga This me nigga, Its me nigga While we do our thing, give me six feet nigga Better take a picture, this is history nigga Im busy gettin money, you can miss me nigga

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Its clear to see that this is fucking manslaughter, bodies in the water Beats in the casket, and preachers at your altar Tweetin from the sky like Im finna land on ya And bitches get pumped like Fishburnes daughter 16sll cost ya, 20 years Im boss You just in the closet, nigga Im a monsta Full blown sick, you niggas a little nausea Snappin on shit, like whats served at Red Lobster Rasta; but no dread-head, Im too proper Im breaking down the game for you niggas like Bob Costas Impostors; mighty Wolf Gang, you cant stop us And Im getting neck from your bitch, like dog collars Yall be bullshittin but I dodge it like a boxer Weavin like a ghetto black bitch gettin primed up Cant knock me, and besides Im too high up I aint seen you niggas in a minute like Von Dutch It kinda feels like Im living with my eyes shut Walking on a dream, all the real niggas gon rise up Punks stay away my dro heads are like nine sluts My old heads tell me go ahead, you doing fine son I know that you faggots dont like us But youd be winnin if you did it just like us Its a celebration, so I might just- Fly to New York, sour diesel light the night up

Haha, yeah Just, just, just, just, uh-huh Ow! Just, just, just, just, uh-huh Just, just, just, just, uh-huh Just, just, just, just, uh Just gots me a crib and a new car too Its what you been waitin for, right? I got the ring, baby, what you gon do? Huh, come on Kanye to the Come on Yo, J.E What you know? Just got me a crib and a new car too I got the ring, but I gotta have you, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Cmon lets get married Lets have some kids and a dog with a house A lil white fence, just like this, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Lets get married Meet me at the alter in your white dress You wont ever need another man You never, ever want from another thing, no Ive been feeling you, I must confess Aint nobody gonna break this thang up I aint going nowhere, no, no Cause when I think about you and I think about me Plain to see that we might as well do it Might as well do it, yeah Just got me a crib and a new car too I got the ring, but I gotta have you, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Cmon lets get married Lets have some kids and a dog with a house A lil white fence, just like this, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Lets get married Said you want some karats, baby, how about ten? Is it good enough for you to brag on when you show your friends? I just wanna be with you Girl, there aint I think I wont do Want you to be the one to say I do We can start a family Cause when I think about you and I think about me Plain to see that we might as well do it Do it Just got me a crib and a new car too I got the ring, but I gotta have you, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Cmon lets get married Lets have some kids and a dog with a house A lil white fence, just like this, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Lets get married With my tuxedo, he asked me, "Do you take this Woman to hold and keep the safest?" Plus to lace her, floss with paper Crib and a car, man, you know the basics Diamonds your best friend, that makes sense because You a princess and you deserve the princess cuts But as long as you got your defenses up You can never get the love that was meant for ya Shit, you know that I used to come through on the club tip Real thugs dont never fall in love Always on the G-0, for the D-O Man, I had to take T-O, with some cutie Since my money gettin right these days I wanna give you more ice than the ice capades I gots the church, the ring Theres somethin Im forgettin Oh, we gotta have J.E. sing at the wedding Just got me a crib and a new car too I got the ring, but I gotta have you, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Cmon lets get married Lets have some kids and a dog with a house A lil white fence, just like this, baby Cmon lets get married, baby Lets get married

Martin Lawrence:"look here, lemme tell you something, ya know. Im tired a arguin im tryna share this wit chu,ok? Im tryna giv this to yooou, ya know what im sayin? To Yooou, you know? This..if you dont, y-you cant get wit the indoor pool, the outdoor pool, or lil music studio thing, the little bowlin thang, ya know what im sayin? Hm, this is yours. But chu dont like that, then fiiine man. You can leave. You can allllways leave. Im not holdin you here" Chorus) We cant even sit & talk Witout chu arguin Girl you must be outta your mind Youre the one who started it 1st Verse: I gotta girl at home But she dont cook I have my condoms in the store cause she wont look And she neva-eva go to the grocery sto So I figure its safe to pull a grocery-ho She was buyin Alize out the liquor aisle She said, i hope its not too ghetto Rock-Dawg, Gold Force, Baggy style I kept her number on file For my girl be actin wyld Like last week, I told her take me to the mall But she dont drive My otha girl picked me up at 3:05 She got a brand new car, sixteen Now the car only 1 yrs old, oh Man, but the body look grown, "whooa!" Before I catch a case I betta take my ass home Where the problems is Arguments be daily like Carson is Martin again: Fuck you. Fuck yooou. I ont give a fuck whatchu have. This little indoor-indoor, outdoor pool, little bowlin alley. Material buuullshit. It dont mean shit. It dont make whats in the muthafuckin heart" We cant even sit & talk Witout chu arguin Girl you must be outta your mind Youre the one who started it 2nd Verse: Hol up, wait a second man Thats that thrift sto info Thats sauce again Why dont chu talk to the mouth a the horses Bout my porshes? Condos in front a the golf courses Instead you stay up Count every second like a fake rolley Im real, so you know I move real slowly The way this relationship should go if you know me I aint call you You wanna know why? I mean you know why How on the low I push jet-skees so I Couldnt return them pages, on my motorolla Nextel, my cell it dont work down there And what happened in cancun, stay down there Whats happenin here, made me wish I stayed down there Take a seat. Why you always makin a beef? You know these walls too thin in this apart-a-ment Now everybody hearin our arguments What the problem is?!?!? Martin again: "Why you actin like this? But letchu have some fly shit. Some nice beautiful shit. They act like they gon leave yoou. You can tell em look here, Ya know. Im tired a arguin" We cant even sit & talk Witout chu arguin Girl you must be outta your mind Youre the one who started it Last Verse: Man boo you know what I do So dont trip when I come home after two Or three or four I aint messin wit them girls no more...this week The benz coup is so sweet When I roll down the street Tears roll down her cheeks She said, you must love that car more than me A nigga I was wit chu before the cheese So you need to work on your priorities If she went wit Fabulous I bet that shed be a: AR-GU-IN-G, Please Im not actin like this cause Im gettin spins on WU-KR, Cin-ci-nat-ti You think I get my voice so deep Like WU-KR, cin-ci-nat-ti Thats how much of a fuck I give You seen cribs? Thats how the fuck I live As far as this... We cant even sit & talk Witout chu arguin Girl you must be outta your mind Youre the one who started it

Yo, I come from a crack in the ground, a hole in the wall And dog, when the crack aint around, the smokersll brawl Streets like a bullet in cancer, itll swallow you up Or eat you from the inside and hollow you up And everyday like a test, you know life got rules And its sorta like checkers and chess I went to school and took the lessons, punk Know a pawn get kinged, a bishop get juiced, a rook get jumped Faggot niggas took the easy route They either coked out, smoked out, doped out Niggas took the needle route And I aint tryin to take either route Im tryin to stop get weeded out, really, tryin to weed it out Know the flipside, we choosin your way Like gettin fat from losin the weight Or losing that from, usin the weight I feel like Im speeding and Im bout to crash Nowhere to go and Im gettin there fast, damn Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to ruuuuunnnnnnn We in the streets player, get your mail Theres only two places to go, we either dead or in jail What the... Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere Ayo, Im caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind And this artist only speaks on the signs of the time And I pop pills and purple rain to state my pain They say Im just like my father, bold and too cold But you know thats how a thug ride I send a kite through a dove in a jail where the thugs cry I feel your pain when you restrained and your love die And make your heart hard, the blood in your vein fry Feel like Im trapped and Im blindfolded But my eyes wide open to see it Feel like the OJays, climbin those stairways Hoping, Heavens gates wide open for me Look towards Allah, Sig in direction Still I spin in every direction, seekin direction Tryna balance out the good with the imperfections Yeah, I know I still move with nowhere to go, damn Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to ruuuuunnnnnnn We in the streets player, get your mail Theres only two places to go, we either dead or in jail What the... Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere It seems like we grind from the bottom Just to make it to the bottom, see faces of the people that I shot When I get high late night, flow through the bottom My aunts house, one of the places that I stopped See she just died, she got cancer from smokin and drinkin The same shit that Im drinkin and smokin I cant lie, wish life would just open its handcuffs And let me go, I feel like Im doin a bit I cant slide, so what Im a rapper? I cant escape the wrath of Allah If I crash up my whip or get, blast in the jaw Prick, mastered his fifth Or I might go triple platinum, become a household name After a long day of out of town work Make my way to the plane, plane fast in the drift Hear mayday, mayday, controls outta work How the hell can life end like this? Nowhere to go Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to Ooouu hooouu, got nowhere Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere to ruuuuunnnnnnn We in the streets player, get your mail Theres only two places to go, we either dead or in jail What the... Ooouu hooouu, I got nowhere

: With the breach of three levees protecting New Orleans, the landscape of the city has changed dramatically, tragically, and perhaps irreversibly. There is now over twenty-five feet of water where there was once city streets and thriving neighbourhoods. : I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says “they’re looting.” If you see a white family, it says “they’re looking for food.” And you know, it’s been five days because most of the people are black and even for me to complain about I would be a hypocrite because I’ve tried to turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been shopping before even giving a donation. So now I’m calling my business manager right now to see what’s… what is the biggest amount I can give and… and just to imagine if I was… if I was down there and those are… those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help. With… with the setup, the way America is set up to help the…uh the uh, the poor, the… the black people, the uh… the less well-off as slow as possible. I mean, this is, Red Cross is doing everything they can. We… we already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war, right now, fighting another way, and they’ve… they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us. : And subtle and but in even many ways more profoundly devastating is the lasting damage to the survivors’ will to rebuild and remain in the area. The destruction of the spirit of the people of Southern Louisiana and Mississippi may end up being the most tragic loss of all. : George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

Now whatcha finna hear is an update On what we been on as of late See I was reading a late notice on the date that I wrote this, you hear Time flies in the Leer And you wonder where the day went See Im a leader in my field, but Im behind on my truck payments So this is something that could help you raise your head like hello See this is not brown red or yellow Not a white or black poem This is a prayer to a guardian angel To protect our fathers. mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters Until we bring our troops back home Cause it feel like we all in the same platoon And well all be extinct soon If we continue to suffer from other peoples crimes I think we well overdo for change This time And I know they dont wanna see me cooped up in a Benz Theyd rather see me cooped up in these pens Therefore I release the ink thats cooped up in these pens And let my art-ticulate People are so slow to love, but so quick to hate Now some things finna change because we say so Lets stop looking at how bad things are And focus on how well they may go And this is a declaration That well be fair again Especially to those Americans Who were Americans, before there were Americans This is to a small young family thats booming out of space Theres room in outer space This is to my people The human race I need you to Take us to the promise land Dont just make us promises Its too late to let go of our hand They say we need a prophet that can touch on the topics And make it hot as the tropics. Well you got it Take us to the promise land Dont just make us promises Its too late to let go of our hand Everybody saying please dont let go I hear it over and over and over like a echo I see it in my dreams, I feel the effect though People drowning in debt Somebody to the rescue Everybodys saying we need something special Nah man, we need something extra terrestrial Outta this world, speak for us Be the vessel Outta the box, reach for it through the threshold Uh, through all of the stress though Whats best of all, people screaming like a festival Just applaud, this moment is special yall I need you to And I need you to And I need you to I need you to I need you to

Lyrics from Snippets Yeah It aint up to you no more Gods Country, this is war Hold up son I make the storm Roll the dice I make it four It aint up to you no more Gods Country, this is war We was quiet when he rose Now Im talkin to the boss Ima talk to you Waking up, I see the light I been up, initial right See they leaping up my legion I teared it up and its alright Every time I got it all Tearing up and watch em fall...

Blood, one time, check I said I Blood so hard red cross cant find me First niggas gotta find me Who started this gangtsa shit? Motherfucka please remind me  Blood so hard everything red Niggas Blood more than me this shit weird Light the tree come on T.V Niggas throwing up signs like Paul pierce Blood so hard I forever bleed Join a gang out here you can never leave When the album drop, Im the new PAC My bitch wanted me to get a nose ring Blood so hard nigga nose bleed Why you motherfuckas sittin in the nosebleed? Im on my twitter dmin hoes Why you motherfuckas bein so nosy? How could you fall for that fakeout believing that media takeout Talkin bout how I ate the box bitch you cant even get takeout One beef nigga meet me at the steakhouse Come alone nigga this aint no stakeout No cops in here just Glocks in here This shit will blow your face out Niggas be all up on myspace put the hammer on your Facebook I come around upside down frown show a nigga how that k look Come around lay it down nigga jay showed you And jay told you And jay showed you LA Leakers, said I blood so hard red cross cant find me First niggas gotta find me Who started this gangsta shit motherfucka please remind me Blood so hard red cross cant find me First niggas gotta find me Who started this gangsta shit motherfucka please remind me

Oh , amazing Crystal sweet And I know that, I know that, I know for myself  He is, Hes so  He is mighty, mighty Sweet , Taste and see He is , He is So , so sweet So sweet , so sweet , yeah And I know , and I know , and I know , and I know And I know , know, know , know, know, know, know I know Sweet, oh Sweet, oh Sweet, mm, and I dont know what to say I cant move all by myself Mhm , mhm Mhm And I show it

I lift my hands in total praise Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen Amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen Amen, amen

Hei fato voiam doar să îți zic, că Trapperii cu care stai sunt guvernați de frică Crezi că faptul că te fuți cu ei te ridică Ți se pare că te fac să fii deosebită Îmi pare rău să îți zic, dar ești cam folosită Ei doar profită, că ești frumoasă și mică Dar n-am venit aici că să-ți țin vreo predică Doar dezbracă-te, uită de orice limita Acum du-te iar la ei și fă-i să se simtă bine Înregistrează-i când vorbesc orice căcat de mine Lasă-i să îți dea MDMA, lasă-i să te combine După șantajează-l, că te-a hărțuit peste câteva zilе Nu mă angajez, sunt șef la compania mea Ai văzut cе am ajuns și brusc vrei compania mea Mă întrebi dacă am o problema, am și nu-i problema ta Vezi-ți de zdreanță ta, până nu îmi văd eu de ea De când m-am născut, simt că nu mai am mult de trăit Poate d-asta sunt așa, setat să fiu ce mi-am dorit Poate d-asta fac căcături și nu îmi pasă de nimic Mă auto-distrug, fiindcă-s propriul meu inamic Dacă karma e o târfă, atunci sunt cel mai mare simp Dacă pizda ta e bună, o bag într-un videoclip Când am trecut prin probleme, toți m-au lăsat baltă Eram complexat că-s gras și că lumea zice că-s fată Nopți nedormite, bani, droguri, decizii greșite Persoane ipocrite, sentimente rătăcite Noaptea trece prea repede, și mă simt-n pierdere Fiindcă xan-urile mă fac să uit toate momentele Decât să îi oferi droguri, mai bine îi oferi încredere Dacă ating subiecte delicate, o să șterg amprentele Dacă nu făceam artă, nu îmi exprimăm sentimentele Nu văd fantome, hop, mă bântuie regretele Trag mai multe linii, ca un arhitect Am luat oxy prima oară, corpul a amorțit complet De când am apărut, unii vor să mă anuleze Cum că vezi doamne am succes doar dacă e Ian pe piese Cum că profit de toată lumea, doar ca să mă ridic Prima oară a făcut-o cu Neli, acuma cu Keed Și e mort de drogat, doar uite ce față are în poză Sunt propriul meu drog, abia aștept o supradoză Hah, fac inimi să vibreze pe piese Fac fraieri să comenteze fac rapperi slabi să credă că le iese Fac târfele astea să creadă că vreodată o să îmi pese Fac totul independent, mă pis pe orice lesă M-am trezit cu chef de viață, m-am trezit cu chef de-o zdreanță Am petrecut așa mult am dormit în ea de dimineață Rapperi care mi-au zis să cant doar despre ce trăiesc Acum sunt supărați că vorbesc de droguri și sex Am nevoie de o cauza, ca să fac o pauză Nu semnez contractul ăsta poți să schimbi orice clauză Sunt OSKY capul dracilor, că Scaraoțchi Mănânc șuncă pe pâine, la fel ca Charles Bukowski Fata e un înger, doar că eu sunt iadul ei Fato ai făcut din drogurile astea, un obicei Bag boabe, cox, vrei, iei, K, nu mai pot să te ajut Fiindcă am capul în prea multe părți că J.F.K Mă ameninți că o să mă omori, n-am înțeles ideea Coaie tot ce îți poate pielea, e acneea Albumul ăsta e un experiment, nu mă aștept să te spargă Nu mai voiam să îl scot, dar știu că lumea îl așteaptă M-am săturat să mănânc beat-uri, vă rog faceți notă Scot apă, și după dispar ca Jimmy Hoffa

You know what Yeezy back with Timbo, something gold and simple Hearts all within through exactly what you sayin for If you got the info then go in and start the intro If you got the synth though, then go and spark the indoor Oh its different, oh, thats a different kind of money Pop them, make it somethin, act done, eh Pop them, take it, all of the dineré Popped on in the 747, bitch Make your jet look like a fucking private Ghosts under on it like its fucking Yeezus I make your jet look like a fucking Prius Focus on the funnel, pon the fucking Yeezus What the fuck they thought, that "Yall cant fuck with Yeezus" Ill make your private jet look like a Prius Suck on some, Ill find out where the fucking weed is Howd I get so many checks from Adidas? They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem Get it by all on, seen me, how would you want some Makin some on em, make it some and make it done, done Hit, would it, would it, would it? Take ya son, I wanna make him, would it? Fuck a son, yeah man, I got your son with your boo Fakin somethin then and they never had a clue Take your summer too, take your summers too Never felt thay bitch, I go, son, uh, woo 0 and 380, bitch, Ill take two Take your son who done it and then sent it like the, ooh Bought a sub inside that bitch, she lookin like the zoo One with one a summer, they be lookin like a, ooh Hold up with they son, hold up, bitch I got em Done a one in now, nother song we at em If they talking bond then you know we at em Forward on the dial everytime we got em They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem They say I got a problem I got a problem, yeah, I got a problem

I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen Blood burgundy soul, heart cold, surgery flowed They operate like an emergency Harder, I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen Listen, I know my position, Im young, your profection is distant I run to it, it feels like it comes closer but misses I been exposed to the most vicious, meanin I know the difference Between those that are dope or those that are Pulp Fiction My words are weapons, they serve and protect Behind verbs and a lesson I teach for the nerve that your testin Ill reach you from like thirty directions Heat you like, the early detections like he questions the reaper to strike Your number it came and crumbled your fame, into a ball A umbrella dissolved into flames, you under my brain You fell in my shower, lyrics my power Your time is now, this is your hour to listen and its windin down Your mission to make your way if your smart He play his part, you can never take away his heart, listen I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen Blood burgundy soul, heart cold, surgery flowed They operate like an emergency Harder, I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen My spit is like a fix or the rinse cycle that gets Under the dirt, that gets, under the skirt of your bitch Under your nose, so get onto your toes This is the reason you ballers is leavin me all in control, my brother You should play the back if you loud, I make you fade the black If you wild so you should stay in back and be proud I never take for granted my style cause him who handed it down To me, Slim who demanded, take advantages now Im breezin away from competitive ways Every day Im leavin a race, Im leadin every step of the way That Im breathin and the reason that the hungers increased Im under my peeps speed and Im underneath the numbers I seek I speak if you never show me respect No longer lookin up to rappers, in fact I’m after the ones that I’ve met I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen Blood burgundy soul, heart cold, surgery flowed They operate like an emergency Harder, I know that you know I can rip it, I hope that you listen

Wait a second, would you rather me not talk at all? ’Cause I don’t want to like, I don’t want to rattle no cages or nothing, I don’t want to like, I don’t want to get in trouble. I want to be scared. I’m trying my best to be scared. I’m trying my hardest to be scared. No, no, no, I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to talk at all. As a matter of fact I’m just going to tip-toe on this I’m scared of anonymous comments online. I’m scared of them. These words affect me so much. They affect me so much. No, I’m sorry. I’m scared, I’m scared. I’m scared of these corporations, like, not giving me another deal that they didn’t give me already. I’m scared. I’m scared. I’m so shook. I’m so, so scared. So scared. Soooo You ain’t never seen, you ain’t ever seen, that my great, great, great, granddaddy somehow ended up on that boat. Somehow he ended up on that boat. But I know that we were royalty. I know we built the pyramids. I know anything is possible. I know anything is possible. And everybody has a moment in time and I picked y’all when I was walking in Madison Square Garden, I just wanted to make sure, thank y’all for giving me this moment in time. ’Cause everybody has a moment. And in your moment you gotta own it. There’s so many people have a moment and they don’t own it You know, it’s so funny when people compliment me and they say the word genius, and somehow that like, separates me from rappers in some way, there’s the connotation of that. But what I need y’all to realize is Jay Z is a genius. And I need y’all to understand that Drake is a genius. I need y’all to understand that rap is an amazing way to express genius ’Cause just as an architect would build buildings, we put our words together to express the shit that we going through. We are the modern day poets, obviously. But why are so many writers so condescending to the rappers? Why do they try to classify us as musicians as being ignorant in some way? Why do they try to classify us, as far as the classes go? You know how it goes, right? I think it’s like a battle between art and architecture as the top. And if you’re an artist or an architect, you look down upon a fashion designer. And if you’re a fashion designer, you look down upon a musician. And if you a musician, you sign a deal with a corporation so you can buy a bigger house. And every time you go in the studio you watch your fucking mouth You watch, you watch your fucking mouth. You don’t, you don’t want to lose this house. But when they write these history books, they’re not going to talk about what house we had. When they write the history books they aren’t going to talk about the money we made. They’re going to talk about the impact we had. They’re going to talk about the impact we had And being that I saw The Hunger Games today, I wanted to bring up something, because it was very inspiring. It felt like almost a mimic of my exact life and shit. I know it. I was like, “Baby we gotta be on that movie board when they writing this shit.” And I saw Lenny Kravitz. There wouldn’t be no song called “Niggas in Paris” if it wasn’t for Lenny Kravitz. ’Cause that was the first nigga in Paris. Fucking with the models and shit, rocking Rick Owens head-to-toe and shit. Black. Rock. Star But what’s interesting to me is like I was fond of hanging out with different people, in Paris, right. ’Cause Lenny Kravitz has like, the best taste. And he has like the dopest crib in Paris, everybody knows about it. And I don’t know if you know this, but he designs furniture, he designs lighting fixtures, and he had been working on a clothing line for a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time. Long time. Long, long, long, long time And the designers would love it when Lenny Kravitz would show up at their fashion show. Yeah we gonna take some pictures of Lenny Kravitz and we gonna say he’s at the such and such show, and that’s gonna promote our brand. Hey Lenny, promote it the best you can. Hey Lenny, promote it the best you can. Hey Lenny, promote it the best you can. Best you can. Hey Kanye, promote it the best you can. Hey Kanye, promote us the best you can. From Paris to New York all the way to Japan. Hey Kanye, I mean Lenny, I mean any of you niggas, promote it the best you can. Any of you niggas promote if the best you can So I said, “Wait a second, though.” I said, “I’ve got a dream of doing my clothing and I, I want to learn about furniture,” and you know what they told me when I was in Paris? You know when the W Magazine writer came out and wrote that classist-ass interview about me? You know what they said? You know what the billionaires told me? I went to about three or four different people and you know what they told me when I told them about my dreams? They said, “Lenny Kravitz wanted the same, same thing.” They said, “Lenny Kravitz wanted the same, same thing.” Don’t let me sing because I want y’all to understand that I need to talk to you. They told me, “Hey that’s cute, that’s the same thing Lenny wanted to do.” Like it’s a motherfucking joke. It wouldn’t be no Kanye west if it wasn’t for Lenny Kravitz. You know what I’m saying? But the only difference between me and Lenny Kravitz is I turned up on these niggas. I don’t give a fuck about looking cool or being cool. And this is no disrespect to Lenny. But they got this shit called cool, everybody want to look cool, everybody want to be cool, everybody don’t want to break their motherfucking cool, don’t nobody want to look like a fool My boy , who used to work for Donda and now designs stages for Jay Z and Justin. The other day he said a word that I hadn’t heard people say before. And he said he was working at some corporation, and the head of the corporation is always like, kind of down on him and shit, and the word was to marginalize. To marginalize. And then he also said he tried to make him look like an idiot in front of people, right? So has anyone here tonight ever read a piece of press or saw something or heard something on the radio where they tried to make me look like an idiot? Wait a second, I don’t know, have you ever heard anything in the press where they’re trying to make me look stupid? You know what I’m saying, like I’m actually stupid. You know what I’m saying, like I’m not smart, like stupid. Like, like what the fuck is wrong with him? You know what I’m saying? Have y’all ever read or heard someone say, “I don’t like Kanye West”? I’ll tell you something. Have you ever heard anyone talk shit about Lenny Kravitz though? He’s a nice guy. He’s a nice guy. He’s so well-mannered. I envy manners. I envy it. I envy people who are extremely likeable. I’m like, “Damn, I wish I could be likeable like them.” I wish people would like me like that So what they basically did was, at Fashion Week… Let me explain something to you… I don’t give a fuck about fashion. I care about talent. I care about creativity. And it just so happens that with the advent of the Louis Vuitton bag, fashion rise to the top, and stole all of the creativity to only work for its small box, and sell it back to you at a higher price. That’s what the fuck fashion is to me. I care about dreamers. I care about heart. I care about soul. Not those who are marginalized So if you think about someone like McQueen. Instead of being forced to make some fucking T-shirts with a skull on it, why wasn’t he allowed to make movies? He was just as good as Tarsem, he’s just a good a visualist as anyone else. But they would marginalize him as only a fashion designer. Which, let’s rewind, is above a music producer, and it’s above a rapper ’Cause you gotta stay in your tier, in your section. You gotta stay right there, you can’t move. But if you pay for a ticket, you wanted to come to see this show, and you standing right there, right? And when you’re trying to go you say I want to go up there, a security guard stops you, and then holds you, and if you start screaming the paparazzi catch you, catch you with your face looking all crazy, and then you scream out loud, and you got to really scream, you gotta say, “I am a god!” Just for them to let you a little bit up But you know who fucked it up for everyone? Marc Jacobs. Because he gave two niggas a shot, me and Pharrell. He fucked the whole game up, and Pharell’s such a nice guy. ’Cause soon as I was able to make that Louis Vuitton sneaker, and the world reacted—I didn’t price it, but the world reacted to it—I got to see what it meant to create inside of that type of production facility. And wait a second, the same guy that was creative enough to make all of this , that’s worn Jordans his whole life, could create a sneaker with Louis Vuitton and people reacted to that. And I said, I made another color. I did a pink model, and I did a red model, and I named them after my friends. I made one in Jasper after Ivan Jasper and one Mr. Hudson after Mr. Hudson, and one, the Louis Vuitton Don, for my nigga Don C. And that last day in the factory, I was going through the colors and it came to me, when they made me do a couple pictures and shit, and I called back after they sold out. And they said, “I’m sorry, Mr. West, but you’re not going to be able to create anything else in here. You’re not going to be able to create anything else again.” They said, “I’m sorry,” and I said, “But wait a second. I sold out.” They said, “I’m sorry Mr. West, you can never create anything else again.” And right there, I was scared. Right there I was scared. ’Cause I thought that if I just went to their fashion show again and I just sat down like a good nigga they would let Lenny Kravitz get his shot! I thought maybe, maybe they would let Pharell get his shot. But no, no, no. Fuck you, nigga. Fuck you, nigga. Fuck you, nigga. Is that abrasive enough for you? ’Cause that’s what it is. Fuck you, nigga. Is that abrasive enough for you? And what about Mark Parker, and what about Hedi Slimane? I thought Hedi Slimane was my friend, and that’s why I’m so hurt. How many names did people call me for wearing tight jeans when I’m the rapper that wore tight jeans and shit, that brought tight jeans to the ghetto and shit? I thought I was Hedi Slimane designing motherfuckin’ tight jeans that you want. I’m the nigga that, you know I’m rocking that shit. Then he had his first fashion show, and I was so happy for him. I was so, so, so happy for him. And he told me, you can come to my show, but you just can’t go to Riccardo’s show and you can’t go to Phoebe’s show But he wouldn’t say that to Anna Wintour. He wouldn’t say that to . And now his whole shit based off of rock and roll, and you trying to tell the number one rock star on the planet where the fuck he can go? So he can sell y’all, some motherfucking $10,000 pair of jeans? Fuck fashion. Fuck fashion. I mean, what’s the worst thing they gonna do, not help me again? What’s the worst they gonna do tell me I can’t go to these shows again? What’s the worst they gonna do, tell me that because I’m a musician, I don’t have any ideas for clothing again? What’s the worst they gonna do, marginalize me again? And never let Pharrell get his shot, and never let Lenny get his shot? But I’mma tell y’all right now, I will take that spot. I am 2Pac of this clothing shit. And I’mma take that spot, and we gonna combine all the creators, the best creators on the planet, and we gonna lower the motherfucking prices, so everybody can get it. And we ain’t gonna steal from people’s ideas like H&M. And we ain’t gonna steal people’s ideas like Zara. We gon’ make our own shit. We gon’ combine the best creators on the planet, and we gon’ take them from Harvard, and we gon’ take them from St. Marks, and we gon’ take ’em from the street And I’m sorry I went so long tonight. I know you just want to hear another motherfuckin’ hit song tonight. I’m so sorry I went so long tonight. I know you just want to hear another motherfuckin’ hit song tonight. Hit song tonight, hit song tonight. Another hit song, another hit song. Yes they do. I ask people about it, I tell them that I’m this creator, and they say I need another hit song. They say I need another hit song, hit song tonight, hit song… Hold up, hold up. I’m sorry, if anyone out there thinks they can do anything, put your hands up right motherfuckin’ now! Almost forgot that part

First the Fat Boys break up, now every day I wake up Somebody got a problem with Hov Whats up? Cats all fed up cause I got a little cheddar And my records movin out the store? Young cats gettin at me, young rappers spittin at me My homie Big predicted this thing exactly "Mo Money, Mo Problems"- gotta move carefully Cause cat hate when you getting money like athletes Youngns ice-grilling me, ohh - you not feeling me? Fine; it cost you nothing - pay me no mind Look, Im on my grind, cousin, aint got time for fronting Sensitive thugs, they all need hugs Damn little man Im just trying do me If the records two mil you know Im trying move three Get a couple of chicks, get em to try to do E Hopefully theyll ménage before I reach my garage I dont want much, yo I drove every car Some nice cooked food, some nice clean drawers Bird-ass niggas I dont mean to ruffle yall I know you waiting in the wing but Im doing my thing Wheres the love? I said wheres the love? And then the Fugees gonna break up, now everyday I wake up Somebody got something to say Whats all the fussing for? Because Im grubbing more And I pack heat like Im the oven door? They pray and pray on my downfall But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like roundball Now I dont wanna have to kill soundboys Dont wanna have to cock back the four pound boy Look scrapper I got nephews to look after Im not looking at you dudes, Im looking past ya I thought I told you cats Im not a rapper Can I live? I told you in 96 That I came to take this shit and I did, handle my biz I scramble like Randall with his Cunningham but the only thing running is numbers fam Jigga held you down 6 summers; damn, wheres the love? Ok I feel you ma, I said wheres the love? Everybody lets take em to church (Aint no love, in the heart of the city Aint no love, in the heart of town) Then Richard Pryor gon and burn up and Ike and Tina Turner Break up then I wake up to more bullsh You knew me before records, you never disrespected me Now that Im successful youll pull this sh Nigga Ill step on your porch, step to your boss Lets end the speculation, Im talking to all of yall Males shouldnt be jealous thats a female trait What you mad cause you push dimes and he sell weight? Yall dont know my expenses, I gotta buy bigger plates Hehehe, and more baggies, why you all aggie? Nigga respect the game, that should be it What you eat dont make me sh - wheres the love? I said wheres the love? Aint no Aint no Aint no Aint no I like that start again Aint no Aint no Aint no Aint no Uh huh Aint no Everybody give it up for Jagwar Wright come on Thats all you baby thats all you Thats all Jay Yeah right

Eh, lawd All day nigga Hehehehe, hehehe ha Heh Fuck it, Ima finna go in Lawd Look I have never been concerned With any amount of money another man earned The spending habits of bastards that wanna live lavish The fast cash and the bright light look attractive And you would sell your soul to try to get a source of access Its your self esteem, never really mattered, its the assets You feel its unimportant if you cant go in a bank account I bet you put yourself in a position that you wont get out You feelin stuck Im sure it sucks to be you But never wanna make a record for a demographic Or a trend thats gonna end it about a month or two But what Im finna do is somethin different I set myself apart with honesty and now they listenin Forgive me if I got an attitude I think its obvious these other niggas full of shit Can you really relate to What they emulatin Everything they see up on the internet Im saying that its pitiful But never passing judgement I think we need a serious topic for a discussion Comin from a place of positivity I said that Im the sickest sinner breathin Unequivocally Im dealin with the agony and misery Of stayin in the same spot Feelin like Im not progressin Man I been runnin in place though What the fuck you know about bein stagnant? Every day I work but nothin ever seems to happen Givin in to distractions, fell in love with the habit I cant deal with the hassle Of trying to keep everything together When I feel Im at the limit My opinion Ima keep it Swimmin in the deepest Someone call a deacon I could see the sign From the beginning but I cannot make an adjustment Im just tryna find a better way that I could function With the melody momentum of the move, its subduing Your negativity but simply the simile Extending to a sight to see The saddest song youll ever sing As you could sense Im losin everything I need to take a seat Now gimme one minute, lemme catch my breath I am overly dedicated, you might say Im obsessed But no matter how you feel, I bet you one day Ill be the best You cant attest or testify I rectify the proper etiquette To eat the beat alive and that was light work, it was delicate I used it like a continental breakfast with the condiments So keep a compliment I got the common sense that you were never blessed with Lawd Eh This shit aint over Im just gonna keep goin into it Lawd, eh Heh Why am I fighting complacency I cannot see what is wrong When Im speaking on several subjects in a song And I swear that it varies, like seconds or minutes Theres one for atonement and one for forgiveness The page Kunta Kinte the way my pen whip it Invading your brain and I brought Anglo-Saxons Assassins attacking the second your side if I die Fuck it, Ill be playing Makaveli til the death of me The only man that I would ever idolize, the chronological order I wanna try to put the fucking rhyme in Only if the time is perfect, not collided with the verse Diversify with the kaleidoscope, Im trying to go to Monaco To monetize and use it, maybe make a couple classics You illiterate bastards basking in the basic You were going through phases Boy am I amazing, I couldve took the lyrics Turn them into something similar that we become accustomed to Im guessing you a cuckold I accompany the cadence with a blessing made up for Descendants is impressive when you never have to tell a lie I put my hand up on the bible you can see me testify I feel Im really fallen off I pray to god it aint my time And I was given some potential but I never got my mind straight I hit the holy water from the faucet or the hydrant Youll find me in the savor spot, I needed time to hibernate To concentrate, to contemplate The complicated code a nigga speaking in Im turning on my TV viewing CNN Im seeing its the same shit; a whole lot of unrest Where is your compassion? I dont feel the empathy and nobody is listening Im wasting all my energy But fuck it Ima bring it back and this time Ill be average Real shit, just gonna dumb it down Eh What you want a simple rhyme scheme nigga Double cup and never bluffing with some codeine nigga Pop a molly we should party with some morphine nigga We can do it everyday and turn into dope fiend niggas Now your tolerance is up you want the whole thing nigga Man you never did that shit when you was younger It was everybody around you, influencing in the way that you looking at it Staring in the mirror, just the image of an addict Your mind been ravaged by narcotics you been taking You reminisce but everyday youre feeling like a vacant Mistaking evil people you could trust I could tell you right now homie they dont give a fuck and Nothings ever enough and no youll never be satisfied You always want more, thats a fact that will forever remain There is no amount of drugs that will ever mask pain Man you gotta keep it moving, try to leave it in the past tense Lawd Eh, eh, eh Lawd Real shit Ha, knowledge, nigga Eh, lawd Eh, hmph You wont find me at the mall Oh no Im not trying to ball All that I want is something I can call my own Yes Ive adjusted the tone, leave me alone Promise that Ill never change Ill stay the same til Im no longer breathing Believe in the words that I speak are the truth You expected turn water to wine for a skeptic Lawd, eh "In my head, in my head" Thats how that shit went? I wish we could find, I wish we could that version It wasnt-, naw I didnt say what he said, but it was close enough I dont even understand what a nigga said on the real record No-, nobody in rap says shit anymore, like They just mumble, including myself

Ooh, Im gon’ some to do it I can get this shit, no problem I can get this shit, no problem Even Batman needed Robin Even Jordan needed Rodman I can get this shit, no problem I can get this shit, no problem Even Batman needed Robin Even Jordan needed Rodman I can bag a bitch, no problem Glock 26, solve problems I need more money, less problems And I hit a bitch with no condom I can bag a bitch, no problem I can get this shit, no problem I can bag a bitch, no problem Even Jordan needed Rodman Every Batman need a Robin I was that young nigga robbin All of my diamonds be flashin’ I know that yo bitch stalkin Hop in that Beamer or that Benz If I fuck her, then Im fuckin her friends This is my Wraith, yeah your shit is a rent Fifty round drum, I aint talkin about cent Look at the stars on my roof Look at the rims on the Coupe Bitch, Im a savage, I shoot just to shoot Every Batman need a Robin I was that young nigga robbin Every Batman need a Robin I was that young nigga robbin’ I can get this shit, no problem I can get this shit, no problem Even Batman needed Robin Even Jordan needed Rodman I can get this shit, no problem I can get this shit, no problem Even Batman needed Robin Even Jordan needed Rodman I can bag a bitch, no problem Glock 26, solve problems I need more money, less problems And I hit a bitch with no condom I can bag a bitch, no problem I can get this shit, no problem I can bag a bitch, no problem Even Jordan needed Rodman I can get this shit, no problem I can get this shit, no problem Even Batman needed Robin Even Jordan needed Rodman

State Property Music Uh, holla, uh...... yeah When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know you wrong Will you cryyyy will you cry... Yo, say hello To Mr. Aint gon be shit Get a job, get your kids somethin for Easter Knowin I just came home aint got nothin to eat with Bitch outta line - Ho been drove me outta my mind She like, I shoulda knew before I lay down and slept with him Now she wish that she could sleep with him Take a stroll with him Wanna creep with him Roll with him And turn to a freak on him Aint have no patience with him when the ceilin leaked on him Creeped on him But Im a boss baby you crossed the line No orders go rock to hit all your girls From the bed to the tub, bathtub to the ceilin Killin the world... holla!! When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know you wrong Will you cryyyyy When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know you wrong Will you cryyyyy I aint Big but scrap you dead wrong Yall coulda scrapped it out He was never known for shootin the toola packin the chrome He was known for shootin the hoops up Little hustle nigga grind To get his jeans and boots up At the summer league game D game rough And the summer heat had yall niggas feelin like yall so damn tough Wrong words, couple of shoves, park full of hoes Had his hands all in your mug How could you roll with pride in your way You drove with your .38 to the place where he stay Said, "say hi to the pearly gates and scrolls." Now I pop beers reminisce with your bro You cant make it to the show And niggas make it to the jail Shed a tear When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know you wrong Will you cryyyy When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know your wrong Will you cry Oh look Who could it be, Ms. Lee You know this nigga aint kiddin Think harder, Freeway L. Pridgen Shit you used to tell me make me wanna work harder At gettin crack spots sent me to prison Said Im never gonna be a thang So I listened and skipped school Had them thing distributed Fuck class, on the block all day My science was choppin, baggin, dividin, addin, the math How my teacher gonna tell me Im dumb Had me feelin like a sore thumb Clown of the class I got graded most hated with guns But now I made it to the life Couldnt make it to the class If this nigga chew your ear Thats an oh for you to hear Kiss my ass! When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know your wrong Will you cryyyy When you hear the song Will you cry Cause you know you wrong Will you cryyyy This is dedicated to all, all the motherfucker out there You, you, and you mothefucker who did something wrong All yall niggas out there what else yall gon do something or there is something wrong right now You know you wrong

All day, nigga All day, nigga How long you niggas ball? All day, nigga How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga How many runners do you got on call? All day, nigga How long they keep you in court? All day, nigga Take you to get this fly? All day, nigga Tell your P.O. how-how long you been high? All day, nigga You already know Im straight from the Chi, all day, nigga South, south side! All day, nigga This Ye, nigga Shoppin for the winter and its just May, nigga Ball so hard, man, this shit cray, nigga And you aint gettin money less you got eight figures For that Jesus piece, man, Ive been saved, nigga Just talked to Farrakhan, thats sensei, nigga Told him Ive been on ten since the 10th grade, nigga Got a middle finger longer than Dikembe, my nigga, uh I dont let em play with me I dont let em talk to me no kind of way Uh, they better watch what they say to me Niggas still gettin popped on the day to day Yeah, I still got the hundred with the small face, nigga Might spend 50 racks on my off day, nigga You a fake Denzel like the Allstate nigga If you run into me, better have Allstate with yah You a Rico Suave nigga Ride round listen to Sade, nigga If you aint with us, you in our way, nigga You an actor, you should be on Broadway, nigga Cause you do shit the broad way, nigga Your bitch got a ass, but my broad way thicker Late for the class, in the hallway, nigga Yeah, the dropout at it as always nigga, as always All day, nigga I took a young sweet breath, and I reached into my Earth Gave him what I had left At that moment I dispersed At that moment I dispersed All day, nigga How-h-how long you ball? All day, nigga How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga How long it take you to get this fly, fly? All day, nigga Tell your P.O. how-how long you been high, high? All day, nigga Pour some Hen out for my niggas that died, all day, nigga And I keep a bad bitch on the passenger side, all day, nigga And you already know that a nigga from the Chi, all day, nigga South, south, south side, side! All day, nigga I could do this all day, boy You know I wanna get down Like a light skinned slave, boy We in the mothafuckin house! Dont really matter what I make, boy You know I still go wild They need that Ye in the streets, boy Theres been a mothafuckin drought 24/7, 365 days, everybody gettin paid People lookin at me like Im worth both MJs Made the release date a police date People sayin, "Ye, Ye, take it easy" 20 Gs for the Yeezys off of eBay Niggas do the most and they aint done shit Only way I can sum it up, sumbitch So wont you dance? ayy, ayy ayy ayy All day, nigga Whistling All day, nigga I took a young sweet breath, and I reached into my Earth Gave him what I had left At that moment I dispersed At that moment I dispersed Hotter than a blowtorch Bank account just had a growth spurt If my partna goes up, I can play whole court All we used to do is eat cold cuts, yeah All day, nigga Used to sell yay out the hallway, nigga Gunshots rang in the broad day, nigga I like it when my shrimp is sautéed, nigga All day, nigga I said you can play this shit like all day, nigga Playin no games, no arcade, nigga Been doin this shit since a bald fade, nigga Nigga, dreadlock rasta Got a lot of dimes in my goddang roster Put Forgiattos on a red Lamborghini Now that mothafucka lookin like a goddang lobster All day, nigga Smoke me a joint then them eyes red, nigga Please dont make me fuckin irate, nigga If swag was a sport then Id race niggas, vrrrrrm Fuck it, Ill annihilate niggas Came here to violate niggas Violence, most valuable player All these checks in the mail I could check the mailbox all day, nigga Get low, alright All day, nigga Get low, alright All day, nigga Get low, alright All day, nigga Get low, alright All day, nigga South, south, south side, side! All day, nigga

I was on top of the mountain I was on top of the world I thought Id never come down I thought Id always be up in the clouds With the wind in my hair And no worries or cares But the higher you are Then the harder you fall And I fell to the ground And I reached out for help And nobody around And Im Falling Falling, Im Falling Falling, Im Falling Falling I was inside of a valley Beggin for someone to save me Cryin for help every night Hoping that someone would come to my rescue And see that Im hurting But here in the valley Youre all on your own And youve got to confess Confess to your soul Or your personal demons That eat your whole So I look to the sky When I thought I was dyin And it must have been Gods Grace on my side Cause I saw through the shadows The glory, His light And I knew that if I could Just get through the night Id be Flyin Flyin, Im Flyin Flyin, Im Flyin Flyin But I found my strength in the valley I found my grace in the valley I found my faith in the valley So thank God for the valley Cause I found my grace in the valley And I found my grace in the valley And he brought me out of the valley But thank God for the valley Cause I found my faith in the valley

Verse One : Every time you were around me baby Boy you know you drive me crazy And I really wanna be your lady Thats all baby, nothin else I been watchin you for a few years Every time you come around, I just stare There is somethin I gotta make clear All I want you to do is Chorus Hold me, hold me Show me that you do Wanna get to know me too Hold me, no more lonely Im with you Verse Two: We been spendin more time together Gettin to know each other better Baby I am down for whatever Slowly fallin love Cause you treated me like a princess Wit you, dont have to worry bout stress And I really have to confess Youre the best baby Chorus Verse Two : See none of these girls know me, but they all want me So when they start runnin they mouths just hold me And keep me in your Prayers so these naysayers Cant make it through our layers I say somethin to warm you up like California Im from the Chi, you from the Apple like Fiona Im feelin like Prince when he met Appolonia You feelin kinda tense cause what ya friends have warned ya Man, they hatin, if they aint hatin, they insinuatin You remember when we first start datin? We worked at the mall They said we like a guy with no muscles "Oh theyll never work out at all" And I was just that broke dude that worked next door But can you please donate some sex to the poor? Baby, I see it One day, well be drivin in them crazy whips I aint gonna be workin this grave shift til Im 86 I aint gonna be pushin this broom I aint gonna be stayin in my friends room Theres only one bedroom that I call my lair We was V.I.P Very Imaginary Playaz See why we, smoke our weed You never let these rumors come between you and me And thats good lookin Plus you good lookin Plus the hood lookin So hold me down like B.I.G. held Brooklyn : Hold me down, dont go away Give me your love a million more days In your arms, I wanna stay I always wanna be with you Anything you want me to do Baby you know Ill do it for you

I ride for this shit, and Ill die for this shit And Ill ride for this shit, and Ill die... I dont want to be like what everyone else be like If that means I gotta be like what everyone else be like then I dont want to be liked If I gotta be like, what everybody else be like Then I dont want to be liked I dont want to be liked Because I was so... Dig down in your soul And look to the sky above Being liked is nothing, when you could be loved God is love God is love God is love God is love So I would rather follow God than to follow the media I would rather follow God than to follow perception Because most artists arent appreciated in their own time So the more and more and more Im disliked, the better I must be doing Because most artists arent appreciated in their own time So the more and more Im disliked, the much, the better I must be doing You know why? Because I dont want to be liked If that means, I gotta be like the way everyone else be like The way everyone else sees like The way everyone else does... Ive got my own vision and make my own decisions And dont ask for permission, and I am on a mission I am on a mission I only want to do it on my conditions I only want to do it my way Im only going to do it His way Im only going to do it this way Im only going to do it this way Im only going to do it this way If you love someone tonight Hold on to it If you love someone tonight Hold on, hold on real tight Hold on, hold on real tight Yeah, yeah... Yeah, always find, yeah, always find, yeah, always find something... So youve been puttin with this just way too long Im so gifted at finding what I dont like the most So I think its time for us, to have a... Lets have a toast for the... Ayy, lets have a toast for the... Ayy, lets have a toast for the... Hey, everyone in there that I... Ayy, lets have a toast for the jerk-offs Thatll never take... Baby, I got a plan, run away fast as you can

Don’t want nobody to die Don’t want to have to ride but in this game I guess that’s just the way, I guess that’s just the way Have it your way It’s gonna be slow singing, flower bringing Gat clinging, bat swinging, bullets flyin’, niggas dyin’ Mom’s cryin, faggots really don’t want it Lead coming, blood gushin from ya arms, legs, head and stomach I felt the hatred, cause when I turned around like the Matrix Comin for me, an array of bullets headin dead for me First the one, and then came the two and three and four Five, six, seven, shots from a MAC-11 Platinum producer killed by haters tonight on Channel 7 He do beats for 2Pac, now coming out the spring from Heaven Ya know my piece is, hotter than grease is With no wrong way to eat ya face like a Reese’s Seem like the second I get some shine Niggas quit they fuckin’ job so they can hate full time So, gimme the gat, I hit em wit that Cock back, blat blat Let me tell you niggas something familiar Broke niggas don’t want war, man I’ll kill ya Don’t want nobody to die Don’t want to have to ride but in this game I guess that’s just the way, I guess that’s just the way Have it your way Oh oh, I get it, this year, niggas don’t dance But just rock bulletproof hats and steel pants Now everybody got a gun in they hand, yeah bitch nigga run to ya man Street sweeper aerials fuck where they land Niggas close they eyes and don’t aim like My bitch when she pop champagne Bottles, I tell you bout them damn models They can’t cook for a lick, but they’ll lick a dick and swallow Look I been living my life, Bullshittin’ when I write songs Especially talkin’ bout havin’ ice on and I could barely keep my lights on Niggas played me like Ty-Son, trying to take my light songs Cuse they know I’d knock niggas the fuck out the box Full Glocks, the fuck out the box, cocked Who the fuck tryin to box right now? I feel like, my whole city on my back I feel like, next year, my whole city on the map Don’t want nobody to die Don’t want to have to ride but in this game I guess that’s just the way, I guess that’s just the way Have it your way I’m from, Chi town, where the raps the realest The tracks gorilla, we got the millas and we’ll be at ya scrilla Close your doors, lock your windows We be at them execs for them back end checks Now, We on the court, and we got next up Now, This summer we got benz, we got Lex truck It’s kinda like trading places huh? I never plug But I’m guilty by association, so gangstas show me love For that track I did, yeah I know, the rest the album wack as shit Ooooh, its Kanye to the with that platinum shit, ya punk bitch Don’t want nobody to die Don’t want to have to ride but in this game I guess that’s just the way, I guess that’s just the way Have it your way

Its the ugliest nightmare born from the prettiest dreams Millions of people tryin to get on the scene And everyone sellin their souls, everyone sellin their... Everyone sayin they woke But they sleepwalkin, dead, eyes closed L.A. monster I pray the Lord my soul to keep Lord, save these people, they asleep They lettin Satan run they streets Lord, save us from L.A. monster I pray the Lord my soul to keep Lord, save these people, they asleep They lettin Satan run they streets Lord, save us from L.A. monster Its the ugliest nightmare born from the prettiest dreams Millions of people tryin to get on the scene And everyone sellin their souls, everyone sellin their... Everyone sayin they woke But they sleepwalkin, dead, eyes closed L.A. monster Its the ugliest nightmare born from the prettiest dreams Millions of people tryin to get on the scene And everyone sellin their souls, everyone sellin their... Everyone sayin they woke But they sleepwalkin, dead, eyes closed L.A. monster It gives false hope then eats them whole Seen billionaires who are still broke Jesus, save all my people From this monster, fore it takes their souls It gives false hope then eats them whole Seen billionaires who are still broke Jesus, save all my people From this monster, fore it takes their souls