NYC Freestyle Cypher Lyrics - Kanye West

1 [Kanye West]

2 It's like I wanna spit something written

3 But keep forgetting

4 So I guess it's from the heart from the start

5 Played my part

6 Seemed like I just wasn't reaching the charts

7 5000 hours, rewritting Power

8 Over and over

9 Some nights sober, some nights gone off the Henny as usual

10 So unusual to be in this position

11 Everything I say everybody tryna diss 'em

12 Everybody playin him, truth be told

13 The last n-gga ever let the truth be told

14 And oh Mos Def ran to my home

15 And said they gon have yo ass gone

16 Light jokes, you keep playin with them white folks

17 Cant even take the piss

18 They gon' test your urine

19 Cut all the sponsorship for the touring!

20 "Where the Dark Fantasy tour at Ye?"

21 I dont know, ask, ask Hennesy (thats Coca-Cola)

22 Say 'he aint clean enough'

23 But rappers aint mean enough?

24 Enough lashes like I aint seen enough

25 On the real, this is like the Neo-Emmitt Till

26 Whistling- Get yo f-cking ass killed

27 Lets keep this shit real!

28 Now who the realest

29 Everybody feel this

30 And everyday of my life, people try to tell me that I hate the whites

31 Cuz I said wats right

32 I go to sleep and deal wit it every night

33 And wake up every morning

34 And walk to the liquor store or coffee store shop on the Mersa wats worser?

35 Its no verse that would reverse the-

36 In print or in cursive

37 They curse the name, or maybe call me Kane

38 Lets have a 'toast for the douche bags'

39 Then people wanna talk about me on blogs because I like clothes like look at this fag

40 Thats what I have to deal wit real shit

41 Yall dont even understand, what it take to be a real man

42 A black man interested in art, speaking from the heart and playin' my part

43 All this illuminati talk, like my first hit single wasnt 'Jesus Walks'

44 For many years, these aint rhymes these is muthaf-cking tears

45 They playin' wit n-ggas careers

46 Felt like I'm the only real n-gga here

47 From my last breath

48 They kicked me out the awards and my n-gga Diddy left

49 Then they even set Beyonce up to give the Award back

50 Didn't even know I afford that

51 And she rode the wave as I rode the slave

52 As I felt like a slave as they try to put my shit up in the grave

53 N-gga behave, n-gga behave

54 Be the first ?

55 I bet ya no one else would ever say nuttin' and stay frontin'

56 And get up and just perform, Shit is enormous

57 Shout out to Steve Stout, you know what this shit 'bout

58 My whole family, now I'm scared of Grammy's

59 Cause everybody know that Dark Fantasy was the highest rated album in history

60 So I just avoided it, not to be exploited, not to be recorded

61 Cause I cannot afford it, I cannot afford more shit to be in more debt

62 Uh, it's too real for these n-ggas, you feel for these n-ggas

63 How I feel to be a black man, you say something wrong, nobody understand

64 Money, power, black, opinion, pick two, they would kill ya.

65 [Mos Def]

66 No matter what goes on

67 They may not agree, they may not understand

68 But God got a plan, to put the mic in my hand

69 And his hand and that hand

70 And ideas, and all of theres

71 And the end, everybody up in here, in this atmosphere

72 So make it clear, live long and prosper

73 Much success, even if you wish me the opposite

74 ? I stay on my job

75 Try to pray to keep my heart from going harm

76 And I aint perfect, you know that from old me

77 My life is real even when I'm in the movies

78 I'm on the ave, I'm in the cave

79 I buried my Grandmother on Thursday, two weeks ago

80 My life is real, as it ever been

81 To all my friends and even foes

82 Each and every one of those, let em know

83 I shine a globe, even in the dark, stay smart

84 Stay sharp, as a harp played by a musician in this position

85 Feel blessed to make the whole World listen

86 And just glisten without even trying

87 Even when I die, I wont stay dead

88 And its straight off the head, and its straight out the lungs

89 Looking fly, fresh, old man, so young

90 And I'm straight from the slums

91 And never been above so the ba-bum-ba-bum-bum-pum-pum...

92 This thing ups, let us all give some

93 Number one yo, I'm number none, no comparision

94 And make the whole world aware of it

95 Brooklyn in the building we take care of it

96 Peace out to all the Sagittarius

97 And happy birthday Pisces and Aries too

98 And this go out to all area crew

99 And if you come from the 78 scene and you just like me

100 Say it over ?

101 From the present, and the past and the future and beyond

102 Me and Lupe and Kanye we play the song and get it on