aight let s run it let s run it yo fuck you kanye first and foremost for making me do this shit muh fucker had to throw everybody out the motherfucking room cause they don t fucking i d like to propose a toast i said toast motherfucker and i am and they ask me they ask me they ask me i tell them raise your glasses your glasses your glasses to the sky and this is the last call for alcohol for the so get your ass up off the wall the all around the world digital underground pac the rudolph the red nosed reindeer of the roc i take my chain my fifteen seconds of fame and come back next year with the whole fucking game ain t nobody expect kanye to end up on top they expected that college dropout to drop and then flop then maybe he stop savin all the good beats for himself roc a fella s only niggas that helped my money was thinner than sean paul s goatee hair now jean paul gaultier cologne fill the air here they say he bougie he big headed would you please stop talking about how my dick head is flow infectious give me ten seconds i ll have a buzz bigger than insects in texas it s funny how wasn t nobody interested til the night i almost killed myself in lexus  now i am and they ask me they ask me they ask me i tell them raise your glasses your glasses your glasses to the sky and this is the last call for alcohol for the so get your ass up off the wall now was kanye the most overlooked yes sir now is kanye the most overbooked yes sir though the fans want the feeling of a tribe called quest but all they got left is this guy called west that ll take freeway throw him on tracks with mos def call him kwa li or kwe li i put him on songs with jay z i m the gap like banana republic and old navy and oooh it come out sweeter than old sadie nice as bun b when i met him at the source awards girl he had with him ass coulda won the horse awards and i was almost famous now everybody love kanye i m almost raymond some say he arrogant can y all blame him it was straight embarrassing how y all played him last year shoppin my demo i was tryin to shine every motherfucker told me that i couldn t rhyme now i could let these dream killers kill my self esteem or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams i use it as my gas so they say that i m gassed but without it i d be last so i ought to laugh so i don t listen to the suits behind the desk no more you niggas wear suits cause you can t dress no more you can t say shit to kanye west no more i rocked 20 000 people i was just on tour nigga i m kon the louis vuitton don bought my mom a purse now she louis vuitton mom i ain t play the hand i was dealt i changed my cards i prayed to the skies and i changed my stars i went to the malls and i balled too hard oh my god is that a black card i turned around and replied why yes but i prefer the term african american express brains power and muscle like dame puffy and russell your boy back on his hustle you know what i ve been up to killin y all niggas on that lyrical shit mayonnaise colored benz i push miracle whips and i am and they ask me they ask me they ask me i tell them raise your glasses your glasses your glasses to the sky and this is the last call for alcohol for my niggas so get your ass up off the wall so this a r over at roc a fella named hip hop picked the truth beat for beanie and i was in the session with him i had my demo with me you know like i always do i play the songs he s like who that spittin i m like it s me he s like oh well okay uhh he started talkin to me on the phone going back and forth just askin me to send him beats and i m thinking he s trying to get into managing producers cause he had this other kid named just blaze he was messin with so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you and um he was friends with my mentor no id and no id told him look man you wanna mess with kanye you need to tell him that you like the way he rap no id yo you wanna sign him tell him you like how he rap i was all i dunno if he was gassin me or not but he s like he wanna manage me as a rapper and a producer i m like oh shit i was messin with uh d dot also people were like this started talking about the ghost production but that s how i got in the game if it wasn t for that i wouldn t be here so you know after they picked that truth beat i was figuring i was gonna do some more work but shit just wasn t poppin off like that i was stayin in chicago i had my own apartment i be doin like just beats for local acts just to try to keep the lights on and then to go out and buy get a pelle pelle off lay away get some jordans or something or get a technomarine that s what we wore back then i made this one beat where i sped up this harold melvin sample i played it for hip over the phone he s like oh yo that shit is crazy jay might want it for this compilation album he doin called the dynasty and at that time like the drums really weren t soundin right to me so i went and um i was listening to dre chronic 2001 at that time and really i just like bit the drums off xxplosive and put it like with a sped up sample and now it s kind of like my whole style when it started when he rapped on this can t be life and that was like really the first beat of that kind that was on the dynasty album i could say that was the the resurgence of the soul sound you know i got to come in and track the beat and at the time i was still with my other management i really wanted to roll with hip hop cause i i just needed some fresh air you know what i m sayin cause i been there for a while i appreciated what they did for me but you know there s a time in every man s life where he gotta make a change try to move up to the next level and that day i came and i tracked the beat and i got to meet jay z and he said oh you a real soulful dude and he uh played the song cause he already spit his verse by the time i got to the studio you know how he do it one take and he said tell me what you think of this and i heard it and i was thinking like man i really wanted more like of the simple type jay z i ain t want like the the more introspective complicated rhy or the in my personal opinion so he asked me what you think of it and i was like man that shit tight you know what i m sayin man what i ma tell him i was on the train man you know so after that i went back home and man i m i m just in chicago i m trying to do my thing you know i got groups i got acts i m trying to get on and like there wasn t nothin really like poppin off the way it should have been one of my homies that was one of my artists he got signed but it was supposed to really go through my production company but he ended up going straight with the company so like i m just straight holdin the phone gettin the bad news that dude was tryin to leave my company and i got evicted at the same time so i went down and tracked the beats from him i took that money came back packed all my shit up in a u haul maybe about ten days before i had to actually get out so i ain t have to deal with the landlord cause he s a jerk me and my mother drove to newark new jersey i hadn t even seen my apartment i remember i pulled up i unpacked all my shit you know we went to ikea i bought a bed i put the bed together myself i loaded up all my equipment and the first beat i made was uh heart of the city and beans was still working on his album at that time so i came up there to baseline it was beans birthday matter of fact and i played like seven beats and you know i guess he was in the zone he already had the beats that he wanted i had did nothing like it already at that time but then jay walked in i remember he had a gucci bucket hat on i remember it like like it was yesterday and hip hop said yo play that one beat for him and i played heart of the city and really i made heart of the city i really wanted to give that beat to dmx and i played another beat and i played another beat and i remember that gucci bucket he took it and like put it over his face and made one of them faces like ooooooooooh two days later i m in baseline and i seen dame dame didn t know who i was and i was like yo what s up i m kanye you that kid that gave all them beats to jay yo this nigga got classics to your beats you know i ain t talkin shit i m like oh shit and all this time i m starstruck man i m still thinking bout you know i m picturing these niggas on the show the streets is watching i m lookin these were superstars in my eyes and they still are you know so jay came in and he spit all these songs like in one day and in two days i gotta bring up one thing you know come back to the story the day i did the can t be life beat on track i remember lenny s he had some louis vuitton sneakers on he think he fly and hip hop was there i think ty ty john meneilly a bunch of people i didn t know all these people at the time they was in the room and i said yo jay i could rap and i spit this rap that said uh i m killin y all niggas on that lyrical shit mayonnaise colored benz i push miracle whips and i saw his eyes light up when i said that line but you know the rest the rap was like real wack and shit so that s all the response he said man that was tight that was it you know i ain t get no deal then hehe okay fast forward so blueprint h to the izzo my first hit single and i just took that proudly built relationships with people my relationship with kweli i think was one of the best ones to ever happen to my career as a rapper because you know of course later he allowed me to go on tour with him man i appre i love him for that and at this time you know i didn t have a deal i had songs and i had relationships with all these a r s and they wanted beats from me so they d call me up i d play them some beats gimme a beat that sound like jay z you know they dick riders whatever so i ll play them these post blueprint beats or whatever and then i ll play my shit i ll be like yo but i rap too hey i guess they was lookin at me crazy cause you know cause i ain t have a jersey on or whatever everybody out there listen here i played them jesus walks and they didn t sign me you know what happened it was some a r s that fucked with me though but then like the heads it d be somebody at the company that ll say naw like dave lighty fucked with me my nigga mel brought me to a bunch of labels jessica rivera man i m not gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up let s just say i didn t get my deal the nigga that was behind me i mean he wasn t even a nigga you know the person who actually kicked everything off was joe 3h from capitol records he wanted to sign me really bad dame was like yo you got a deal with capitol okay man just make sure it s not wack then one day i just went ahead and played it i wanted to play some songs cause you know cam was in the room young guru and dame was in the room so i played actually it s a song that you ll never hear but maybe i might use it so it s called wow i go to jacob with 25 thou you go with 25 hundred wow i got 11 plaques on my walls right now you got your first gold single damn nigga wow like the chorus went don t bite that chorus i might still use it so i play that song for him and he s like oh shit i ain t gonna front it s kinda hot like they still weren t looking at me like a rapper and i m sure dame figured like man if he do a whole album if his raps is wack at least we can throw cam on every song and save the album you know so uh dame took me into the office and he s like yo man b b you don t want a brick you don t want a brick you gotta be under an umbrella you ll get rained on i told hip hop and hip hop was all oh word actually even with that i was still about to take the deal with capitol cause it was already on the table and cause of my relationship with 3h that you know cause i told him i was gonna do it and i m a man of my word i was gonna roll with what i said i was gonna do then you know i m not gonna name no names but people told me oh he s just a producer rapper and told 3h that told the heads of the capitol and right the day i m talking about i planned out everything i was gonna do man i had picked out clothes i already started booking studio sessions i started arranging my album thinking of marketing schemes man i was ready to go and they had mel call me they said yo capitol pulled on the deal and you know i told them that roc a fella was interested and i don t know if they thought that was just something i was saying to gas them up to try to push the price up or whatever i went up i called g i said man you think we could still get that deal with roc a fella so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you so won t you raise your glass won t you 141