Nyc Freestyle Cypher Lyrics - Kanye West

[Kanye West] 

It's like I wanna spit something written 

But keep forgetting 

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

Played my part 

Seemed like I just wasn't reaching the charts 

5000 hours, rewritting Power 

Over and over 

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

So unusual to be in this position 

Everything I say everybody tryna diss 'em 

Everybody playin him, truth be told 

The last n-gga ever let the truth be told 

And oh Mos Def ran to my home 

And said they gon have yo ass gone 

Light jokes, you keep playin with them white folks 

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Cant even take the piss 

They gon' test your urine 

Cut all the sponsorship for the touring! 

"Where the Dark Fantasy tour at Ye?" 

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

Say 'he aint clean enough' 

but rappers aint mean enough? 

Enough lashes like I aint seen enough 

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

Whistling- Get yo f-cking ass killed 

Lets keep this shit real! 

Photos 

Now who the realest 

Everybody feel this 

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

Cuz I said wats right 

I go to sleep and deal wit it every night 

And wake up every morning 

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

Its no verse that would reverse the- 

In print or in cursive 

They curse the name, or maybe call me Kane 

Lets have a 'toast for the douche bags' 

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

Thats what I have to deal wit real shit 

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

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

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

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

They playin' wit n-ggas careers 

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

From my last breath 

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

Then they even set Beyonce up to give the Award back 

Didn't even know I afford that 

And she rode the wave as I rode the slave 

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

N-gga behave, n-gga behave 

Be the first ? 

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

And get up and just perform, Shit is enormous 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Mos Def] 

No matter what goes on 

They may not agree, they may not understand 

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

and his hand and that hand 

And ideas, and all of theres 

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

So make it clear, live long and prosper 

Much success, even if you wish me the opposite 

? I stay on my job 

Try to pray to keep my heart from going harm 

And I aint perfect, you know that from old me 

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

I'm on the ave, I'm in the cave 

I buried my Grandmother on Thursday, two weeks ago 

My life is real, as it ever been 

To all my friends and even foes 

Each and every one of those, let em know 

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

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

Feel blessed to make the whole World listen 

And just glisten without even trying 

Even when I die, I wont stay dead 

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

Looking fly, fresh, old man, so young 

And I'm straight from the slums 

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

This thing ups, let us all give some 

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

And make the whole world aware of it 

Brooklyn in the building we take care of it 

Peace out to all the Sagittarius 

And happy birthday Pisces and Aries too 

And this go out to all area crew 

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

Say it over ? 

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

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