I'm about to break the rules but don't tell anybodyThey want something new, so let's get reacquainted
Swear I hear new music and I just don't be feelin' it
So here go my single dog, radio needs this
Yeezy season approachin' (Forget) whatever y'all been hearin'
[College Dropout]
I've been waiting on this my whole life
I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards
I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars
How I’d move in a room full of no's?
Y'all don't know my struggle
Y'all can't match my hustle
Lock yourself in a room doing 5 beats a day for 3 summers
No I.D. my mentor, now let the story begin
No use in me tryin' to be lyin', I been trying to be signed
What am I supposed to do now?
Man the game all messed up
When I came in the game, I made my own lane
Took nothin' from no man, man, I'm my own man
Pink-ass polos with a (Louis) backpack
But everybody know I brought real rap back
You see how I creeped up
I never could see why people reach a
Fake ass facade that they couldn't keep up
All of them fallin’ for the love of ballin’
I know that people wouldn't usually rap this
I woke up early this morning with a new state of mind
A creative way to rhyme without using knives and guns
But I wasn't talking about coke and birds
It was more like spoken word
They got the Dropout keeping kids in the school
He'll give us what we need
It may not be what we want
[Late Registration & Graduation]
Class back in session so I upped it a grade
To refresh the page and restart the memory
Respark the soul and rebuild the energy
Inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums
And I'm back to tear it up
Haters start your engines, I hear 'em gearing up
Cause they want gun-talk, or I don't wear enough
Baggy clothes, Reebok's, or A-di-dos
I'm just saying how I feel man
I guess the money should've changed him
I guess I should've forgot where I came from
Do the rap and the track, triple double no assists
Play strings for the dramatic ending of that wack(-ness)
50 told me, go 'head, switch the style up
And if they hate then let 'em hate and watch the money pile up
Now I'm holdin' down the summer now
And ran to Jacob and made the new Jesus chains
And everybody want to run to me for their single
See you know my style
Do anybody make real (hits) anymore?
Who the hottest in the world right now?
Hard to be humble when you stunting on a jumbotron
He'll give us what we need
It may not be what we want
[808’s & Heartbreak]
This the real world, homie, school finished
Ayyo, I did some things but that's the old me
So you walk round like you don't know me
Relivin' the past?
Your loss!
Then they talk about me
Would be lost without me
I could just leave it wrong
And you can't make it right
I know this world is changing
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of
Uh, I'm finna start a new movement
Everybody saying what's not for him
Cause they don't want nobody that's colored out of the lines
You do you and I'm just gon' do mine
[My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy & Watch The Throne]
No more chances if you blow this, you bogus
You ain't get the memo? Yeezy’s back in style
While y'all was in limbo I raised the bar up
There's a thousand yous, there's only one of me
I've been a menace for the longest
But I ain't finished, I'm devoted
Did the fashion show, and a tour, this the movie and a score
No one man should have all that power
Maybach bumper sticker reads: "What would Hova do?"
I turned tragedy to triumph
Haters saying I changed, now I’m doing my thang
And I'm doing pretty good as far as geniuses go
To whoever think their words affect me is too stupid
And if you can do it better than me, then you do it!
Everybody feel a way about K but at least y'all feel something
He'll give us what we need
It may not be what we want
[Yeezus]
Soon as they like you make 'em unlike you
This is love it or hate it music
But, at least I made it music
Uh, they don't play what I'm playin'
Uh, they don't see what I'm sayin'
Doin' clothes you would have thought I had help
Picture working so hard, and you can't cut through
I'm ahead of my time, sometimes years out
So the powers that be won't let me get my ideas out
Hold up, I ain't trying to stunt, man
But these Yeezys jumped over the Jumpman
We don't care what people say
Goddamn, Yeezy, how he hit them with a new style?
"What you gonna do now?
Whatever I want to do. Gosh! It's cool now"
"That's enough Mr. West, please no more today"
