Kanye West - NYC Freestyle Cypher lyrics

[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 a** gone Light jokes, you keep playin with them white folks 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 a** k**ed Lets keep this sh** real! 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 f*g Thats what I have to deal wit real sh** 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 sh** 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, sh** is enormous Shout out to Steve Stout, you know what this sh** '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 sh** 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 k** 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