Kanye West
Last Call dainos žodžiai
[Intro: Jay-Z (Kanye)] [laughing] Yo f**k you
Kanye
first and foremost For making me do this shit. Muh'f**ker Had to throw everybody out the motherf**king room 'Cause they don't f**king..
(I'd like to propose a toast) (I said toast motherf**ker)
[Chorus: Kanye] 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 This is the last call for alcohol
for the.. So get your ass up off the wall
[Verse 1] The all around the world Digital Underground
Pac The Rudloph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc I take my chain
my 15 seconds of fame And come back next year with the whole f**king 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 Rocafella's only niggaz that help My money was thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air
here They say he bourgie
he big-headed Won't you please stop talking about how my dick head is Flow infectious
give me 10 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
[Chorus]
[Verse 2] 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 Better 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 loves 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 motherf**ker 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 niggaz 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 Kan
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 niggaz on that lyrical shit Mayonnaise colored Benz
I push Miracle Whips
[Chorus] ... last call for alcohol
for my niggaz
[Outro] So this A&R over at Rocafella
named Hiphop 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 likeWho that spittin? I'm likeIt's me. He's likeOh
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 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 [Hiphop:]I'll sign you as a producer and a rapper
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 went 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 Hal Melville sample I played it for Hip over the phone
he's likeoh
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 picked the drums off Xxplosive and put it like with it sped up
sampled
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 this whole 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 Hiphop. '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 [Jay-Z: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 [Jay-Z:]check this out
tell me what you think of this
right here 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? [Jay-Z:]so what you thinkin? And I was like man that shit tite
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 homeys 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 [Mother:]Come on
let's just go Newark
New Jersey. I hadn't even seen my apartment. I remember I pulled up [Mother:]Kanye
baby
we're here
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 could see he's in the zone he already had the beats that he wanted
I did nothing like 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 Hiphop 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. [Hiphop:]No I think Jay gon' like this one right here. 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 likeyo what's up I'm Kanye. [Dame:]Yo
you that kid
Kanye? You that kid that gave all them beats to Jay? Yo
this nigga got classics [Dame:]Jay got classics
G. You know I ain't talkin shit. I'm likeoh shit. And all this time I'm starstruck
man. I'm still thinking 'bout
you know I'm picturing these niggaz 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 Hiphop was there
I think Tata
John Minnelli
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
uhI'm killin y'all niggaz 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 West
the rap was like real wack and shit
so that's all the response. He saidman that was tite. [Jay-Z:]That
that was cool. That was hot. 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 f**ked with me though
but then like the heads
it'd be somebody at the company that'll saynaw. Like
Dave LottI f**ked with me
my nigga Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Rivera
man [Jessica:]Man
you niggaz is stupid if y'all don't sign Kanye
for real. I'm not gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up Y'all niggaz is stupid. 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. [Joe:]We gonna change the game
buddy. Dame was like yo you got a deal with Capitol
okay man
just make sure it's not wack. [Dame:]you gotta 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 eleven 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 likeoh shit [Dame:]Oh shit it's not even wack. I ain't gonna front
it's kinda hot. [Dame:]it's actually 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 likeyo man
we
we on a brick
we on a brick [Dame:]you don't wanna catch a brick You gotta be under an umbrella
you'll get rained on. I told Hiphop and Hiphop 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 [Mel:]Yo
Capitol pulled out on the deal. And
you know I told them that Rocafella 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 Rocafella?
Kanye
first and foremost For making me do this shit. Muh'f**ker Had to throw everybody out the motherf**king room 'Cause they don't f**king..
(I'd like to propose a toast) (I said toast motherf**ker)
[Chorus: Kanye] 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 This is the last call for alcohol
for the.. So get your ass up off the wall
[Verse 1] The all around the world Digital Underground
Pac The Rudloph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc I take my chain
my 15 seconds of fame And come back next year with the whole f**king 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 Rocafella's only niggaz that help My money was thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air
here They say he bourgie
he big-headed Won't you please stop talking about how my dick head is Flow infectious
give me 10 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
[Chorus]
[Verse 2] 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 Better 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 loves 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 motherf**ker 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 niggaz 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 Kan
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 niggaz on that lyrical shit Mayonnaise colored Benz
I push Miracle Whips
[Chorus] ... last call for alcohol
for my niggaz
[Outro] So this A&R over at Rocafella
named Hiphop 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 likeWho that spittin? I'm likeIt's me. He's likeOh
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 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 [Hiphop:]I'll sign you as a producer and a rapper
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 went 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 Hal Melville sample I played it for Hip over the phone
he's likeoh
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 picked the drums off Xxplosive and put it like with it sped up
sampled
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 this whole 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 Hiphop. '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 [Jay-Z: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 [Jay-Z:]check this out
tell me what you think of this
right here 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? [Jay-Z:]so what you thinkin? And I was like man that shit tite
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 homeys 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 [Mother:]Come on
let's just go Newark
New Jersey. I hadn't even seen my apartment. I remember I pulled up [Mother:]Kanye
baby
we're here
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 could see he's in the zone he already had the beats that he wanted
I did nothing like 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 Hiphop 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. [Hiphop:]No I think Jay gon' like this one right here. 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 likeyo what's up I'm Kanye. [Dame:]Yo
you that kid
Kanye? You that kid that gave all them beats to Jay? Yo
this nigga got classics [Dame:]Jay got classics
G. You know I ain't talkin shit. I'm likeoh shit. And all this time I'm starstruck
man. I'm still thinking 'bout
you know I'm picturing these niggaz 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 Hiphop was there
I think Tata
John Minnelli
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
uhI'm killin y'all niggaz 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 West
the rap was like real wack and shit
so that's all the response. He saidman that was tite. [Jay-Z:]That
that was cool. That was hot. 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 f**ked with me though
but then like the heads
it'd be somebody at the company that'll saynaw. Like
Dave LottI f**ked with me
my nigga Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Rivera
man [Jessica:]Man
you niggaz is stupid if y'all don't sign Kanye
for real. I'm not gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up Y'all niggaz is stupid. 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. [Joe:]We gonna change the game
buddy. Dame was like yo you got a deal with Capitol
okay man
just make sure it's not wack. [Dame:]you gotta 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 eleven 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 likeoh shit [Dame:]Oh shit it's not even wack. I ain't gonna front
it's kinda hot. [Dame:]it's actually 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 likeyo man
we
we on a brick
we on a brick [Dame:]you don't wanna catch a brick You gotta be under an umbrella
you'll get rained on. I told Hiphop and Hiphop 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 [Mel:]Yo
Capitol pulled out on the deal. And
you know I told them that Rocafella 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 Rocafella?
