Kanye, can I talk to you for a minute? Me and the other faculty members was wonderin could you do a lil som... Somethin' beautiful Somethin' that the kids is gon love when they hear it Thas gon make them start jumpin up and down and sharin candy an' stuff Think you could probably do somethin' for the kids for graduation to sing?

[Chorus][Kanye West:]And all my people thats drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky highWe wasnt supposed to make it past 25 but the jokes on you we still aliveThrow your hands up in the sky and say we don't care what people say [Verse One:]If this is your first time hearing thisYou are about to experience something cold manWe never had nothing handed took nothing for grantedTook nothing from no man, man i'm my own manBut as a shorty i looked up to the dopemanOnly adult man i knew that wasnt a broke manFlickin starter coats man, Man you unno manWe don't care what people sayThis is for my niggas outside all winterCuz this summer they aint finna to say next summer im finnaSittin in the hood like community collegesThis dope money here is Lil Treys scholarshipCause aint no to tuition for havin no ambitionAnd aint no loans for sittin your ass at homeSo we forced to sell crack rap and get a jobYou gotta do something man your ass is grown [Chorus][Kanye West:]Drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky high Kids Sing Kids Sing [Kanye and Kids:]We wasnt supposed to make it past 25 but the jokes on you we still aliveThrow your hands up in the sky and say we don't care what people say [Verse Two:]The second verse is for my dogs working 9 to 5That still hustle cause a nigga can't shine off $6.55And everybody selling make-up, JacobsAnd bootleg tapes just to get they cake upWe put shit on layaway then come backWe claim other people kids on our income taxWe take that money cop work than push packs to get paidAnd we don't care what people sayMama say she wanna move southScratchin lottery tickets Eyes on a new houseAround the same time Doe ran up in dudes houseCouldnt get a jobSo since he couldnt get work he figured hed take workThe drug game bolemic its hard to get weightSo niggas money is homo its hard to get straightSo we gon keep baking to the day we get cake.And we dont care what people sayMy Niggas [Chorus][Kanye West and Kids:]Drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky high Kids Sing Kids Sing We wasnt supposed to make it past 25 but the jokes on you we still aliveThrow your hands up in the sky and say we don't care what people say [Verse Three:]You know the kids gonna act a foolWhen you stop the programs for after schoolAnd they DCFS them some of them dislecsicThey favorite 50 Cent song's 12 QuestionsWe scream, rock, blows, weed parkso now we smartWe aint retards the way teachers taughtHold up hold fast we make mo'cashNow tell my mama i belong in the slow classIt's bad enough we on welfareYou trying to put me on the school bus with the space for the wheel chairIm trying to get the car with the chromy wheels hereYou tryin to cut our lights like we dont live hereLook at whats handed us our fatheres abandoned usWhen we get the hammers go and call the ambulanceSometimes i feel no one in this world understands usBut we dont care what people sayMy Niggas [Chorus][Kanye West and Kids:]drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky high Kids Sing Kids Sing We wasnt supposed to make it past 25 but the jokes on you we still aliveThrow your hands up in the sky and say we don't care what people say.

What in the fuck was that Kanye? I told you to do some shit for the kids. You give me your muthafuckin' graduation ticket right now. You can give me this muthafuckin' robe You will not walk across that stage, you won't slide across that stage A muthafucker can't pull you across that muthafuckin' stage Kanye Who told you see, I told you to do something up lifting I'm tryin' to get you out here with these white people and this how you gone do me You know what, you's a nigga And I don't mean that in no nice way Had little kids singin' about the shit, the jokes on you You can throw your muthafuckin' hands in the air, and wave good-bye to every-fuckin'-body Cause you getting the fuck out of this campus Fucker what you gone do now I'm no longer confused but don't tell anybody. I'm about to break the rules but don't tell anybody. I got something better than school but don't tell anybody. My daddy would kill me so don't tell anybody. He wants me to get a good ass job just like everybody. He ain't walked in my shoes, I'm just not everybody.

[Syleena Johnson] Oh when it all... (Yea..) It All Falls Down (This Da Real One Baby..) Im Tellin You Alll (Chi- Town Stand Up) It All Falls Down .. (SouthSide SouthSide We Gun Set This Party Off Right ..) Oh when it all... It All Falls Down (WestSide WestSide We Gun Set This Party Off Right ..) Im Telling You All It All Falls Down Oh when it all... [Kanye West] Man I promise she so self consciouss She has no idea what she doing in college That major that she majored in don't make no money But she won't drop out her parents look at her funny Now tell me that ain't insecurr The concept of school seems so securr Sophmore three yurr ain't picked a carurr She's like Fuck I'll just stay down here and do hair Cause thats enough money to buy her a few pairs of new airs Cause her baby daddy don't really care She so precious with the peer pressure Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis She had hair so long that it looked like weave Then she cut it all off now she look like Eve And she be dealing with some issues that you can't believe Single black female addicted to retail [Syleena Johnson] Oh when it all... It All Falls Down (And When it All Falls Down Who You Gonna Call Now?) Im Tellin You All... It All Falls Down (Cmon Cmon And When It Falls Down) [Kanye West] Man I promise I'm so self conscious That's why you always see me with a least one of my watches Rollies and pasha's done drove me crazy I can't even pronounce nothing, yo pass that versace Then I spent $400 bucks on this Just to be like nigga you ain't up on this And I can't even go to the grocery store With out some ones that are clean and a shirt with a team It seems we living the American Dream But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to the riches and the diamond rings We shine because they hate us floss because they degrade us We trying to buy back our 40 acres And for that paper look how low we'll stoop Even if you in a benz you still a nigga in a coup [Chorus] [Kanye West] I say fuck the police thats how I treat them We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom We buy a lot of clothes but we don't really need them Things we buy to cover up whats inside Cuz they made us hate ourself and love they wealth Thats why shorty's holla where the ballas at? Drug dealer's buy Jordan's crackhead buy crack And the white man get paid off of all of that But I ain't even gonna act holier than thou Cause fuck it I went to Jacob with 25 thou Before I had a house and I'll do it again Cause I wanna be on 106 and park pushing a Benz I wanna act ballerific like its all terrific I got a couple of past due bills I won't get specific I got a problem with spending before I get it We all self conscious, I'm just the first to admit it [Syleena Johnson] Oh when it all... It All Falls Down (And When it All Falls Down Who You Gonna Call Now?) Im Tellin You All .. It All Falls Down (Cmon Cmon And When It Falls Down) Oh .... Yah ... Watcha Gonna Do When It All Falls Down?

[Hook: Kanye West, Tony Williams, John Legend] I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) [Verse 1: Kanye West] Man, man, man If my manager insults me again I will be assaulting him After I fuck the manager up then I'm gonna shorten the register up Let's go back, back to the Gap Look at my check, wasn't no scratch So if I stole, wasn't my fault Yeah I stole, never get caught They take me to the back and pat me Askin' me about some khakis But let some black people walk in I bet you they show off their token blackie Oh now they love Kanye, let's put him all in the front of the store Saw him on break next to the 'No Smoking' sign with a blun and a malt Takin' my hits, writin' my hits Writin' my rhymes, playin' my mind This fuckin' job can't help him So I quit, y'all welcome (heavens knows) Y'all don't know my struggle Y'all can't match my hustle (every night) You can't catch my hustle (every night) You can't fathom my love dude Lock yourself in a room doin' five beats a day for three summers That's a different world like Cree summers I deserve to do these numbers The kid that made back [aka running back], (heavens knows) Deserves that Maybach So many records in my basement (every night) I'm just waitin' on my spaceship (every night), I've been (blaow) [Hook: Kanye West, Tony Williams, John Legend] Workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly(heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) [Verse 2: GLC] Man, I'm talkin' way past the sky Let's go, oh And I didn't even try to work a job Represent the mob At the same time thirsty on the grind Chi state of mind Lost my mama, lost my mind My life, my love (heavens knows) that's not mine Why you ain't signed? Wasn't my time Leave me alone, (every night) work for y'all Half of it's yours, (every night) half of it's mine Only one to ball Never one to fall Gotta get mine Gotta take mine Got a tec-9 Reach my prime Gotta make these haters respect mine In the mall (heavens knows) 'til 12 when my schedule had said 9 (every night) Puttin' new pants on shelves Waitin' paitently (every night) I ask myself Where I wanna go, where I wanna be Life is much more than runnin' in the streets Holla at 'ye, hit me with the beat Put me on my feet Sound so sweet Yes (heavens knows) I'm the same ol' G, same goatee Stayin' low key, nope (every night) Holla at God Man (every night) why'd you had to take my folks? Hope to see Freddy G., Yusef G Love my G, Rolly G Police watch me smoke my weed, and count my G's Got a lot of people countin' on me (heavens knows) And I'm just tryin' to find my peace (every night) Should of finished school like my niece Then I wouldn't (every night) finally wouldn't use my piece, blaow Aw man, all this pressure [Hook: Kanye West, Tony Williams, John Legend] I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) [Verse 3: Consequence] I remember havin' to take the dollar cab Comin' home real late at night Standin' on my feet all damn day Tryin' to make this thing right And havin' (heavens knows) one of my co-workers say Yo you look just like (every night) This kid I seen in the old Busta Rhymes video (every night) the other night Well easy come, easy go How that sayin' goes No more broad service, cars, and them TV shows I all had that snatched from me (heavens knows) And all the faculties all turn their back on me (every night) And didn't wanna hear a rap from me (every night) So naturally actually had to face things factually Had to be a catastrophe with the fridgest starin' back at me Cuz nothing's there, (heaven knows) nothing's fair I don't wanna ever go back there So I won't be takin' (every night) no days off 'til my spaceship takes off (every night) Blaow [Hook: Kanye West, Tony Williams, John Legend] I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) I've been workin' this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly (heavens knows) past the sky (every night, every night) [Outro: Tony Williams] I wanna fly, I wanna fly I said I want my chariot to pick me up And take me brother for a ride (heavens knows) (every night) (every night)

One glad morning when this life is over I'll fly away To the land where joy shall never end Woah I'll fly away Woah I'll fly away oh glory I'll fly away when I die hallelujah bye and bye I'll fly away

I need to recruit all the soldiers All of God's soldiers We at war... We at war with society, racism, terrorism But most of all...we at war with ourselves (Jesus walks) God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down (Jesus walks with me, with me, with me, with me, with me) You know what the mid-west is? Young and Restless Where restless (niggas) might snatch your necklace And next these (niggas) might jack your Lexus Somebody tell these (niggas) who Kanye West is. I walk through the valley where the shadow of death is. Top floor of the view alone will leave you breathless Try to catch it ... it's kind of hard Getting choked by detectives yeah yeah now check the method. They be asking us questions, harass and arrest us Saying We eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast Huh? Y'all eat pieces of shit what's the basis? We ain't going no where but got suits and cases. A trunk full of coke, rental car from Avis. My momma used to say only Jesus can save us. Well momma I know I act a fool But I'll be gone til November. I got packs to move I hope. Chorus (2x) (Jesus walks) God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down (Jesus walks with me) The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now. (Jesus walks) And I don't think there's nothing I can do to right my wrong (Jesus walks with me) I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long (I want Jesus) To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the scrimpers... (Jesus walks with them!) To the victims of welfare feel we living in hell here, hell yea... (Jesus walks with them!) Now hear ye hear ye wanna see thee more clearly I know He hear me when my feet get weary Cause we're the almost nearly extinct We rappers is role models we rap we don't think I ain't here to argue about his facial features We're here to convert atheists into believers I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers The way Kathy Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus So here go my single dawg radio needs this They said you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, sex, lies, videotape But if I talk bout God my record won't get played Huh? Well if this take away from my spins Which will probably take away from my ends Then I hope it take away from my sins And bring the day that I'm dreamin 'bout Next time I'm in the club everybody screaming out... (Jesus walks) God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down (Jesus walks with me) The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now. (Jesus walks) And I don't think there's nothing I can do to right my wrong (Jesus walks with me) I wanna talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long (I want Jesus)

[Jay-Z]Oh baby (Hahahahaha)Turn it up for me When it comes to being true, at least true to me(That's right, it's what I do, c'mon)One thing I found (Uh-huh), one thing I foundOh no you'll never let me down,(No I never let you down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down) [Jay-Z]Yo, yo first I snatched the streets, then I snatched the chartsFirst I had they ear, now I have they heartRappers came and wentI've been here from the startI seen them put it togetherWatch them take it apartSee the rovers roll up with ribbons I see them re poed, re sold then re drivenSo when I reload, he holds number one positionsWhen you hot, I'm hotAnd when your feet cold, mines are sizzlinIt's plain to seeNiggas can't fuck wit meCuz ima be that nigga for lifeThis is not an imageThis is God givenThis is hard livinMixed wit Cristal sippinIt's the most consistent, HovGive you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc andNigga I'm home on these charts, y'all niggas visitingIt's Hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rapI'm back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down) [Kanye West]Get up I get down for my grandfather who took my momma Made her sit in that seat where white folks ain't want us to eatAt the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sitinsAnd with that in my blood I was born to be differentNow niggas can't make it to ballots to chose leadershipBut we can make it to Jacobs or to the dealershipThat's why I hear new music and I just don't be feelin itRacism still alive, they just be concealin it But I know they don't want me in the damn clubThey even make me show ID to get up inta Sam's ClubI did deal dirt and went to church to get my hands scrubbedThat why I've baptized these 3 or 4 timesBut in the land where niggas praiseYukons and getting paidIts gon take a lot more than coupons to get us savedLike it take a lot more than do-rags to get your wayNothin sad as that day my girl father passed awaySo I promise to Mr. Raney, I'm gonna marry your daughter And you know I gotta thank you for they way that she was brought upAnd I know that you were smiling when you seen the car I bought herAnd you sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up, butI can't complain what the accident did to my left eyeCuz look what an accident did to Left EyeFirst Aaliyah, now Romeo must dieI know I got angels watchin me from the other side When it comes to being true, at least true to meOne thing I found, one thing I foundOh no you'll never let me down,Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down) [J.Ivy]We're all here for a reason on a particular pathYou don't need a curriculum to know that you are part of the mathCats think I'm delirious, but I'm so damn seriousThat's why I expose my soul to the globe, the worldI'm trying to make it better for these little boys and girlsI'm not just another individual, my spirit is a part of thisThat's why I get spiritual, but I get my hymns from HimSo it's not me, it's He that's lyricalI'm not a miracle, I'm a heaven-sent instrumentMy rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mentalThat's why I'm instrumentalVibrations is what I'm intoYeah, I need my loot by rent dayBut that ain't what gives me the heart of Kunte KinteI'm tryina "Give us us free" like CinqueI can't stop, that's why I'm hotDetermination, dedication, motivationI'm talking to you, my many inspirationsWhen I say it I can't, let you or self downIf I were on the highest cliff, on the highest riftAnd you slipped off the side and clenched on to your life in my gripI would never, ever let you downAnd when these words are foundLet it been known that God's penmanship has been signed with a language called loveThat's why my breath is felt by the deafAnd why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blindI, too, dream in color and in rhymeSo I guess I'm one of a kind in a full houseCuz whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouthA touch of God rains out [Kanye West]Take'em to church When it comes to being true, at least true to meOne thing I found, one thing I foundOh no you'll never let me down,Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down)Get up I get (down) [Jay-Z]Who else you know been hot this long?Started from nothin but he got this strongPicked the rock from a pebblePeddled rock before I met youPeddle bikes got my nephewsPedal bikes because they specialThat you tell that man I thought it, wellSomebody must've taught him causeEvery fourth quarter, I light the Mike Jord in themNumber one albums, what? I got like four of themMore of them on the wayThe eighth wonder on the wayClear the way I'm here to stayY'all can save the chitter-chatThis and that, this and JayThis and Jay'll get you macedWhen I start spittin them lyricsNiggas get very religiousSix Hail Maries please, Father forgive usYoung!The archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y'all niggasThe way y'all all follow JiggaHov's a living legend and I'll tell you whyEverybody wanna be Hov and Hov's still alive

[Kanye West]I'm tryin to catch the beat, uhI'm tryin to catch the beatI'm tryin to catch the beat, uh uh, uhI'm tryin to catch the beat [Chorus: Kanye West]N-now, th-th-through ya motherfuckin handsGET EM HIGHAll the girls pass the weed to ya motherfuckin manGET EM HIGHNow I ain't never tell you to put down ya handsKEEP EM HIGHAnd if ya losin yo high than smoke againKEEP EM HIGH [Verse 1: Kanye West]N-n-n-now, my flowIs in the pocket like Wallace, I got the bounce like hydrolicsI can't call it, I got the swerve like alchoooool-icsMy freshman year I was goin through hell, a problemStill I, built up the nerve to drop my ass up outta collllllll-egeMy teacher said I'se a loser, I told her why don't you kill meI give a fuck if you fail me, I'm gonna folllllllllll-owMy heart, and if you follow the charts, to the plaques or the stacksYou ain't gotta guess who's back, you seeI'm so shy that you thought it was bashfull but thisbastard's flow will bash a skullAnd I will, cut your girl like Pastor TroAnd I don't, usually smoke but pass the 'droAnd I won't, give you that money that you askin fo'Why you think, me and Dame cool, we ask hoesThat's why we hear your music in fast fo'Cuz we don't wanna here that weak shit no mo' [Chorus: Kanye West]N-now, th-th-through ya motherfuckin handsGET EM HIGHAll the girls pass the weed to ya motherfuckin manGET EM HIGHNow I ain't never tell you to put down ya handsKEEP EM HIGHAnd if ya losin yo high than smoke againKEEP EM HIGH [Verse 2: Kanye West]N-n-n-n-n-now who the hell is thisE-mailin me at 11:26, tellin me that she 36-26, plus double-dYou know how girls on black planet be when they get bubbleeAt NYU but she headed from Kansas, right now she just lampin, chillin oncampusSent me a picture with a feelin on CandiceWho said her favorite rapper was the late great FrancisW-H-I-T, it's gettin late mami, your screen saver say tweetSo you got to call me, and bring a friend for my friendHis name Kweli(You mean Talib, lyric sticks to your rib)I mean(That's my favorite CD that I play at my crib)I mean(You don't really know him, why is you lyin)Yo Kwe, she don't believe me, please pickup the lineShe gon' think that I'm lyin, just spit a couple of linesThen maybe I'll be able to give her dick all the time, and get her high [Verse 3: Talib Kweli]YeahI can't believe this nigga use my name for pickin' up dimes butGET EM HIGH, I need some tracks you tryin to pull tracks outAnd my rhymes as fittin' to blow you tryin' to blow back southWell ok, you twisted my arm, I'll assist with the charm, aiyyoI though you meet that chick at that conference with yo momsAnd she's the bomb, boy she got the bouji behaviorAlways got somethin' to say like a bookee(?) playa haterAnyway, I don't usually fuck with a interneter (get her high)Birth control stuck to they arm like NicoretteYou really fuckin' that much, you tryin' to get off cigarettesAnd she think it's fly, she ain't met a real nigga yetI apologize if I come off a little inconsiderateI got the bubble kush a sister could get a hit of it [Verse 4: Common]Get em high like noon, or the moon or a room filled with smokeA high filled with dopeY'all assumed I was doomed, out of tune, but I still fill the notesWith real nigga quotesReal rappers is hard to find, like a remonte, control rap is not aUsed soup it still got life, that's why I abuse you who are not thugsRock clubs like Tiger, Woods in the hood, should have my own reality showCalled Soul Survivor, I stole on liver, niggaz than youYou'se a bitch I got ones that are thicker than youHow could I ever let your words affect me, they say Hip-Hop is deadI'm here to resurrect me, mosh is to sexy to even make songs like theseThat's why the raw don't know your name, like Alicia KeysTo many featured emcees, and pro-ducers is popularTwelve thousand spins, nobody got to coppin yourAlbum, how come, you the hot garbage ofThe years clear your image is looped upLabel got you souped up, tellin you you sickMan you a dick with a loose nutVideo hard to watch like MedusaEven your club record need a boosterChimped up, with a pimp cup, illiterate niggaRead the infa, red across your head I'm bread king like SimbaBolder then Denver, I ain't a Madd Rapper just a emcee with a temperYou dancin' for money like Honey, I did this my waySo when the industry crash, I survive like KanyeSpittin through wires and fires, emcees retirinGot yo hands up, get them motherfuckers higher then [Chorus: Kanye West]N-now, th-th-through ya motherfuckin handsGET EM HIGHAll the girls pass the weed to ya motherfuckin manGET EM HIGHNow I ain't never tell you to put down ya handsKEEP EM HIGHAnd if ya losin yo high than smoke againKEEP EM HIGH

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