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Late Registration
by Kanye West
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Late Registration Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- (feat. Bernie Mac)
- [Bernie Mac]
- [laughs]
- I knew I was gonna see ya, I knew I was gonna see you again!
- I was gonna see you again
- Where your god damn book bag at?
- Always carryin' that lil book bag
- Nobody wanna see that
- God damn fourth grader
- Sit yo' ass down
- ?? wanna play it again like he got somethin else to do
- You ain't got nothin' else to do
- You ain't doin nothin wit yo life
- [piano starts]
- Nothing with your life
- What do you think this is?
- You betta look at me when i'm talkin' to you!
- You think this is easy don't you?
- You think this is promised
- Oh ain't nothin promised with you
- Look at my face, do I got a promise face?
- Does it look like promise you anything?
- Kanye!
- Ni**a! Is you snorin' in my class?
- Wake up Mr. West! Mr. West
- [echoes into next song]
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- (feat. Adam Levine of Maroon 5)
- Wake up Mr. West[echoes]
- [Kanye West]
- Uh, Yeah, Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah
- [Piano drops]
- And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
- From the Chi, like Tim its the Hard-a-way,
- So this is in the name of love, like Robert says
- Before you ask me to get a job today, can I at least get a raise on a minimum wage?
- And I know the government administered AIDS,
- So I guess we just pray like the minister say,
- Allah o Akbar and throw em some hot cars,
- Things we see on the screen are not ours,
- But these niggas from the hood so these dreams not far,
- Where im from, the dope boys is the rock stars,
- But they can't cop cars without seein' cop cars,
- I guess they want us all behind bars.
- I know it.
- [Chorus (Adam Levine)]
- Uh, And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
- (ooooooooo)
- And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
- (Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today.)
- But we'll find a way
- (And nothing lasts forever but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way)
- [Kanye]
- They say people in your life are seasons,
- And anything that happen is for a reason,
- And niggas guns a clappin and keep to squeezin',
- And Gran (Grandma) keep prayin' and keep believin',
- And Jesus and one day that ya see him,
- Till they walk in his footsteps and try to be him,
- The devil is alive I feel him breathin',
- Claimin' money is the key so keep on dreamin',
- And put them lottery tickets just to tease us,
- My aunt Pam can't put those cigarettes down,
- Now my lil cousin smokin those cigarettes now,
- His job trying to claim that he too niggerish now,
- Is it cuz his skin blacker than licorice now?
- I can't figure it out...
- Im Stickin around....
- [Chorus (Adam Levine)]
- Uh, And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
- (ooooooooo)
- And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
- (Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today.)
- But we'll find a way
- (And nothing lasts forever but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way)
- (Cuz every worthless word we get more far away, and nothing's ever promised tomorrow today,
- And nothing lasts forever but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way)
- [Beat Changes]
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to Mastiwala31@yahoo.com, deedles_5@hotmail.com, y3ah_ri9ht@hotmail.com, jaysonxbox@HOTMAIL.COM for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. Lupe Fiasco)
- [Chorus 1]
- I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
- For the day I die, I'mma touch the sky
- Gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
- For the day I die, I'mma touch the sky
- Back when they thought pink polo's would hurt the Roc,
- Before Cam got the shit to pop, the doors was closed.
- I felt like Bad Boy's street team, I couldn't work the Lox (locks).
- Now let's go.
- Take 'em back to the plan...
- Me and my momma hopped in the U-Haul van.
- Any pessimists I ain't talked to them,
- Plus, I ain't have no phone in my apartment.
- Let's take 'em back to the club.
- Least about an hour I would stand on line,
- I just wanted to dance.
- I went to Jacob an hour after I got my advance.
- I just wanted to shine.
- Jay's favorite line: "Dog, in due time"
- Now he look at me, like "Damn, dog, you where I am"
- A hip hop legend.
- I think I died in an accident, cause this must be heaven.
- [Chorus]
- [Hook 1 (P. Diddy)]
- Now let's take 'em high-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh la la la la la la la
- (Top of the world, baby. T-Top of the world)
- Now let's take 'em high-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh la la la la la la la
- (Top of the world, baby. T-Top of the world)
- Back when Gucci was the shit to rock,
- Back when Slick Rick got the shit to pop,
- I'd do anything to say "I got it".
- Damn, them new loafers hurt my pocket.
- Before anybody wanted K-West beats,
- Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.
- Dog, I was having nervous breakdowns,
- Like "Damn, these niggas that much better than me?"
- Baby, I'm going on an airplane,
- And I don't know if I'll be back again.
- Sure enough, I sent the plane tickets,
- But when she came to kick it, things became different.
- Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on.
- I couldn't keep it home, I thought I needed a Nia Long.
- I'm trying to write my wrongs,
- But it's funny these same wrongs helped me write this song.
- Now,
- [Chorus 2]
- I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly
- For the day you die, You gonna touch the sky
- (You gonna touch the sky babygirl!) Testify, come up in the spot
- Looking extra fly
- For the day you die, You gonna touch the sky
- Yes, yes, yes guess who's on third?
- Lupe still like Lupin the Third.
- Hear life here till I'm beer on the curb
- Peach fuzz buzz but beard on the verge
- Slow it down like we're on the serve
- Bottle-shaped body like Mrs. Butterworth's.
- But, before you say another word,
- I'm back on the block like a man on the street.
- I'm trying to stop lying like a Mum-Ra,
- But I'm not lying when I'm laying on the beat.
- Engarde, Touchİ Lupe cool as the Unthar,
- But I still feel as possessed as a gun charge.
- I come as correct as a porn star,
- In a fresh pair of steps and my best foreign car.
- So, I represent the first.
- Now, let me end my verse right where the horns are like
- [Chorus 2]
- [Hook 2 (P. Diddy)]
- (We back at home, baby)
- Sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- Sky, Sky high
- I'm, I'm sky high
- Yeah! (Keep it rollin)
- (Feels good to be home, baby! Feels good to be home!)
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to aj.laan@freeler.nl, danknicks@optonline.net, kazz_king@hotmail.co.uk for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. Jamie Foxx)
- [Jamie Foxx]
- She take my money when I'm in need
- Yea she's a trifflin friend indeed
- Oh she's a gold digga way over town
- That dig's on me
- [Chorus:]
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in Need)
- But she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in need)
- But she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- Get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- Get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- Get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- Get down girl gone head
- [Verse 1:]
- Cutie the bomb
- Met her at a beauty salon
- With a baby louis vuitton
- Under her underarm
- She said I can tell you ROC
- I can tell by ya charm
- Far as girls you got a flock
- I can tell by ya charm and ya arm
- but I'm lookin for the one
- have you seen her
- My psychic told me she have a ass like Serena
- Trina, Jennifer Lopez, four kids
- An I gotta take all they bad ass to show-biz
- Ok get ya kids but then they got their friends
- I Pulled up in the Benz, they all got up In
- We all went to Den and then I had to pay
- If you fuckin with this girl then you betta be payed
- You know why
- It take too much to touch her
- From what I heard she got a baby by Busta
- My best friend say she use to fuck wit Usher
- I dont care what none of yall say I still love her
- [Chorus:]
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in Need)
- But she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in need)
- but she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head
- [Verse 2:]
- 18 years, 18 years
- She got one of yo kids got you for 18 years
- I know somebody payin child support for one of his kids
- His baby momma's car and crib is bigger than his
- You will see him on TV Any Given Sunday
- Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai
- She was spose to buy ya shorty TYCO with ya money
- She went to the doctor got lypo with ya money
- She walkin around lookin like Michael with ya money
- Should of got that insured got GEICO for ya moneeey
- If you aint no punk holla We Want Prenup
- WE WANT PRENUP!, Yeaah
- It's something that you need to have
- Cause when she leave yo ass she gone leave with half
- 18 years, 18 years
- And on her 18th birthday he found out it wasn't his
- [Chorus:]
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in Need)
- But she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- (She gives me money)
- Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger (When I'm in need)
- but she ain't messin' wit no broke niggaz
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head get down (I gotta leave)
- get down girl gone head
- [Verse 3:]
- Now I aint sayin you a gold digger you got needs
- You dont want ya dude to smoke but he can't buy weed
- You got out to eat and he cant pay yall cant leave
- There's dishes in the back, he gotta roll up his sleeves
- But why yall washin watch him
- He gone make it into a Benz out of that Datson
- He got that ambition baby look in his eyes
- This week he moppin floorz next week it's the fries
- So, stick by his side
- I know his dude's ballin but yea thats nice
- And they gone keep callin and tryin
- But you stay right girl
- But when you get on he leave yo a** for a white girl
- Get down girl gone head get down
- Get down girl gone head get down
- get down girl gone head get down
- get down girl gone head
- (lemme hear dat bak)
- [Thanks to Ariel (btchnbroad954@aim.com) for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to toobad2bnyce33@yahoo.com, chen13@fas.harvard.edu for correcting these lyrics]
- I brought you brothers here to start our own fraternity
- Broke Phi Broke, we ain't got it.
- Broke Phi Broke (we ain't got it)
- No, we have no money
- We are sharin' jeans.
- If I go outside, I got the only clothing on.
- How many cars do we own? (None!)
- How many cars do we own? (None, sir!)
- Should we let our woman go and be with the cat in the car?
- Yes, we will.
- Why? Because we can't afford gas. Say it with me!
- (We can't afford no gas!)
- Say it!
- (We can't afford no gas!)
- So we ain't drivin'!
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- (feat. Paul Wall, GLC)
- [Chorus:]
- Drive slow homey
- Drive slow homey
- Ya never know homey might meet some hoes homey
- Ya need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey
- [Kanye:]
- My homey Mali used to stay one 79th and May
- One of my best friends from back in the day
- Down the street form Calumet a school full of stones
- He nicknamed me K-Rock so they'd leave me alone
- Bulls jacket with his hat broke way off
- Walk around the mall with his radio face off
- Plus he had the spinner from his Dayton's in his hand
- Keys in his hand reason again to let you know he's the man
- Back when we rocked Alesis he had dreams of Caprice's
- Drove by the teachers even more by police's
- How he get that cash today his father passed away
- Left him with a little something 16 he was stunting
- Al B Sure nigga with the hair all wavy
- Hit lakeshore girls go all crazy
- Hit the freeway go at least bout 80
- Boned so much that summer even had him a baby
- See back back then then if you had a car
- You were the Chi town version of Baby
- And I was just a virgin a baby
- One of the reasons I looked up to him crazy
- I used to love to play my demo tape when the system yanked
- Felt like I was almost signed when the shit got cranked
- We'll take a Saturday and just circle the mall
- They had the Lincoln's and Aurora's we were hurting them all
- With the girls a lot of flirting involved
- But dawg fuck all that flirting I'm trying to get in some draws
- So put me on with these hoes homey's
- He told me don't rush to get grown drive slow homey
- Drive slow homie
- Drive slow...
- Ya never know homey about these hoes homey
- Ya need to pump your breaks and drive slow homey
- [Paul Wall:]
- What It do
- I'm posted up in the parking lot my trunk wavin'
- The candy gloss is immaculate and is simply amazing
- Them elbows poking wide on that Candy-lac
- Trunk open, screen's on, neon's lit with fifth relax
- I'm on a mission for dime piece's and sexy ladies
- Allow me to introduce you to my CL Mercedes
- It's a star-studded event when I valet park
- Open up my mouth and sunlight illuminates the dark
- You see them 4's crawling, you see them screens falling
- The disco ball in my mouth insinuates I'm balling
- I'm leaning on a switch sitting crooked in my slab
- But I could still catch boopas if I drove a cab
- A young Houston hard hitter all about the scrilla
- Riding some candy coated crawling like a caterpillar
- I'm tipping on those 4's I'm jamming off this screw
- I'm looking for them hoes baby what it do?
- [Chorus:]
- Drive slow homey
- Turn your hazard lights on when you see them hoes
- Drive slow homey
- If you riding around the city with nowhere to go
- Drive slow homey
- Live today cause tomorrow man you never know
- Ya never know homey might meet some hoes homey
- Ya need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey
- [Kanye:]
- My cars like the movies my cars like the crib
- I got more TV's in here then where I live
- [GLC:]
- And it don't make no sense but baby I'm the shit
- And everything I flip you know is something serious
- I got the custom grill I got the Brabus rims
- I got the baller genetics baby that's evident
- You see a player flicking and you ain't convinced
- That you should go and kiss it just a little bit
- I wear my custom kicks I got my Jesus chain
- My canaries is gleaming though my angle wings
- They see me hoes acting like they seen a king
- With that mean lean smoking on the finest Cali green
- My wood grain oak I'm riding on vogues
- My cylinder quiet like tip toes
- I sold O's and this I know
- When you see them hoes little homey drive slow
- Chopped and Screwed
- Yeah..
- Drive slow homey
- Drive slow homey
- Ya never know homey might meet some hoes homey
- Ya need to pump your brakes and drive slow homey
- Drive slow homey
- [Thanks to eightonx@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to Kartoon281@yahoo.com, grizly37@gmail.com, luvdit62@hotmail.co.uk, grizly37@gmail.com for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. Common)
- Yeah
- I'm on my way home
- They say home is where the hate is
- My dome is where fate is
- I stroll where souls get lost like vegas
- Seen through the eyes of rebel glasses
- Pray to god that my arms reach the masses
- The young smoke grass in grassless jungles
- Rubberband together in cashless bundles
- We wear struggling chains
- Divided only hustle remains
- Making sense of it we hustle for change
- Revolution ain't a game
- It's another name
- For life fighting
- Someone to stay in they corner like Mike Tyson
- Hypes fighting for hits to heighten they hell
- Don't he know he only get as high as he fell
- Show money becomes bail
- Relationships become jail
- Children are unheld
- I wish love was for sale
- Behold the pale
- Horse got me trapped like r. kel', I bail and it-
- Might not be such a bad idea if I never, never went home again
- I'm on my way home
- I left three days ago
- But no one seems to know I'm gone
- Home is where the hatred is
- Home is filled with pain and it
- Might not be such a bad idea if I never
- Never went home again.
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to theshowj3@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. The Game)
- [Hook]
- [Kanye]
- That's that crack music nigga
- That real black music nigga
- La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
- La-la-la-la-la-la
- [The Game]
- That's that crack music nigga
- That real black music nigga
- La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
- La-la-la-la-la-la
- [Verse 1]
- [Kanye]
- How we stop the black panthers?
- Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer
- You hear that?
- What Gil Scott was hearin
- When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin.
- Crack raised the murder rate in DC and Maryland
- We invested in that it's like we got Merril-Lynched
- And we been hangin from the same tree ever since
- Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine
- So we cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it,sell it
- The fiends cop it
- Nowadays they cant tell if that's that good shit
- We ain't sure man
- Put the CD on your toungue yeah, thats pure man.
- [Hook]
- [Verse 2]
- From the place where the fathers gone,
- The mothers is hardly home
- And the...
- Gonna lock us up in a...home
- How the Mexicans say we just tryin to party homes
- They wanna pack us all in a box like styrofoam
- Who gave Saddam anthrax?
- George Bush got the answers
- Back in the hood it's a different type of chemical,
- Am and Hammer baking soda
- Raised they own quota
- Writin when our soldiers ran for the stove cuz--
- Cuz dreams of being 'Hova went from bein a brokeman ta bein a dopeman
- Ta bein a president look theres hope man
- This that inspiration for tha mos and tha folks man,
- Shorty come and see if mama straight overdosin.
- And this is the soundtrack,
- This tha type of music you make when you round that--
- Crack music nigga,
- That real black music nigga.
- [The Game]
- That's that crack music nigga
- That real black music nigga
- La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
- La-la-la-la-la-la
- [Kanye]
- God-how could you let this happen, happen, happen, happen, happen, happen?
- La-la-la[etc.]
- [Kanye]
- That's that crack music, crack music
- That real black music, black music
- La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
- La-la-la-la-la-la
- [The Game]
- That's that crack music nigga
- That real black music nigga
- La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
- La-la-la-la-la-la
- [Kanye]
- That's that crack music, crack music,that real black music, black music
- [Malik Yusef]
- Our father, give us this day our daily bread ...give us these days and take our daily bread,
- See I done did all this ole bullshit
- And to attone I throw a little somethin, somethin on the pulpit.
- We took that shit, measured it and then cooked that shit
- And what we gave back was crack music
- And now we ooze it through they nooks and crannies
- So our mammas aint got to be they cooks and nannies
- And we gonna repo everything they ever took from grammy
- Now the former slaves trade hooks for grammies
- This dark diction has become America's addiction those who ain't even black use it.
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to tang711825@gmail.com, beautiforashes@aol.com, ixiladinycixi@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]
- [Verse 1]
- [Kanye West]
- I know it's past visiting hours
- But can I please give her these flowers
- The doctor dont wanna take procedures
- He claim my heart can't take the anastesia
- It'll send her body into a seizure
- The little thing by the hospital bed, it'll stop beeping,
- Hey chick, im at a lost for words
- What do you say at this time?
- Remember when I was nine?
- Tell her everything gone be fine?
- But i'd be lying, the family crying
- They want her to live, and she trying
- I'm argueing like what kind of doctor can we fly in
- You know the best medicine go to people thats paid,
- If Magic Johnson got a cure for A.I.D.S.
- And all the broke muthafuckers past away
- You tellin me if my grandma was in the N.B.A.
- Right now she'd be ok?
- But since she was just a secretary
- Working for the church
- For thirty five years
- Things sposed to stop right here
- My grandfather tryin to pull it together, he's strong,
- Thats where I get my confidence from
- I asked the nurse "did you do the research?"
- She ask me, "can you sign some t-shirts?"
- Bitch is you smokin reefer?
- You dont see that we hurt
- But still...
- [Chorus]
- ...I smile
- When roses come to see me
- And I can't wait for a sunny day
- (Im seeing it through your eyes)
- Can't wait for the clouds to break
- [Verse 2]
- [Kanye West]
- They outside of the emergency room, room
- You can feel my heart beat, beat, beat
- If she gone pull through
- We gone find out soon
- But right now she sleep, sleep, sleep
- My mama say, they say she could pass away any day
- Hey chick what these doctors know anyway
- Let me see the X-rays
- I ain't no expert, I'm just hurt
- Cousin Kim took off for work
- Plus my Aunt Shirley, Aunt Beverly, Aunt Claire and Aunt Jean
- So many Aunties, we could have an Auntie team
- Feel like Amerie "Its this one thing"
- When they said that she made it
- You see the eyes gleam
- I think we at an all time high
- To get there we run, we fly, we drive
- Coz with my family we know where home is
- So instead of sending flowers
- We the roses...
- [Chorus]
- I smile
- When roses come to see me
- And I can't wait for a sunny day
- (Im seeing it through your eyes)
- Can't wait for the clouds to break
- Who brings the sunshine?
- Ohhhhh I smile
- When roses come to see me
- And I can't wait for a sunny day
- (Im seeing it through your eyes)
- Can't wait for the clouds to breaK
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to on_fire09@blackplanet.com, numtak3@yahoo.com, billionaire.boys.club@hotmail.fr, LilSmileigh@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. Brandy)
- [Chorus: Brandy]
- I always knew that one day
- They'd try to bring me down
- WOoow, one day, they tried to bring me down
- ALways knew that one day, they'd try to bring me down
- Dooown, way down
- [Kanye]
- We gon' to mass today, we have to pray
- Besides what the pastor say, I have to say
- Since Pac passed away
- Most you rappers don't even deserve a track from me
- You see, if you evern wanted to ever be anything
- There'd always be somebody that shoot down any dream
- There'll always be haters, that's the way it is
- Hater niggaz marry hater bitches and have hater kids
- But they gon' have to take my life 'fore they take my drive
- 'Cause when I was barely livin, that's what kept me alive
- Just the thought that maybe it could be better than what we at at this time
- Make it out of this grind, 'fore I'm out of my mind
- And get some lee way on the he say she say
- You girl don't like me, how long has she been gay
- Spanish girls say "No able ingle"
- And everybody want to run to me for their SINGLE
- It's funny how these wack niggaz need my help
- Wasn't around when I couldn't feed myself
- Dog, If I was you, I wouldn't feel myself
- Dog, If I was you, I'd kill myself
- Made a mill myself, and I'm still myself
- And I'ma look in the mirror if I need some help
- Ask me from the heart, y'all all frontin
- Everybody feel a way about K but at least y'all feel somethin
- [Brandy]
- Why you come here, I bet it only it was forget to get ya
- What kind of dream we found, see I'm often at your cross way
- forgetting it was that heaven let ya. They tried to bring me down
- [Chorus - 5X]
- [Thanks to miriam9393@yahoo.com for correcting these lyrics]
- We broke, broke broke phi broke
- (We ain't got it)
- Broke, broke, broke phi broke
- (We ain't got it)
- Don't spend no money
- Ain't got no clothes
- Ain't got no cars
- Ain't got no hos
- We broke, broke, broke phi broke
- (We ain't got it)
- Broke, broke, broke phi broke
- (We ain't got it)
- Got no money (got no money)
- We got no clothes (got no clothes)
- Ain't got no cars (got no cars)
- Can't get no hos
- We broke, broke, broke, broke, broke
- Buncha niggas
- Broke, broke, broke, broke, broke!
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Chorus]
- [Kanye (Female Voice)]
- Why everything that's supposed to bad make me feel so good?
- Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would
- Man I tried to stop man I tried the best I could
- But (You make me smile)
- What's your addiction? Is it money? Is it girls? Is it weed?
- I've been afflicted by not one, not two, but all three
- She's got the same thing, about me, but more, about us
- She's coming over, so I guess, that means, I'm on drugs
- Just let me peek now, I mean damn, I'm so curious
- She's got a lover, so the lies, and the lust, is a rush
- Time's of the essence, I need, you to be, spontaneous
- Roll up the doge, henny and c-c-c-cola, then I'm co coming over
- Cuz its ne-never over
- [Chorus]
- [Kanye (Female Voice)]
- Why everything that's supposed to bad make me feel so good
- Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would
- Man I tried to stop man I tried the best I could
- But (You make me smile)
- I see the emotion in your eyes, that you, try not to show
- We get the closest when you high, or you drunk, or you blow
- So I pour the potion, so we could both get high, as we could go
- Then I'll get the lotion, and do something to me, when your thighs is exposed
- There's no turning back now, I mean I don't mean to impose
- Not now but right now, I need you to undress, and then pose
- I'm into that now, catch a vibe, when the doors, get closed
- Roll up the doge, henny and c-c-c-cola, and I keep co coming over
- Cuz its ne-never over
- [Chorus]
- [Female Voice (Female Voice)]
- Why everything that's supposed to bad make me feel so good
- Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would
- Man I tried to stop man I tried the best I could
- But... (You Make Me Smile)
- (You make me smile with my heart)
- [INSTRUMENTAL]
- [Chorus]
- [Kanye (Female Voice)]
- Why everything that's supposed to bad make me feel so good
- Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would
- Man I tried to stop man I tried the best I could
- But... (You make me smile, With my heart)
- I just wanted to ask you
- Just wanted to um
- Let how would I put this uhh
- Let's say all your friends
- Remember the one
- You said if you ever she would be the one
- Ok, Ok, Ok (You make me smile with my heart)
- I was thinking, hypothetically
- I mean don't take this seriously
- Don't take me: I mean just
- Uhh not credibly
- I'm feeling incredibly
- I mean let it be
- Just let it be
- I mean you, her and me (You make me smile with my heart)
- I mean you, her and me
- Maybe, Baby, Baby
- You know I was just kidding
- Unless you gon' do it
- (You make me smile...)
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to dmiles15@hotmail.com, ojskobejuice@msn.comkejoseph2005@gmail.com, dcathcart03@yahoo.com for correcting these lyrics]
- (feat. Jay-Z)
- [Intro]
- Diamonds are forever
- They're all I need to please me
- They can't stimulate or tease me
- They won't leave in the night
- Have no fear that they might
- Desert me
- [Hook]
- Throw ya diamonds in the sky
- If you feel the vibe
- The ROC is still alive
- Everytime I rhyme
- For ever ever? for ever ever? ever ever?
- Ever ever? ever ever? ever ever? ever ever?
- [Verse 1]
- Good Morning, this ain't Vietnam still
- People lose hands, legs, arms for real
- Little was known of Sierra Leone
- And how it connect to the diamonds we own
- When I speak of Diamonds in this song
- I ain't talkin bout the ones that be glown
- I'm talkin bout Rocafella, my home, my chain
- These ain't conflict diamonds,is they Jacob? don't lie to me mayne
- See, a part of me sayin' keep shinin',
- How? when I know of the blood diamonds
- Though it's thousands of miles away
- Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
- Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
- Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs
- The diamonds, the chains, the bracelets, the charmses
- I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
- 'til I seen a picture of a shorty armless
- And here's the conflict
- It's in a black person's soul to rock that gold
- Spend ya whole life tryna get that ice
- On a polo rugby it look so nice
- How could somethin' so wrong make me feel so right, right?
- 'fore I beat myself up like Ike
- You could still throw ya Rocafella diamond tonight, 'cause
- [Hook]
- [Verse 2]
- [Kanye From Original Song]
- People askin' me is I'm gon' give my chain back (uh)
- That'll be the same day I give the game back (uh)
- You know the next question dog 'yo, where Dame at?'(uh)
- This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back (whoo!)
- 'wassup wit you a Jay man, are ya'll okay man?'
- [Jay-Z]
- Yep!
- I got it from her 'ye damn!
- The chain remains, the game is in tact
- The name is mine, I'll take blame for that
- The pressure's on, but guess who ain't gon' crack?[laughs]
- Pardon me I had to laugh at that
- How could you falter when you're the rock of gibralter
- I had to get of the boat so I could walk on water
- This ain't no tall order, this is nothin to me
- Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week
- I do this in my sleep,
- I sold Kilos of coke, (so?) I'm guessin' I can sell CD's
- I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man
- Let me handle my buisness, damn!
- Kanyeez you got me, Freeway and Foxy
- YG', Teairra Mari, Petey watch me
- Bleek could be one hit away his whole career
- As long as I'm alive, he's a millionaire
- And even if I die, he's in my will somewhere
- So he can just kick back and chill somewhere, oh yeah
- He don't even have to write rhymes
- The Dynasty like my money last three lifetimes
- Shirley Bassey was in the rear sayin exactly
- What I was sayin practically me whole carreer
- The diamond is forever, I been mindin' this forever
- Now the Louis Vuitton Don's timin' couldn't be better
- People lined up to see the Titanic sinkin'
- Instead we rose from the ash like a phoenix
- If you waitin' for the end, the dynasty signed
- And what seemed like forever is a mighty long time
- I'm young bitches[laughs]
- Goodnight!
- [Thanks to Miss713south@yahoo.com for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to Codac21@msn.com, crazyman11@fuse.net, wordsworth82@hotmail.com, LilSmileigh@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]
- This was founded years ago
- By broke slaves, years ago
- Who did not have, years ago
- By broke brothas in the 20s, years ago
- Who did not have when we could not eat
- Hmm, remember that?
- Eating all of our cereal with forks because we wanted to save the milk, do you remember that? Hmm?
- Do you remember all those Christmases when your Mama walked in the room and pretended she was the tree, huh?
- Remember that?
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- (feat. Nas, Really Doe)
- [Chorus]
- You motherfuckers better do your job and roll up and watch how we roll up and
- I can't control it, can't hold it, it's so nuts
- I take a sip of that yak, I wanna fuck
- I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck
- But really what's amazing is how I keep blazing
- Towel under the door smoke until the days end
- Puff, puff then pass, don't fuck up rotation
- Hpnotic for Henny, now nigga that's your chaser
- Turn nothin to something now pimpin' that's a savior
- Best things are green now pimp and get your paper
- High off the ground instead of skyscraper
- Cool off thinkin' we local, come on homie, we major
- We major (come on, homie, we major)[repeat]
- Feeling better than some head on a sunday afternoon
- Better than a chick that say yes to soon
- Until you have a daughter, that's what I call karma
- And you pray to god she don't grow breasts too soon.
- Projects to' up, gang signs is thrown up
- Niggas hats broke off that's how we grow up
- Why else you think shorty's write rhymes just to blow up?
- Get they first car and then IRS show up
- He ain't never had shit but he had that nine
- Nigga come through flickin' and he had that shine
- Put two and two together in a little bad weather
- Gon' be a whole family on that funeral line
- Ask the reverand was the strip club cool if my tips help send a pretty girl through school
- That's all I want like wino's want they good whisky
- I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me
- [chorus]
- [Nas:]
- I heard the beat and I ain't know what to write
- First line, should it be about the hos or the ice?
- Four-four's or black christ? Both flows would be nice
- Rap about big paper or the black man's plight
- At the studio consol asked my man to the right
- What this verse sound like, should I freestyle or write?
- He said, Nas, what the fans want is Illmatic, Stillmatic
- Picked up the pad and pencil and jotted what I feel
- Been like 12 years since a nigga first signed
- Now I'm a free agent
- And I'm thinking it's time
- To build my very own Motown
- Cuz rappers be deprived of executive 9 to 5s
- And it hurts to see these companies be stealing the life
- And I love to give my blood sweat and tears to the mic
- So y'all copped the LPs and y'all fiends got dealt
- I'm Jesse Jackson on the balcony where King got killed
- I survived the livest niggas around
- Lasting longer than more than half of you clowns
- Look, I used to cook before I had the game took
- Either way my change came like Sam Cooke.
- Feeling better than I ever felt before today
- Like better late than never is orientation
- Still we can make it better throwing all your cares away
- [chorus]
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to Eva for correcting these lyrics]
- [Chorus]
- (Hey Mama), I wanna scream so loud for you, cuz I'm so proud of you
- Let me tell you what I'm about to do, (Hey Mama)
- I know I act a fool but, I promise you I'm goin back to school
- I appreciate what you allowed for me
- I just want you to be proud of me (Hey Mama)
- [Verse 1]
- I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine
- This little light of mine and I'm finna let it shine
- I'm finna take yall back to them better times
- I'm finna talk about my mama if yall don't mind
- I was three years old, when you and I moved to the Chi
- Late December, harsh winter gave me a cold
- You fixed me up something that was good for my soul
- Famous homemade chicken soup, can I have another bowl?
- You work late nights just to keep on the lights
- Mommy got me training wheels so I could keep on my bike
- And you would give anything in this world
- Michael Jackson leather and a glove, but didn't give me a curl
- And you never put no man over me
- And I love you for that mommy cant you see?
- Seven years old, caught you with tears in your eyes
- Cuz a nigga cheatin, telling you lies, then I started to cry
- As we knelt on the kitchen floor
- I said mommy Imma love you till you don't hurt no more
- And when I'm older, you aint gotta work no more
- And Imma get you that mansion that we couldn't afford
- See you're, unbreakable, unmistakable
- Highly capable, lady that's makin loot
- A livin legend too, just look at what heaven do
- Send us an angel, and I thank you (Hey Mama)
- [Chorus]
- [Verse 2]
- Forrest Gump mama said, life is like a box of chocolates
- My mama told me go to school, get your doctorate
- Somethin to fall back on, you could profit with
- But still supported me when I did the opposite
- Now I feel like it's things I gotta get
- Things I gotta do, just to prove to you
- You was getting through, can the choir please
- Give me a verse of "You, Are So Beautiful To Me"
- Can't you see, you're like a book of poetry
- Maya Angelou, Nicky Giovanni, turn one page and there's my mommy
- Come on mommy just dance wit me, let the whole world see your dancing feet
- Now when I say Hey, yall say Mama, now everybody answer me (Hey Mama)
- [Chorus]
- [Bridge]
- I guess it also depends tho, if my ends low
- Second they get up you gon get that Benzo
- Tint the windows, ride around the city and let ya friends know (Hey Mama)
- [Verse 3]
- Tell your job you gotta fake em out
- Since you brought me in this world, let me take you out
- To a restaurant, upper echelon
- Imma get you a jag, whatever else you want
- Just tell me what kind of S-Type Donda West like?
- Tell me the perfect color so I make it just right
- It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday
- For me to just call and say (Hey Mama)
- [Chorus (with variations)]
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- [Quietly]
- Broke, broke, broke phi broke (we ain't got it)
- Broke, broke, broke phi broke (we ain't got it)
- [Louder]
- Broke, broke broke phi broke (we ain't got it)
- Broke, broke, broke phi-
- [Leader:]I've called this private meeting today because there is an imposter among us.
- There is an imposter among us.
- This brother right here has been out making beats on the side, yes he has.
- Pretending he's broke walking amongst us.
- This brother has been eating every day, can you believe that? Eating every day.
- Pretending he's with us, he's not one of us.
- I did not want to believe this, but I walked into the brother Kanye's closet and I found new shoes.
- I found new shoes!
- Kanye, would you like to step forward and explain these new shoes?!
- [Kanye: (stammering)]I was-you crazy, I wasn't, I didn't, um, I was just um, I was-
- [Leader:]No, you speak up, brother!
- [Kanye:]I was gon' stick-I'm tryin to stick to my roots and-
- [Leader:]What?
- [Kanye:]I wanna stick to my roots, and-
- [Leader:]What?! You march your new shoes out of here, Kanye.
- Don't you ever come back in 'em. Don't you ever come back smellin' all good, taking showers and shit like
- That, all right? We don't appreciate that down here at Broke Phi Broke.
- What's next?
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- Yeah, you know what this is
- It's a celebration, bitches!
- Grab a drink, grab a glass
- After that I grab yo ass
- Why you actin' all
- Shy and all
- Why is y'all
- Lyin' for?
- Stop that
- What, you want some petron?
- I got that.
- I mean I promise y'all
- You fine and all
- And your girlfriend, she kinda raw
- But she not like you
- No, she not like you
- Right now I need you to mute all the monologue
- All that talkin is gon' give me a tylenol
- You put a nigga to sleep, I'm tired of ya'll
- Right now the Louis Vuitton don is signing off
- But, I just thought you should know
- We hit the liquor store
- Got some Cris and some Mo
- And we about to let it floooooow
- Had some problems before but see we let em go
- Got an ounce of that dro
- And we about to let it bloooooow
- Yeah, you know what this is
- It's a celebration, bitches!
- Grab a drink, grab a glass
- After that, I grab yo ass
- See you know my style
- I'm very wild
- And I vow that my child will be well endowed
- Like his daddy
- And tell him that your mama had a fattie
- He looked up at me said, "daddy that's the reason why you had me?"
- Yep, we was praticing
- Til one day your ass bust through the packaging
- You know what though? You my favorite accident
- So go head pop some Cristal
- For my newborn child cuz now y'all
- Know what this is
- It's a celebration, bitches!
- Grab a drink, grab a glass
- After that I grab yo ass
- But, I just thought you should know
- We hit the liquor store
- Got some cris and some mo
- And we about to let it floooooow
- Had some problems before but see we let em go
- Got an ounce of that dro
- And we about to let it bloooooow
- Ho! Ho! (We lookin' for some) Ho! Ho!
- [Thanks to Tania for these lyrics]
- (feat. Consequence, Cam'Ron)
- Wished I had told
- Ooh was (the) only one
- But it's too late, it's too late
- He's gone
- [Kanye West]
- You sweat her, and I ain't talkin 'bout a Coogi
- You a big L, and I ain't talkin 'bout Cool J
- See me at the airport, at least 20 Louis
- Treat me like the Prince and this my sweet brother Numpsay
- BROTHER NUMPSAY! Groupies sound too choosy
- Take 'em to the show and talk all through the movies
- Says she want diamonds, I took her to Ruby Tuesdays
- If we up in Friday's, I still have it my way
- [Chorus]
- Too late, we, gone - we strivin home
- Gone - we ride on chrome
- It's too late
- [Kanye West]
- Y'all don't want no prob from me
- What you rappers could get is a job from me
- Maybe you could be my intern, and in turn
- I'll show you how I cook up summer, in the win-turr
- Aaron love the raw dog, when will he learn
- Caught somethin on the Usher tour he had to "Let it Burn"
- Plus he already got three chil'run
- Arguin over babysitters like, "Bitch - it's yo' turn!"
- Damn 'Ye, it'd be stupid to ditch you
- Even your superficial raps is super official
- R-R-R-Roc Pastelle with Gucci on
- With TV's in the ride, throw a movie on
- Said he couldn't rap now he at the top with doobie long
- Cause the dookie's on any song that they threw me on, gone
- [Chorus]
- We strivin home, gone
- [Cam]I ride on chrome...
- We strivin home, gone
- [Cam]Killa, I ride on chrome
- [Cam'Ron]
- Knock knock, who's there? Killa Cam, Killa who?
- Killa Cam, hustler, grinder, gorilla true
- Oh my chinchilla blue, blue you ever dealt with a dealer
- Well here's the deal ma we goin to the dealer booth
- No concealin, no ceiling I don't need a roof
- Act up, get out, I don't need you poof
- Poof, be gone, damn tough luck dag
- Dag, niggaz still doin puff puff pass
- Pull the truck up fast and I tell 'em
- Hey, back in a touched up Jag, shit
- Y'all niggaz want Killa Cam, cerebellum
- An old man just gon' tell 'em (too late, he, gone)
- Then I see how y'all gonna react when I'm (gone)
- My last girl want me back then I'm on
- Fine stay, you got the grind hey
- Came back, read what the sign say (too late, he, gone)
- Yes I know you wanna see my demise
- Yeah you church boy actin like a thief in disguise
- Ain't leavin my side, see the greed in my eyes
- Ask Abby y'all hustle for a week to the Chi, shit
- And that ain't leavin alive, please believe me
- Gave Weezy a piece of the pie, and
- You can ask George or Regina
- The whole Westside I explore with the Beemer now
- [Chorus]
- We strivin home, I ride on chrome
- Listen homeboy move on
- That's your best bet, why's that?
- Cause
- [Consequence]
- Uhh, uhh, yo, yo
- I been pourin out some liquor for the fact that my pal's gone
- And tryin to help his momma with the fact that her child gone
- And since we used to bubble like a tub full of Calgon
- Guess it's only right that I should help her from now on
- But since they got a foul on, what coulda gone wrong
- Now they askin Cons, how long has this gone on
- And maybe all this money mighta gone to my head
- Cause they got me thinkin money mighta gone to the feds
- So I ain't goin to the dread, but he'll go on up to bed
- And when I came the next mornin he was gone with my bread
- And with that bein said, I had gone on my instincts
- And gone to the spots where they go to get mixed drinks
- But lookin back now shoulda gone to the crib
- And rented "Gone With the Wind," cause I'da gone about 10
- But I had gone with my friend, and we had gone to the bar
- And heard a nigga talkin shit so I had gone to the car
- And now the judge is tellin me that I had gone too far
- And now we gone for 20 years, doin time behind bars
- And since I gone to a cell for some petty crimes
- I guess I gone to the well one too many times, cause I'm gone
- [long instrumental pause]
- [Kanye West imitating "The Show" at first]
- Uh-uh-uh
- Uh-uh-uh uh uh onnn, uh uh-uh onnn
- Uh-uh onnn, uh uh-uh I'mmmm
- Ah-head of my time, sometimes years out
- So the powers that be won't let me get my ideas out
- And that make me wanna get my advance out
- And move to Oklahoma and just live at my Aunt's house
- Yeah, I romance the thought of leavin it all behind
- Kanye step away from the lime-
- -light, like, when I was on the grind
- In the "One, Nine, Nine, Nine"
- Before, model chicks was bendin over or
- Dealerships asked me Benz or Rover, man
- If I could just get one beat on Hova
- We could get up off this cheap-ass sofa
- What the summer of the Chi got to offer an 18-year-old
- Sell drugs or get a job, you gotta play gyro
- My dawg worked at Taco Bell, hooked us up plural
- Fired a week later the manager count the churros
- Sometimes I can't believe it when I look up in the mirrow
- How we out in Europe, spendin Euros
- They claim you never know what you got 'til it's GONE
- I know I got it, I don't know what y'all on
- I'ma open up a store for aspiring MC's
- Won't sell 'em no dream, but the inspiration is free
- But if they ever flip sides like Anakin
- You'll sell everything includin the mannequin
- They got a new bitch now you Jennifer Aniston
- Hold on I'll handle it, don't start panickin, stay calm
- Shorty's at the door cause they need more
- Inspiration for they life, they souls, and they songs
- They said sorry Mr. West is gone!
- [Thanks to mical1011@yahoo.com, joechan_7@hotmail.com, tadstacey@yahoo.com, bward03s@uis.edu for correcting these lyrics]
- [Intro]
- Diamonds are forever
- They won't leave in the night
- I've no fear that they might
- Desert me
- [Chorus]
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
- The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
- Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
- Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic
- Vegas on acid,
- Seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses
- And I've realized that I've arrived, cuz
- It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does
- he write his own rhymes, so sort of
- I think 'em
- That mean I forgot better shit than u ever thought up
- Damn, is he really that caught up?
- I ask if you talkin' bout classics, do my name get brought up?
- I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort or even a four-track recorder
- so its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche
- - its for yourself that's important
- If a stripper named Porscha and u get tips from many men
- Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan
- Excuse me,
- That's just the Henny, man, I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop I can't because
- [Chorus]
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
- The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
- Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
- I was sick about awards
- Couldn't nobody cure me
- Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry
- Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them
- 30 minutes later seems there's no convincing them
- What more can you ask for?
- The international assholes nah
- Who complains about what he is owed?
- And throw a tantrum like he is 3 years old
- You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul
- And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame,
- When he came, in the game, he made his own lane
- Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name
- Its Kanye - But some of my plastic - they still say Kane
- Got family in the D, Kin-folk from Motown
- Back in the Chi - them folks ain't from Motown
- Life movin' too fast I need to slow down
- Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- My father Ben said I need Jesus
- So he took me to church and let the water wash over my ceaser
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- The preacher said we need leaders
- Right then my body got still like a paraplegic
- You know who you can call you gotta best believe it
- The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it
- Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic
- Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic
- After debris settles and the dust get swept off
- Big K pick up where young Hov left off
- Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off
- I dropped my new shit sound like the best of
- A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up"
- Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up
- Bottle after bottle till we got messed up
- In the studio, where really though, yea he next up
- People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back
- That'll be the same day I give the game back
- You know the next question dog "Yo, where Dame at?"
- This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back
- They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen
- R-r-r-right here stands a-man
- With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands...
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
- The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
- Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
- Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
- [Thanks to hkhatir89@yahoo.com for these lyrics]
- [Thanks to jokerz131989@yahoo.com, jika112@aol.com, lc_from_the_lb@yahoo.com, fun__boy@yahoo.com for correcting these lyrics]
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