Old piece. can't believe it won lol
Up against the wall, feel like I'm bout to fall/
About to crawl across stage, a dozen feet tall/
The crowd is so loud my thoughts wander/
Long enough to ponder, my last trip to the mall/
Quite a haul, like I tried to buy it all/
Bought all the shit she saw but she still ain't tryna call/
I gotta win them from kingpins and Princes/
Hence, my swag is so distinct, for instance/
My own clothes line/design my own shoe, too
Who knew I'd go platinum, 4 times?/
I did, I insist, too bad for my fifth/
My mom's eyelids closed, I suppose since she died-its/
So silent, the walls vibrate, when I strike with my fists/
Until my cries quit, and then a beat emerges/
Stay up all night and sing till sleep determines/
Play up the violin strings, then each resurgence/
of drums mixed with 808 hummed reverb hits/
Then scribble the lyric before the tears dry up/
Call
Chanel Iman, invite her, to Milan, we fly up/
Eager to see her in the new
Yves St. Laurent/
Too damn bad they turned me back at
Balmain/
Avant garde apparrel and they still dare to spurn me/
Don't they know I'm back from the dead – Pharoah's journey?/
Thought my career was on a downward spiral/
But even my meltdown was turned into a viral/
I've apologized a hundred times on my Twitter too/
Damn, White America, why can't I just get rid of you?/
So I diss one of your idols, the truth gotta hurt/
Don't bother me, I cop a new
Prada shirt/
With some
Gucci jeans, and the Nike's too/
And see if
Devon Aoki'd be my wifey-boo/
Just for a night or two, see, that's my life man/
Ex fiance cancelled up all my wife plans/
I even wrote some songs about how it was difficult/
But critics' cynical, I even kept a quote:/
[I]My “ego is a roadblock”, “nothing
ve done is private”/
My music's “clumsy and underfed”, guess they didn't like it/
They didn't say it for my first three records/
Its not the first time I've heard dis-re-specters/
Told my flow was froze, stay behind the scenes/
Afraid that I would die before I'd find my dreams/
Then the crash happened, I doubted my survival/
Started rap's revival, sometimes i'm suicidal/
But I will keep preachin to these demons like the bible/
Louis Vuitton Don,
Christian Dior disciple/
How you gonna tell me that I'm not the Bes – Oh Shit!/
LADIES and GENTLEMAN.... KANYE WEST!!
