Last Call (Carl Craig Remix Edit)-Brazilian Girls

[00:00.91]Kanye West - Last Call [00:01.51] [00:03.31]Yo ************* you, Kanye, first and foremost [00:05.98]For making me do this *************t. Muh'******** [00:10.65]Had to throw everybody out the mother******g room [00:12.50]'Cause they don't ******g.. [00:13.49] [00:13.51](I'd like to propose a toast) [00:15.82](I said toast mother********) [00:24.65] [00:27.65]And I am (here's to the roc) [00:30.28]And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them (here's to Rocafella) [00:35.92]Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky (here's to the roc) [00:41.03]This is the last call for alcohol, for the... (here's to Rocafella) [00:47.17]So get your ass up off the wall [00:49.16] [00:50.16]The all around the world Digital Underground, Pac [00:52.69]The Rudloph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc [00:55.63]I take my chain, my 15 seconds of fame [00:58.05]And come back next year with the whole ******g game [01:01.16]Ain't nobody expect Kanye to end up on top [01:03.49]They expected that College Dropout to drop and then flop [01:06.56]Then maybe he stop savin' all the good beats for himself [01:09.72]Rocafella's only *************z that help [01:11.77]My money was thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair [01:14.36]Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air, here [01:16.51]They say he bourgie, he big-headed [01:20.13]Won't you please stop talking about how my ************* head is [01:22.60]Flow infectious, give me 10 seconds [01:25.44]I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas [01:28.23]It's funny how wasn't nobody interested [01:30.82]'Til the night I almost killed myself in Lexus [01:32.51] [01:33.51]And I am (here's to the roc) [01:36.04]And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them (here's to Rocafella) [01:41.68]Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky (here's to the roc) [01:46.47]This is the last call for alcohol, for the... (here's to Rocafella) [01:52.52]So get your ass up off the wall [01:54.72] [01:55.72]Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Yes sir [01:58.15]Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Yes sir [02:00.96]Though the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Quest [02:03.80]But all they got left is this guy called West [02:06.49]Better take Freeway, throw him on tracks with Mos Def [02:09.12]Call him Kwa-lI or Kwe-li, I put him on songs with Jay-Z [02:12.00]I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy, and oooh [02:14.84]It come out sweeter than old Sadie [02:17.58]Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Source awards [02:20.63]Girl he had with him - ass coulda won the horse awards [02:23.22]And I was almost famous, now everybody loves Kanye [02:27.07]I'm almost Raymond' [02:28.70]Some say he arrogant. Can y'all blame him? [02:31.13]It was straight embarrassing how y'all played him [02:33.78]Last year shoppin my demo, I was tryin' to *************ne [02:36.73]Every mother******** told me that I couldn't rhyme [02:39.30]Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem [02:41.70]Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams [02:44.51]I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed [02:47.66]But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh [02:50.47]So I don't listen to the suits behind the desk no more [02:53.05]You *************z wear suits 'cause you can't dress no more [02:55.60]You can't say *************t to Kanye West no more [02:58.42]I rocked 20,000 people, I was just on tour, ************* [03:01.72]I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don [03:03.73]Bought my mom a purse, now she Louis Vuitton Mom [03:06.67]I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards [03:09.19]I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars [03:12.05]I went to the malls and I balled too hard [03:14.88]'Oh my god, is that a Black Card?' [03:17.96]I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term [03:21.17]African American Express [03:23.47]Brains, power, and muscle, like Dame, Puffy, and Russell [03:25.87]Your boy back on his hustle, you know what I've been up to [03:28.56]Killin y'all *************z on that lyrical *************t [03:31.27]Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips [03:33.70] [03:34.15]And I am (here's to the roc) [03:35.87]And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them (here's to Rocafella) [03:41.63]Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky (here's to the roc) [03:46.94]This is the last call for alcohol, for my *************z... (here's to Rocafella) [03:52.47]So get your ass up off the wall [03:54.45] [03:55.45]So this A&R over at Rocafella, named Hiphop [03:58.30]picked the Truth beat for Beanie. And I was in the session with him [04:02.06]I had my demo with me. You know, like I always do [04:04.34]I play the songs, he's like "Who that spittin?" [04:06.23]I'm like "It's me." He's like "Oh, well okay." [04:08.37]Uhh, he started talkin to me on the phone [04:10.93]going back and forth, just askin me to send him beats [04:13.14]And I'm thinking he's trying to get into managing producers [04:15.76]cause he had this other kid named Just Blaze he was messin with [04:19.18]And um, he was friends with my mentor, No ID [04:21.76]And No ID told him, "look man, you wanna mess with Kanye [04:24.24]you need to tell him that you like the way he rap" [04:26.42](No ID:) "Yo, you wanna sign him, tell him you like how he rap" [04:27.20]I was all, I dunno if he was gassin' me or not [04:28.67]but he's like he wanna manage me as a rapper AND a producer [04:31.01]I'm like oh *************t [04:32.33]I was messin with, uh, D-Dot also [04:35.07]People were like this, started talking about the Ghost production [04:37.59]But that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be here [04:40.13]So you know. After they picked that Truth beat [04:42.31]I was figuring I was gonna do some more work [04:44.47]But *************t just went poppin off like that. I was stayin in Chicago [04:47.88]I had my own apar******ent. I be doin' like, just beats for local acts [04:51.58]just to try to keep the lights on, and then to go out and buy [04:54.60]get a Pelle Pelle off lay-away, get some Jordans or something [04:57.41]or get a TechnoMarine, that's what we wore back then [04:59.72]I made this one beat where I sped up this Hal Melville sample [05:04.53]I played it for Hip over the phone, he's like "oh, yo that *************t is crazy [05:08.87]Jay might want it for this compilation album he doin, called The Dynasty." [05:12.16]And at that time, like the drums really weren't soundin' right to me [05:15.62]so I went and um, I was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time [05:19.89]and really I just, like picked the drums off Xxplosive and put it like [05:24.08]with it sped up, sampled, and now it's kind of like my whole style [05:28.56]when it started, when he rapped on 'This Can't be Life.' [05:30.39]And that was like, really the first beat of that kind that was on the Dynasty album [05:33.67]I could say that was the, the resurgence of this whole sound [05:37.59]You know, I got to come in and track the beat, and at the time [05:40.39]I was still with my other management. I really wanted to roll with [05:42.73]Hiphop. 'Cause I, I just needed some fresh air, you know what I'm [05:45.71]sayin, 'cause I been there for a while, I appreciated what they did [05:48.50]for me, but, you know there's a time in every man's life where he [05:52.41]gotta make a change, try to move up to the next level. And that day I [05:55.80]came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet Jay-Z and he said, "oh [05:58.31]you a real soulful dude" (Jay-Z: "you a real soulful dude"). [05:59.99]And he uh, played the song 'cause he already spit his verse by the time I got [06:02.90]to the studio, you know how he do it, one take. And he said [06:06.32](Jay-Z:) "check this out, tell me what you think of this, right here" [06:07.13]And I heard it, and I was thinking [06:08.47]like, man, I really wanted more like of the simple type Jay-Z, I ain't [06:12.60]want like the, the more introspective, complicated rhy- or the, in my [06:16.38]personal opinion. So he asked me, "what you think of it?" [06:18.90](Jay-Z:) "so what you thinkin?" [06:19.58]And I was like, "man that *************t tite," [06:20.19]you know what I'm sayin', man what I'ma tell him? I was on the train [06:21.10]man, you know. So after that I went back home. And man I'm, I'm just [06:26.41]in Chicago, I'm trying to do my thing. You know, I got groups. I got [06:29.57]acts I'm trying to get on, and like there wasn't nothin really like [06:32.81]poppin' off the way it should have been. One of my homeys that was one [06:37.97]of my artists, he got signed. But it was supposed to really go through [06:41.84]my production company, but he ended up going straight with the [06:44.50]company. So, like I'm just straight holdin' the phone, gettin' the bad [06:47.51]news that dude was tryin' to leave my company. And I got evicted at [06:51.30]the same time. So I went down and tracked the beats from him, I took [06:56.98]that money, came back, packed all my *************t up in a U-Haul, maybe about [07:01.20]ten days before I had to actually get out. So I ain't have to deal [07:04.17]with the landlord 'cause he's a jerk. Me and my mother drove to [07:07.30](Mother:) "Come on, let's just go" [07:08.50]Newark, New Jersey. I hadn't even seen my apar******ent. [07:10.75]I remember I pulled up [07:12.01](Mother:) "Kanye, baby, we're here", [07:13.15]I unpacked all my *************t. You know, we went to Ikea, I bought a [07:15.08]bed, I put the bed together myself. I loaded up all my equipment, and [07:19.23]the first beat I made was, uh, 'Heart of the City.' [07:22.58]And Beans was still working on his album at that time, so I came up [07:25.47]there to Baseline, it was Beans' birthday, matter of fact, and I [07:28.44]played like seven beats. And, you know I could see he's in the zone [07:32.56]he already had the beats that he wanted, I did nothing like already at [07:35.37]that time. But then Jay walked in. I remember he had a GuccI bucket [07:39.66]hat on. I remember it like, like it was yesterday. And Hiphop said [07:43.31]"yo play that one beat for him." And I played 'Heart of the City.' And [07:46.77]really I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to give that beat to DMX. [07:49.48](Hiphop:) "No I think Jay gon' like this one right here". [07:49.88]And I played another beat, and I played another beat. And I remember that [07:52.77]GuccI bucket, he took it and like put it over his face and made one of [07:56.12]them faces like 'OOOOOOOOOOH.' Two days later I'm in Baseline and I seen [07:59.96]Dame. Dame didn't know who I was and I was like "yo what's up I'm Kanye." [08:02.48](Dame:) "Yo, you that kid, Kanye?" [08:04.04]"You that kid that gave all them beats to Jay? [08:05.26]Yo, this ************* got classics" [08:07.59](Dame:) "Jay got classics, G." [08:08.81]You know I ain't talkin *************t. [08:10.40]I'm like "oh *************t." And all this time I'm starstruck, man. I'm [08:13.23]still thinking 'bout, you know I'm picturing these *************z on the show [08:16.15]The Streets is Watching, I'm lookin, these were superstars in my [08:19.41]eyes. And they still are, you know. So, Jay came in and he spit all [08:24.26]these songs like in one day, and in two days... I gotta bring up one [08:28.80]thing, you know, come back to the story, the day I did the 'Can't be [08:32.02]Life' beat on track, I remember Lenny S, he had some Louis Vuitton [08:35.10]sneakers on, he think he fly. And Hiphop was there, I think Tata, John [08:39.35]Minnelli, a bunch of people. I didn't know all these people at the [08:41.98]time they was in the room, and I said, "yo Jay I could rap." And I [08:44.79]spit this rap that said, uh "I'm killin y'all *************z on that lyrical [08:47.90]*************t. Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push miracle whips." And I saw his [08:51.08]eyes light up when I said that line. But you know the West, the rap [08:54.68]was like real wack and *************t, so that's all the response. [08:57.33]He said "man that was tite." [08:58.32](Jay-Z:) "That, that was cool. That was hot." [08:59.18]That was it. You know, I ain't get no deal then, hehe. [09:01.57]Okay, fast forward. [09:03.55]So, Blueprint, H to the Izzo, my first hit single. And I just [09:09.08]took that proudly, built relation*************ps with people. My relation*************p [09:12.47]with KwelI I think was one of the best ones to ever happen to my [09:15.43]career as a rapper. Because, you know, of course later he allowed me [09:19.29]to go on tour with him. Man, I appre-- I love him for that. And at [09:25.98]this time, you know I didn't have a deal, I had songs, and I had [09:29.71]relation*************ps with all these A&R's, and they wanted beats from me, so [09:32.59]they'd call me up, I'd play them some beats. "Gimme a beat that sound [09:34.70]like Jay-Z." You know, they ************* riders. Whatever. So I'll play them [09:38.13]these post-Blueprint beats or whatever and then I'll play my *************t. I'll [09:41.33]be like, "yo but I rap too." Hey, I guess they was lookin' at me crazy [09:43.95]'cause you know, 'cause I ain't have a jersey on or whatever [09:46.88]Everybody out there listen here. I played them 'Jesus Walks' and they [09:50.37]didn't sign me. You know what happened, it was some A&R's that ****** [09:53.02]with me though, but then like the heads, it'd be somebody at the [09:56.66]company that'll say "naw." Like, Dave LottI ****** with me, my [09:59.76]************* Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Rivera, man [10:03.47](Jessica:) "Man, you *************z is stupid if y'all don't sign Kanye, for real." [10:06.91]I'm not gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up [10:10.32]"Y'all *************z is stupid". Let's just say I didn't get my deal. [10:13.17]The ************* that was behind me, I mean, [10:15.32]he wasn't even a *************, you know? [10:17.07]The person who actually kicked everything off was Joe 3H from Capitol [10:20.47]Records. He wanted to sign me really bad. [10:22.54](Joe:) "We gonna change the game, buddy." [10:23.95]Dame was like, "yo you got a deal with Capitol, [10:25.63]okay man, just make sure it's not wack." [10:27.15](Dame:) "you gotta make sure it's not wack." [10:28.33]Then one day I just went ahead and played it, I wanted to [10:30.39]play some songs, 'cause you know Cam was in the room, Young Guru, and [10:33.62]Dame was in the room. So I played... actually it's a song that you'll [10:37.76]never hear, but maybe I might use it. So, it's called 'Wow.' [10:41.16]"I go to Jacob with 25 thou, you go with 25 hundred, wow [10:45.37]I got eleven plaques on my walls right now [10:47.79]You got your first gold single, damn, *************, wow." [10:50.84]Like the chorus went. Don't bite that chorus, I might still use it. So [10:54.11]I play that song for him, and he's like "oh *************t" [10:56.78](Dame:) "Oh *************t it's not even wack." [10:58.16]"I ain't gonna front, it's kinda hot." [11:00.05](Dame:) "it's actually kinda hot." [11:01.48]Like they still weren't looking at me [11:02.61]like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured, 'like man. If he do a whole [11:06.39]album, if his raps is wack at least we can throw Cam on every song and [11:09.31]save the album, you know. So uh Dame took me into the office, and he's [11:13.67]like "yo man, we, we on a brick, we on a brick" [11:15.61](Dame:) "you don't wanna catch a brick" [11:17.26]You gotta be under an umbrella, you'll get rained on. [11:19.45]I told Hiphop and Hiphop was all, "oh, word?" Actually, even with [11:24.25]that I was still about to take the deal with Capitol 'cause it was [11:28.89]already on the table and 'cause of my relation*************p with 3H. That, you [11:32.52]know, 'cause I told him I was gonna do it, and I'm a man of my word, I [11:34.61]was gonna roll with what I said I was gonna do. Then, you know, I'm [11:39.02]not gonna name no names, but people told me, "oh he's just a producer [11:42.69]rapper" and told 3H that told the heads of the Capitol, and right-- [11:46.38]the day I'm talking about, I planned out everything I was gonna do [11:50.04]man, I had picked out clothes, I already started booking studio [11:53.47]sessions, I started arranging my album, thinking of marketing schemes [11:56.85]man I was ready to go. And they had Mel call me, they said [12:00.24]"yo... Capitol pulled on the deal" [12:04.07](Mel:) "Yo, Capitol pulled out on the deal." [12:05.35]And, you know I told them that Rocafella was interested [12:08.25]and I don't know if they thought that was just something I was saying [12:10.63]to gas them up to try to push the price up or whatever. [12:12.40]I went up... [12:14.95]Icalled G, I said, "man, you think we could still get that deal with Rocafella?" [12:23.54] [12:25.54]Kanye West - Last Call [12:27.47]