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Last Call

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Yo, fuck you, Kanye, first and foremost

[Intro: Jay-Z (Kanye)]

For making me do this shit, muh'fucker

Had to throw everybody out the motherfucking room

[laughing]

'Cause they don't fucking

Yo fuck you, Kanye, first and foremost For making

I'd like to propose a toast

me do this shit. Muh'fucker Had to throw everybody

I said toast motherfucker

out the motherfucking room 'Cause they don't fucking..

And I am

(I'd like to propose a toast)

(Here's to The Roc)

(I said toast motherfucker)

And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them

(Mr Rocafella)

[Chorus: Kanye]

Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky

And I am And they ask me, they ask me, they ask

This is the last call for alcohol, for the

me, I tell them Raise your glasses, your glasses,

So get your ass up off the bar

your glasses to the sky This is the last call for

alcohol, for the.. So get your ass up off the wall

The all around the world, Digital Underground, Pac

The Rudloph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc

[Verse 1]

I take my chain, my fifteen seconds of fame

The all around the world Digital Underground, Pac

And come back next year with the whole fucking game

The Rudloph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc I

take my chain, my 15 seconds of fame And come back

Ain't nobody expect Kanye to end up on top

next year with the whole fucking game Ain't nobody

They expected that College Dropout to drop and then flop

expect Kanye to end up on top They expected that

Then maybe he stop savin' all the good beats for himself

College Dropout to drop and then flop Then maybe

Rocafella's only niggaz that help

he stop savin' all the good beats for himself

Rocafella's only niggaz that help My money was

My money was thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair

thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair Now Jean Paul

Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air here

Gaultier cologne fill the air, here They say he

They say he bourgie, he big headed

bourgie, he big-headed Won't you please stop

Won't you please stop talking about how my dick head is

talking about how my dick head is Flow infectious,

give me 10 seconds I'll have a buzz bigger than

Flow infectious, give me ten seconds

insects in Texas It's funny how wasn't nobody

I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas

interested 'Til the night I almost killed myself in Lexus

It's funny how wasn't nobody interested

'Til the night I almost killed myself in Lexus

[Chorus]

And I am

[Verse 2]

(Here's to The Roc)

Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Yes sir Now is

And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them

Kanye the most overbooked? Yes sir Though the fans

(Mr Rocafella)

want the feeling of A Tribe Called Quest But all

Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky

they got left is this guy called West Better take

This is the last call for alcohol, for the

Freeway, throw him on tracks with Mos Def Call him

So get your ass up off the bar

Kwa-lI or Kwe-li, I put him on songs with Jay-Z

I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy, and

Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Yes, sir

oooh It come out sweeter than old Sadie Nice as

Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Yes, sir

Bun-B when I met him at the Source awards Girl he

Though the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Quest

had with him - ass coulda won the horse awards And

But all they got left is this guy called West

I was almost famous, now everybody love Kanye I'm

almost Raymond Some say he arrogant. Can y'all

Better take Freeway, throw him on tracks with Mos Def

blame him? It was straight embarrassing how y'all

Call him Kwa-li or Kwe-li, I put him on songs with Jay-Z

played him Last year shoppin my demo, I was tryin'

I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy, and, ooh

to shine Every motherfucker told me that I

It come out sweeter than old Sadie

couldn't rhyme Now I could let these dream killers

kill my self-esteem Or use my arrogance as the

Nice as Bun-B when I met him at the Source awards

steam to power my dreams I use it as my gas, so

Girl, he had with him, ass coulda' won the horse awards

they say that I'm gassed But without it I'd be

And I was almost famous, now everybody love Kanye

last, so I ought to laugh So I don't listen to the

I'm almost Raymond

suits behind the desk no more You niggaz wear

suits 'cause you can't dress no more You can't say

Some say he arrogant, can y'all blame him?

shit to Kanye West no more I rocked 20,000 people,

It was straight embarrassing how y'all played him

I was just on tour, nigga I'm Kan, the Louis

Last year shoppin' my demo, I was tryin' to shine

Vuitton Don Bought my mom a purse, now she Louis

Every motherfucker told me that I couldn't rhyme

Vuitton Mom I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I

changed my cards I prayed to the skies and I

Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem

changed my stars I went to the malls and I balled

Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams

too hard 'Oh my god, is that a black card?' I

I use it as my gas so they say that I'm gassed

turned around and replied, 'why yes but I prefer

But without it I'd be last so I ought to laugh

the term African American Express' Brains, power,

and muscle, like Dame, Puffy, and Russell Your boy

So I don't listen to the suits behind the desk no more

back on his hustle, you know what I've been up to

You niggaz wear suits 'cause you can't dress no more

Killin y'all niggaz on that lyrical shit

You can't say shit to Kanye West no more

I rocked twenty thousand people, I was just on tour, nigga

I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don

Bought my mom a purse, now she Louis Vuitton Mom

I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards

I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars

I went to the malls and I balled too hard

Oh, my God, is that a black card?

I turned around and replied, why, yes

But I prefer the term African American Express

Brains, power, and muscle, like Dame, Puffy, and Russell

Your boy back on his hustle, you know what I've been up to

Killin y'all, niggaz, on that lyrical shit

Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips

And I am

[Chorus]

(Here's to The Roc)

"... last call for alcohol, for my niggaz"

And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me, I tell them

(Mr. Rocafella)

[Outro]

Raise your glasses, your glasses, your glasses to the sky

So this A&R over at Rocafella, named Hiphop picked

This is the last call for alcohol, for the

the Truth beat for Beanie. And I was in the

So get your ass up off the bar

session with him I had my demo with me. You know,

Last call for alcohol, for my niggaz

like I always do I play the songs,

he's like "Who that spittin?"

I'm like "It's me."

He's like "Oh, well okay."

Uhh, he started talkin to me on the

phone going back and forth, just askin me to send

him beats And I'm thinking he's trying to get into

managing producers cause he had this other kid

named Just Blaze he was messin with And um, he was

friends with my mentor, No ID And No ID told him,

"look man, you wanna mess with Kanye you need to

tell him that you like the way he rap"

[No ID:]

"Yo, you wanna sign him, tell him you like how he rap"

I was all, I dunno if he was gassin' me or

not but he's like he wanna manage me as a rapper AND a producer

[Hiphop:]

"I'll sign you as a producer and a rapper",

I'm like oh shit I was messin with,

uh, D-Dot also People were like this,

started talking about the Ghost production

But that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't for

that, I wouldn't be here So you know. After they

picked that Truth beat I was figuring I was gonna

do some more work But shit just went poppin off

like that. I was stayin in Chicago I had my own

apartment. I be doin' like, just beats for local

acts just to try to keep the lights on, and then

to go out and buy get a Pelle Pelle off lay-away,

get some Jordans or something or get a

TechnoMarine, that's what we wore back then I made

this one beat where I sped up this Hal Melville

sample I played it for Hip over the phone, he's

like "oh, yo that shit is crazy Jay might want it

for this compilation album he doin, called The

Dynasty." And at that time, like the drums really

weren't soundin' right to me so I went and um, I

was listening to Dre Chronic 2001 at that time and

really I just, like picked the drums off Xxplosive

and put it like with it sped up, sampled, and now

it's kind of like my whole style when it started,

when he rapped on 'This Can't be Life.' And that

was like, really the first beat of that kind that

was on the Dynasty album I could say that was the,

the resurgence of this whole sound You know, I got

to come in and track the beat, and at the time I

was still with my other management. I really

wanted to roll with Hiphop. 'Cause I, I just

needed some fresh air, you know what I'm sayin,

'cause I been there for a while, I appreciated

what they did for me, but, you know there's a time

in every man's life where he gotta make a change,

try to move up to the next level. And that day I

came and I tracked the beat and I got to meet

Jay-Z and he said, "oh you a real soulful dude"

[Jay-Z:

"You a real soulful dude". And he uh,

played the song 'cause he already spit his verse

by the time I got to the studio, you know how he

do it, one take. And he said

[Jay-Z:]

"Check this out, tell me what you think of this, right here"

"tell me what you think of this." And I heard it,

and I was thinking like, man, I really wanted more

like of the simple type Jay-Z, I ain't want like

the, the more introspective, complicated rhy- or

the, in my personal opinion. So he asked me, "what

you think of it?"

[Jay-Z:]

"So what you thinkin?"

And I was like, "man that shit tite," you know

what I'm sayin', man what I'ma tell him? I was on

the train man, you know. So after that I went back

home. And man I'm, I'm just in Chicago, I'm trying

to do my thing. You know, I got groups. I got acts

I'm trying to get on, and like there wasn't nothin

really like poppin' off the way it should have

been. One of my homeys that was one of my artists,

he got signed. But it was supposed to really go

through my production company, but he ended up

going straight with the company. So, like I'm just

straight holdin' the phone, gettin' the bad news

that dude was tryin' to leave my company. And I

got evicted at the same time. So I went down and

tracked the beats from him, I took that money,

came back, packed all my shit up in a U-Haul,

maybe about ten days before I had to actually get

out. So I ain't have to deal with the landlord

'cause he's a jerk. Me and my mother drove to

[Mother:]

"Come on, let's just go" Newark, New

Jersey. I hadn't even seen my apartment.

I remember I pulled up

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"Kanye, baby, we're here",

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I unpacked all my shit. You know, we went

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to Ikea, I bought a bed, I put the bed together

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myself. I loaded up all my equipment, and the

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first beat I made was, uh, 'Heart of the City.'

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And Beans was still working on his album at that

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time, so I came up there to Baseline, it was

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Beans' birthday, matter of fact, and I played like

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seven beats. And, you know I could see he's in the

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zone he already had the beats that he wanted, I

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did nothing like already at that time. But then

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Jay walked in. I remember he had a GuccI bucket

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hat on. I remember it like, like it was yesterday.

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And Hiphop said "yo play that one beat for him."

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And I played 'Heart of the City.' And really I

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made 'Heart of the City,' I really wanted to give

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that beat to DMX.

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[Hiphop:]

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"No I think Jay gon' like this one right here".

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And I played another beat, and I played another beat.

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And I remember that GuccI bucket, he took it and like put it over

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his face and made one of them faces like

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'OOOOOOOOOOH. Two days later I'm in Baseline and

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I seen Dame. Dame didn't know who I was and I was

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like "yo what's up I'm Kanye."

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[Dame:]

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"Yo, you that kid, Kanye?"

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"You that kid that gave all them beats to Jay?

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Yo, this nigga got classics"

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[Dame:]

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"Jay got classics, G."

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You know I ain't talkin shit. I'm like "oh shit."

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And all this time I'm starstruck, man.

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I'm still thinking 'bout,

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you know I'm picturing these niggaz on the show The

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Streets is Watching, I'm lookin, these were

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superstars in my eyes. And they still are, you

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know. So, Jay came in and he spit all these songs

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like in one day, and in two days... I gotta bring

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up one thing, you know, come back to the story,

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the day I did the 'Can't be Life' beat on track, I

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remember Lenny S, he had some Louis Vuitton

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sneakers on, he think he fly. And Hiphop was

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there, I think Tata, John Minnelli, a bunch of

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people. I didn't know all these people at the time

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they was in the room, and I said, "yo Jay I could

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rap." And I spit this rap that said, uh "I'm

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killin y'all niggaz on that lyrical shit.

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Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push miracle whips."

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And I saw his eyes light up when I said that line.

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But you know the West, the rap was like real wack

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and shit, so that's all the response. He said "man

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that was tite."

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[Jay-Z:]

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"That, that was cool. That was hot."

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That was it. You know, I ain't get no deal then,

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hehe. Okay, fast forward. So, Blueprint,

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H to the Izzo, my first hit single. And

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I just took that proudly, built relationships with

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people. My relationship with KwelI I think was one

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of the best ones to ever happen to my career as a

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rapper. Because, you know, of course later he

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allowed me to go on tour with him. Man, I appre--

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I love him for that. And at this time, you know I

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didn't have a deal, I had songs, and I had

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relationships with all these A&R's, and they

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wanted beats from me, so they'd call me up, I'd

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play them some beats. "Gimme a beat that sound

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like Jay-Z." You know, they dick riders. Whatever.

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So I'll play them these post-Blueprint beats or

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whatever and then I'll play my shit. I'll be like,

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"yo but I rap too." Hey, I guess they was lookin'

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at me crazy 'cause you know, 'cause I ain't have a

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jersey on or whatever Everybody out there listen

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here. I played them 'Jesus Walks' and they didn't

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sign me. You know what happened, it was some A&R's

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that fucked with me though, but then like the

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heads, it'd be somebody at the company that'll say

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"naw." Like, Dave LottI fucked with me, my nigga

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Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Rivera, man

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[Jessica:]

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"Man, you niggaz is stupid

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if y'all don't sign Kanye, for real." I'm not

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gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up

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"Y'all niggaz is stupid". Let's just say I didn't get my

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deal. The nigga that was behind me, I mean, he

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wasn't even a nigga, you know? The person who

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actually kicked everything off was Joe 3H from

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Capitol Records. He wanted to sign me really bad.

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[Joe:]

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"We gonna change the game, buddy." Dame was

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like, "yo you got a deal with Capitol, okay man,

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just make sure it's not wack."

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[Dame:]

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"You gotta make sure it's not wack."

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Then one day I just went ahead and played it,

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I wanted to play some songs,

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'cause you know Cam was in the room, Young Guru,

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and Dame was in the room. So I played... actually

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it's a song that you'll never hear, but maybe I

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might use it. So, it's called 'Wow.

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"I go to Jacob with 25 thou, you go with 25 hundred, wow I

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got eleven plaques on my walls right now You got

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your first gold single, damn, nigga, wow."

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Like the chorus went. Don't bite that chorus, I might

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still use it. So I play that song for him, and

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he's like "oh shit"

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[Dame:]

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"Oh shit it's not even wack."

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"I ain't gonna front, it's kinda hot."

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[Dame:]

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"It's actually kinda hot." Like they still

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weren't looking at me like a rapper. And I'm sure

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Dame figured, 'like man. If he do a whole album,

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if his raps is wack at least we can throw Cam on

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every song and save the album, you know. So uh

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Dame took me into the office, and he's like "yo

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man, we, we on a brick, we on a brick"

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[Dame:]

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"You don't wanna catch a brick" You gotta be under

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an umbrella, you'll get rained on. I told Hiphop

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and Hiphop was all, "oh, word?" Actually, even

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with that I was still about to take the deal with

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Capitol 'cause it was already on the table and

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'cause of my relationship with 3H. That, you know,

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'cause I told him I was gonna do it, and I'm a man

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of my word, I was gonna roll with what I said I

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was gonna do. Then, you know, I'm not gonna name

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no names, but people told me, "oh he's just a

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producer rapper" and told 3H that told the heads

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of the Capitol, and right-- the day I'm talking

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about, I planned out everything I was gonna do

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man, I had picked out clothes, I already started

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booking studio sessions, I started arranging my

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album, thinking of marketing schemes man I was

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ready to go. And they had Mel call me, they said

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"yo... Capitol pulled on the deal"

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[Mel:]

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"Yo, Capitol pulled out on the deal."

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And, you know I told them that Rocafella was interested and I

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don't know if they thought that was just something

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I was saying to gas them up to try to push the

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price up or whatever. I went up... I called G, I said,

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"man, you think we could still get that deal with Rocafella?"

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