[Intro: Kanye West (Tim Westwood)] Doesn't get much better than that (Nah!) So unfair, so.. unfair advantage (Yo, it doesn't feel much better than that)
[Verse 1: Kanye West] It's the dream, it's Kobe and Jordan on the same team In the best prime of their game and the same Kanye You know the name and it's not pronounced Kane And every time, you know I spit that flame Ayo we gettin' out our dreams, gettin' out our dreams And we gonna buy some things, and we got him out of Queens Talkin' 'bout my man Consequence, once for the Tribe Talkin' 'bout my man GLC and now he's around Talkin' 'bout John Legend, take 'em all the way to Heaven Speakin' of Heaven, Common speaks the heavenly words The nouns and verbs and whatever you heard Whatever synonym, we killin' 'em, everybody feelin' him The people's choice, the people's champ like Paul Wall All haters, I gotta say fuck all y'all No, I won't waste my energy no more I have to be more concerned about Sierra Leone I'm talkin' 'bout people that's dyin' for diamonds And the way that uh They got uh, capa What I want to say, monopoly over the country And every time you say somethin' people act funky The diamond industry want me, they say I'm bringin' out the bad What I want, people to stop buyin' diamonds? No, I want everybody to stop lyin' They say conflicts is only one percent, and look at all the money rappers spent We throw the diamonds in the screen, nah mean? But it affects the families cause people is dyin' for these things I mean in the diamond rivers they'll mine all day And might only get paid two cups of rice a day Is this the price to pay for the icy way? We like to floss away, even your boy 'Ye With my Jesus piece, I gave diamonds to my niece If I had a brother, Kanye, Common made "I Used to Love H.E.R." Used to love her and I still do, lyrically I kill you Dog I don't feel you, your style is like mildew Real old, I'm real cold, listen to this beat, real soul Your style is real old, dollar bill fold Stackin' money ain't funny, and I'm out in UK And I ask 'em who's the best, and they say "you K" Ooh way ooh way Yeah I feel it and I gotta kick it off the top of the dome Microphone controller, that's an M.C., it's in me I can lead a crowd, I went to your show, it's empty Go to my shit, it's sold out, every single seat Every time I drop, because like Shaq, I bring the heat And anybody that freestyle on the level that I do Should be winnin' Grammys too So if you do it like me, you can do it like this And uh, they say I'm a teacher like the one called Kris That's KRS but nah it's Kanye West And every time I spit the rhymes, uh straight off the flesh I could bring it down to the bone straight from the heart And from the heart is where I did it 'fore I ever chart And then I spit it, we get it, we did it, we do it a lot Kanye spit it, we do it, we makin' it hot I got patterns like Saturn, the rings, the rings Uh, Gold Digger, that's the single, the single Gotta hit the club just to mingle, to mingle Why you all in my face? I'm tryna do my thing dude Back off, I'll have Barry smack the fuck out of you Everybody wanna know what they can get out you Aww here's my demo, dawg, here's my group Dawg, please back me up, you're heated up, you're soup Y'all gassed, I passed, I flow, I rhyme I'm uh, that's the way, that yah boy gotta shine Straight from the Chi city, everybody ride with me And you see the same questions and I gotta teach the lesson This some, this some sick freestylin', I hear you're readin' it I gotta keep goin' cause y'all fans, y'all needin' it Uh, you