Kanye West - Last Call lyrics

Aight, let's run it, let's run it
Yo fuck you, Kanye, first and foremost
For making me do this shit muh'fucker
Had to throw everybody out
The motherfucking room
'Cause they don't fucking -

I'd like to propose a toast
I said toast, motherfucker!

And I am (Here's to the Roc)
And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me
I tell them (Here's to Roc-A-Fella)
Raise your glasses, your glasses
Your glasses to the sky and
(Here's to the Roc)
This is the last call for alcohol, for the
(Mr rockefeller)
So get your ass up off the wall

The all around the world
Digital Underground Pac
The Rudolph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc
I take my chain, my fifteen seconds of fame
And come back next year with
The whole fucking game
Ain't nobody expect Kanye to end up on top
They expected that College Dropout to
Drop and then flop
Then maybe he stop savin' all
The good beats for himself
Roc-A-Fella's only niggas that helped
My money was thinner than
Sean Paul's goatee hair
Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air
Here they say he bougie, he big headed
Would you please stop talking about
How my dick head is
Flow infectious, give me ten seconds
I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas
It's funny how wasn't nobody interested
'Til the night I almost
Killed myself in Lexus

Now I am (Here's to the Roc)
And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me
I tell them (Here's to Roc-A-Fella)
Raise your glasses, your glasses
Your glasses to the sky and
(Here's to the Roc)
This is the last call for alcohol, for the
(Mr rockefeller)
So get your ass up off the wall

Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Yes sir
Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Yes sir
Though the fans want the feeling
Of A Tribe Called Quest
But all they got left is this guy called West
That'll take Freeway
Throw him on tracks with Mos Def
Call him Kwa-li or Kwe-li
I put him on songs with JAY-Z
I'm the Gap like Banana
Republic and Old Navy, and oooh
It come out sweeter than old Sadie
Nice as Bun-B when I met
Him at the Source awards
Girl he had with him - ass
Coulda won the horse awards
And I was almost famous
Now everybody love Kanye i'm almost Raymond
Some say he arrogant, can y'all blame him?
It was straight embarrassing how
Y'all played him last year shoppin' my demo
I was tryin' to shine
Every motherfucker told me that
I couldn't rhyme now I could let these dream
Killers kill my self-esteem
Or use my arrogance as the
Steam to power my dreams i use it as my gas
So they say that I'm gassed
But without it I'd be last
So I ought to laugh
So I don't listen to the suit's
Behind the desk no more
You niggas wear suit's 'cause you
Can't dress no more
You can't say shit to Kanye West no more
I rocked 20, 000 people, I was just on tour
Nigga i'm Kon, 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 niggas on that lyrical shit
Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips

And I am (Here's to the Roc)
And they ask me, they ask me, they ask me
I tell them (Here's to Roc-A-Fella)
Raise your glasses, your glasses
Your glasses to the sky and
(Here's to the Roc)
This is the last call for alcohol
For my niggas (Mr rockefeller)
So get your ass up off the wall

So this A&R over at Roc-A-Fella
Named Hip Hop Picked the "Truth"
Beat for Beanie and I
Was in the session with him i had my
Demo with me you know, 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

So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?

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

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 wasn't 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 Harold Melvin 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 bit
The drums off "Xxplosive" and put it
Like with a sped-up sample, 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 the soul 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 Hip Hop '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"

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

"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?"

And I was like, "Man that shit tight
" 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 homies 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

Newark, New Jersey i hadn't even seen my
Apartment i remember I pulled up

I unpacked all my shit you know, we
Went to Ikea, I bought a bed, i put the
Bed together myself i loaded
Up all my equipment
And the first beat I made was, uh, "Heart
Of the City" And Beans was still working
On his album at that time, so I came up
There to Baseline, it was Beans' birthday
Matter of
Fact, and I played like seven beats and
You know i guess he was in the zone, he
Already had the beats that he wanted
I had did "Nothing Like It" already
At that time but then
Jay walked in i remember he
Had a Gucci bucket
Hat on i remember it like, like
It was yesterday and Hip-hop said
"Yo play that one beat
For him" And I played "Heart of the City"
And really I made "Heart of the City
" I really wanted to give that beat to DMX

And I played another beat
And I played another
Beat and I remember that Gucci bucket
He took it and like put it
Over his face and made
One of them faces like 'OOOOOOOOOOH' Two days
Later I'm in Baseline and I
Seen Dame dame didn't know who I
Was and I was like, "Yo what's up I'm Kanye"

"You that kid that gave all
Them beats to Jay? Yo
This nigga got classics to your beats"

You know I ain't talkin' shit
I'm like "oh shit" And
All this time I'm starstruck, man
I'm still thinking 'bout, you know I'm
Picturing these niggas on the show, The
Streets is Watching, I'm lookin'
These were superstars in my eyes
And they still are, you know
So, Jay came in and he spit
All these songs like in one
Day, and in two days i
Gotta bring up one thing
You know, come back to the story
The day I did the
'Can't be Life' beat on track
I remember Lenny S
He had some Louis Vuitton
Sneakers on, he think he fly and Hip Hop
Was there, I think Ty Ty, John Meneilly
A bunch of people i didn't know all these
People at the time they was in
The room, and I said, "yo
Jay I could rap" And I
Spit this rap that said
Uh "I'm killin' y'all niggas on that
Lyrical shit mayonnaise colored Benz
I push miracle whips" And I saw
His eyes light up when I
Said that line but you know the rest
The rap was like
Real wack and shit, so that's
All the response he said
"Man that was tight"

That was it you know, I
Ain't get no deal then
Hehe okay, fast forward so, Blueprint
"H to the Izzo
" my first hit single and I just took
That proudly
Built relationships with people
My relationship with
Kweli I think was one of
The best ones to ever happen to
My career as a rapper because
You know, of course
Later he allowed me to go on tour with him
Man, I appre - I love him
For that and at this time, you know
I didn't have a deal, I had songs
And I had relationships with all
These A&R's, and they wanted beats from
Me, so they'd call me up
I'd play them some beats
"Gimme a beat that sound
Like JAY-Z" You know
They dick riders whatever so
I'll play them these
Post-Blueprint beats or whatever
And then I'll play my shit i'll be like, "yo
But I rap too" Hey
I guess they was lookin' at
Me crazy 'cause you know
'cause I ain't have a jersey
On or whatever everybody out
There listen here: I played
Them "Jesus Walks"
And they didn't sign me you
Know what happened, it was some A&R's
That fucked with me though
But then like the
Heads, it'd be somebody at the
Company that'll say, "Naw" Like
Dave Lighty fucked with
Me, my nigga Mel brought me to
A bunch of labels jessica Rivera, man

I'm not gonna say nothin' to
Mess my promotion up

Let's just say I didn't get
My deal the nigga that
Was behind me, I mean, he
Wasn't even a nigga
You know? The person who actually kicked
Everything off was Joe 3H
From Capitol Records he wanted to
Sign me really bad

Dame was like, "Yo you got a
Deal with Capitol? Okay man
Just make sure it's not wack"

Then one day I just went ahead and played it
I wanted to play
Some songs, 'cause you know Cam was
In the room, Young Guru
And Dame was in the room so
I played actually it's a song
That you'll never hear, but maybe
I might use it so, it's called 'Wow'

"I go to Jacob with 25 thou
You go with 25 hundred, wow
I got 11 plaques on my walls right now
You got your first gold single, damn, nigga
Wow"

Like the chorus went don't bite that chorus
I might still use it so I play that
Song for him and he's like "oh shit"

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

Like they still weren't looking at me
Like a rapper and I'm
Sure Dame figured, 'Like man if
He do a whole album
If his raps is wack at least we can
Throw Cam on every song and save the album
You know so uh Dame took me
Into the office, and he's like "yo man
B, B, you don't want a brick
You don't want a brick"

"You gotta be under an umbrella
You'll get rained on" I told
Hip-hop and Hip-hop was all, "oh
Word?" Actually, even with that
I was still about to take the deal with
Capitol 'cause it was already on the table
And 'cause of my relationship with
3H that, you know
'cause I told him I was gonna do it, and
I'm a man of my word, I was gonna roll
With what I said I was gonna do then, you
Know, I'm not gonna name no names, but people
Told me, "oh he's just a producer rapper
" and
Told 3H that told the heads of the Capitol
And right - the day I'm talking about
I planned out everything
I was gonna do man, I had picked out
Clothes, I already started
Booking studio sessions
I started arranging my
Album, thinking of marketing schemes
Man I was ready to
Go and they had Mel call me, they said
"yo capitol pulled on the deal"

And, you know I told them that
Roc-A-Fella was interested and I don't
Know if they thought that was
Just something I was saying
To gas them up to try to push the price up or
Whatever i went up i called G, I said, "man
You think we could still get
That deal with Roc-A-Fella?"

So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?
So won't you raise your glass, won't you?