Kanye West - London Speech lyrics

How y'all feeling tonight?
Thank y'all for coming out to this
Impromptu-type performance I just set up
I love the energy in this city
This is one of my hometowns, y'all
Know I stayed out here, right?
But I came here for the
Creativity more than anything
Because creativity fuels everything
I hate business people
People get on the phone with
Me and talk to me
Like "What kind of business can he do though?
What type of businnes are you
Doing? What's the numbers?
How much did you sell?
What's the radio spins?
How much shampoo can you sell with
Your face on it and shit?"
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Can you remind me again why we in this shit?
Make it even more mellow
Make it just the chords

Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again why we in this shit?
I know it's for more than just to get rich
Since when was making music
About getting rich?
Since when was making art about getting rich?
I know it's easy for me to say
Because having money's not everything and
Not having it is
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again why the Grammy's
Could suck my dick?
Remind me who's the original superfly
And I got love for Hov but I
Ain't fucking with that Suit and Tie
Remind me again
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Every nigga tryna get rich
Every rapper tryna get rich
And every rapper always rap about
Fucking somebody else bitch
Remind me again why we in this shit?
Remind me again why we in this shit?
And why the Grammys can suck my dick
Suck my dick

And every motherfucking sponsor
They tryna put they logos all
Over the concerts and shit
For a meet and greet and you gotta meet the
Execs and they daughters
And they'll show what they just bought her
Real niggas don't live too long in this shit
Real niggas don't live too long in this shit
Real niggas don't live too long in this shit
Real niggas don't live too long in this shit
Real niggas don't live too long in this shit
They say "Ayo
You coming on too strong in this bitch"
They always talking about what I'm
Doing wrong in this shit
Well I can give a fuck everything
I can give a fucking anything
Remind me why we in this shit
I lost my motherfucking momma
So I can give a fuck about your comments
I promise, I promise
Cause we all gonna die one day
But I'mma live my life my way!
Remind me why we in this shit, please

Please, can I sell your drink for you, please
"So, you can help me put
On a better show please, corporations?
Can you please support me? Please?
Me, Kanye West i swear I’m a nice nigga now
I swear I’ll put the pink polo back on
I swear to you please just for 3 million
I need it so bad i need
A pool in my backyard!
So I’ll tell all my fans your shit is cool
And if they believe in me
Then they should also believe in you
"‘Did we get the check yet? Hold on
I gotta call the business manager
Did the corporations send the check?
What is my public rating? Are
People liking me again?
Enough to get some money
From the corporations?
Are they liking me, is it ok now?
They forgot about the whole Beyoncé thing
Right? Ok, Cool
Is it ok now?"

Remind me why we in this shit
Remind me why we in this shit
Cause we ain't on no pile of shit
Nigga I'mma make my music from my heart
And I live and I die by everything that I say
And everything that I do
And everything that make is what
I believe to be true
And if the shit don't make
Sense and sound like nonsense
I don't give a fuck because that
Was my stream of conscious
And that's the way I felt at that time
And feelings was the only facts
And racism and materialism is killing blacks
And one more thing if I can ask
One more thing if I can add

Cause in this life
Our life just moves to fast
And time is somethng tht you
Can never get back
What's your quality of life?
What's your quality of life?
And that's why I mean it when I say
I hope you have a good time tonight
I hope you have a good time tonight
London, it's Louise Wilson's birthday tonight

An inspiration, not lead instruments
I'm the lead instrument, but he's background
Happy birthday to Louise who
Taught Alexander McQueen
My friend Louis Gold, Christopher King
Stella McCartney and Kanye West
Even though she doesn't want me to
Put that on my resume

But it's still sometimes like
There's no good ideas
And no real ideas and nothing sincere left
And everything has been so homogenized
And it's all big business
And it's no creativity
But really we have the ability
To have a human Utopia
If we just helped each other
If we just use our resources
And stop tryna compete against each other
And tryna beat each other and eat each other
And maybe came together and tried
To teach each other and reach each other
And reach each other
Maybe try to come together
And love each other and love each other
And love one another
Maybe try to come together
And love each other and love each other
And love each other and love another
And love each other and love each other
And love each other and love another
The way you love you love your mother man
The way you should love your father man
Y'all don't really understand
Cause this is our shit
And is this our motherfucking clique
Clique, clique clique
Ain't nobody fresher than
My motherfucking clique
Clique, clique, clique
I said ain't nobody fresher
Than my motherfucking clique
Clique, clique, clique
I said ain't nobody fresher
Than my motherfucking clique