Kanye West Rapping at Fat Beats | #ThrowbackThursday

  • 10 years ago
Kanye West is seen rapping at Fats Beats back in 1996. Before the Yeezus Tour, or his classic albums "The College Dropout" or "College Graduation", Kanye went hard in the 90s.
Transcript
00:00Alright, alright, Chicago what, Chicago what, Chicago, ayo, if you owe me money, huh, what, alright, alright, thank you.
00:12No, it's the Lakeshore Drive, keep it live, tight, raw, you better hurry up, they can't keep it in the store.
00:17The beautiful format, your whole style in one beat.
00:20Insert the diss, watch a nigga press delete.
00:22Tryna flex the technique, you get blasted with a tech.
00:25The city's mad, ironic, like Atlanta's more resent.
00:28You try to KJ, but it's L.I.L.Y.R.I.C.S.
00:30Rhymes for little men flying out of O'Hare.
00:33Why these no-name ass niggas wanna go there?
00:36No bodies, living three blocks from nowhere, down the street from nothing.
00:40Let me show these niggas somethin' visual, A's and K's and the niggas in front it.
00:44Word to God they don't want it, but they wanna play the role.
00:47Hackin' hardcore, watch the whole career flow.
00:49My style is to go, always forever like Luther.
00:52But it ain't original because I stole it from the future.
00:54Now I'm one of the three centuries.
00:56The verbal killer everywhere, I got the style stolen from my grandchildren.
01:00Put it on fire, documented in the books.
01:02You niggas can't see me, so cease the hard looks.
01:05However, you get hooked.
01:06Live and die for rhyme, dedicated to hip-hop.
01:09Shit don't stop.
01:10Uh, niggas, they wanna know what and who's next.
01:13Said you rolled up in a Lex, that's the train stop.
01:15My brain drop mad lyrics.
01:17Uh, I vibe with the spirit of the top.
01:19I drop non-stop, verbally kill it.
01:21My style is ready to will it.
01:23Y'all niggas lay back, just in it like E-P-F-D.
01:25Y'all niggas ain't seein' me.
01:26What?
01:27Wordin' more from style, do or die.
01:29I got the rhymes from the brain.
01:31They tried to rob me on a plane, so I rode the train.
01:33Before I got here, it's fine here.
01:35I'm about to take a shit.
01:36Yo, it's my year.
01:37What?
01:38Bring it on, pass it to my man Tariq.
01:40Rock the mic all week, yo.

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