Kanye West - Last Call Lyrics

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[Jay-Z] 
Ahahha, yo fuck you kanye first and foremost, for makin me 
do this shit..mothafucka...had to throw everybody outta the 
mothafuckin room...cuz they dont...fuck em 

[Kanye] 
I'd like to propose a toast, I said toast motherfucker 
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la 

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....(here's to Roc-a-Fella) 
So get your ass up of the wall 

The all around the world digital underground Pac 
The rudolph the red nose reindeer of the Roc 
I take my chain my 15 seconds of fame 
And I come back next year with the whole fuckin game 
Ain't nobody expect Kanye to be on top, 
They expected that college dropout to drop and then flop 
Then mabye he'd stop saving all the good beats for himself 
Roc-a-Fella's only niggas that helped 
My money was thinner than Sean Paul goatee hair 
Now Jean Paul Gautier cologne fill the air 
They say "He bougie, he big headed" 
Would you please stop talkin' bout how my dick head is? 
Flow infectious give me 10 seconds 
I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas 
It's funny how ain't nobody interested 
Till 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....(heres to Roc-a-Fella) 
So get your ass up of the wall 

Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Yes sir 
Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Yes sir 
Do the fans want the feeling over 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 
Whether you call him Kwali or Kweli 
I put him on songs with Jay-Z 
I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy 
And ooo 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 could have won the horse awards 
And I was almost famous 
Now everybody love Kanye, I'm almost Raymond 
Some say "He arrogant, can ya'll blame him? 
It was straight embarrassin' how ya'll played him" 
Last year shopping my demo I was trying to shine 
Every motherfucker told me that I couldn't rhyme 
Now I could let these dream killers kill my self esteem 
Or I could use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams 
I use it as my gas so they say I'm gassed 
But without it I'd be last so I ought to laugh 
So I don't listen to the suits behind the desk no more 
You niggas wear suits 'cause you can't dress no more 
You cant say shit to Kanye West no more 
I rocked 20,000 people, I was just on tour nigga! 
I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton don 
Bought my mom a purse and 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 this hustle you know what I been up to 
Killin' ya'll niggas on that lyrical shit 
Mayonaisse color 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....(Heres to Roc-a-Fella) 
So get your ass up of the wall 

[Talking] 

So this A&R over at Roc-a-fella, named Hiphop 
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, 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 gotta 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 (ha) 
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, (ha) 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 
[Mother:] "Kanye, baby, we're here", 
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 could see he's in the zone 
he already had the beats that he wanted, I did nothing like 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 Hiphop 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. 
[Hiphop:] "No I think Jay gon' like this one right here". 
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." 
[Dame:] "Yo, you that kid, Kanye?" 
"You that kid that gave all them beats to Jay? 
Yo, this nigga got classics" 
[Dame:] "Jay got classics, G." 
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 niggaz 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 Hiphop was there, I think Tata, John 
Minnelli, 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 niggaz 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 West, the rap 
was like real wack and shit, so that's all the response. 
He said "man that was tite." 
[Jay-Z:] "That, that was cool, that was cool. That was hot." 
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 Lotti fucked with me, my 
nigga Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Rivera, man 
[Jessica:] "Man, you niggaz is stupid if y'all don't sign Kanye, for real." 
I'm not gonna say nothin to mess my promotion up 
"Y'all niggaz is stupid". 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. 
[Joe:] "We gonna change the game, buddy." 
Dame was like, "yo you got a deal with Capitol, 
okay man, just make sure it's not wack." 
[Dame:] "you gotta 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 eleven 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" 
[Dame:] "Oh shit it's not even wack." 
"I ain't gonna front, it's kinda hot." 
[Dame:] "it's actually 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, we, we on a brick, we on a brick" 
[Dame:] "you don't wanna catch a brick" 
You gotta be under an umbrella, you'll get rained on. 
I told Hiphop and Hiphop 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" 
[Mel:] "Yo, Capitol pulled out 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?" 

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lyrics submitted by Sean
lyrics corrected by mimi, x kat x on 19-02-2006