Kanye West — London Speech

[Intro] 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 [Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Verse 3] 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?" [Verse 4] 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 [Verse 5] 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 [Bridge] 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 [Outro] 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