[Kanye West]
Uh, Uh
Lets take it back to basics
When sh** gets worse we converse
How we need a New Balance before the lines get crossed like Asics
Just look at what we got, if we don't shoot the Reeboks
This is a beat that no flow can detox
So the respect is due like my Louie back
I don't wanna have to check you
I'm as Chi as buck-fifty's and Pelle Pelle Leathers
Some say, my beats made the Bulls play better
I say, black on black is the hate that hate made
Sara Lee with the dough I'm talkin' bout the cake maid
McDonalds with the flow, served over over a billion
You've seen the video, words over the building
Uh, I wish I could give you this feeling, I wish I could give you this feeling
And when The Workout Plan ain't work out man
Me and Common is back on the corners again
On the corner
[Common]
Uh, yeah
Uh, yeah
I open my eyes
The corner is like African tribes
The black is subsidized
The black enterprize
The pa**ion arise
The youth fantasize, who got some cash in they eyes
If youth dies, mamas askin' rationalize
Tryna' build a spot where ghetto ba*tards can rise
The ghetto has been ba*tardized by those who capitalize
Wonder if its a plan that the master devised
To bring his people to a land where the blacks are despised
On the corner