Kanye West - Freestyle from Before Infamous Accident lyrics

Now what if Michael Jordan decided to stick to baseball and Jay-Z decided to stick to crack Just Blaze decided to stick to engineering and Kanye never decided to rap? What if a n***a from the Chi that was ill got a deal on the hottest rap label around? But he wasn't talking about coke and birds, it was more like spoken word 'Cept the n***a's really putting it down And he explained the story about how blacks came from glory And what we need to do in the game But kept in mind as long as [?] folks and n***as is dead broke Some things they gone never change But it ain't them [?] folks, it's the white folks that brought us over here with boats and tight ropes But don't forget it was [?] n***as cause The kings got rid of us, they selling a crackhead soap Now follow me, sometimes I feel like dream is subtitles Say things that mean things but hide them in club titles So you'll hear something real but think that it's meaningless Like, "Damn, I know I feel but I don't know what the meaning is!" See that there's what make it so ingenious And that's why Kweli never was lenient Cause he know what I got, know I was making it hot 'Fore I was making a lot, 'fore I made it to the Roc