Self Conscious(Poetry Style) - Kanye West

Now ya know ya gotta turn this super loud

C'mon now let's go, uh

Let me hear say "Yeaaah"

"Yeaaah"

I know you're wondering

How is Kanye spittin so hot?

Cuz I listen to the ROC

And I listen and watch

And the first thing I copped was a glisning watch

Off that Blueprint money

Yeah I know I'm a dummy

But what I am supposed to tell a girl in the club, why that a** is getting feeled on

What, I bought a couple build-ons?

Seems like I got more brain off my fake chain than my real one

Cuz on the real son

If a girl think you broke, she just wanna ***** and smoke

If you paid then she's thinking bout her children

Feel him?

Prolly not though unless you got dough

You know what I mean

You would think the grass green when you finally get green

Man I promise, she's so self conscious

She has no idea what she's doing in college

That major that she majored in don't make no money

But she won't drop out, her parents will look at her funny

Now, tell me that ain't insecurrre

The concept of school seems so securrre

Sophmore three yearrrs ain't picked a careerrr

She like ***** it, I'll just stay down herre and do hair

Cause that's enough money to buy her a few pairs of new Airs

Cause her baby daddy don't really care

She's so precious with the peer pressure

Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis

She had hair so long that it looked like weave

Then she cut it all off now she look like Eve

And she be dealing with some issues that you can't believe

Single black female addicted to retail and

Man I promise, I'm so self conscious

That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches

Rollies and Pasha's done drove me crazy

I can't even pronounce nothing, pass that versace!

Then I spent 400 bucks on this

Just to be like ni**a you ain't up on this!

And I refuse go to the grocery store

Without some ones thats clean and a shirt with a team

It seems we living the american dream

But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem

The prettiest people do the ugliest things

For the road to riches and diamond rings

We shine because they hate us, floss cause they degrade us

We trying to buy back our 40 acres

And for that paper, look how low we a'stoop

Even if you in a Benz, you still a ni**a in a coope

And uh

I decided to stop *****in with yall

Uh

Wack a** niggas

And uh kill dreams niggas

And since I quit

Everyone that supported me

Thank you very much

And everyone that doubted me, thank you very little