Kanye West - Never Let Me Down lyrics

Album: The College Dropout (2004)

Yea Grandmama
Told you I would not let you down
Told you I would not let this rap game change me, right?

[Chorus]
When it comes to being true, at least true to me
One thing I found, one thing I found
Oh no you will neva let me down,
Get up I get (down)
Get up I get (down)
Get up I get (down)
Get up I get (down)
Get up I get (down)
Get up I get (down)

[Jay-Z]
Yo, yo 1st I snatched the streets, then I snatched the charts
1st I had they ear, now I´ve they heart
Rappers came & went
I have been here from the start
I seen them put it together
Watch them take it apart
See the rovers roll up with ribbons
I see them re poed, re sold then re driven
So when I reload, he holds number one positions
When you hot, I am hot
And when your feet cold, mines are sizzlin´
It is plain to see
Niggas can´t f*** wit me
Cuz ima be that nigga for life
This isn´t an image
This is God given
This is hard livin´
Mixed wit Cristal sippin´
It is the most consistent, Hov
Give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc and
Nigga I am home on these charts, y´all niggas visiting
It is Hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rap
I am back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy

[Chorus]

[Kanye West]
I get down for my grandfather who took my momma
Made her sit in that seat where white folks aint want us to eat
At the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sitins
And with that in my blood I was born to be different
Now niggas can´t make it to ballots to chose leadership
But we can make it to Jacobs or to the dealership
That is why I hear new music & I just don´t be feelin´ it
Racism still alive, they just be concealin´ it
But I know they do not want me in the damn club
They even make me show ID to get inside of Sam´s Club
I did deal dirt & went to church to get my hands scrubbed
That why I have baptized these 3 or 4 times
But in the land where niggas praise
Yukons & getting paid
Its gon´ take a lot more than coupons to get us saved
Like it take a lot more than do-rags to get your way
Nothin´ sad as that day my girl father passed away
So I promise to Mr. Raney, I am going to marry your daughter
And you know I´ve got to thank you for they way that she was brought up
And I know that you were smiling when you seen the car I bought her
And you sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up, but
I cannot complain what the accident did to my left eye
Cuz look what an accident did to Left Eye
1st Aaliyah, now Romeo Must Die
I know I got angels watchin´ me from the other side

[Chorus x2]

[J.Ivy]
We are all here for a reason on a particular path
You do not need a curriculum to know that you´re part of the math
Cats think I am delirious, but I am so damn serious
That is why I expose my soul to the globe, the world
I am trying to make it better for these little boys & girls
I am not just another individual, my spirit´s a part of this
That is why I get spiritual, but I get my hymns from Him
So it isn´t me, it is He that is lyrical
I am not a miracle, I am a heaven-sent instrument
My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul & your mental
That is why I am instrumental
Vibrations is what I am into
Yea, I need my loot by rent day
But that aint what gives me the heart of Kunte Kinte
I am tryina ‘Give us us free´ like Cinque
I cannot stop, that is why I am hot
Determination, dedication, motivation
I am talking to you, my many inspirations
When I say it I cannot, let you or self down
If I were on the highest cliff, on the highest rift
And you slipped off the side & clenched on to your life in my grip
I´d never, ever let you down
And when these words´re found
Let it been known that God´s penmanship has been signed with a language called love
That is why my breath is felt by the deaf
And why my words´re heard & confined to the ears of the blind
I, too, dream in color & in rhyme
So I guess I am one of a kind in a full house
Cuz whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouth
A touch of God rains out

[Kanye West]
Take´em to church

[Chorus]

[Jay-Z]
Who else you know been hot this long?
Started from nothin´ but he got this strong
Picked the rock from a pebble
Peddled rock before I met you
Peddle bikes got my nephew´s
Pedal bikes because they special
That you tell that man I thought it, well
Somebody must´ve taught him cause
Every 4th quarter, I light the Mike Jord´ in them
Number one albums, what? I got like four of them
More of them on the way
The 8th wonder on the way
Clear the way I am here to stay
Y´all can save the chitter-chat
‘This & that´, ‘this & Jay´
This & Jay´ll get you maced
When I start spittin´ them lyrics
Niggas get very religious
Six Hail Mary´s please, Father forgive us
Young!
The archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y´all niggas
The way y´all all follow Jigga
Hov´s a living legend & I will tell you why
Everybody want to be Hov & Hov´s still alive…

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