[ti:Chain Heavy] [ar:Kanye West (feat. Talib Kweli & Consequence)] [al:G.O.O.D. Fridays] [00:01.96]Um, we got the black leading the house tonight [00:06.16]Rosewood! [00:08.40]I feel like im at the NAACP or something right now [00:10.82]asses festival [00:14.56]Q-Tip on the beat, too [00:18.45] [00:20.25]Kanye West - Chain Heavy (feat. Talib Kweli & Consequence) [00:23.64]G.O.O.D. Fridays 11.12.10 [00:25.92]G.O.O.D. Music [00:27.53] [00:30.97](Kanye West - Verse 1) [00:31.46]They try to tell me my chain broke the levy, [00:35.35]Maybe cuz its flooded, [00:36.69]Why you walkin' round with a baby cross his cousin, [00:39.30]My teeth already white yall gone make me floss for nothing, [00:41.92]My teeth real diamonds what's the cause of the frontin', [00:45.49]While yall got all caps on?, [00:47.21]Don Cheadle Time, [00:48.46]Get extra black on em', [00:49.81]Burn Hollywood burn, [00:52.64]Take too long for n-ggas to get their turn, [00:55.07]Probably be cremated before I get my urn, [00:57.65]They try to tell me that aliens built the pyramids, [01:00.58]I swear life's a bitch on a period, [01:03.16]For every inch they cut the nose off the Sphinx, [01:05.83]I make my jeweler add a few more links, [01:07.78]You can look at me and dont f-ck what nobody thinks, [01:10.82]And my face always lookin' like somebody stinks. [02:36.80][01:13.35] [02:37.08][01:13.64]My chain heavy, yeah yeah, my chain heavy, my chain heavy, my chain too heavy [02:42.17][01:18.70]My chain heavy, yeah yeah, my chain heavy, my chain heavy, my chain too heavy [02:47.25][01:23.60] [02:47.50][01:23.89]Here we go, like we should [02:49.77][01:26.37]Feel the sweat, on ya face [02:52.44][01:28.98]Here we go, like we should [02:55.09][01:31.41]Feel the sweat, on ya face [02:57.68][01:34.19]Alright, okay [03:00.28][01:36.85]Here we go, like we should, like we should, like we should [01:41.07](Kanye West - Verse 2) [01:43.21]Question.. [01:44.69]What color was the skin of the man who bared the cross? [01:47.45]No matter how many lashes they couldn't beat it off, [01:50.29]How many caskets will we see in one lifetime? [01:52.94]That's why its Miles Davis Kobe it's mic time, [01:55.50]I keep that G.O.A.T book on the ottoman, [01:57.94]And wrote hooks about slaves that was slaughtered in the 1800′s, [02:01.52]Yall forget that I got called n-gger on Twitter so many times, [02:04.61]yo I lived that, [02:05.96]Now I'm just trying to find where to raise my kids at, [02:08.45]Cuz they don't want n-ggas next to where they crib at, [02:11.07]Hey real Tom lookin' for a nice park, [02:13.30]Twelve noon she say my family gone make it too dark, [02:16.27]This is the flow that solar eclipses, [02:18.89]So hopefully one day that real soul will eclipse the bullshit, they got us listenin' to, [02:22.71]In this existence, [02:23.79]Don't give up now just a little more persistence, [02:26.28]I am the day Ice Cube met Michael Jackson, [02:29.03]Keep 'em away huh, something might happen, [02:31.60]This is the making of a masterpiece, [02:33.94]so we broke out the chains and told the Master Peace. [03:05.81](Talib Kweli) [03:08.07]Some wear a suit and tie, they dont wanna remain average [03:10.63]some wear a suit and tie like a chain in a straight jacket [03:13.44]my chain heavy stopping that traffic [03:15.37]coppers harrass us, the DA attack us want us in chains like BA Baracus [03:18.77]and a major factor in my decision to be a rapper was rebellion [03:21.16]being anti-establishment was attractive to a black kid from Brooklyn [03:25.25]flames got them things cooking, land of the jooks [03:27.80]where the lames got the chains tooken [03:29.46]it aint looking good for you if you a tourist [03:31.79]yeah sometimes our rhymes is on a frequency that only purists hear [03:34.57]a couple rappers try to beef with me, nobody scared [03:37.19]n-ggas was so f-cking corny that nobody cared [03:39.79]why I gotta battle rappers, I debate scholars [03:42.38]Question: Do it gotta make sense if it make dollars? [03:45.25]sick visions is living inside our brains [03:47.66]its like sadomasochistic addicted to whips and chains [03:50.08]figuratively quite, literally, clinically insane spit flames when I vist the higher planes [03:55.50]try in vain to ignore, don't buy the chain if you can't afford it [03:58.31]'Ye them load of a-whores by the boards trust [04:00.04] [04:00.29](Consequence) [04:00.57]Uh, that old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks [04:02.96]of course Im off the chain as soon as I hit the streets [04:05.45]and now when we leak she saying the games over [04:08.23]I drove her crazy and she became a chain smoker [04:11.19]now the new dude she saying that could stay over [04:13.69]should be a chain who goes by the name of choker [04:16.34]thats what he did when she told him he should play this over [04:19.03]so the chains on, throw em on the way over [04:21.62]but when I came over, his only response [04:24.17]well be the owner of a chain of restaurants [04:26.60]cause I'mma eat your food for that chain that I worn [04:29.20]cause you be running round like the chain makes the man [04:31.80]so it obvious that he don't know the chain of command [04:34.31]cause my chain commands, that kind of respect [04:36.94]and its so chunky that its a pain in the neck [04:39.54]but it came with a check, I remember on chaining day [04:42.37]it spoke for itself and this is what the chain would say [04:45.19]“them chain snatchers are hoping that you aint ready [04:47.97]so don't get distracted keep your aim steady [04:50.49]or there'll be a chain reactionsince my chains heavy” [04:53.12]