Kanye West
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"Kanye Omari West" is an American rapping/rapper, songwriter, record producer, director, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. West first gained prominence as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records; he achieved recognition for his work on rapper Jay-Z's The Blueprint (2001), as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of hip hop production/production originally used high-pitched vocal Sampling (music)/samples from Soul music/soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. He later broadened his influences to include 1970s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, House music/house, folk music/folk, alternative rock/alternative, electronica, synthpop, Industrial music/industrial, and classical music/classical music.

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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

We gonna touch the sky.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams!!!

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I don't know whats better gettin laid or gettin paid.