[Kanye West & GLC:]
 
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit (Yeah, yeah)
 
 I wish I could (Me too)
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly (Swear I do)
 
 Past the sky, oh
 
 GLC feel you, baby—I feel you, man
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky (Man, man, man...)
 
 Oh, oh, oh
 
 
 
  [Kanye West:]
 
 
 If my manager insults me again
 
 I will be assaulting him
 
 After I fuck the manager up
 
 Then, I'm gonna shorten the register up
 
 Let's go back, back to the Gap
 
 Look at my check—wasn't no scratch
 
 So if I stole, wasn't my fault
 
 Yeah, I stole—never got caught
 
 They take me to the back and pat me
 
 Asking me about some khakis
 
 But let some black people walk in
 
 I bet you they show off their token blackie
 
 Oh, now they love Kanye
 
 "Let's put him all in the front of the store"
 
 So I'm on break
 
 Next to the "No Smoking" sign with a blunt in the mall
 
 Taking my hits, writing my hits
 
 Writing my rhymes, playing my mind
 
 This fucking job can't help him
 
 So I quit; y'all welcome
 
 Y'all don't know my struggle
 
 Y'all can't match my hustle
 
 You can't catch my hustle
 
 You can't fathom my love, dude
 
 Lock yourself in a room
 
 Doing five beats a day for three summers
 
 That's A Different World like Cree Summer's
 
 I deserve to do these numbers
 
 "The kid that made that deserves that Maybach!"
 
 So many records in my basement
 
 I'm just waitin' on my spaceship, blaow!
 
 
 
  [Kanye West, GLC, & Kanye:]
 
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky, oh
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky
 
 Tryna tell you, man, way past the sky
 
 Oh, oh (Let's go, ugh)
 
 
 
  [GLC:]
 
 
 And I didn't even try to work a job
 
 Represent the mob at the same time (Woo)
 
 Thirsty on the grind, Chi state of mind
 
 Lost my mama, lost my mind (Aww)
 
 Life, my love, that's not mine
 
 "Why you ain't signed?" Wasn't my time
 
 Leave me alone, work for y'all
 
 Half of it's yours, half of it's mine
 
 Only wanna ball, never wanna fall (Ugh)
 
 Gotta get mine, gotta take mine (Ugh)
 
 Got a Tec-9, reach my prime (Ugh)
 
 Gotta make these haters respect mine (Yeah)
 
 In the mall 'til 12 when my schedule had said 9
 
 Putting them pants on shelves
 
 Waiting patiently; I ask myself
 
 Where I wanna go, where I wanna be
 
 Life is much more than running in the streets
 
 Holler at 'Ye, hit me with the beat
 
 Put me on my feet, sounds so sweet
 
 Yes, I'm the same ol' G
 
 Same goatee, stayin' low-key, nope
 
 Holler at God, "Man, why'd you have to take my folks?"
 
 Hope to see Freddie G., Yusef G, love my G
 
 Rolly G, police watch me
 
 Smoke my weed and count my Gs
 
 Got a lot of people counting on me (That's right)
 
 And I'm just tryin' to find my peace (That's right)
 
 Should've finished school like my niece
 
 Then I finally wouldn't use my piece, blaow!
 
 
 
  [Kanye West, GLC, & Kanye:]
 
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 Aww, man, this pressure
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky, oh
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky
 
 Oh, oh, oh
 
 
 
  [Consequence:]
 
 
 I 'member having to take the dollar cab
 
 Coming home real late at night
 
 Standing on my feet all damn day
 
 Tryna make this thing right
 
 And havin' one of my co-workers say, "Yo, you look just like
 
 This kid I seen in an old Busta Rhymes video the other night"
 
 Well, easy come, easy go, how that saying goes
 
 No more broad service, cars, and them TV shows
 
 That all had got snatched from me, A&Rs and they faculties
 
 All turn their back on me and didn't wanna hear a rap from me
 
 So naturally, actually, had to face things factually
 
 Had to be a catastrophe, empty fridge is staring back at me
 
 'Cause nothing's there, nothing's fair
 
 I don't wanna ever go back there
 
 So I won't be taking no days off 'til my spaceship takes off, bow!
 
 
 
  [Kanye West & Kanye:]
 
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky, oh
 
 I've been working this grave-shift
 
 And I ain't made shit
 
 I wish I could
 
 Buy me a spaceship and fly
 
 Past the sky
 
 Oh, oh, oh
 
 
 
  [Tony Williams:]
 
 
 I wanna fly
 
 I wanna fly
 
 I said I want my chariot to pick me up
 
 And take a brother for a ride
 
 (Heaven knows, heaven knows)