🎵 Self Conscious // by Kanye West

33 ContributorsSelf Conscious Lyrics A previous iteration of “All Falls Down” [Intro] Now you know you got to turn this super loud Come on, now, let's go, uh [Chorus] Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, uh, let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah, uh, uh, uh) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Smokin' right here, yeah, uh, uh) [Verse 1] I know you're wondering, how is Kanye spitting so hot? 'Cause I listen to the Roc and I listen and watch And the first thing I copped was a glistening watch Off that Blueprint money, yeah, I know I'm a dummy But what I'm supposed to tell a girl in the club While that ass 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 'Cause on the real, son If a girl think you broke, she just want to fuck and smoke If you paid then she's thinking 'bout her children, feel him? Probably not, though, 'less you got dough, you know what I mean You would think the grass greener when you finally get green [Chorus] Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, okay, uh [Verse 2] Man, I promise, she's so self conscious She has no idea what she 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 insecure The concept of school seems so secure Sophomore three years, ain't picked a career She like, "Fuck it, I'll just stay down here 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 [Chorus] Now let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh, let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh, uh, take 'em, take 'em to the lake Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh-uh, and say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Now take 'em downtown Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Now take 'em back to the southside Uh, uh [Verse 3] Man, I promise, I'm so self conscious That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches Rollies and Pashas done drove me crazy I can't even pronounce nothing, pass that Versace Then I spent four-hundred bucks on this Just to be like, "Nigga, you ain't up on this!" Plus, I refuse go to the grocery store Without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team It seem 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 tryna buy back our forty acres And for that paper, look how low we'll stoop Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a Coupe [Chorus] Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Take 'em to up, uh, uh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Now, take 'em up, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh, turn the music hi-i-i-igher Let me hear you say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, uh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh, uh, uh Now let me hear you say (And, uh, and, uh) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (I decided to quit fucking with you, umm) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Wack ass niggas and, umm) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Hating ass, dream killing ass niggas) [Outro] And since I quit Everyone that supported me, thank you very much And everyone that doubted me, thank you very little