Well, I'm off to Chi-town this weekend. In honor of that, I thought I would put up some Floetry from someone raised in Chicago (although he was born in the ATL). I thought for a quick minute about some Floetry from Iowa or South Dakota, but couldn't come up with anything on the fly. So, I settled on this one. A few notes before today's Floetry. First, "Dame" refers to "Dame Dash" or Damon Dash. Dash co-found Roc-A-Fella records with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Kareem "Biggs" Burke. About 3 years ago, Dash sold his interest in the company for various reasons depending on whom you believe. Jay-Z calls himself the "Hov" as in Jehovah. The artist of this week's Floetry is Kanye West, otherwise known as K. West, Big K, or the self-proclaimed "International A**hole". Many people probably have heard of Kanye West either through his individual records, his producing work for some of Roc-A-Fella's finest, or for those 7 words (or so) he said after Hurricane Katrina. Sure, he might have thrown a tantrum like he was 3 years old (after not winning on a certain awards show), but " you gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul" (another part of the Diamonds song which I decided not to present here).
Floetry:
You know who you can call you gotta best believe it
The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it
Take your diamonds and throw'em up like you bulimic
Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic
After debris settles and the dust get swept off
Big K pick up where young Hov left off
Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off
I dropped my new s*it sound like the best of
A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up"
Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up
Bottle after bottle till we got messed up
In the studio, where really though, yea he next up
People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back
That'll be the same day I give the game back
You know the next question dog "Yo, where Dame at?"
This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back
"What's up with you and Jay, man, are y'all ok man?"
They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen
Taken from Diamonds From Sierra Leone by Kanye West
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