This just brought me to tears. This is one of my most favourite Kanye songs no lie over 5000 plays and on that last line I was bawling like a baby. The song is such a beautiful masterpiece Kanye brings such amazing energies together.😭😭😭 if you never read the annotations on this song on genuis look up the J ivy annotation I just did and it has a really cool story from J ivy's perspective on getting on the track
"Yeah I need my loot by rent day But that ain't what gives me the heart of Kunta Kinte I'm trying gives us us free like Cinque. Powerful shit he saying even tho he have to hustle everyday the thing that drives him is showing our people a way. I think.
the preaching gets in the way of the poetry unlike gil scott heron who used either irony or humour to make the blunt force of his edge more illuminating