[Spoken Word: Kanye West]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen

It’s Friday morning, May 25th, 2007

You know I never say the dates, but since this is a mixtape

I might as well mark the day our lives changed

It's a whole new world out there

I’m speaking to you from the future right now

I mean, at all times, I was always speaking to you from the future

They say "Music changed a lot since, uh, you first dropped"

I say, music gon’ change a lot after I drop

And the Polo is Versace by the way

Dries van Noten, Martin Margiela, Dior, what have you – partake

And the Jordan's is the 6's

Don C, Al B., John Monop'

Al, Gee, Hip-Hop, Wap, Gabe

Yeah, Jay, uh, L.A., Jay Brown, Ty Ty, ay, ay, ay, ay

Are y’all all ready for this ride?

Are you all ready for the ride?

I’ma stop playing with they emotions

Plain Pat – let’s go!