[Kanye West Intro]:

I just got off the plane Chicago. It's your boy Kanye West on the beat

[Chorus]:

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

[Verse One]:

On the school bus I used to write mad hooks

Walked around lunch carrying a rap book

Hoes ain't care

Niggas gave me mad looks

Cause they know that my flow had they ass shook

Graduated, broke up with my team

They was after a wish, I was after a dream

And I ain't even look back at the loss of friends

Cause I live by success is the best revenge

It's like, once you leave high school what can you do?

Get a job or just go to school

But this dude

I made a business and love it

So if you ask if I got a job, hell I'm the owner of it

Uh huh

[Chorus]:

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

[Verse Two]:

I went from acting like a pen was a mic

To making three thou in the morning spending it all in a night

Give your dog a light, he gotta see what I'm doing here

Taking cats out the game like music chairs

Back in the day chicks only used to stare

Cause I had something on me, or, I ain't do my hair

And now they stare like, "That there's X."

Make bets on who's gonna be my boo next

Yep

This is something in the making

Something that we taking, a new elevation

And if we with me then throw up your crown

But if you hated in the past, keep throwing it down

[Chorus]:

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

[Verse Three]:

You kill a dream we build a dream

They ain't wanna sign me so I built a team

Now every label wanna find me

I used to not have a video

Till me and Bling formed a team like Eddie and Arsenio

Oh Lord have mercy

If grandma could see me now, she'd would probably try to beat me down

Running round, picking girls out the crowd

Acting an ass, screaming curse words loud

To my teachers who laughed at my dream

Now look

To my principle who expelled me

Now look

To the system that said I be back

Locked up or on the streets selling crack

Now look

Throw your hands in the sky

[Chorus]:

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen

Everybody said that I wouldn't blow

Everybody said that I couldn't flow

Everybody said that and then they said this and

Good thing I never ever listen