On Achievement and Creativity

Don’t let nobody tell you what you
Can do, what you can believe
What you can achieve don’t let nobody but you

You know, people be looking at me like I got
A problem or something
Like I’m uncontrollable
Or something like I don’t do what
I’m supposed to do you know
It’s like they want to have everybody so
Brainwashed they want to control everybody
You know, rumors, lies, media
Marketing it’s like they
Want to steal you from you
And sell you back to you after
They stole it they want to
Make you feel like you less
Than who you really are

Cuz as far as I’m
Concerned everybody’s a star
See they want to make you feel like
You less than you really are cuz as
Far as I’m concerned everybody’s a star

You know, uh, the first thing they do is
Crush your dreams crush your
Dreams then add a couple drops
Of low self-esteem and
Then I don’t think everything is
What it seems and control you with lies and
Control you with lies

You know Imma tell you something
First thing they do
Is crush your dreams then let’s add a couple
A couple of drops of low
Esteem and they control you
With lies and they control you with lies and
They control you with lies we
Goin’ out of control
Tonight we goin’ out of control tonight ahh

See this is what I’m talking aboutThis is
What I’m talking about this is
What I’m talking about i mean, this
Is what I’m talking about
This is what I’m talking about

How many people tonight have ever talked to
Somebody right, that you know they’ll say
I don’t know
What’s wrong with Kanye or make it seem like
I’m a bad person in some way, right?
Now what have I ever done that was so wrong
Other than believe in myself?
Now believing in
Yourself is so, so, so wrong that the other
Side is so, so, so, so strong
They’re trying to beat down and demonize
And dishumanize I don’t know
If that’s a word or not, but it’s now a word
Cuz I said it’s a fucking word and try
To dishumanize people who
Believe in themselves
Cuz then what happens? Then you believe in
Yourself and then you believe in
Yourself and you believe anything
Is possible how many
People believe that what they dream about
What y’all want to
Do, whether you want to be
A doctor or lawyer
A designer, a musician, video-game
Programmer, a lighting guy
A manager … how many people want
To contribute something to the world?

But if you’re a creative and you want to
Create, and you just want to create more
This is exactly what I’ve been fighting
For so if you hear me
Talking about Louis Vuitton or
The Gucci Group
Or anything like that i’m not dissing
Louis Vuitton, I’m not dissing the Gucci
Group and shit i’m just saying, don’t
Discriminate against me
Because I’m a black man or because I’m
A celebrity, and tell me that I can create
But not feel cuz you know damn well there
Aren’t no black guys or celebrities making no
Louis Vuitton nothing they let Pharrell make
Those glasses, and we liked them, right?
They let me make those shoes
And we liked them right?

And they say, "No, no, no
Nigga not no more that’s too
Much that’s too much no, no, no, no, no, no
Nigga not no more that’s way too much
That’s way too much stay in your
Place sit in the front of that show
And wear this jacket I made
You stay in your place do what you
Get paid to do stay in your
Place don’t embarrass yourself
Trying to chase
Your dreams save face save face"

That’s why I got this fucking mask on
Cuz I ain’t worried about saving
Face fuck my face!
Let’s set ‘em off pause now they finally got
A headline but fuck whatever my
Face is supposed to
Mean! Fuck whatever Kanye is
Supposed to mean!
It’s about my dreams it’s about
Everybody’s dreams it’s about creating
It’s not about the idea of
Being a fucking celebrity, it’s
Not about the idea of a
Black man trying to do
Fashion and shit cuz these walls
That I break down
These walls that I break down and we will

And I’m arguing with my friend Spike Jonze
In the car cuz he said, Kanye
What you need to say is you’re
Gonna try you’re gonna try
To break them down don’t say you’re just
Going to do it and I
Said, I am gonna do it! I
Told Kim seven years ago
I’m gonna marry you! And
I’m telling you right
Now as I stand on this stage, all this
Shit that you heard me talking about
I’m gonna come and back all that shit
Up you don’t know how hard it
Was to get the Nikes
That wasn’t my fault they try
To control y’all and
Try to control me and when I was
In my negotiations, they told me
"We don’t negotiate with celebrities"
That’s like a terrorist
They talk to you like it’s fucking terrorist

You know, I just want to make something
Awesome i just want to be awesome
And I want to hang around my awesome
Friends and change the fucking world
And that’s exactly what I plan
To do and if you plan to do the same
Put your hands in the air right now if
You just want to be awesome and make
Awesome shit and change the fucking world and
This is what you plan to do

Let’s have a toast for the douchebags

Source: Vulture