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Toast Freestyle (Kanye West Diss)

By Jim Jones · Targeting Kanye West

Toast Freestyle (Kanye West Diss) is a track by Jim Jones with a diss section by Jim Jones targeting Kanye West. The recording also credits Sen City and Cam’ron. The record attacks Kanye West over loyalty, his relationship with Damon Dash and, later, his public political posture. Cam'ron argues that Kanye seeks former allies only when other relationships fail and separates Harlem street history from Kanye's public persona.

Released2010
Annotated1
ExplicitYes
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  1. 01

    [Intro: Jim Jones]

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    People might hear this and they might take it the wrong way

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    That's what people do

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    Like I give a fuck

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    They gonna think we starting trouble like usual

  2. 06

    But we just viewing our opinion

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    Some people might get offended

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    I ain't trying to ruffle nobody feathers

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    But you niggas ain't gonna do shit

  3. 10

    [Verse 1: Jim Jones]

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    Now, I'm always flying, always driving something new

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    And it makes me cry for half the shit that I've been through

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    So gifted back then when it came to selling the coke

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    So now we pop rose every night just to make a toast

  4. 15

    [Hook: Sen City]

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    Let's have a toast for the pushers

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    Let's make a toast to the strippers

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    To the connects when we re-up

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    Knocking points off when we meet up

  5. 20

    Let's have a toast to the new Porsche

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    The one you bitches in when we murk off

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    Baby, I got a plan

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    I'mma need you to cook a thousand grams

  6. 24

    [Verse 2: Cam'ron]

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    I fuck with hoes that do check scams

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    And pop E pills, yeah, call 'em X-Clan

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    So I tell 'em, "Vanglorious"

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    'Elz Neo, the One; Cam's Morpheus

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    Dipset, yeah, you know who's scorching this

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    All of these kids should open a damn orphanage

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    What up Jetlag? What up Sin City?

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    Killers first, Killa first; niggas been pretty

  8. 33

    And Kanye, you a sucker nigga

    Multi-line diss block
    34

    Dis Dame, so my attitude is "fuck a nigga"

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    Sucking Jigga, how you gonna live with that?

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    Took your beat — now, come get it back

    Block noteReduces the target to a dismissive caricature

    TargetKanye West

    MeaningWhat it means: In “And Kanye, you a sucker nigga,” Jim Jones replaces Kanye West's preferred identity with a degrading label intended to make the opponent look ridiculous or contemptible. Why it was said: The record attacks Kanye West over loyalty, his relationship with Damon Dash and, later, his public political posture. Cam'ron argues that Kanye seeks former allies only when other relationships fail and separates Harlem street history from Kanye's public persona. The label gives the audience a short, repeatable frame for the feud; repetition of that frame can shape how Kanye West is remembered.

    ContextThe record attacks Kanye West over loyalty, his relationship with Damon Dash and, later, his public political posture. Cam'ron argues that Kanye seeks former allies only when other relationships fail and separates Harlem street history from Kanye's public persona.

  9. 37

    Fuck what Mama say, whip color is marmalade

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    Modern-day Wilt Chamberlain, hoes andale

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    Yeah Malibu, boo, but it's Dom today

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    Shout to Weeso coming home, Tone, John, and Dre, ay

  10. 41

    [Verse 3: Jim Jones]

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    And half these rap niggas still living a facade

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    Mention my name and I'll be thinking that they hard

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    But catch them out of bounds, and they ain't really like that

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    Catch us out of town, and we be living like that

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    Spent thirty thou, but we 'bout it on the flight back

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    Ash call Yandy, one show and get it right back

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    Think about the strip where I used to spend nights at

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    Spent nights on blocks where niggas lost they life at

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    Some got shot up, hospital, went right back

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    To the same block where they could have lost their life at

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    Damn, and shout out to my nigga Zoe

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    He used to laugh when he'd hear me say, "Give 'em more"

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    Miami nights at the club, jumping in the V

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    You know the rich get richer, hungry never eat

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    But fuck that, nigga, I'mma need a plate of chow

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    No fuck that, nigga, I'mma need a plate of Chow's

  14. 58

    Last whip I bought, that's a hard ninety thou'

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    I'm married to the game and didn't say my vows, ow

  15. 60

    [Outro: Jim Jones]

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    I ain't say my grace, neither

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    Bow your head, don't be disrespectful

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    Like I was saying before, you might not understand this

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    You might not figure this out

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    We on a different side of the thing

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    Just lift your glasses up

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    Put your bottles in the sky

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    Let's have a toast for this money we've been getting

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    Let's have a toast for niggas getting back together, real niggas

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    A toast to the haters, because without you there would be no me, nigga

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    You smell me?

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    Ain't nobody pressed they luck, we still on deck, fucker

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    You know what we do

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    We fly high and die hard, motherfucker

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    Anything less is uncivilized