Today is a day that should be celebrated worldwide. On this day, 40 years ago, the greatest artist of our generation was born. It's not hyperbole to say Kanye is the GOAT. Kanye West has been a big inspiration to me and no matter what he gets in the tabloids for nowadays or how his new music sounds, I will always be a fan. Like Donald Glover, I am a student of Kanye. I'm still learning from him as he continues to create, inspire and speak his mind. In honor of Kanye's 40th birthday, here are 40 lyrics of his that are somewhat inspirational or amusing at the very least.
1. When you’re the life of the party: “It’s amazing, I’m the reason, everybody fired up this evening”
1. When you’re the life of the party: “It’s amazing, I’m the reason, everybody fired up this evening”
—Amazing
2. When
your significant other wants to talk about his or her ex’s: “All them other
niggas lame and you know it now/ when a real nigga hold you down you supposed
to drown”
—Bound 2
3. When
you and your homies have a dry spell at the bar: "We go through too much bullshit
just to mess with these drunk and hot girls"
—Drunk and Hot Girls
4. Dealing
with haters: “Now I could let the dream killers kill my self-esteem/ or use my
arrogance as my steam to power my dreams”
—Last Call
5. Being
late to a job interview: “I’m living in the future, so the present is my past/
my presence is a present, kiss my ass”
—Monster
6. Struggling
to show your admiration: “If you admire somebody you should go ahead tell em/
people never get the flowers when they can smell em”
—Big Brother
7. Finessing the system: “We claim other people’s kids on our income tax”
—We Don’t Care
8. Dealing
with haters: “If you ever wanted to ever be anything there will always be
somebody that’ll shoot down any dream”
—Bring Me Down
9. When
you offend people but don’t see a need to apologize: “They say I talk with so
much emphasis/oooh they so sensitive”
—Can’t Tell Me Nothing
10. Handling
rejection from a girl: “I don’t need your pussy, bitch/ I’m on my own dick”
—Power
11. When
you’re in the club and dance with more than one girl: “I’m pulling girl’s off
the bench like a sixth man”
—This Way
12. When you
find out your ex has been talking junk: “Then I heard you was talking trash,
hold me back I’m about to spaz”
—FourFive Seconds
13. Explaining to
your kid where babies come from: “We was practicing/ till one day your
ass bust through the packaging/ you know what though? You my favorite accident”
—Celebration
14. Dealing with
your significant other’s past more aggressively: “I know it’s corny
bitches you wish you could unfollow, I know it’s corny niggas you wish you
could unswallow”
—Wolves
15. When someone is
trying to flex on you: “Don’t talk to me about style nigga, I’ll
motherfucking embarrass you/ talking about clothes, I’ll motherfucking
embarrass you/ hollerin about some hoes, I’ll motherfucking embarrass you”
—Theraflu
16. When the Everest
College commercials don’t speak to you: “Cuz ain’t no tuition for having
no ambition, and ain’t no loans for sitting your ass at home”
—We Don’t Care
17. When your
homie catches a charge: “I got a lawyer for the case to keep what’s in my safe,
safe”
—Through the Wire
18. For the time’s
when you’re feeling down: “When it feel like living’s harder than dying/
for me, giving up is way harder than trying”
—Champion
19. For breaking up:
“You weren’t happy you just pretending/ I need a happy beginning middle
and ending”
—30 Hours
20. When you walk into a class full of baddies: “I think
I died in an accident cause this must be heaven”
—Touch the Sky
21. When you run
over an animal: “I'm a monster, I'm a killer, I know I'm wrong/ I'm a
problem, that'll never ever be solved”
—Amazing
22. Asking
your partner to bring someone else into the bedroom: “I just wanted to ask you/
Just wanted to um, let me, how would I put this uhh/ Let's say all your
friends, remember the one/ You said if you ever she would be the one/ Ok, ok,
ok/ I was thinking, hypothetically/ I mean don't take this seriously/ Don't
take me: I mean just, uhh, not credibly/ I'm feeling incredibly, I mean let it
be/ I just let it be/ I mean you, her and me/ I mean you, her and me/ Maybe,
baby, baby/ You know I was just kidding/ Unless you gon' do it”
—Addiction
23. When your homie
is pursuing a girl who’s way out of his budget: “Now I ain’t saying she
a gold digger, but she ain’t messing with no broke niggas”
—Gold Digger
24. Gym rat talk
with the bros: “I wake up, all veggies no eggs, I hit the gym all chest
no legs”
—30 Hours
25. Coming to grips
with addiction: “Why everything that’s supposed to be bad make me feel
so good, everything they told me not to is exactly what I would/ man I tried to
stop, man, I tried the best I could but”
—Addiction
26. “Keep
your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God and keep your face to the rising
sun”
—Family Business
27. Explaining to
your homie that you can say “I love you” without having to say no homo: “I feel
like one day you’ll understand me dawg, you can still love your man and be
manly dawg”
—Family Business
28. When studying
for finals seems futile: “Told them I finished school and I started my
own business/ they say “oh you graduated” no, I decided I was finished”
—School Spirit
29. When someone tries using their education to belittle you: “Scared
to face the world, complacent career student/ some people graduate but be still
stupid”
—Good Morning
30. For work woes: “If
my manager insults me again I will be assaulting him/ after I fuck the manager
up, I’m going to shorten the register up”
—Spaceship
31. When your white
friend uses you as proof that he or she isn’t racist: “But let some
black people walk in I bet you they show off their token blackie”
—Spaceship
32. When you
prestige in Call of Duty: “Y’all don’t know my struggle you can’t match
my hustle, you can’t catch my hustle, you can’t fathom my love”
—Spaceship
33. When you aren’t religious but pray that
your team wins: “I wanna talk to God but I’m afraid cuz we ain’t spoke
in so long”
—Jesus Walks
34. For staying
woke: “Racism still alive, they just be concealing it”
— Never Let Me Down
35. For staying woke with more description: “And
I basically know now/ we’ve been racially profiled/ cuffed up and hosed down/
pimped up and ho’d down”
— Two Words
36. Getting real
with your role in a failing relationship: “Never was much of a romantic/
I could never take the intimacy/ and I know I did damage/ cause the look in
your eyes is killing me/ I guess you were at an advantage/ cause you can blame
me for everything/ and I don’t know how I’mma manage/ if one day you just up
and leave”
—Runaway
37. When succumb to the
thirst traps on Instagram: “See, I can have me a good girl, but still be
addicted to the hoodrats”
—Runaway
38. When you’re Polo
down to the socks: “Ralph Lauren was boring before I wore him”
— Brand New
39. When you hop in
a Team Deathmatch lobby “And I’m back to tear it up/ haters start your
engines I hear them gearing up”
—Everything I Am
40. When people say
that you look better than your pictures: “When you meet me in person,
what do you feel like? I know I know I look better in real life”
—The Glory
One last one, because
this was fun… When you make your first three pointer
after going 0 for 6: “I can do this all day, boy/ I’m finna turn this
bitch out”
—All Day 
Happy Birthday, Kanye
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