The Poacher Diaries

[nervous laughter]

Kanye: It says, and the song is so, so dope, and I literally sat with my wife, with my whole manager team, with everything, and try to rework this line. I’ve thought about this line for eight months, I’ve had this line and tried to rework it every which way, and the original way that I thought about it is the best way, but it’s the most controversial, so it’s gonna go Eminem a little bit, so can you brace yourself for a second?

Taylor: Yeah…

Kanye: Okay, alright. It says—wait a second, you sound sad.

Taylor: Well, is it gonna be mean?

Kanye: No, I don’t think it’s mean.

Taylor: Okay, then let me hear it.

Kanye: Okay, um … and the funny thing is when I first played it and my wife heard it, she was like “Huh? What? That’s too crazy, blah, blah, blah.” And when Ninja from Die Antwoord heard it, he was like, “Oh God, this is the craziest sh—! This is why I love Kanye,” that kind of thing. It’s like my wife’s favorite f—ing line. I just wanted to give you some premise of that, right?

Taylor: Okay.

Kanye: So it says, “To all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex.” [chuckles]

Taylor: [chuckles] That’s not mean.

Kanye: Okay. Yeah, well, this is the thing why I’m calling you because you got an army. You own a country of motherfucking two billion people, basically, that if you felt that it’s funny and cool and like hip hop and felt like, you know, just The College Dropout and the artist like, ‘Ye that you love, then I think that people would be like way into it, and that’s why I think it’s super genius to have you be the one that says, ‘Oh, I like this song a lot, like, yeah, whatever. This is cool. Whatever, it’s like, I got like s— on my album where I’m like, “I bet me and Ray J will be friends if we ain’t love the same bitch.”

Taylor: Oh my [laughs]. I mean, I need to think about it because you hear something for the first time, you need to think about it because it is absolutely crazy. I’m glad it’s not mean though. It doesn’t feel mean, but like, oh my God, the build-up you gave it. I thought it was gonna be like that stupid dumb bitch, like, but it’s not. Um, so I don’t know. I mean, the launch thing, I think it would be kind of confusing to people, but I definitely like, I definitely think that when I’m asked about, of course I’m gonna be like, “Yeah, I’m his biggest fan. I love that. I think it’s hilarious,” but um, I’ll think about it.

Kanye: Yeah, you don’t have to do—you don’t have to do the launch and retweet. That’s just an extra idea that I had, like, but if you think that that’s cool, then that’s cool. If not, we are launching the shit like on just GOOD Fridays, on Soundcloud, the site, shit like that.

Taylor: You know, the thing about me is like, anything that I do becomes a feminist think-piece, and if I launch it, they’re gonna be like, “Wow,” like this thing—like they’ll just turn it into something that … I think if I launch it, it honestly like, it’ll be less cool ‘cause I think if I launch it, it adds this level of criticism, ‘cause having that many followers and having that many eyeballs on me right now, people are just looking for me to do something dumb or stupid or lame, and it’s like almost … I don't know, like I kind of feel like people would try to make it negative if it came from me. Do you know what I mean?

Kanye: Yeah.

Taylor: I try to be super self-aware about where I am, and I feel like, I feel like right now I’m like this close to overexposure.

Kanye: Oh, well, this one is uh, I think this is a really cool thing to have.

Taylor: I know, it’s like a compliment, kind of [laughs].

Kanye: I had this line where I said—and my wife really didn’t like this one because we tried to make it nicer. So I said, “To all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex,” and my wife was really not with that one. She was way more into “She owes you sex,” but then the owe, the owe part was like the feminist group-type s— that I was like, “Ahhh.”

Taylor: That’s the part that I’m kind of—I mean, they’re both really edgy, but that’s the only thing about that line is that it’s like gonna … It's just, the feminists are gonna come out, but I mean, you don’t give a fuck, so…

Kanye: Yeah, basically. Well, what I give a fuck about is just you as a person and as a friend. I want things that make—

Taylor: That’s sweet.

Kanye: —you feel good. I don’t wanna do rap that makes people feel bad, like of course like I’m mad at Nike, so people think like, “Oh, he’s a bully. He ran on stage with Taylor. He’s bullying Nike now, this $50 billion company.”

Taylor: Why are people saying you’re bullying Nike?

Kanye: Because on “Facts” I said like, “Yeezy, Nike out here bad, they can’t give shit away.”

Taylor: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that’s just what you do though.

Kanye: [laughs]

Taylor: [laughs] I mean, I wouldn’t say that it’s like possible to bully a company like Nike where—I mean, um, yeah, I mean …

[Female singer]

I'm going through a thang

Ohhhohh!

[Ghetto E]

Black child, murdered on the playground

Blood stains on the ground

As they're taking his body, swish was the only sound

Fiends give ace away, suckin dicks in alleyways

I understand that crime pay, so I can't put my gun away

My cousin slangin yola on the block like Coca-cola

Til he slung a boulder to undercover narcotic soldiers

I'm tryin to drink the pain away with liqour

But the problems keep on comin

Havin visions of some nigga that's dickin my woman, in my bedroom

I'm slowly chewin mushrooms, tryna zoom

Cuz I know the end is comin soon

My momma got problems of her own, and I'm adding to 'em

Feds inditing bitch-ass niggas, and they rattin to 'em

Niggas stole my car for the sounds and danas, fuck that

Got him back, he tryed to slang it to my neighbor

Cardiac arrest, from all this stress that's on my chest

Keepin it real, and yet a nigga still

Going through a thang

Chorus: Male singer (Bootleg) 2x

Oooh I'm, still going

Going through a thang (I'm going through a thang, still)

Oooh I'm, still going

Going through a thang (Still going through a thang)

[Bootleg]

I got some problems, today has been a bad day

My auntie stole my closest odom cuz she started smokin llel

When I walk my little girl to school, I choose to hold her hand

The other day they found a newborn baby in the trashcan

Dead wrong, sad song

Sunk in the hood, where we come from

In the winter time, I donate my old coats to the bums

I was raised around

Visions of my cold days, walkin prison compounds, look at me now

My baby mama suing me, fuckin me on child support

Got me for a hundred thousand, right before we went to court

I'm catchin myself from fallin, my record deal was stallin

Quit tootin no cocaine, why we big ballin

These niggas wanna hang, cuz I'm makin change

Twenty-inch thangs, hellafied bain

Cardiac arrest, from all this stress that's on my chest

Keepin it real, yet a nigga still, going through a thang

[Chorus] 2x

[Esham]

Ha, ha, ha, ha

Still going through a thang

Going through some thangs, going through some thangs

Going through a thang

I'm going, I'm going, through a thiz-ang

Wanna let my nuts hiz-ang

It's all about that product sliz-ang

Me must be out your miz-ang

Esham is who I iz-ang

Murders to said I kliz-ang

Still down to biz-ang

Biz-ang your brains out

I ride via same clout

Been packin the nine everytime I rhyme, since I came out

I'm down with my mellow, Ghetto E be bustin the metal

I'm on the driver side, murder by switch of the pedal

Hello, once again it's them cats from Michigan

Going through some thangs, that you be like, "Not this again"

Dem niggas sellin dope, the preacher gave us hope

And couldn't be save by St. John, Paul, or Pope

[Chorus] 2x

6 ContributorsThis Is Mine LyricsAnd the clouds they break above our best intentions

The rain it pours upon our last kiss

Somewhere between the stinging sheets of city rain

And the thunderclap

We see who we are

And this is all I have

This is all we are

The ground shakes with your every smile

And hearts are crushed in an instant

The rain it pours upon our last kiss

Somewhere between the stinging sheets of city rain

And the thunderclap

We see who we are

Three years then four days

And one sentence later

I rise from ruin

This is all I have

This is mine

Today, I rise from ruin

6 ContributorsThey Stretch for Miles LyricsUp for days cutting losses and trading in the most precious of wings

The nights never end, and these ghosts will never know true rest

They stretch for miles, they take me home

In the name of love and you I say...

Sometimes when you win the war you lose it all

Towering, they stretch for miles

Speaking as eloquently as the tallest of tales

They stretch for miles

They take me home