[J. Cole - 1] Momma I just a man My body trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be long before find out it was me momma This may be the last time you see me ma Don't spend it You did your best, me I was blessed, you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police Tryin' not to a peek to wake you up out your sleep A and high fool Skip a class, fluncking school I know you taught me better, somehow I never Said I was playing fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I permed You tried to show me right but somehow I never in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry face mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I take whatever came for me At times I wonder 'bout my Would it for me if he was around? Would I be running round with the lowlife's Bum ass n-ggas no jobs, no Seen n-ggas killed for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes a strobe light I pulled the momma Tryna be hard, I aint mean to kill the momma But what's done is I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a They got me in here the killers Yeah I mean the
[J. Cole - 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, that there's more for me Than a simple life N-ggas that I used to with is doing triple life up the jump shot Work on the john Who woulda thought I used to this n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a layed up I you well, stay up Like This life can make a n-gga fold like a mat I sip this cognac though to ease my brain all this pain and so that I slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, girls Hoes give up ass while these ho n-ggas hold on 'em Hold up that old flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not park It's deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas heat I'd rather blast before steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't make me turn a killer
Yeah, into a Don't make me turn a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To who had love for me in the past Who woulda thought would fly by so fast I back in class we used to make believe it was draft day Swore that we would make the league, be morning had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how they up like a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I up my best friend Skating ring is we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we ready to In that shit seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all your name You had to scrap with any n-gga that call you lame no doubt, so many n-ggas go they brains blown out Snatched a chain and he got his name rolled out in obituaries body in a cemetary Another young in the penetentiary And he don't a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture n-gga you what it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in chick in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just home ex-convict And he stay on with Thriller Shit, f-cking around with them
yeah, with them F-cking around them killers Say I'm a