[J. Cole - 1] Momma I killed 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 you see me free ma Don't spend it You did best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me ducking not to make 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 learned Said I was playing with fire, I never burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I never You tried to me right but somehow I never turned in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your face mommy, your not to for me See I'm a man, I gotta whatever came for me At I wonder 'bout my father Would it for me if he was around? Would I still be round with the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life Seen them n-ggas killed for no I watched his life flash before his eyes like a light I pulled the momma be hard, I aint mean to kill the n-gga momma But what's done is I'm on the run, I my life like a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy grew up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a got me in here with the killers Yeah I the killers
[J. - Verse 2] I wonder whats in for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope there's more for me Than just a simple N-ggas that I to hoop with is doing triple life up the jump shot Work on the shot Who woulda thought I used to block n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like This life can make a n-gga fold a laundry mat I sip this cognac to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I react slow, in fast world n-ggas, fast girls Hoes give up ass while ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not sign It's deep, all these cold hearted holding heat I'd rather blast they steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't me turn into a killer
Yeah, into a Don't make me turn a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To those who had for me in the past Who thought time would fly by so fast I remember back in 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 I dial up my best friend Skating ring is where we headed And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect that seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all your name You had to scrap with any that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary Another young in the penetentiary And he don't give a f-ck no Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I knew a n-gga that his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to Went like the rent do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just came home And he stay on that Thriller Shit, f-cking with them killers
yeah, them killers F-cking with them killers Say I'm a