[J. Cole - 1] Momma I killed a man My still trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it be long before they find out it was me momma This may be the last time you see me ma spend it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police Tryin' not to make a to wake you up out your sleep A drunk and high a class, fluncking high school I know you taught me better, somehow I never Said I was with fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I never You tried to show me right but I never turned Lost in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane Dry face mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take came for me At times I 'bout my father Would it for me if he was around? I still be running round with the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life them n-ggas killed for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes a strobe light I the trigger momma Tryna be hard, I aint mean to the n-gga momma But done is done I'm on the run, I my life like a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your boy woulda grew up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a got me in here with the killers Yeah I mean the
[J. - Verse 2] I wonder whats in for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that more for me Than just a life that I used to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the shot on the john shot Who woulda I used to block this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I wish you well, up Like This life can make a n-gga like a laundry mat I sip this cognac to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, girls Hoes give up ass while ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old checker for 'em Chalk lines by the do not park It's deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas holding I'd rather blast before they steal a Tell 'em now boy, don't make me turn a killer
Yeah, a killer Don't make me into 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 Like it was day Swore that we would the league, be rich Saturday morning had to the leaves, awww shit Watch how pile up Seem a mile up I was the blisters on my than I dial up my best friend Skating ring is where we tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we to fight In retrospect shit seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all about name You had to scrap with any n-gga would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so 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 n-gga pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I knew a n-gga threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the bitch, man just came home ex-convict And he on with that Thriller Shit, f-cking with them killers
yeah, with them F-cking around with killers Say I'm a