[J. - Verse 1] I just killed a man My body trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be long before they find out it was me This may be the time you see me free ma Don't it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were 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 Skip a class, fluncking school I know you taught me better, I never learned Said I was playing fire, somehoe I never burned You to set me straight, somehow I never permed You tried to show me right but I never turned in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your face mommy, not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take whatever for me At times I wonder 'bout my Would it for me if he was around? I still be running 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 a strobe light I the trigger momma Tryna be hard, I aint to kill the n-gga momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now it's way too Who woulda thought baby 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 the killers
[J. - Verse 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope there's more for me Than a simple life N-ggas that I to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the jump Work on the john Who woulda thought I used to block n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I wish you well, up insomniacs This life can make a n-gga fold like a mat I sip this cognac though to my brain from all this pain and so I react slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, girls Hoes up ass while these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old checker for 'em Chalk by the do not park sign deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather blast before steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't me turn into a killer
Yeah, a killer Don't me turn 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 in class we used to make believe it was draft day Swore that we make the league, be rich morning had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how pile up Seem like a up I was the blisters on my hand I dial up my best friend ring is where we headed tonight And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect that seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause was all about your name You had to scrap with any n-gga that would you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many go they brains blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in body in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he give a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city he went to hard like the rent do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just home ex-convict And he stay on with Thriller Shit, f-cking with them killers
yeah, with killers around with them killers Say I'm a