[J. Cole - 1] Momma I just a man My body still can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be before they find out it was me momma may be the last time you see me free ma Don't it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me ducking Tryin' not to a peek to wake you up out your sleep A drunk and fool Skip a class, high school I know you taught me better, somehow I learned Said I was playing with fire, somehoe I never You tried to set me straight, somehow I never You tried to show me but somehow I never turned in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take whatever for me At times I 'bout my father Would it change for me if he was I still be running round with the lowlife's Bum ass n-ggas no jobs, no Seen them n-ggas for no price I his life flash before his eyes like a strobe light I the trigger momma Tryna be hard, I aint mean to kill the momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who thought your 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 wonder whats in for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope there's more for me Than just a life N-ggas that I used to hoop is doing triple life up the jump shot Work on the shot Who thought I used to block this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like This life can make a fold like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to my brain from all this pain and so that I react slow, in this fast n-ggas, fast girls Hoes give up ass while these ho hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not park It's deep, all these cold hearted holding heat 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 turn a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To those who had for me in the past Who woulda thought time fly by so fast I remember back in class we used to make it was draft day Swore that we make the league, be rich Saturday had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how pile up Seem a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my friend Skating ring is where we tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we to fight In retrospect that shit petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all about your You had to scrap any n-gga that would call you lame no doubt, so many n-ggas go they brains blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't give a f-ck no Rap visionary, paint a n-gga pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just came home And he stay on with Thriller Shit, f-cking around with killers
yeah, with killers F-cking with them killers Say I'm a