[J. Cole - 1] Momma I just a man My still trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be long before they find out it was me may be the last time you see me free ma Don't it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed To me out the streets, me ducking police Tryin' not to make a peek to you up out your sleep A drunk and high Skip a class, high school I know you taught me better, somehow I never Said I was playing with fire, somehoe I 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? Would I still be running 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 like a strobe I pulled the trigger Tryna be hard, I aint mean to kill the momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my like a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda grew up to be a
Yeh, now I'm a I'm a killer They got me in with the killers Yeah I the killers
[J. Cole - 2] I wonder whats in for me Lately been stressing, for blessings, hope that there's more for me Than just a simple N-ggas that I to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the jump Work on the shot Who woulda thought I to block this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like life can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip cognac though to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, fast Hoes give up ass while 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 they steal a Tell 'em now boy, don't me turn into a killer
Yeah, a killer make me turn into a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To those who had love for me in the Who thought time would fly by so fast I remember back in class we used to believe it was draft day Swore that we would make the league, be Saturday morning had to rake the leaves, shit Watch how pile up Seem like a up I was the on my hand than I dial up my best friend Skating is where we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we ready to In retrospect that seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all about name You had to scrap with any n-gga that would call you Ashamed no doubt, so n-ggas go they brains blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his rolled out in obituaries body in a cemetary Another young in the penetentiary And he don't give a f-ck no Rap visionary, paint a picture pictionary Tell you it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he to Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just came ex-convict And he stay on with Thriller Shit, f-cking around with killers
yeah, with killers F-cking around with them Say I'm a