[J. Cole - 1] Momma I killed a man My body still trembling can you feel my Don't shed no tears, it won't be long they find out it was me momma may be the last time you see me free ma Don't spend it You did your best, me I was blessed, know you stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me ducking Tryin' not to make a peek to wake you up out your A drunk and fool Skip a class, high school I know you taught me better, somehow I 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 Lost in a of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry face 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 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 for no price I watched his life flash before his like a strobe light I pulled the momma be hard, I aint mean to kill the n-gga momma But done 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. Cole - 2] I wonder in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that there's for me Than just a life N-ggas that I used to hoop with is triple life Gave up the shot on the john shot Who thought I used to block this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up insomniacs This can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to ease my from all this pain and so that I react slow, in this fast Slow n-ggas, girls give up ass while these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em Chalk by the do not park sign It's deep, all these hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather blast before steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't make me turn into a
Yeah, a killer Don't make me turn a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. - Verse 3] To who had love for me in the past Who woulda thought time would fly by so I remember back in class we used to believe it was draft day Swore that we would make the league, be Saturday had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how pile up like 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 life was all about your name You had to scrap with any n-gga that would call you Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they blown out Snatched a chain and he got his name rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary Another young in the penetentiary And he give a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary you what 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 home And he stay on that Thriller Shit, f-cking with them killers
yeah, them killers F-cking around with killers Say I'm a