[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 spend it You did best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police Tryin' not to make a to wake you up out your sleep A and high fool Skip a class, fluncking high I know you me better, somehow I never learned 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 somehow I never Lost in a of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I take whatever came for me At times I 'bout my father Would it change for me if he was Would I still be running round the lowlife's Bum ass n-ggas no jobs, no Seen them killed for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes like a light I the trigger momma Tryna be hard, I aint mean to the n-gga momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my life a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a They got me in here with the I mean the killers
[J. Cole - 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that more for me Than just a simple N-ggas that I used to hoop with is doing life Gave up the shot Work on the john Who woulda thought I to block this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like This life can make a n-gga fold like a mat I sip this cognac to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I react slow, in this world Slow n-ggas, fast Hoes give up ass these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not sign It's deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas heat I'd blast before they steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't make me into a killer
Yeah, into a Don't make me into a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. - Verse 3] To those who had love for me in the Who woulda thought would fly by so fast I back in class we used to make believe Like it was day Swore that we would make the league, be Saturday morning had to the leaves, awww shit Watch how they up Seem like a up I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my best Skating ring is where we headed And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect that shit seemed At the time, the shit was Cause life was all about name You had to scrap with any that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in Another in a cemetary Another young n-gga in the And he don't a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary Tell you it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man came home ex-convict And he on with that Thriller Shit, around with them killers
yeah, them killers F-cking around with them Say I'm a