[J. Cole - 1] Momma I just a man My body still trembling can you feel my Don't shed no tears, it won't be before they find out it was me momma This may be the last 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 police Tryin' not to make a peek to you up out your sleep A and high fool a class, fluncking high school I know you taught me better, I never learned Said I was playing with fire, somehoe I burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I permed You tried to show me right but somehow I turned Lost in a of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your face mommy, your not to for me See I'm a man, I gotta whatever came for me At I wonder 'bout my father it change for me if he was around? Would I still be running round the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life Seen n-ggas killed for no price I watched his life before his eyes like a strobe light I pulled the momma Tryna be hard, I aint to kill the n-gga momma But what's done is I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a I'm a killer They got me in here the killers I mean the killers
[J. - Verse 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that more for me Than just a simple that I used to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the shot Work on the shot Who woulda thought I used to this n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a layed up I wish you well, up insomniacs This life can make a n-gga like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to ease my brain all this pain and so that I react slow, in fast world n-ggas, fast girls Hoes up ass while these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not sign It's deep, all these hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather blast before they a n-gga 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 who had love for me in the past Who woulda thought would fly by so fast I remember back in we used to make believe it was draft day Swore we would make the league, be rich Saturday morning had to rake the leaves, shit Watch how they up like a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my friend ring is where we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we to fight In that shit 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 many n-ggas go they brains out Snatched a n-gga and he got his name rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary young n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't give a no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture 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 Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just came home And he on with that Thriller Shit, f-cking around with them
yeah, them killers around with them killers Say I'm a