[J. Cole - 1] I just killed a man My body still trembling can you my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be before they find out it was me momma This may be the last time you see me ma spend it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police Tryin' not to make a peek to you up out your sleep A drunk and high Skip a class, fluncking school I know you taught me better, somehow I never Said I was playing fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, I never permed You to show me right but somehow 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 whatever came for me At times I 'bout my father Would it change for me if he was Would I still be round with the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life Seen them killed for no price I watched his life before his eyes like a strobe light I pulled the trigger Tryna be hard, I mean to kill the n-gga momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who woulda thought your boy woulda grew up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a They got me in here with the Yeah I the killers
[J. Cole - 2] I wonder in store for me Lately been stressing, for blessings, hope that there's more for me Than just a simple N-ggas that I used to hoop with is triple life Gave up the shot Work on the john Who woulda thought I used to block n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up insomniacs This life can make a fold like a laundry mat I sip cognac though to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I react slow, in this fast Slow n-ggas, fast give up ass while these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old flag for 'em lines by the do not park sign It's deep, all cold hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather before they steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't me turn into a killer
Yeah, a killer Don't make me turn into a Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To those who had for me in the past Who thought time would fly by so fast I remember back in class we to make believe Like it was day Swore that we would make the league, be Saturday morning had to rake the leaves, awww how they pile up Seem a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my best Skating is where we headed tonight And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect 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 you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they blown out a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in obituaries Another body in a Another young in the penetentiary And he don't give a no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture pictionary you what it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in city that he went to hard like the rent do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just came home And he stay on that Thriller Shit, f-cking around with them
yeah, with killers F-cking around them killers Say I'm a