[J. Cole - 1] I just killed a man My body trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it be long before they find out it was me momma This may be the last you see me free ma Don't spend it 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 to wake you up out your sleep A drunk and fool Skip a class, fluncking school I know you me better, somehow I never learned Said I was with fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, I never permed You tried to show me but somehow I never turned Lost in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane Dry your face mommy, your not to for me See I'm a man, I gotta take whatever 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 n-ggas no jobs, no them n-ggas killed for no price I watched his life flash his eyes like a strobe light I pulled the momma Tryna be hard, I mean to kill the n-gga momma But what's done is I'm on the run, I live my life a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda your baby boy woulda grew 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. Cole - 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, that there's more for me Than a simple life N-ggas that I used to hoop with is doing triple Gave up the shot on the john shot Who woulda thought I used to this n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like 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 I react slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, girls Hoes give up ass while these ho n-ggas triggers on 'em Hold up that old checker for 'em Chalk lines by the do not sign It's deep, all these cold 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. Cole - 3] To those who had for me in the past Who woulda thought time would fly by so I remember back in class we to make believe it was draft 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 than I dial up my best friend Skating is where we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we ready to In that shit seemed petty At the time, the was heavy Cause was all about your name You had to scrap any n-gga that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they brains out Snatched a n-gga and he got his name rolled out in obituaries body in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't give a f-ck no Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary Tell you it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the bitch, man just came home ex-convict And he stay on with that Shit, f-cking around them killers
yeah, with killers F-cking with them killers Say I'm a