[J. Cole - 1] Momma I just a man My body still trembling can you my hand Don't shed no tears, it won't be long before find out it was me momma This may be the last you see me free ma Don't it cryin' You did best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police Tryin' not to a peek to wake you up out your sleep A drunk and high a class, fluncking high school I know you taught me better, somehow I never I was playing with fire, somehoe I never burned You to set me straight, somehow I never permed You tried to show me right but somehow I turned in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry face mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take came for me At times I wonder my father Would it for me if he was around? Would I still be round with the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life them n-ggas killed for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes a strobe light I pulled the momma Tryna be hard, I aint to kill the n-gga momma But done is done I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who thought your 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. - Verse 2] I whats in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, that there's more for me Than just a simple that I used to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the shot Work on the john Who thought I used to block this n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a layed up I wish you well, up Like life can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to ease my brain from all pain and so that I react slow, in fast world Slow n-ggas, fast Hoes give up ass while these ho hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em lines by the do not park sign It's deep, all these cold hearted holding heat I'd rather blast they steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't me turn into a killer
Yeah, a killer Don't me turn into a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. - Verse 3] To those who had for me in the past Who woulda thought time would fly by so I back in class we used to make believe it was draft day Swore we would make the league, be rich Saturday morning had to the leaves, awww shit how they pile up Seem a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I up my best friend Skating is where we headed tonight And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect that shit seemed At the time, the was heavy Cause 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 brains blown out a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, paint a n-gga pictionary you what 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 on with that Thriller Shit, f-cking around with them
yeah, with killers F-cking around with killers Say I'm a