[J. Cole - 1] Momma I killed a man My body still trembling can you 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 spend it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were tryin' To keep me out the streets, me ducking Tryin' not to make a peek to wake you up out sleep A drunk and high Skip a class, high school I know you taught me better, somehow I learned Said I was playing with fire, somehoe I never You tried to set me straight, I never permed You tried to show me right but somehow I turned Lost in a of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your face mommy, not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take whatever for me At times I wonder 'bout my it change for me if he was around? Would I still be running round with the Bum ass n-ggas no jobs, no Seen them killed for no price I watched his life flash his eyes like a strobe light I pulled the trigger Tryna be hard, I aint mean to kill the momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my life like a movie now way too realer Who woulda 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, for blessings, hope that there's more for me Than just a life N-ggas I used to hoop with is doing triple life Gave up the jump Work on the shot Who woulda thought I used to block n-ggas lay ups Now in a cell layed up I you well, stay up Like This life can make a n-gga fold a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to my brain from all this pain and so that I react slow, in fast world Slow n-ggas, 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 cold hearted holding heat I'd blast before they steal a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't make me turn a killer
Yeah, into a 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 woulda thought time fly by so fast I remember back in class we used to make it was draft day Swore we would make the league, be rich Saturday had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how they up like a mile up I was the blisters on my hand I dial up my best friend Skating ring is we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we ready to In retrospect shit seemed petty At the time, the was heavy life 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 they blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his rolled out in obituaries Another in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't give a no missionary Rap visionary, a picture n-gga pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in chick in every city that he went to hard like the rent do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just home ex-convict And he stay on that Thriller Shit, f-cking around them killers
yeah, with them F-cking with them killers Say I'm a