Tag: J. Cole

Ville Mentality (Letra) – J. Cole

Letras da musica:
How long can I survive with this mentality?
How long can I survive with this mentality?

(verse 1):::
Trials and tribulations
I’m facing in this age of information
I hate this shit
Cause niggas hit my phone
When they want some shit
Bitches hit my phone
When they want some dick
Damn it, won’t be long ‘fore I disappear
Damn it, won’t be long ‘fore I disappear
Damn it, won’t be long ‘fore I disappear
Damn it, won’t be long ‘fore I disappear
You call it runnin’, I call it escapin’
Start a new life in a foreign location
Similar to my niggas duckin’ cases
Can’t take the possible time that it faces

How long can I survive with this mentality?
How long can I survive with this mentality?
How long can I survive with this mentality?

(interlude):::
My dad, he died-he got shot
Cause his friend set him up
And I didn’t go to his funeral
And sometimes when I’m in my room
I get mad at my momma when she mean to me
And she
And she say, clean up-I say

(verse 2):::
Nigga play me, never
Give up my chain, never
Give up my pride, never
Show my pain, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never
Nigga play me, never
Give up my chain, never
Give up my pride, never
Show ‘em my pain, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never
Dirt on my name, never

How long can I survive with this mentality?
How long can I survive with this mentality?

(interlude):::
I get mad, I slam my door and go in my room
And then, I get mad and I say
“I wish my dad was here”

4 Yours Eyez Only (Letra) – J. Cole
Letras da musica:
Yeah (for your eyes)
For your eyes only (for your eyes)
For your eyes only, for your eyes only
(for your eyes, for your eyes)
For your eyes only

(verse 1):::
Hey, niggas be dying on the daily
It seems my dreams faded for far too long
The consequences deadly
Can’t visualize myself as nothing
But a criminal
Control the block, serving up rocks
And stay subliminal
‘cause young niggas is hardheaded
They letting off
Full of adrenaline
Ignorant to what death can cause
Ain’t no coming back
Family dressed in black
Plus it’s hot now, the cops outside
It’s hard to flip a pack
And my daughter gotta eat
Her mama be stressing me
Like I ain’t the one
Who put them jays on her feet
Like I ain’t out in the field like that
I might be low for the moment
But I will bounce back
Despite the charges, back to the wall
I fight regardless
Screaming, “fuck the law, ”
My life is lawless
That’s what you call it
Ain’t got to be no psychic
To see this is like
The farthest thing from heaven
This is hell and I don’t mean
That hyperbolic
I try to find employment even
If it’s wiping toilets
But these felonies
Be making life the hardest
Resisting the temptation
To run up and swipe a wallet
Or run up on your yard
Snatch your daughter bike and pawn it
That’s why I write this sonnet
If the pressure get too much
For me to take and I break
Play this tape for my daughter
And let her know my life is on it
(for your eyes)
Let her know my life is on it
(for your eyes)
For your eyes only

For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes only

(verse 2):::
You probably grown now
So this song’ll hit you
If you’re hearing this, unfortunately
Means that I’m no longer
With you in the physical
Not even sure if I believe in god
But because you still alive
He got me praying that the spiritual is real
So I can be a part of you still
My pops was killed too
So I know how part of you feels
Maybe you hate me
Maybe you miss me, maybe you spite me
Life goes in cycles
Maybe you’ll date a nigga just like me
I hope not-I’m tired of dope spots
And fiends that smoke rocks
I’ve seen far too many niggas’ hopes rot
I’m writing this because me
And the devil had a dance
Now I see death around the corner
‘pologizing in advance
Don’t know if I ever had a chance
At a glance, I’m a failure
Addicted to pushing paraphernalia
But daddy had dreams once
My eyes had a gleam once
Innocence disappeared
By the age of eight years
My pops shot up-drug-related-mama addicted
So granny raised me in projects
Where thugs was hanging
Blood was staining the concrete
Older niggas I loved talked
Like they was above
Maintaining a time sheet, that slow money
Picked up the family business
By the age of thirteen
Six years later was handed sentence
‘round the same time
Is when you came in this world
Me and your mama thinking
“what the fuck we naming this girl? ”
I told her “nina”
The prettiest name that I could think of
For the prettiest thing
My eyes had ever seen, I was nineteen
Took me two felonies to see the trap
This crooked ass system set for me
And now I fear it’s too late
For me to ever be
The one that set examples
That was never set for me
I’m living fast, but not fast enough
Cause karma keeps on catching up to me
And if my past becomes the death of me
I hope you understand

For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes, do you understand me?
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes only

(verse 3):::
It’s several ways I could’ve went out
Too many to count
Was it the trigger happy crackers
That the badges give clout?
Was it the young niggas, blasting frustrated
Cause the cash running out?
Niggas don’t know how to act in a drought
See, baby girl, I realized
My definition of a real nigga was skewed
My views misshaped by new mixtapes
That confirmed the shit
I learned in the streets was true
That real niggas don’t speak
When they beef with you
They just pull up on your street
Let the heat achoo
And if a real nigga hungry
He gon’ eat your food
I was a fool, spent all
My time ducking school, ducking cops
Ducking rules
Hugging blocks that don’t love you
I pray you find a nigga
With goals and point of views
Much broader than the corner
If not it’s gon’ corner you
Into a box, where your son
Don’t even know his pops
And the cyclical nature
Of doing time continues
My worst fear is one day
That you come home from school
And see your father face while hearing
‘bout tragedy on news
I got the strangest feeling your daddy
Gonna lose his life soon
And sadly if you’re listening
Now it must mean it’s true
But maybe there’s a chance that it’s not
And this album remains locked
In a hard drive like valuable jewels
And I can teach you this in person
Like I’m teaching you to tie your own shoes
I love you and I hope to god
I don’t lose you
For your eyes only

For your eyes, for your eyes only
For your eyes, for your eyes only
For your eyes, do you understand?
For your eyes only

(verse 4):::
One day your daddy called me
Told me he had a funny feeling
What he’d been dealing with lately
He wasn’t telling
I tried to pick his brains
Still he wasn’t revealing
But I could feel the sense
Of panic in his voice
And it was chilling, he said
“jermaine, I knew you since we was children
I never asked for nothing when times was hard
I never had discussions
With you begging you to help me
I dealt with the repercussions of my actions
I know you tried to steer me
‘way from that shit
But that shit was in my blood
You know my life
I know your momma, nigga; send my love
In case I never get a chance to speak again
I won’t forget the weekends
Spent sleeping at your crib
That’s the way I wished my family lived
But my granny crib was in the ‘jects-”
I had to interject like
“nigga what you talking ‘bout?
Fuck is you getting at? ”
He said, “listen
I got no time to dive into descriptions
But I’ve been having premonitions
Just call it visions from the other side
I got a feeling I won’t see tomorrow
Like the time I’m living on is borrowed
With that said, the only thing
I’m proud to say, I was a father
Write my story down and if I pass
Go play it for my daughter when she ready”
And so I’m leaving you
This record for your eyes only
Don’t you ever scratch or disrespect it
This perspective is a real one
Another lost ‘ville son
I dedicate these words to you
And all the other children
Affected by the mass incarceration
In this nation
That sent your pops to prison
When he needed education
Sometimes I think this segregation
Would’ve done us better
Although I know that means
That I would never
Be brought into this world
Cause my daddy was so thrilled
When he found him a white girl
To take back to jonesboro
With ‘lil zach and cole world
Barely one years old
Now it’s thirty years later
Making sure this story’s told
Girl, your daddy was a real nigga
Not cause he was cold
Not because he was the first
To get some pussy twelve years old
Not because he used to come through
In the caddy on some vogues
Not because he went from bagging up
Them grams to serving o’s
Nah, your daddy was a real nigga
Not ‘cause he was hard
Not because he lived a life of crime
And sat behind some bars
Not because he screamed, “fuck the law”
Although that was true
Your daddy was a real nigga
Cause he loved you-for your eyes only

Letras da musica:
I guess the neighbors think
I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Yeah the neighbors
Think I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope

(verse 1):::
I don’t want no picture with the president
I just wanna talk to the man
Speak for the boys in the bando
And my nigga never walkin’ again
Apologize if I’m harpin’ again
I know these things happen often
But I’m back on the scene
I was lost in a dream as I write this
A teen down in austin
I been buildin’ me a house in a salt mine
Won’t believe what it’s costin’
And it’s fit for a king, right?
Or a nigga that could sing
And explain all the pain that it cost him
My sixteen shoulda came with a coffin
Fuck the fame and the fortune-well
Maybe not the fortune
But one thing is for sure though
The fame is exhaustin’
That’s why I moved away, I needed privacy
Surrounded by the trees and ivy league
Students that’s recruitin’ highly
Thinkin’ you do you and I do me
Crib has got a big ‘ol backyard
My niggas stand outside and pass cigars
Filled with marijuana, laughin’ hard
Thankful that they friend’s a platinum star
In the driveway there’s no rapper cars
Just some shit to get from back and forth
Just some shit to get from back and forth
Welcome to the shelter, this is pure
We’ll help you if you’ve felt too insecure
To be the star you always knew you were
Wait, I think police is at the door

Okay, the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope
Hmnn… I guess the neighbors think
I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
The neighbors think
I’m… neighbors think I’m
(don’t follow me, don’t follow me…)
I think the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope
(don’t follow me, don’t follow me…)
I guess the neighbors think
I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Well motherfucker I am

(verse 2):::
Some things you can’t escape
Death, taxes, the nra
It’s this society that make
Every nigga feel like a candidate
For a trayvon kinda fate
Even when your crib sit on a lake
Even when your plaques hang on a wall
Even when the president jams your tape
Took a little break just to annotate
How I feel, damn it’s late
I can’t sleep ‘cause I’m paranoid
Black in a white man territory
Cops bust in with the army guns
No evidence of the harm we done
Just a couple neighbors that assume we slang
Only time they see us we be
On the news in chains, damn
Don’t follow me, don’t follow me
Don’t follow me, don’t follow me

Okay, the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope
Hmm… I guess the neighbors think
I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
The neighbors think
I’m… neighbors think I’m
(don’t follow me, don’t follow me…)
I think the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope
(don’t follow me, don’t follow me…)
I guess the neighbors think
I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope
Well motherfucker I am

I am, I am, I am, I am
Well motherfucker I am
I think the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope
I am, I am, I am
Well motherfucker I am
So much for integration
Don’t know what I was thinkin’
I’m movin’ back to southside
So much for integration
Don’t know what I was thinkin’
I’m movin’ back to southside

Letras da musica:
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive

(interlude):::
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, I’ve fallen in love
For the first time
I wanna cry
And I ain’t even try to fight it
Don’t wanna die
Cause now you’re here and I just wanna be
Right by your side
On any night that you be crying baby
I’ll dry your eyes, I’ll dry your eyes

(verse):::
Every time you go to sleep
You look like you in heaven
Plus the head game is stronger
Than a few excedrin
You shine just like the patent
Leather on my new 11’s
You read me like a book
Like I’m the bible, you the reverend
Yea, I wanna tell the truth to you
I wanna talk about my days as a youth to you
Exposing you to all my demons
I wanna talk about my days as a youth to you
Exposing you to all my demons
And the reasons I’m this way
I would like to paint a picture
But it’ll take more than a day
It would take more than some years
To get all over all my fears
Preventing me from letting you see
All of me perfectly clear
The same wall that’s stopping me
From letting go and shedding tears
From the lack of having father
And the passing of my peers
While I’m too scared to expose myself
It turns out, you know me better
Than I know myself
Better than I know myself
Well how about that

She gets him, you get me
She hugs him, you kiss me
You tell me, you miss me
And I believe you, I believe you
And I believe you, I believe you
Catch me, don’t move
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, I’ve fallen in love
For the first time

Change (Letra) – J. Cole
Letras da musica:
My intuition is telling me
They’ll be better days
Yeah, my intuition is telling me
They’ll be better days
I like this tone

(verse 1):::
Yeah, my intuition is telling me
They’ll be better days
I sit in silence and
And find whenever I meditate
My fears alleviate, my tears evaporate
My faith don’t deviate
Ideas don’t have a date
But see I’m growing
And getting stronger with every breath
Bringing me closer to heaven’s doors
With every step
As we speak I’m in peace
No longer scared to die
Most niggas don’t believe in god
And so they terrified
It’s either that or they be fearing
That they gon’ go to hell
Asking the father for forgiveness god
I’m overwhelmed
(please god, I want to go to heaven)
As if these spiteful like them white folks
That control the jail
See if I believe if god is real
He’ll never judge a man
Because he knows us all
And therefore he would understand
The ignorance that make a nigga
Take his brother’s life
The bitterness and pain
That got him beating on his wife

I know you desperate for a change
At the pen glide
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from
In cemeteries or in chains I see men cry
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from

(verse 2):::
Yeah, my chosen religion
Jesus piece frozen from sinnin’
Doin’ dirt hoping the god
He know my intentions
To see a million before I see a casket
I got a baby on the way
I know he gon’ be a bastard
I’m living like I’m in a drag race
How that cash taste
When I was a senior
I was ballin’ on my classmates
Niggas put three bullets in my car
One hit the gas tank
Know I have an angel
Because I’m supposed to have a halo right now
My lifestyle destined for a federal facility
For my ability to make them birds fly
Fiends wanna get higher
Than them birds eye view
And who am I tell a nigga what to do?
I just apply this economics
My business ain’t got no suit and tie
Keep a pistol at all time
Niggas want what is mine
I can’t oblige dog, I work too hard
So reach for it, get referred to god
I’m going hard nigga

I know you desperate for a change
At the pen glide
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from
In cemeteries or in chains I see men cry
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from inside
But the only real change come from

(verse 3):::
Yeah, prodigal son
Got a new gun, missed one
Don’t run out of ammo lately
I’ve been working on my handles
Can I ball, become a star
And remain my self
If I fall dust it off and regain my self
Fuck ‘em all, they don’t know
All the pain I felt
I’m in awe, after all the fame
I felt I evolve
I no longer bury demons
I be a vessel for the truth
Until I’m barely breathing, I’m singing
I be a vessel for the truth
Till I’m barely breathing, I’m singing

(bridge: ari lennox & j. cole):::
Life is all about the evolution
I give up, I give in, I move back a little
I live up, I look up, now I’m back for more
You can dream but don’t neglect the execution
I give up, I give in, I move back a little
I live up, I look up, now I’m back for more
Time is short that is what somebody told me
I give up, I give in, I move back a little
I live up, I look up, now I’m back for more
Too short to keep find of where your home is
I give up, I give in, I move back a little
I live up, I look up, now I’m back for more

(verse 4):::
I reminisce back to a time
Where niggas threw they hands up
All of a sudden niggas
Poppin’ trunk and then we scram
Finger on trigger
Make a little nigga understand
What it’s finally like
To be the motherfuckin’ man
Eyes wide that’s from the power
That a coward feels
Niggas die over bitches
Disrespecting dollar bills
Bloodshed that turned the city
To a battlefield
I call it poison, you call it real
(pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop)
That’s how you feel

(verse 5):::
Pistols be poppin’
And niggas drop in a heartbeat
Scattered like roaches
A body laid on the concrete
Body laid on the concrete
Look, somebody laid on the concrete
No time for that, ain’t no lookin’ back
‘cause I’m running too
I made it home
I woke up and turned the morning news
Overcame with a feeling I can’t explain
‘cause that was my nigga james
That was slain, he was 22
(last night at around…)
He was 22
(22 year old black male…)

(outro):::
We’re gathered here today
To mourn the life of james mcmillan jr
A tragedy, another tragedy
In the black community
We got to do better, people
22 Years old, this boy was too young
Our condolences go to his family, our prayers
We know he’s in a better place
We know he’s in a better place
But this has got to end
Ladies and gentleman
We’ve got to come together, this is
This is beyond words
I’d like to open this ceremony with a verse

She’s Mine Pt. 2 (Letra) – J. Cole
Letras da musica:
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, I’ve fallen in love
For the first time
For you I drop the tough guy shit
On this bus I sit

Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Thinking bout you
Damn it feel good to have you
Damn it feel good to have you
Damn it feel good to have you
Damn it feel good to have you
Needin’ me, wantin’ me
Givin’ me a chance
To feel special to somebody
In a world where they not lovin’ me

(verse 1):::
Handcuffs keep huggin the
Wrists of my niggas
And I wish stuff was different here
But if I had a magic wand
To make the evil dissapear
That means that there
Would be no santa claus no more
To bring you christmas cheer
‘cause what he represents
Is really greed and the need
To purchase shit
From corporations that make a killin’
Because they feed on the wallets of the poor
Who be knockin’ on they door
Every black friday
Just to get some shit they can’t afford
Even with the discount
Write a check, that shit bounce
But as long as we got credit
It don’t matter, the amount
We just swipin’ shit here, we don’t love
We just likin’ shit here
What’s that smell
Where’s your diaper shit here
Lay on your back, don’t pee right now
Or else I’ll have to get you back
One day when you gon’ want to get your way
Yeah I’ll have fun with that
Reminisce when you came out the womb
Tears of joy I think filled up the room
You are now the reason that I fight
I ain’t never did nothing
Thats right in my whole life
Got me thinking

Am I worthy of this gift
Am I strong enough to lift
Into a place that I can see
Someone more important than me?
Am I worthy of this gift?
Am I strong enough to lift
Into a place that I can see
Someone more important than me?
Am I worthy of this gift?

(verse 2):::
People ask me how I did this shit
I’m gon’ do a humble stunt act
Like I meant this shit
Thats the ego taking credit for what god made
Fuck this album shit
Hey mama look what god made
She’s mine
Catch me
Don’t you, catch me
Don’t you, catch me
I’ve fallen in love for the first time
I wanna cry, and I ain’t even tryna fight it
Don’t wanna die, cause now your here
And I just wanna be right by your side
On any night that you be cryin’ baby
I dry your eyes, I dry your eyes

There is a god
It is a god
Yeah, it is a god
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
I never felt so alive
Catch me, don’t you
Catch me, don’t you
I’ve fallen in love
For the first time

Foldin Clothes (Letra) – J. Cole
Letras da musica:
I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
I said I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
I wanna fold clothes for you

(verse 1):::
I wanna fold clothes for you
Woke up this morning
Feeling like the best version of me
So happy
I, walked in the living room
And saw you all alone on the couch
Just napping
I-I see a lot on your plate
9 Months with that weight
I know you tired so I wonder how I can help
I get the basket
And grab your clothes out the dryer
Oh, I wanna fold clothes for you

I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
I said I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
I wanna fold clothes for you

(verse 2):::
Listen, this is a meditation for me
A practice of being present
There’s no where I need to be
Except right here with you
Except right here with you
Foldin’ clothes, watching netflix
Catching up on our shows, eating breakfast
Raisin bran in my bowl
With bananas and some almond milk
I never thought I’d see
The day I’m drinking almond milk
You soft!

I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
I said I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
That’s so much better than the wrong thing
I wanna fold clothes for you

If I can make life easier
The way you do mine
Save you some time
Alleviate a bit of stress from your mind
Help you relax, let you recline babe
Then I should do it, cause heaven only knows
How much you have done that for me
Now I see it’s the simple things
It’s the simple things, it’s the simple things
Now say, “I love you”-it’s the simple things
It’s the simple things, it’s the simple things

Niggas from the hood is the best actors
We the ones that got to wear our face backwards
Put your frown on before they think you soft
Never smile long or take your defense off
Acting tough so much we start to feel hard
Live from the city where they pull cards
I got a glock 40 and a little nine
Ready for the day a nigga pull mine
Niggas from the hood is the best actors
Got learn to speak in ways that’s unnatural
Just to make it through the job interviews
If my niggas heard me
They’d say “damn what’s gotten into you? ”
Just trying to make it dog, somehow
Peaking through the blinds, I see the sun now
I see you’re still sleeping and it feels like
Maybe everything is gon’ be alright