作词 : J. Cole

作曲 : J. Cole

Yeah, yeah, yeah

No matter how

No matter how long it take nigga

Spiralin' up, just like a rich nigga staircase

No fly zone, please stay the **** out my air space

Niggas say things behind my back, some things you wouldn't dare say

Know it's on sight when I see you, I'm workin' with SquareSpace

Yeah, top of the mornin', I know that you thought that I was dormant

Woke up early from shots that were swarmin' the block full of opps, now the cops in an orbit

'Cause somebody got popped and they knockin' on doors

Tryna find an informant but I ain't see nothin'

I'm mindin' my business 'cause God is my witness

No weapon gon' proser that formin' against me

Nigga I'm starving immensely

Know when I'm done with these songs, you gon' miss me

Ja Morant, I'm on my grizzly

You niggas just cubs but no, not the ones in big leagues

After The Fall Off, I promise I'm comin' to sellin' out Wrigleys

Nigga, I'm just a product of poverty, full of narcotics

To profit off quickly

My family tree got a history

Users that struggle with demons

Not really the hustlin' instincts

Therefore, often, my pockets was empty

So I summoned my partner, was servin' up rocks

On the corners, the project, assemblies

Me, I was startin' to envy

Wanna be on the top where it's plenty

Wanna be in the spot like where every bitch want me

Like Rihanna droppin' new Fenty

What I see in the sky, the Ville is the celin', can't reach up too high

Nah, shit, I can't reach up too high evidently

Never seen him drivin' a Bentley

I can't be out here moppin' no Wendys

My life is all I have

My rhymes, my pen, my pad

And I done made it out the struggles, don't judge me

What you sayin' now won't budge me

'Cause where I come from (Come from)

So often (So often)

People you grow up with laid in a coffin

But I done made it through the pain and strife

It's my time and my world, my life, my life

Say what?

The stuff that I've seen got me traumatized

I let the K go and Johnny died

Swingin' that mother****er side to side

We don't participate, ain't with that squashin' shit

All we believe in is homicide

I got a good heart so I've seen teddy bears

Every time we make their momma cry

I pray my past ain't ahead of me (21)

When I'm love, I love heavenly (On God)

If you betray me, you dead to me (21)

I disrespect you respectfully (21)

I got some partners who left this Earth

Maybe the pain made a better me (On God)

Just know they secrets is kept with them (On God)

I feel like the streets is in debt with me (Straight up)

I gave my heart away to all the dog hoes 'cause that's what they said to me

I blame my pops for that shit 'cause if he didn't fail, he could've corrected me (21)

Give all the props to my momma 'cause no matter what, she always protected me (On God)

I promise you it ain't no checkin' me (On God)

Jump in the water, get wet with me (Straight up, 21, 21)

You want my money or wanna have sex with me?

Can't let the opps or the law get the best of me

I get to answerin', you get to textin' me

I see chicken, you niggas is breast to me

Plantin' the seed but it ain't a sesame

Can't let you niggas or bitches go next to me

My life is all I have

My rhymes, my pen, my pad

And I done made it out the struggles, don't judge me

What you sayin' now won't budge me

'Cause where I come from (Come from)

So often (So often)

People you grow up with laid in a coffin

But I done made it through the pain and strife

It's my time and my world, my life, my lif