Released: November 12, 2010

Songwriter: J. Cole

Producer: J. Cole

[Intro]
Just turn the beat down just a little bit
Hey, yeah

[Verse 1]
They say anything's possible
You gotta dream like you never seen obstacles
Chasing obscene profits so we ain’t stopping for the red lights
Look in my rearview, all I see is nigga's headlights
Catch me if you can ho, they try and sack me and I scramble
Look up in the sky you’ll see exactly where I am bo
Hey, don’t you see me man?
Making my wishes come true with no genie man
I got the keys to my beamer with no Beenie Man
I’m on these rich niggas ass, no bikini man
I bring the real to the day the Lord free me man
Never imagined that the kids would wanna be me man
Ay, could it be that I give the hopeless broke kids hope?
Caught me walking through the mall, looking like he seen a ghost
Simply had to approach, "What's up young blood?" And ain't it strange
A year ago today, my nigga, I was counting change?
Yeah, hopping trains up in New York City
Know I gotta thank God, cause if you weren’t with me
Then I surely woulda died, you can throw the fork in me
This my New Year's resolution, dawg, no more pork in me
Uh, I ain't no Muslim though
Caron Butler, I’m a wizard if ya doesn't know
It's Young Simba, yeah, I’m ballin’ 'til the buzzer blow
You tryna kick this shit, I kick, man you gon' stub your toe
Boy that's just how tough I go, see this is my light work
This shit you callin' classic, I be like, "That might work"
Want you to feel something new, that's how a dyke work
They ask me 'bout pressure, they wanna see my pipe burst

[Interlude]
Not tonight nigga
Ay, not tonight nigga
Yeah, hey
Man, man, hey

[Verse 2]
Man, I rap so vicious but I talk so politely
Never met a baby momma' momma who don’t like me
Met a couple baby fathers, though they wanna fight me
I hit her 'til she snooze like the news nigga, nightly
Send her back to you when she no longer excites me
Now she bitter with this nigga cause he ain't quite me
One things for certain baby girl, you are a wifey
Two things for fucking sure, I am not the husband though
So run back to him while you still can
He sticking with his wife and kid, yeah, that's a real man
I was ashamed all along and I still am
We let the lust interrupt something real, damn
Girl we grown so you gotta play your own position
I wouldn’t say that you a ho, just made a ho decision
And you can blame it on the liquor like a prohibition
We both know that's what you wanted girl, I know you listening

[Interlude]
Hey, girl, I know you listening
Uh, I know you listening
Hey, yeah

[Verse 3]
Shout out to the bootleggers who supply my shit
The fans online tryna find my shit
And to the niggas listening but won't buy my shit
Then catch me in the street and wanna ride my dick
Y’all niggas is the worst, see me like
"J. Cole homie, can you sign my burnt CD?"
Nigga please, an album ten dollars, you act like it’s ten Gs
This food for thought cost the same as two number three’s
So at ease with that broke shit
We all tryna get a dollar boy, no shit
You know I feel ya pain, therefore I slang this hope shit
And give you lines that you rewind and think, "Oh shit"
These rappers talk a lot of money, cars and hoes shit
I give you that and a whole lot more shit
That got richer, still rapping like I’m poor shit
You niggas think you know shit, man you don’t know shit

[Outro]
Ho bitch
Yeah, Cole, bitch
Uh, J. Cole, nigga
Hey

J. Cole

Jermaine Lamarr Cole (b. January 28th, 1985), better known as J. Cole, is a rapper and producer who was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He gained a passion for rap at a young age and first went by the names Blaza and Therapist (the latter was given to him by Bomb Sheltah, a respected rap group from Fayetteville) before settling on his own name.

He first started getting recognition in 2007 with the release of his debut mixtape The Come Up. First, after a failed attempt to share a CD of his with Jay-Z, it would later be Hov, that would come to his attention after he heard Cole’s song “Lights Please”, Jay-Z would go on to make J. Cole his first signing to his then newly formed record label, Roc Nation, in 2009.

Since then he has become one of the biggest names of the “new school” era, with the release of five platinum certified albums. His debut release Cole The Sideline Story defied industry expectations by selling over 200,000 copies in its first week without a top 40 hit single at the time and his sophomore Born Sinner, saw him go head-to-head with Kanye West in a now iconic sales battle in Hip-Hop. Before this, Cole released two projects that would eventually become his Truly Yourz series, the third project debuted on the deluxe edition of Born Sinner.