[Verse]

Listen to my thesis

I ain't just rapping man, I mean this

Tryna make it happen out of rapping

See my words paint pictures like a e-fit

Mind out cause you'll find out

G that kindness is weakness

If you grind like I grind then it's sleepless

I'm a terror in my era with my weed lit

Carpe diem, hard life we in

So I see the moment and I seized it

Then I caught a case, I couldn't M.J. beat it

They be acting Stringer Bell, they ain't even Idris

Remember I was up and down Edith

Sleeping on the floor round Reece's

Then I lost freedom, had my people in pieces

This lifestyle is strange like Beatrice

No rest for the wicked, so the saying goes

I'm still weighing O's, thinking about my mates on sosh

Soldiers out there two and two-ing in the raining cold

Kitties blazing white, smackers, not a vein in sight

But that's the way it goes

And I ain't talking like I ain't involved

But I can't see no other way

It's like I'm ray, my rap's my ray of hope

It's a cold, cold world, J Cole

All the stress I take home

I been O.T., no sleep, I don't change clothes

Forever chasing pesos

I be beefing with Regina, man even in my senior

You won't work for a wage but you'll be a wing cleaner

And you do that shit for peanuts, shit we must be nuts

I said you won't work for a wage but you'll be a wing cleaner

And you do that shit for peanuts

Check yourself man, you must be nuts

Man I've been getting reloads

And I ain't talking about no wheel-ups

Man I'm married to the game

I married that without no pre-nup

So I'm due to lose something

I just hope it ain't my freedom

I said I'm due to lose something

I just hope it ain't my freedom