[Refrain]
[Verse 1:Nas]
Peace to the Five Percenters, online engine inventors
Shout to them n***as
Family men, bringing home dinners
Watch out for desperate lonely women, hurt your happy home
Miserable and alone
Kissable, nice to bone
She not the type deserving of a throne
Her beauty is her curse
She f** for shoes and a purse
Make me a movie first
Can watch you on my phone
I shop in Barcelona
I spend some nights in Rome
Feel like a Knight from England
That's what I named my son, Knight
He was born to be one
That's how my game was won
White 740 Beamer
Licked by an angel's tongue
I'm living dangerous son
She got a man, a famous one
Honey be pocket watching, she got a lot of options
Hard to make up her mind deciding which baller to rock with
Hot to d**h, slim pickings but I'm not impressed
She got the hottest s**
So I guess I'mma just stay
[Refrain]
[Verse 2:Nas]
Even though I don't like you
Next Friday night can't wait to fight you
Locked up I would knife you
Don't f** with you
Last month I even bucked at you, you got locked
I felt bad, wait do I got love for you
I might k** you but do I got love for you
I want you dead under six feet of soil
At the same time
Want you here to witness me while you in misery
We hate each other but it's love
What a thug mystery
Years ago they ate the hearts of a slain enemy
We enemies but your hatred could never enter me
Some seek fame cause they need validation
Some say hating is confused admiration
Spotlight on me
I still look twenty
Still get money, lady k**er
Pushing a Bentley
Maybe n***as could see too much of they failures through a n***a who realer
I don't like you near bruh, but I need you to stay
[Verse 1: J. Cole]
You can drop a “Wet Floor” sign down for the tears
God and my court date, the two things I fear
Man, they tryna give a n***a years
I'm tryna figure if I should even appear
Or should I escape town? Catch a Greyhound
Change my name, right – catch a plane flight
Out the country, let them ma'f**as hunt me
Come and catch me if you want me
Know they'll lock me if I stay
But where I'mma run to?
I got a good girl, we got a son too
And all we went through, we ain't see eye-to-eye
But what you told me way back, you was a ride-or-die
So if they give me one, or if they give me two
Or if a n***a gotta sit down and do a few
Before I go, baby, I gotta know, what would you do?
Would you find someone new or would you stay?
Like the hoes when they lay with me?
Puppy eyes when I go, sayin' “stay with me”
Aw, girl, you bad as hell and yet I'd love to
But see I got a girl I'm really makin' love to
Therefore I'm feelin' a lot more guilty when I rub you
That's why I skip all of that kissin' when I f** you
Flush the condom down the toilet then I skate
I had you, but you can't have me, I never stay
[Hook]
Stay
[Verse 2: J. Cole]
Ha! Life in a hometown, ‘fore I could take a step
I'm gettin' grown now
And startin' to notice that I see the same hoes around
Guess they had to go ‘round, my raps is profound
I got the flows, but yet a n***a ain't got no sound
Copped a beat machine, I'm cookin' up my own now
Got my mind on the city where it goes down
See, if I'mma get to where I'm goin' then I can't stay
Although I love it here
I'll be damned if I sit around another year
Dreamin' dreams, hopin' somehow that they just appear
The hardest part of leavin' is to know my mother here
Oh, but I'm comin' back – oh boy, believe that
Let's show the little n***as, boy, you can achieve that
Got the city on my shoulders, piggy back
Hello, my name is Cole and I'm here to stay