Hook:
Started from the ground
Building to the sky now
Watch it fall down
How you gon' survive now?
Yeah, it's cold blood in a n***a
The streets left no love in a n***a
No love in a n***a
[Yo Gotti:]
f I could paint a picture
I would show the image of a thug henny
Yeah, run away n***a
Popping pain k**ers
Praying for a call, four dogs with them pistols
Natural born k**ers
We sold crack to his mother, he turn his back on his brothers
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k**ed his partner for the plug
He think everything a hustle
Cold motherf**er
Oh no, I'm black hearted
No feelings, just a gun
We done raved in the kitchens
Not to mention all the holes in his pistols
So homies think the whole world against him
Play ball, coach best him, grandpa
Playing extra, he raised in Mississippi but he moved out to Memphis
k** a heart with doubt
So homie touch and she grab
This a C trail rap, come fight that slap
Shutdown, do crap, this town back out, damn
2 x Hook:
Started from the ground
Building to the sky now
Watch it fall down
How you gon' survive now?
Yeah, it's cold blood in a n***a
The streets left no love in a n***a
[J. Cole:]
Here's a voice for the voiceless
My words like multiple choice to the choiceless
Emerge like a search light in the darkness
For this young, black carca**
My n***as either join the Armed Forces, or they corpses now
In God we trust But it's bucks that we worship, now
Boy that root of evil gon' forever rule the people
See, I seen just what that fast money gon' come and do to people
Hit a lick, it was a hit
He said, 'Let's go and do the sequel'
But his, n***a wasn't 'bout it, n***a wasn't 'bout it, now
Feeling guilty, "What would Momma think about me?"
Told' em, think about it n***a, won't you think about it now?
But he was money hungry
Plus he trigger happy
So they hopped up in the Caddy
Burnt his pack, just like a Stevian
Thirty minutes later, blood is leaking at the ATM
Momma in denial, like her baby boy on trial
For a murder that he ain't commit
Tears soak the handkerchief
Hook:
Started from the ground
Building to the sky now
Watch it fall down
How you gon' survive now?
Yeah, it's cold blood in a n***a
The streets left no love in a n***a
Lights off no counters on approaches all around the kitchen n***a
Hunger mama burry so she don't want us to mention it
Grow more on hip but mama it gonna kickin' it
She a hustler she don't need no help raising the kids,
Bills can't gotta .. stage on script
Been machine now she show witness
Real sh** that created the hunger
And now making monster got the game from my mama
Get some ill sh**s, thirteen on the blocky want no look out,
In the kitchen on this store like it's a cook out,
My n***a 'bout to be game complete the book out,
But when we thought it was over, he got took out brain,
Back brain he can't leave, sneak the pen it was here coming here,
.. he won't focus so we died over, nothing on .. with a ..shoot dice,
Begin, one lose take it all to so got byes on me.
2 x Hook:
Started from the ground
Building to the sky now
Watch it fall down
How you gon' survive now?
Yeah, it's cold blood in a n***a
The streets left no love in a n***a
J. Cole - Outro:
They say the good die young, that's the truth
My n***a floating up in heaven now, that's the proof
I ain't make it to the funeral, but homie rest in peace
If this world get too cold, I hope one day you rescue me
n***a maybe we can fly someday
Oh we can fly someday
Yeah up in the sky someday
Do real n***as get to heaven?
That's that sh** I ask the reverend