January 28th (Explicit)-J. Cole

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[00:00.00]January 28th (Explicit) - J. Cole
[00:23.52]The real is back,
[00:24.63]The ville is back
[00:25.65]Flow bananas here,
[00:26.85]Peel this back
[00:27.72]And what you'll find is,
[00:28.61]Your highness
[00:29.13]Can paint a picture
[00:30.20]That is vivid enough to cure blindness
[00:32.50]Carolina's finest,
[00:33.96]You knew that already
[00:35.21]And turned to the greatest,
[00:36.24]I proved that already
[00:37.41]And if you would like,
[00:38.34]I do it twice
[00:39.22]I just sharpen my blade for a minute
[00:41.13]Became lost in my ways
[00:42.55]This for my niggas
[00:43.26]That was tossin' the graves
[00:44.57]Every so often I fade deep in my thoughts
[00:46.94]And get lost in the days
[00:48.32]We used to play
[00:49.02]Before your coffing was made
[00:51.09]Just got the call ni**a got caught
[00:52.26]With a stray
[00:53.26]Hope he's okay
[00:54.31]Just got paid
[00:54.81]What Cochran got paid to free OJ
[00:57.21]Just to share my life on the stage in
[00:58.78]Front of strangers
[00:59.72]Who know a ni**a far too well,
[01:01.75]And that's the danger
[01:02.39]Know me better than I know myself
[01:04.39]I rip a page out my notebook in anger
[01:07.15]And let these thoughts linger, singing
[01:08.76]Don't give 'em too much you
[01:11.77]Don't let 'em take control
[01:14.38]It's one thing you do
[01:17.47]Don't let 'em taint your soul
[01:20.37]If you believe in God
[01:23.19]One thing's for sure
[01:25.97]If you ain't aim too high
[01:28.75]Then you aim too low
[01:31.92]What's the price for a black man life?
[01:33.75]I check the toe tag,
[01:35.07]Not one zero in sight
[01:36.57]I turn the TV on,
[01:37.87]Not one hero in sight
[01:39.46]Unless he dribble or he fiddle with mics
[01:41.50]Look out the window
[01:42.21]Cause tonight the city lit up with lights,
[01:44.64]Cameras and action
[01:45.64]May no man alive come through
[01:46.79]And damage my faction
[01:48.30]I brought you niggas with me cause
[01:49.53]I love you like my brothers
[01:50.64]And your mothers' like my mother
[01:51.91]Think we need a plan of action
[01:54.10]The bigger we get the more likely egos collide
[01:56.54]It's just physics,
[01:57.56]Please let's put our egos aside
[01:59.37]You my niggas,
[02:00.41]And should our worst tendencies
[02:01.77]Turn us into enemies
[02:02.96]I hope that we remember these
[02:04.69]Nights fulla Hennessey
[02:06.08]When Hov around we switch up to
[02:07.20]That D'usse
[02:08.13]Gotta show respect,
[02:09.18]One day we tryna stay where you stay
[02:11.14]Cause we from where you from
[02:12.46]Not talkin' bout the slums
[02:13.61]I'm talkin' 'bout that mind state
[02:14.91]That keep a black ni**a dumb
[02:16.33]Keep a black ni**a dyin'
[02:17.81]By a black ni**a gun
[02:19.20]And keep on listening
[02:20.33]To the frontin' a** rap niggas son
[02:21.97]Yeah I said son
[02:23.17]This is New York's finest
[02:24.64]For 11 winters straight
[02:25.98]I took on New York's climate
[02:27.27]Like show me New York's ladder
[02:28.70]I climb it and set the bar so high
[02:30.38]That you gotta get
[02:31.21]Obama to force the air force to find it
[02:33.68]Never mind it, you'll never reach that
[02:35.47]Cole is the hypnotist,
[02:36.65]Control the game whenever he snap
[02:38.39]That's every track
[02:39.84]Don't give 'em too much you
[02:42.55]Don't let 'em take control
[02:45.37]It's one thing you do
[02:48.27]Don't let 'em taint your soul
[02:51.11]If you believe in God
[02:53.91]One thing's for sure
[02:56.66]If you ain't aim too high
[02:59.58]Then you aim too low
[03:01.09]Then you aim too low
[03:02.66]I ain't serve no pies,
[03:04.19]I ain't slang no d**e
[03:05.42]I don't bring no lies,
[03:06.87]Niggas sang my quotes
[03:08.20]I don't play no games,
[03:09.78]Boy I ain't no joke
[03:11.07]Like the great Rakim,
[03:12.67]When I make my notes
[03:13.95]You niggas might be L
[03:15.53]Or you might be Kane
[03:16.81]Or you might be Slick Rick
[03:18.49]With 19 chains
[03:19.60]Or you might be Drizzy Drake
[03:21.30]Or Kendrick Lamar
[03:22.84]But check your birth date ni**a,
[03:24.47]You ain't the God
[03:27.25]Nah you ain't the God
[03:29.75]Ni**a, Cole the God
[03:35.46]January 28th