All My Life (feat J Cole)

[00:00.91] Durkio told me he been on some positive shit, yeah, yeah

[00:04.09] Lately, I just wanna show up and body some shit, yeah, yeah

[00:07.55] Always been a lil' mathematician, lately it's cash I'm gettin'

[00:11.00] Got me losin' count of these bags, I've been movin' too fast

[00:14.21] Hard times don't last, 'member when cops harrassed

[00:17.40] Talkin' out my ass, boy, you ain't shit but a bitch with a badge

[00:20.58] All my life (All my life)

[00:23.77] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

[00:26.95] All this time (All this time)

[00:30.41] Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

[00:33.86] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break mе (No, no)

[00:37.58] They couldn't take me, thеy couldn't take me (No)

[00:40.51] All my life (All my life)

[00:43.70] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

[00:47.45] I decided I had to finish, but the media called me a menace

[00:50.90] I done sat with the mayor and politicians, I'm tryna change the image

[00:54.36] You can't blame my past no more, I come from the trenches

[00:57.56] Some said I'd never be a superstar, but I know I'm different (No, no, no)

[01:00.77] I'm The Voice, but the system ain't give me a choice

[01:03.43] Know some people that's still undeployed

[01:05.02] I know a felon who tryna get FOID

[01:06.88] Child support your only support

[01:08.49] For a visit, I'm goin' through courts

[01:10.08] Went to jail, they was chainin' me up

[01:11.68] And you know that I'm famous as fuck

[01:13.28] See how you gon' joke about stimulus?

[01:15.16] But they really had came in the clutch

[01:17.02] I know some kids wanna hurt theyself

[01:20.21] Stop tryna take drugs, I refer to myself

[01:23.66] Tryna better myself, tryna better my health but

[01:27.66] All my life (All my life)

[01:30.84] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

[01:34.03] All this time (All this time)

[01:37.51] Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

[01:41.24] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)

[01:44.43] They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)

[01:47.88] All my life (All my life)

[01:50.83] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down, yeah)

[01:54.30] First generation ghetto nigga

[01:56.45] Cole world, hello niggas

[01:57.80] Made it out the city with my head on straight

[01:59.40] Niggas keep shootin' up the lead out

[02:01.28] Young Jordan Peele, gotta get out

[02:02.33] But the shit that I spit out

[02:04.19] Is a cheat code like I'm facin' a RICO and how a nigga put a hit out

[02:07.65] And another one, and, and another one

[02:09.30] I got like a hundred of 'em

[02:11.16] 'Bout to lap niggas so they think they ahead of me, but I'm really in front of them

[02:14.61] Now some of them fumblin' they bags

[02:16.47] Fuckin' up the little crumbs that they had

[02:18.09] A reminder to humble yourself, this shit could be gone in an instant

[02:21.02] Me, I'm runnin' long distance

[02:22.65] All pistons firin'

[02:24.52] I be stuck between maybe retirin' and feelin' like I'm just not hittin' my prime

[02:26.64] These days seein' rappers be dyin', way before they even gettin' they shine

[02:30.09] I never even heard of lil' buddy

[02:31.43] 'Til somebody murdered lil' buddy

[02:33.55] Now I'm on the phone, searchin' lil' buddy name

[02:35.16] Got 'em playin' his tunes, all day in my room

[02:36.74] Thinkin', "Damn, this shit is wicked, to get they name buzzin' some niggas just gotta go lay in a tomb"

[02:41.29] And media thirsty for clicks

[02:43.41] I got a new rule

[02:44.48] If you ain't never posted a rapper when he was alive

[02:46.84] You can't post about him after he get hit

[02:48.45] It's simple, it's the principle

[02:50.08] On any tempo, I'm invincible

[02:51.68] Don't even rap, I just vent to you

[02:53.26] I rather that than an interview

[02:54.31] Most days

[02:55.11] Fuck 'em all like I'm goin' through a ho phase

[02:56.46] Young nigga shoot out the whip like road rage

[02:58.05] I pray all of my dawgs stay so paid

[02:59.91] And the only thing that kill 'em is old age

[03:02.33] All my life (All my life)

[03:04.46] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

[03:08.21] All this time (All this time)

[03:11.66] Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

[03:15.38] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)

[03:18.30] They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)

[03:20.98] All my life (All my life)

[03:24.98] They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)