All My Life (feat J Cole)

[00:00.02] Durkio told me he been on some positive shit, yeah, yeah

[00:03.35] Lately, I just wanna show up and body some shit, yeah, yeah

[00:07.36] Always been a lil' mathematician, lately it's cash I'm gettin'

[00:11.10] Got me losin' count of these bags, I've been movin' too fast

[00:13.87] Hard times don't last, 'member when cops harrassed

[00:17.11] Talkin' out my ass, boy, you ain't shit but a bitch with a badge

[00:20.60] All my life (all my life)

[00:23.61] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down)

[00:27.11] All this time (all this time)

[00:30.11] Never thought I would make it out (never thought I'd make it out)

[00:33.85] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (no, no)

[00:37.61] They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (no)

[00:40.61] All my life (all my life)

[00:43.86] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down)

[00:47.36] I decided I had to finish, but the media called me a menace

[00:50.59] I done sat with the mayor and politicians, I'm tryna change the image

[00:54.11] You can't blame my past no more, I come from the trenches

[00:57.36] Some said I'd never be a superstar, but I know I'm different (no, no, no)

[01:01.11] I'm The Voice, but the system ain't give me a choice

[01:03.36] Know some people that's still on deploy

[01:05.11] I know a felon who tryna get FOID

[01:06.86] Child support your only support

[01:08.35] For a visit, I'm goin' through courts

[01:10.10] Went to jail, they was chainin' me up

[01:11.86] And you know that I'm famous as fuck

[01:13.61] See how you gon' joke about stimulus?

[01:15.36] But they really had came in the clutch

[01:17.10] I know some kids wanna hurt they self

[01:20.36] Stop tryna take drugs, I refer to myself

[01:23.61] Tryna better myself, tryna better my health but

[01:27.86] All my life (all my life)

[01:31.10] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down)

[01:34.36] All this time (all this time)

[01:37.61] Never thought I would make it out (never thought I'd make it out)

[01:40.35] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (no, no)

[01:44.85] They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (no)

[01:47.87] All my life (all my life)

[01:54.11] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down) (yeah)

[01:55.10] First generation ghetto nigga

[01:56.59] Cole world, hello niggas

[01:58.36] Made it out the city with my head on straight

[01:59.86] Niggas keep shootin' up the lead out

[02:01.35] Young Jordan Peele, gotta get out

[02:02.84] 'Cause the shit that I spit out

[02:04.61] Is a cheat code like I'm facin' a RICO, how a nigga put a hit out

[02:07.61] And another one, and, and another one

[02:09.86] I got like a hundred of 'em

[02:11.86] 'Bout to lap niggas so they think they ahead of me, but I'm really in front of them

[02:13.62] Now some of them fumblin' they bags

[02:16.60] Fuckin' up the little crumbs that they had

[02:18.36] A reminder to humble yourself, this shit could be gone in an instant

[02:21.36] Me, I'm runnin' long distance

[02:22.86] All pistons firin'

[02:23.87] I be stuck between maybe retirin'

[02:25.36] And feelin' like I'm just not hittin' my prime

[02:27.11] These days scene rappers be dyin'

[02:28.86] Way before they even gettin' they shine

[02:30.37] I never even heard of lil' buddy

[02:31.59] 'Til somebody murdered lil' buddy

[02:33.09] Now I'm on the phone, searchin' lil' buddy name

[02:34.86] Got to playin' his tunes, all day in my room

[02:37.35] Thinkin', "Damn, this shit wicked, to get they names buzzin'

[02:39.86] Some niggas just gotta go lay in a tomb"

[02:41.36] And media thirsty for clicks, I got a new rule

[02:44.61] If you ain't never posted a rapper when he was alive

[02:46.60] You can't post about him after he get hit

[02:48.61] It's simple, it's the principle

[02:49.86] On any tempo, I'm invincible

[02:51.86] Don't even rap, I just vent to you

[02:53.84] I rather that than an interview

[02:54.86] Most days

[02:56.12] Fuck 'em all like I'm goin' through a ho phase

[02:57.11] Young nigga shoot out the whip like road rage

[02:58.60] I pray all of my dawgs stay so paid

[03:00.36] And the only thing that kill 'em is old age

[03:02.11] All my life (all my life)

[03:04.86] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down)

[03:08.36] All this time (all this time)

[03:11.61] Never thought I would make it out (never thought I'd make it out)

[03:15.10] They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (no, no)

[03:18.86] They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (no)

[03:21.87] All my life (all my life)

[03:25.09] They been tryin' to keep me down (they been tryin' to keep me down)