J. Cole - The Climb Back (Official Audio)(MP3_160K)

[00:01.94] Are you doin' this work to facilitate growth or to become famous?

[00:05.94] Which is more important?

[00:07.94] Getting or letting go?

[00:09.69] You can do anything, anything you can do (You can do anything)

[00:29.19] You can do anything, anything you can do (You can do anything)

[00:32.93] Everything come back around full circle

[00:35.68] Why do lies sound pleasant, but the truth hurtful?

[00:38.19] Everybody gotta cry once in a while

[00:43.19] But how long will it take 'fore you smile?

[00:44.43] This is that come-back-to-life shit

[00:45.68] My niggas pick me up and we gon' light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

[00:49.68] And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon (Bitch, I'm back out...)

[00:54.69] Yeah

[00:55.95] To the left of that decimal, I need seven figures to play the joint

[00:58.69] Turn up your decibels, peep how I decimate a joint

[01:01.93] Check out my projects like them workers that Section 8 appoints

[01:04.68] And you'll see how I flipped like exclamation points

[01:07.68] My niggas shoot first as if they never played the point, more two guards

[01:10.93] Enough straps to fill four U-Hauls

[01:13.69] More death than World War II caused

[01:16.18] Around these parts we pour the brown just to drown these thoughts

[01:19.19] Of black corpses in county morgues, Lord, those images hauntin'

[01:23.18] I ain't been asleep yet, it's ten in the mornin'

[01:25.43] I'm sendin' a warnin', a problem with me is like the BET Hip-Hop Awards

[01:29.44] I'm startin' to see you niggas don't want it

[01:30.94] I'm sick of this flauntin', from niggas I know for sure ain't got mo' dough than Cole

[01:34.68] Trash rappers, ass backwards, tryna go toe-to-toe

[01:37.94] We laugh at ya, staff strapped up on top the totem pole to blast at ya

[01:41.18] Bassmasters, look how they tote a pole

[01:43.68] Gotta know the ropes and the protocol

[01:45.43] Or they gon' for sure blow your clothes half off like a promo code

[01:49.45] Made a lil' tune called "Foldin Clothes," and a nigga still ain't known to fold under pressure

[01:54.19] Well, you know what Cole do

[01:55.70] Make a diamond, they just rhymin', me, I'm quotin' gold

[01:57.94] One phone call get you canceled like a homophobe in this PC culture

[02:02.45] Address me as the G.O.A.T. like they call Chief Keef Sosa

[02:05.18] In my sectional like a fuckin' three-piece sofa

[02:08.18] I'm known as the chosen one

[02:10.44] Another dead body lay frozen, that's how it go sometimes

[02:12.70] When niggas weighin' coke and not the pros and cons

[02:14.94] Well, I ain't with that sleepin' underground like a gopher, so I go for mines

[02:18.19] Everything come back around full circle (Nigga, gotta go for mines)

[02:21.68] Why do lies sound pleasant, but the truth hurtful? (Yeah)

[02:24.43] Everybody gotta cry once in a while

[02:27.44] But how long will it take 'fore you smile?

[02:29.93] This is that come-back-to-life shit

[02:31.94] My niggas pick me up and we gon' light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

[02:36.21] And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon

[02:40.18] Now I know why they call it blue moon (Yeah)

[02:42.68] Survival at all costs, every day, niggas get logged off

[02:45.44] Bodies get hauled off

[02:46.93] Passin' a funeral procession while holdin' my breath in the car, I thought

[02:49.46] At times, it be feelin' the devil be winnin' but do that mean God lost?

[02:52.18] Just got off the phone with my nigga, he back in the kennel, my dog lost

[02:55.44] I brought him 'round close to me before but he

[02:57.96] Became addicted to clout and all the hoes we'd meet

[02:59.69] I slowly peeped jealousy on his breath whenever he spoke to me

[03:02.94] Like on the low, he feelin' that in my shoes is where he supposed to be

[03:05.44] I tried to ignore the signs, but they're in the back of my mind

[03:08.93] It felt like lettin' a nigga come sleep on your couch and he eatin' up all yo' groceries

[03:11.18] My nigga repeated this quote to me, I felt its potency

[03:14.45] Said, "Most of these niggas gon' hang themselves, just give 'em the rope and see"

[03:17.44] Shit, I heeded that, and what got showed to me

[03:20.68] Was screamin' that, some niggas, you gotta leave 'em back

[03:22.68] Unfortunately we seen the trap

[03:24.18] Niggas be on that demon clock resultantly

[03:26.43] They fiend to clap as often as the Genius app misquotin' me, uh

[03:29.18] Meanwhile, I see that yo' diamonds is glistenin'

[03:32.44] I'm glad that you shinin', but need I remind you my niggas is dimin' and nickelin'?

[03:35.44] Scrapin' up whatever coin they can find, the pettiest crime, they committin' it

[03:38.43] Just to get by for a limited time, the steepest of mountains, they tryin' to climb

[03:41.43] I'm here tryna find the derivative, you niggas don't feel me

[03:43.96] You see the clout, you don't see the real me

[03:45.43] If I was sick, you niggas wouldn't heal me

[03:46.93] Therefore I'm healin' myself, gettin' in tune with my God

[03:49.44] Slowly revealin' myself, buildin' my wealth

[03:50.96] A nigga touch mine, I'ma kill 'em myself, trust me

[03:52.45] Everything come back around full circle

[03:55.70] Why do lies sound pleasant, but the truth hurtful?

[03:58.69] Everybody gotta cry once in a while

[04:01.69] But how long will it take 'fore you smile?

[04:04.19] This is that come-back-to-life shit

[04:06.18] My niggas pick me up and we gon' light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

[04:10.44] And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon

[04:14.44] Now I know why they call it blue moon (Yeah)

[04:17.94] Bitch, I'm back outside, nigga

[04:20.43] I'm back outside

[04:22.93] I'm back outside

[04:25.69] I'm back outside

[04:28.69] Everybody mentions suicide prevention

[04:31.44] Man, they even made a hotline

[04:34.19] To call up when there's tension, but I got a question

[04:37.69] What about a fuckin' homicide?

[04:40.19] Need a number for my niggas to call

[04:42.69] Whenever there's a urge to get triggers involved

[04:45.43] Need a number for my niggas to call

[04:49.19] Whenever there's a urge to get triggers involved