J. Cole - The Climb Back (Official Audio)

J. Cole - Lewis Street is available now: https://JCole.lnk.to/LewisStreet/ Produced by J. Cole Everything come back around full circle Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful Everybody gotta cry once in a while But how long will it take before you smile This is that come back to life shit My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon Yea To the left of that decimal I need 7 figures to play the joint Turn up your decibels peep how I decimate a joint Check out my projects like them workers that section 8 appoints And you’ll see how I flipped, like exclamation points My niggas shoot first as if they never played the point, more 2 guards Enough straps to fill four uhauls More death than World War II caused around these parts We pour the brown just to drown these thoughts Of black corpses in county morgues, Lord, those images hauntin I ain’t been sleep yet, it’s 10 in the morning I’m sending a warning, a problem with me is like the BET hip hop awards I’m starting to see you niggas don’t want it I’m sick of this flauntin, from niggas I know for sho ain’t got mo dough than Cole Trash rappers Ass backwards tryna go toe to toe We laugh at ya, staff strapped up on top the totem pole To blast at ya, Bass masters, look how they tote a pole Gotta know the ropes and the protocol Or they gon for sho blow your clothes half off like a promo code Made a lil tune called folding clothes, and a nigga still ain’t known to fold Under pressure, well you know what coal do Make a diamond, they just rhymin, me I’m quoting gold 1 phone call Get you cancelled like a homophobe, In this PC culture, address me as the goat, like they call chief Keef Sosa, in my sectional like a fuckin 3 piece sofa Im known as the chosen one, Another dead body lay frozen that’s how it go sometimes When Niggas weighing coke just like the pro’s and cons Well I ain’t with that sleeping underground like a gopher, so I go for mines Everything come back around full circle Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful Everybody gotta cry once in a while But how long will it take before you smile This is that come back to life shit My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon Now I know why they call it Blue (YEAAAA) Survival at all costs, everyday niggas get logged off Bodies Get hauled off Passing a funeral procession While holding my breath in the car I thought At times it be feelin the devil be winning but do that mean god lost Just got off the phone with my nigga he back in the kennel my dog lost I brought him round close to me Before but he Became addicted to clout and all the hoes we’d meet I slowly peeped, Jealousy on his breath, whenever he spoke to me Like on the low he feeling like in my shoes is where he sposed to be I tried to ignore the signs, but there in the back of my mind it felt Like letting a nigga come sleep on your couch but he eating up all yo groceries My nigga repeated this quote to me, I felt it’s potency Said Most of these, niggas gon hang theyselfs, just give em the rope and see I headed that, and what got showed to me Was screaming that, some niggas you gotta leave em back unfortunately, We seen the trap, niggas be on that demon clock resultantly They fiend to clap, as often as the genius app misquotin me Meanwhile, I see that yo diamonds is glistening I’m Glad that you shining but need I remind you my niggas is diamond and nickeling Scraping up whatever coin they can find, the pettiest crime they committing it Just to get by for a limited time, the Steepest of mountains they tryna climb I’m here tryna find the derivative You niggas don’t feel me, You see the clout You don’t see the real me If I was sick, you niggas wouldn’t heal me Therefore I’m healin myself, getting in tune with my God, slowly revealing myself, building my wealth, a nigga touch mine ima kill em myself Everything come back around full circle Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful Everybody gotta cry once in a while But how long will it take before you smile This is that come back to life shit My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon Now I know why they call it Blue (YEAAAA) Connect with J. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/realcoleworld/ https://twitter.com/jcolenc https://www.facebook.com/JColeMusic/ Connect with Dreamville: http://dreamville.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dreamville https://twitter.com/Dreamville https://www.facebook.com/dreamville #JCole #TheClimbBack #TheFallOff