[00:00.000] 作词 : Omen [00:01.000] 作曲 : Omen [00:02.89]Produced by: Omen [00:04.99] [00:10.72]Tryna follow my intuition as I’m on this million dollar mission [00:13.43]Mama told me I was special, thank God I listened [00:16.96]My environment never let me be a pretender [00:19.34]Similar interest with them **** boys but I was different [00:22.22]The hoop dreaming lonely child, hung around Hyde Park, Chatham and the Stony Isle [00:24.58]Pimps, players, gang wars, living in a lonely town [00:29.02]Who can I relate to? [00:30.21]Feeling like the Golden child, Chi city culture [00:33.03]Full of pain, full of soul singers [00:34.96]Dead bodies in our rivers but their souls linger [00:37.70]A young black man living with unrealistic dreams [00:40.64]But luckily I’ve seen some unrealistic things [00:43.13]A child from the city took the good route [00:45.69]Always fit in and always stood out, complex [00:48.69]Layered, rather show you than say it [00:51.26]Though I know my greatness is always understated [00:54.04]Mama working 12 hours days on her feet [00:56.60]Coming home, cooking dinner, made her son wanna weep [00:59.32]My step father working while I’m zoning the beats [01:01.99]Meanwhile my biological was roaming the streets [01:04.75]Tryna be an entertainer, but my heart held love, no anger [01:09.13]He out there tryna be a singer [01:12.01]I guess this just the life I was made for [01:14.94] [01:15.18]Mama told me I was special [01:17.64]Mama told me I was special [01:20.24]Mama told me I was special [01:22.86]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [01:25.64]Mama told me I was special [01:28.55]Mama told me I was special [01:30.77]Mama told me I was special [01:33.48]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [01:36.68] [01:37.20]Yeah, truly yours, J. Cole [01:39.56]My mama coulda been a movie star [01:40.98]You know like Judy Garland [01:42.56]I went to St. Johns, I coulda went to Juliard [01:45.24]Cause my beautiful mind mixed with my musical bond [01:47.98]Deep as a funeral line, dawg, I get it from my mama [01:50.61]I used to be embarrassed getting picked up in that Honda [01:53.19]Thought my ****** might play me if they found out that my mama was a white lady [01:55.99]So like gravy, had to cover that [01:58.84]Plus my older brother black but he look white [02:01.61]In an all black school, picture what that look like [02:04.01]No wonder he was under-achieving, not believing in himself [02:06.90]Coming home, just be keeping to himself [02:09.33]Looking back through the silence, he was screaming out for help [02:12.13]Maybe this verse can find the words to get the demons out himself [02:14.76]So yeah, I’m exercising [02:16.68]Right now my record climbing, I’m sort of a stair master [02:18.88]****** got there faster, I took the long route, I never been a scared rapper [02:21.82]Boy this ain't Fear Factor, they tell me can you hear the wrath spilling out these paragraphs [02:26.23]Made the world clear a path [02:28.61]Bet I’ll be on top from now till the hereafter [02:31.21]I'm special, mama told me I was special [02:35.63]Mama told me I was special [02:38.38]You know I love her for that [02:40.66]That's right, I’m special [02:44.15] [02:44.57]Mama told me I was special [02:46.57]Mama told me I was special [02:49.34]You know I love her for that [02:51.75]You know I love her for that [02:52.89] [02:53.17]Tell me, whats the marketing plan for realness? [02:55.21]What’s the demographic target audience for brilliance? [02:57.85]What's the first week numbers for my inspiration? [03:00.36]Who can A&R this passion and this dedication [03:03.28]Name: Omen [03:04.22]This ain't a verse, this a revelation [03:05.78]We need some more Sanaa Lathan’s in our population [03:08.48]I’m meeting women I would never date [03:10.52]The kind that say they want a marriage, but they really want a wedding day [03:13.29]I’m seeing groupies tryna act like they don’t notice me [03:16.79]But the writings on the wall call it hoetry [03:19.25]Desire calls, but that's not what my focus be [03:21.95]Music’s forever my lady unlike Jodeci [03:24.76]See when a leader's speaking, you should simply follow suit [03:27.54]I stay in the zone like it’s college hoops, let me show you how to shoot [03:30.29]You know aim for the goal, these are just the chronicles [03:33.06]They're calling me the Honorable, though I am not no Muslim [03:35.74]I’m finna blow like woodwinds, tricky like a good sin [03:38.42]I’m something you’ve mistooken, mistaked him for fakeness [03:41.21]Haters don’t know what you facing [03:43.09]Oh goodness, oh gracious [03:45.09]They looking at greatness [03:46.23]I was special, mama told me I was special [03:51.16] [03:51.40]Mama told me I was special [03:53.77]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [03:56.54]Mama told me I was special [03:59.23]Mama told me I was special [04:01.83]Mama told me I was special [04:04.49]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:07.32]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:10.12]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:12.70]Gotta love her for that [04:15.36]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:18.00]Mama told me I was special [04:22.01]