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[ti:Note to Self] |
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[ar:J. Cole] |
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And wherever we go |
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And whatever we do |
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And whatever we see |
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And whoever we be |
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It don't matter |
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It don't matter |
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I don't mind cause you don't matter |
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I don't mind cause I don't matter |
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(And don't shit matter) |
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I've got a feeling that there's somethin' more |
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Something that holds us together |
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Something that holds us together |
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The strangest feeling but I can't be sure |
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Something that's old is forever |
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Something that's old is forever |
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Love |
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Love |
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Love |
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Love |
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And wherever we go |
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And whatever we do |
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And whatever we see |
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And whoever we be |
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It don't matter |
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It don't matter |
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I don't mind cause you don't matter |
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I don't mind cause I don't matter |
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(And don't shit matter) |
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You'll see in the end |
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Love |
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Yeah nigga, Forest Hills Drive. |
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. |
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We made it, baby! As we speak the last sample just cleared. |
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Thank you to whoever in Japan, just cleared that shit. |
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Turn my vocal up and turn the headphones down a little bit. |
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I gotta do my thank you's man. |
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I didn't have enough time to turn my thank you's for the artwork, so fuck it. I'mma do it right now |
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This is the credits. |
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This is role credits nigga, |
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if you don't wanna sit through the credits get your ass up and walk out the movie theatre. |
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First and foremost my entire Dreamville team, thank you man. |
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Before that I'm buggin, thank you God! |
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Oh my God. Everything happened too perfectly and in line, this whole thing |
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Thank you God. Thank my Dreamville family. |
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Mez who fuckin' sleep right now, that nigga ain't even recording this thing right now. |
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Nigga's been working' hard man, Mez I'm proud as fuck of you man, for real you killed this shit. |
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Ib what up. El Presidente what up! |
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We killed this shit nigga, we killed this shit nigga! |
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I don't give a fuck if we sell 3 copies nigga, we killed this shit nigga! |
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My nigga Adam, I'm proud of y'all man, for real. |
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Ron Gilmore, my nigga. Yes, Camille, yes that's my sister. |
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Casey, that's like a father figure right there, Casey. |
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My brother Ced, wow, we done came a long way from the Ville, my nigga Gray Street. |
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My nigga Felton, you killed it, |
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you killed that Friday Night Lights shit nigga and you killed this one too man. |
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I shoulda been coming to you man. |
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You only do the classics though, that's what it is, for real. |
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My nigga Mike Shaw shiggity, you already know where he at right now posted up somewhere in D.R. |
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My nigga RJ Trump Trump gettin' that motherfuckin' bread, you know what it is man. |
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My nigga Diz, I see you, I see your vision, I believe in you. |
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I love y'all niggas. Big D, thank you man for real. |
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(Teddy what up) (Shotgun) We believe in y'all, |
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(Proof!) you and the fiends, my nigga Bassy Badass, Bas, Bas, Bas, I can't believe it nigga! |
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(Marquis Jones) You changed your life, man, keep goin'. Keep goin', the sky is the limit. |
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Fuck that, man, Super Mooking Fiends. It's Super Mooking Fiends nigga! |
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My nigga Depp, you know what I mean? Razzle Dazzle, Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite what up! |
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What up man, my nigga Reagan put in them hours! |
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My nigga Omen, man, Elephant Eyes, that shit is a confirmed classic, man. Dreamville, |
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we only did confirmed classics so far, that's all we doin'. Yo Elijah! |
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Aye if we go diamond, nigga you got the triple crown, man. First 50, then Usher, |
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nigga you fuckin' out of here. |
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But we might go wood though. Nervous Wreck, man, congratulations to you, brother, I love you. |
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(At least go silver) Filthy, |
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I love you too, man. I know you feel a way about me right now but I love you. |
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Yo shout to the young niggas, man. Forreal, we blessed to have y'all on board, man, we feel so grateful |
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Cozz, that Cozz and Effect is a mothafuckin' classic, nigga. |
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I be ridin' my bike through Manhattan listenin' to that shit, man. |
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I've been livin' with that shit for like the past 4 days, I finally got a chance to slow down. |
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That shit is a classic, my nigga. |
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Congratulations to you. We don't give a fuck what it sold, |
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I don't even know what that shit sold to tell you the truth, man. |
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And I'm proud of you, man. |
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I'm proud of you and your homeboys. |
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Y'all it's really gon' be great to watch y'all grow. |
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I'm appreciatin' watchin' y'all grow more than we did! |
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I get to relive it all again and actually appreciate it this time. |
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Shout out to the whole committee, man. Tone, Meez, what up. |
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My nigga Money Makin Matt, what up man? Treat them boys right, man |
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Everybody that was involved in makin' this album, |
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my nigga Jack who's at the board right now, what's up man!? |
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Yo you made the album, man! |
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We gon' live forever, man! |
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You gotta loop the beat up right now though cause it can't... |
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okay Raff, Rugged Raff, Perfect Sound Studios, LA we couldn't have did it without you. |
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My nigga Dave Linaburg, Nate Jones, Yolanda, TS, Kaye Fox came through and killed it. |
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My nigga Quick with the clean versions, Vinylz killed that beat! |
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My nigga Phonix, oh that beat is hard! |
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Dahi brought that beat, who does that? |
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Pop & Oak, my nigga Pop, thank you man, and Willie B I never met you but you did the beat. ! |
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llmind you killed the beat, Social Experiment, my nigga Jeff on the guitar, you know what I mean? |
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Nuno did the mothafuckin' strings, I appreciate that shit, man! |
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We gon' pay you. Hey, the horn players that came through, |
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I don't know y'all names but y'all killed that shit, man, we was lovin' that shit! |
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Shout out to all the girl's on the mothafuckin' strings. |
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We appreciate it. Guess that shit a little wild, I ain't gon' lie. |
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Uh, maybe that was my fault, I set y'all up with Wreck-It Ralph. But it's all good, we still killed it though. |
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And all the mothafuckin' samples that cleared, thank you, |
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y'all be tryin' to give a nigga a hard time on the samples, man! |
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I'ma go to the fuckin' Supreme Court and try to make this shit easier for niggas like me to clear these samples, man. |
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If you made the fuckin' music, and you made the art, and you put it into the world, |
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I should be able to use it however the fuck I want. |
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I'ma pay you, I'ma give you a percentage, but you shouldn't be able to tell me |
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I can't use it. Ya, that's fuckin'... that's fucked up nigga. |
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You was inspired by the world allow the world to be inspired by your shit, and to use your shit. |
| [08:20.030]So all them people like [?] |
or whoever that don't let niggas use they shit, fuck that man. |
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It's 2014, 2015 by the time you might hear this shit. Fuck that man we movin' on |
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Man, shout out Drizzy Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Wale, |
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I'm so happy to be peers with y'all niggas and consider y'all niggas friends. |
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And I'm sorry I had to come snatch the crown right quick. |
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I had to do it to show niggas it ain't no more motherfuckin' crowns man. |
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We gotta be the example, we gotta show these niggas man, it's love at the top. |
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Can't you believe, it's crazy to believe we sitting right here in these mother fuckin' seats right now. |
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15 years ago we was lookin' at these niggas like "man we gotta be these niggas!". |
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Now we those niggas, but it's our responsibility to show these niggas man it's love up here. |
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Niggas want beef, niggas want drama, fuck that we comin' together |
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Shout out to everybody in Ferguson right now still ridin', still ridin'. |
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Everybody else asleep, y'all still ridin'. |
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And it's bigger than Ferguson, man that shit is fuckin' nationwide man. |
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We gotta come together, look at each other, love each other. |
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We share a common story nigga that's pain, struggle. |
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And guess what nigga, we can come together, and that's one things that's gon' do it, that's love. |
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I'm just telling y'all, that's a Public Service Announcement |
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Back to this shit, yo. |
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By Storm, I love y'all niggas man, no matter what. |
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Wayne, Just, Mark, Gucci you my big brother forever, it don't even matter about business, nigga it's bigger than that. |
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MK thank you man you came on board and killed it. |
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Natalya, what's up! |
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My nigga Julius Garcia, I already shouted you out but I shouted out your alias |
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and I just put your whole government on record and this gon' live forever. |
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Tisha, Tisha, you know I love you Tisha! |
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Future the prince, thank you for those conversations man I needed that. |
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Roc Nation daamnn, we feel like a family now man, forreal. |
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It was always family but it's so ill to see us come together on this album, thank y'all very much man. |
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Thank y'all for believing, I know this is a scary idea, |
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I don't know if it's gonna work or not, as I speak, I don't gove a fuck! |
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Fuck man, I'm just happy we did this shit |
| [10:04.490]Shout out to Nelly, [?] |
, Christina, Chaka I love you, Def what up, Jay-Z, Hov, holla! |
| [10:10.950]Jake Brown what up! Rich Climate, Tata, my nigga [?] |
, you know what it is |
| [10:15.250]Shout out to Interscope. Yeah, Joey [?] |
, 'preciate you, Janet, Gary, Steve Berman, yeah. |
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Columbia, we love y'all man, damn. I'm runnin out of breath and shit. |
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I'm sad this is my last album with Columbia, it's not my fault it's all contractual, |
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but I love the fuck out of y'all, we made relationships there that ain't never going away |
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(Lisa Wiggins!!). Ain't never know what the future holds man. |
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We hope we can do business some day. |
| [10:35.830]April, thank you very much my baby, [?] |
, you are a legend, we fuckin' love you |
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CJ same to you man, y'all been killin' this shit for years, thank you man, thank you. |
| [10:43.510]Rob Stringer, thank you sir, Joe [?] |
, yes sir. |
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The whole sales team, production, marketing team. |
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My man B Nolan who drove us around in a fuckin' van and a SUV and showed us all about the radio game, man. |
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And we ain't had no hits, all we had was fuckin' "Who Dat." Tryin' figure this shit out man and I figured it out. |
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B Nolan I finally figured it out. I know you like "damn this nigga talking to me", I'm talking to you man. |
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Cause you used to hear us stressin' over this shit, and I finally figured it out man. |
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Don't none of that shit matter yo. |
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I came all this way, all the way from Fayetteville, North Carolina. |
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Went to New York City got this motherfuckin' record deal. |
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Put out some classics, put out some singles. |
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Had my ups, had my downs. |
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Came all this way just to learn one thing man, and only one fuckin' thing matters and that's your happiness. |
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And the only way you gon' get to that happiness is through love, real, geniuine, motherfuckin' love man. |
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Not the fake shit, not the Hollywood shit, not the niggas giving you props so you think you the shit. |
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Not motherfuckers knowing you so you think you famous. |
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Not niggas seeing your whip and they want your whip so you feel good cause they want your whip. |
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Or they want your bitch, so you feel better, fuck that, real love. |
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Where your crib is at nigga where your heart is at, where your home is at, where your mom is at, where your girl is at |
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Mimi what up! |
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I'm fuckin' up my words, I don't care. |
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How am I not gon' shout out Mimi man, fuck that shit keep the tape rollin'. |
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We still goin'. Wassup man! Forest Hills Drive we gon' do this shit, if you ain't listening to this shit, |
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I don't give a fuck, nigga it's the fuckin' credits. |
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Don't nobody stay for the movie credits anyway man |
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My Mama OOOOOOOOOOOH, I love you! |
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I'm so grateful, blessed to have you. |
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Still in my life, a lot of people ain't got their mothers in they life still and I recognise that I'm blessed. |
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Mama I love you. Zach I love you. My pops I love you. James Cole I love you, Jackie I love ya. |
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My whole family I love ya. I'm so grateful man, thank y'all. |
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It all came full circle and I had to put this shit out in 2014. |
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We barely made, yo Ib we barely made it nigga. |
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We barely fuckin' made it but we fuckin' made it man. |
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Fuck y'all, but I love y'all at the same time man |
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Man look, y'all really wanna know who did it? |
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I'mma tell y'all who did this shit man. |
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Man, Dale Earnhardt jr dawg. |
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I'm never gon' forget, this is gonna sound crazy but I'm never gonna forget that shit you told me yo. |
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Forreal Dale Earnhardt jr man, thank you dawg. |
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From the bottom of my heart. That shit you said to me changed my life man. |
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And I ain't never gon' forget, ever forreal. |
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For real Dale, form me to you, you my nigga man, forreal. I love you boy. |
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And Jonah ! Oh Jonah Hill! How could I forget Jonah Hill! |
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Yo, that shit you told me when we was in the elevator, nigga that shit changed my... |
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I'm just fuckin' playin', I don't know either one of those two dudes. |
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I don't know either one of them niggas, I was in the moment. I just lied, |
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I don't give a fuck |
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2014 Forest Hills Drive. Cole World man. Thank y'all for listening. |
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If you made it this far then I really fuck with you. |
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Until the next time, I don't know when that's gonna be but, One love baby! |
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Love |
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Love |
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Love |
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Love |
