[ti:Note to Self]
[ar:J. Cole]
[00:53.570]And wherever we go
[00:59.010]And whatever we do
[01:04.820]And whatever we see
[01:10.530]And whoever we be
[01:16.110]It don't matter
[01:21.850]It don't matter
[01:26.590]I don't mind cause you don't matter
[01:31.840]I don't mind cause I don't matter
[01:36.470](And don't shit matter)
[01:44.870]I've got a feeling that there's somethin' more
[01:50.320]Something that holds us together
[01:53.420]Something that holds us together
[01:55.980]The strangest feeling but I can't be sure
[02:01.780]Something that's old is forever
[02:04.830]Something that's old is forever
[02:08.850]Love
[02:14.190]Love
[02:19.930]Love
[02:25.590]Love
[02:34.650]And wherever we go
[02:40.200]And whatever we do
[02:45.960]And whatever we see
[02:51.760]And whoever we be
[02:57.350]It don't matter
[03:02.940]It don't matter
[03:07.780]I don't mind cause you don't matter
[03:13.320]I don't mind cause I don't matter
[03:17.750](And don't shit matter)
[03:19.470]You'll see in the end
[03:24.150]Love
[03:27.510]Yeah nigga, Forest Hills Drive.
[03:31.710]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
[03:34.960]We made it, baby! As we speak the last sample just cleared.
[03:38.880]Thank you to whoever in Japan, just cleared that shit.
[03:41.510]Turn my vocal up and turn the headphones down a little bit.
[03:44.800]I gotta do my thank you's man.
[03:46.120]I didn't have enough time to turn my thank you's for the artwork, so fuck it. I'mma do it right now
[03:54.070]This is the credits.
[03:55.500]This is role credits nigga,
[03:56.800]if you don't wanna sit through the credits get your ass up and walk out the movie theatre.
[04:00.540]First and foremost my entire Dreamville team, thank you man.
[04:04.990]Before that I'm buggin, thank you God!
[04:06.880]Oh my God. Everything happened too perfectly and in line, this whole thing
[04:12.930]Thank you God. Thank my Dreamville family.
[04:17.910]Mez who fuckin' sleep right now, that nigga ain't even recording this thing right now.
[04:22.800]Nigga's been working' hard man, Mez I'm proud as fuck of you man, for real you killed this shit.
[04:27.500]Ib what up. El Presidente what up!
[04:31.000]We killed this shit nigga, we killed this shit nigga!
[04:33.500]I don't give a fuck if we sell 3 copies nigga, we killed this shit nigga!
[04:37.890]My nigga Adam, I'm proud of y'all man, for real.
[04:41.910]Ron Gilmore, my nigga. Yes, Camille, yes that's my sister.
[04:47.040]Casey, that's like a father figure right there, Casey.
[04:50.160]My brother Ced, wow, we done came a long way from the Ville, my nigga Gray Street.
[04:54.830]My nigga Felton, you killed it,
[04:56.610]you killed that Friday Night Lights shit nigga and you killed this one too man.
[05:00.410]I shoulda been coming to you man.
[05:04.030]You only do the classics though, that's what it is, for real.
[05:07.900]My nigga Mike Shaw shiggity, you already know where he at right now posted up somewhere in D.R.
[05:12.430]My nigga RJ Trump Trump gettin' that motherfuckin' bread, you know what it is man.
[05:16.440]My nigga Diz, I see you, I see your vision, I believe in you.
[05:19.860]I love y'all niggas. Big D, thank you man for real.
[05:23.180](Teddy what up) (Shotgun) We believe in y'all,
[05:26.280](Proof!) you and the fiends, my nigga Bassy Badass, Bas, Bas, Bas, I can't believe it nigga!
[05:31.930](Marquis Jones) You changed your life, man, keep goin'. Keep goin', the sky is the limit.
[05:35.700]Fuck that, man, Super Mooking Fiends. It's Super Mooking Fiends nigga!
[05:41.150]My nigga Depp, you know what I mean? Razzle Dazzle, Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite what up!
[05:49.520]What up man, my nigga Reagan put in them hours!
[05:51.570]My nigga Omen, man, Elephant Eyes, that shit is a confirmed classic, man. Dreamville,
[05:56.400]we only did confirmed classics so far, that's all we doin'. Yo Elijah!
[06:01.980]Aye if we go diamond, nigga you got the triple crown, man. First 50, then Usher,
[06:06.510]nigga you fuckin' out of here.
[06:08.210]But we might go wood though. Nervous Wreck, man, congratulations to you, brother, I love you.
[06:12.690](At least go silver) Filthy,
[06:14.040]I love you too, man. I know you feel a way about me right now but I love you.
[06:17.250]Yo shout to the young niggas, man. Forreal, we blessed to have y'all on board, man, we feel so grateful
[06:21.950]Cozz, that Cozz and Effect is a mothafuckin' classic, nigga.
[06:24.940]I be ridin' my bike through Manhattan listenin' to that shit, man.
[06:28.110]I've been livin' with that shit for like the past 4 days, I finally got a chance to slow down.
[06:31.440]That shit is a classic, my nigga.
[06:32.860]Congratulations to you. We don't give a fuck what it sold,
[06:35.310]I don't even know what that shit sold to tell you the truth, man.
[06:38.560]And I'm proud of you, man.
[06:39.900]I'm proud of you and your homeboys.
[06:41.530]Y'all it's really gon' be great to watch y'all grow.
[06:43.890]I'm appreciatin' watchin' y'all grow more than we did!
[06:46.740]I get to relive it all again and actually appreciate it this time.
[06:50.770]Shout out to the whole committee, man. Tone, Meez, what up.
[06:54.890]My nigga Money Makin Matt, what up man? Treat them boys right, man
[06:59.730]Everybody that was involved in makin' this album,
[07:01.460]my nigga Jack who's at the board right now, what's up man!?
[07:04.060]Yo you made the album, man!
[07:05.320]We gon' live forever, man!
[07:06.820]You gotta loop the beat up right now though cause it can't...
[07:09.420]okay Raff, Rugged Raff, Perfect Sound Studios, LA we couldn't have did it without you.
[07:12.330]My nigga Dave Linaburg, Nate Jones, Yolanda, TS, Kaye Fox came through and killed it.
[07:16.700]My nigga Quick with the clean versions, Vinylz killed that beat!
[07:19.190]My nigga Phonix, oh that beat is hard!
[07:21.040]Dahi brought that beat, who does that?
[07:23.180]Pop & Oak, my nigga Pop, thank you man, and Willie B I never met you but you did the beat. !
[07:27.140]llmind you killed the beat, Social Experiment, my nigga Jeff on the guitar, you know what I mean?
[07:31.420]Nuno did the mothafuckin' strings, I appreciate that shit, man!
[07:34.530]We gon' pay you. Hey, the horn players that came through,
[07:37.290]I don't know y'all names but y'all killed that shit, man, we was lovin' that shit!
[07:40.650]Shout out to all the girl's on the mothafuckin' strings.
[07:43.000]We appreciate it. Guess that shit a little wild, I ain't gon' lie.
[07:45.900]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.
[07:51.050]And all the mothafuckin' samples that cleared, thank you,
[07:53.620]y'all be tryin' to give a nigga a hard time on the samples, man!
[07:56.820]I'ma go to the fuckin' Supreme Court and try to make this shit easier for niggas like me to clear these samples, man.
[08:02.620]If you made the fuckin' music, and you made the art, and you put it into the world,
[08:06.840]I should be able to use it however the fuck I want.
[08:09.090]I'ma pay you, I'ma give you a percentage, but you shouldn't be able to tell me
[08:12.730]I can't use it. Ya, that's fuckin'... that's fucked up nigga.
[08:16.140]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.
[08:25.790]It's 2014, 2015 by the time you might hear this shit. Fuck that man we movin' on
[08:30.690]Man, shout out Drizzy Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Wale,
[08:34.760]I'm so happy to be peers with y'all niggas and consider y'all niggas friends.
[08:37.760]And I'm sorry I had to come snatch the crown right quick.
[08:40.460]I had to do it to show niggas it ain't no more motherfuckin' crowns man.
[08:43.880]We gotta be the example, we gotta show these niggas man, it's love at the top.
[08:48.050]Can't you believe, it's crazy to believe we sitting right here in these mother fuckin' seats right now.
[08:52.930]15 years ago we was lookin' at these niggas like "man we gotta be these niggas!".
[08:55.930]Now we those niggas, but it's our responsibility to show these niggas man it's love up here.
[08:59.880]Niggas want beef, niggas want drama, fuck that we comin' together
[09:03.190]Shout out to everybody in Ferguson right now still ridin', still ridin'.
[09:07.280]Everybody else asleep, y'all still ridin'.
[09:09.220]And it's bigger than Ferguson, man that shit is fuckin' nationwide man.
[09:12.220]We gotta come together, look at each other, love each other.
[09:14.310]We share a common story nigga that's pain, struggle.
[09:18.950]And guess what nigga, we can come together, and that's one things that's gon' do it, that's love.
[09:22.620]I'm just telling y'all, that's a Public Service Announcement
[09:24.610]Back to this shit, yo.
[09:25.840]By Storm, I love y'all niggas man, no matter what.
[09:27.410]Wayne, Just, Mark, Gucci you my big brother forever, it don't even matter about business, nigga it's bigger than that.
[09:33.440]MK thank you man you came on board and killed it.
[09:35.680]Natalya, what's up!
[09:37.360]My nigga Julius Garcia, I already shouted you out but I shouted out your alias
[09:41.020]and I just put your whole government on record and this gon' live forever.
[09:43.730]Tisha, Tisha, you know I love you Tisha!
[09:46.280]Future the prince, thank you for those conversations man I needed that.
[09:49.120]Roc Nation daamnn, we feel like a family now man, forreal.
[09:53.250]It was always family but it's so ill to see us come together on this album, thank y'all very much man.
[09:57.520]Thank y'all for believing, I know this is a scary idea,
[09:59.880]I don't know if it's gonna work or not, as I speak, I don't gove a fuck!
[10:02.960]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.
[10:19.870]Columbia, we love y'all man, damn. I'm runnin out of breath and shit.
[10:24.710]I'm sad this is my last album with Columbia, it's not my fault it's all contractual,
[10:28.230]but I love the fuck out of y'all, we made relationships there that ain't never going away
[10:31.640](Lisa Wiggins!!). Ain't never know what the future holds man.
[10:35.110]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
[10:39.180]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.
[10:46.390]The whole sales team, production, marketing team.
[10:48.780]My man B Nolan who drove us around in a fuckin' van and a SUV and showed us all about the radio game, man.
[10:55.160]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.
[11:01.630]B Nolan I finally figured it out. I know you like "damn this nigga talking to me", I'm talking to you man.
[11:06.110]Cause you used to hear us stressin' over this shit, and I finally figured it out man.
[11:09.730]Don't none of that shit matter yo.
[11:11.810]I came all this way, all the way from Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[11:14.970]Went to New York City got this motherfuckin' record deal.
[11:17.780]Put out some classics, put out some singles.
[11:22.360]Had my ups, had my downs.
[11:25.830]Came all this way just to learn one thing man, and only one fuckin' thing matters and that's your happiness.
[11:30.970]And the only way you gon' get to that happiness is through love, real, geniuine, motherfuckin' love man.
[11:36.620]Not the fake shit, not the Hollywood shit, not the niggas giving you props so you think you the shit.
[11:41.490]Not motherfuckers knowing you so you think you famous.
[11:44.460]Not niggas seeing your whip and they want your whip so you feel good cause they want your whip.
[11:47.770]Or they want your bitch, so you feel better, fuck that, real love.
[11:53.270]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
[11:58.310]Mimi what up!
[11:59.110]I'm fuckin' up my words, I don't care.
[12:01.270]How am I not gon' shout out Mimi man, fuck that shit keep the tape rollin'.
[12:03.970]We still goin'. Wassup man! Forest Hills Drive we gon' do this shit, if you ain't listening to this shit,
[12:10.480]I don't give a fuck, nigga it's the fuckin' credits.
[12:12.480]Don't nobody stay for the movie credits anyway man
[12:16.000]My Mama OOOOOOOOOOOH, I love you!
[12:21.790]I'm so grateful, blessed to have you.
[12:24.490]Still in my life, a lot of people ain't got their mothers in they life still and I recognise that I'm blessed.
[12:28.810]Mama I love you. Zach I love you. My pops I love you. James Cole I love you, Jackie I love ya.
[12:38.430]My whole family I love ya. I'm so grateful man, thank y'all.
[12:43.740]It all came full circle and I had to put this shit out in 2014.
[12:47.270]We barely made, yo Ib we barely made it nigga.
[12:50.570]We barely fuckin' made it but we fuckin' made it man.
[12:54.750]Fuck y'all, but I love y'all at the same time man
[13:02.220]Man look, y'all really wanna know who did it?
[13:05.020]I'mma tell y'all who did this shit man.
[13:08.040]Man, Dale Earnhardt jr dawg.
[13:11.490]I'm never gon' forget, this is gonna sound crazy but I'm never gonna forget that shit you told me yo.
[13:17.140]Forreal Dale Earnhardt jr man, thank you dawg.
[13:19.780]From the bottom of my heart. That shit you said to me changed my life man.
[13:23.460]And I ain't never gon' forget, ever forreal.
[13:27.880]For real Dale, form me to you, you my nigga man, forreal. I love you boy.
[13:34.660]And Jonah ! Oh Jonah Hill! How could I forget Jonah Hill!
[13:38.930]Yo, that shit you told me when we was in the elevator, nigga that shit changed my...
[13:44.330]I'm just fuckin' playin', I don't know either one of those two dudes.
[13:48.500]I don't know either one of them niggas, I was in the moment. I just lied,
[13:52.460]I don't give a fuck
[13:53.280]2014 Forest Hills Drive. Cole World man. Thank y'all for listening.
[13:58.670]If you made it this far then I really fuck with you.
[14:01.880]Until the next time, I don't know when that's gonna be but, One love baby!
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