J. Cole — January 28th Live

[Intro] Rap tune I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune, Fayettenam hands up Can I make a million dollars off a rap tune? I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune Say what? [Verse 1] The real is back The Ville is back Flow bananas, here, peel this back And what you'll find is, your highness Can paint a picture that is vivid enough to cure blindness Carolina's Finest You knew that already In terms of the greatest, I proved that already And if you would like, I do it twice I just sharpen my blade for a minute became lost in my ways This for my niggas that was tossed in the graves Every so often I fade deep in my thoughts And then get lost in the days We used to play before your coffin was made Just got the call nigga got caught with a stray Hope he's okay Just got paid what Cochran got paid to free OJ Just to share my life on the stage in front of strangers Who know a nigga far too well, and that's the danger Know me better than I know myself I rip a page out my notebook in anger And let these thoughts linger, singing [Chorus] Don't give 'em too much you Don't let 'em take control It's one thing you do Don't let 'em taint your soul Sing! If you believe in God One thing's for sure If you ain't aim too high Then what? Then you aim too low [Verse 2] What's the price for a black man life? I check the toe tag, not one zero in sight I turn the TV on, not one hero in sight Unless he dribble or he fiddle with mics Look out the window cause tonight the city lit up with lights Cameras and action May no man alive come through and damage my faction I brought you niggas with me cause I love you like my brothers And your mothers' like my mother Think we need a plan of action The bigger we get the more likely egos collide, it's just physics Please let's put our egos aside, you my niggas And should our worst tendencies turn us into enemies I hope that we remember these Nights fulla Hennessy When Hov around we switch up on that D'usse Gotta show respect, one day we tryna stay where you stay Cause we from where you from Not talkin' bout the slums I'm talkin' 'bout that mind state that keep a black nigga dumb Keep a black nigga dyin' by a black nigga gun And keep on listening to the frontin' ass rap niggas son Yeah I said 'son' This is New York's finest For 11 winters straight I took on New York's climate Like show me New York's ladder I climb it and set the bar so high that you gotta get Obama to force the air force to find it Never mind it, you'll never reach that Cole is the hypnotist, control the game whenever he snap That's every track, sing [Chorus] Don't give 'em too much you Don't let 'em take control It's one thing you do Don't let 'em taint your soul Sing If you believe in God One thing's for sure If you ain't aim too high Then what? Then you aim too low [Verse 3] I ain't serve no pies, I ain't slang no dope I don't bring no lies, niggas sang my quotes I don't play no games, boy I ain't no joke Like the great Rakim, when I make my notes You niggas might be L or you might be Kane Or you might be Slick Rick with 19 chains Or you might be Drizzy Drake or Kendrick Lamar But check your birth date nigga You ain't the God Nah you ain't the God Say what? Nigga Cole the God Cole the God, Cole the God 2, 6, nigga! (laughs) January 28th...(laughs) [Outro] I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune One day I'll make a million dollars off a rap tune [Outro] *Crowd cheers* Oh shit Fayetteville, North Carolina Fayettenam *Crowd cheers* 2, 6, make some motherfuckin' noise one time tonight, God damn it! Bring all the lights up please so I could see everybody in this motherfucker one time tonight, God damn. Ayy, this shit's crazy. Ayy, this shit crazy. All the way in the back, wassup, we see y'all niggas in the back, wassup? Okay, left side, wassup, we see y'all niggas, man. Right side, what's poppin', God damn it! Ayy, yo, you know we see this shit down here, this shit lit, this shit lit. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself. I go by the name of J. Cole, Cole fucking World, and I'm from the Ville. A few months back, I dropped this album, it's called 2014 Forest Hills Drive, and shit I don't know if people heard about that shit. They tryna say, they tryna say it was the first album to go platinum without no fuckin' features and shit. They said that, they said that, I ain't say that, they said that, but since they said that, since they said that. Fayetnam, if it's cool with y'all, and only if it's cool with y'all, I'm tryna perform the whole fuckin' album for ya'll tonight if that's cool with you. Can I do that shit on some Ville shit? Ok then, on some Ville shit, ok then. But y'all know this whole album is a journey, from front to back, this whole shit is a journey. So before we get too far in the fucking journey, I wanna press rewind and take ya'll to a time where I was just a young boy