Listen to my thesis I ain't just rapping man, I mean this Tryna make it happen out of rapping See my words paint pictures like a e-fit Mind out cause you'll find out G that kindness is weakness If you grind like I grind then it's sleepless I'm a terror in my era with my weed lit Carpe diem, hard life we in So I see the moment and I seized it Then I caught a case, I couldn't M.J. beat it They be acting Stringer Bell, they ain't even Idris Remember I was up and down Edith Sleeping on the floor round Reece's Then I lost freedom, had my people in pieces This lifestyle is strange like Beatrice No rest for the wicked, so the saying goes I'm still weighing O's, thinking about my mates on sosh Soldiers out there two and two-ing in the raining cold Kitties blazing white, smackers, not a vein in sight But that's the way it goes And I ain't talking like I ain't involved But I can't see no other way It's like I'm ray, my rap's my ray of hope It's a cold, cold world, J Cole All the stress I take home I been O.T., no sleep, I don't change clothes Forever chasing pesos I be beefing with Regina, man even in my senior You won't work for a wage but you'll be a wing cleaner And you do that shit for peanuts, shit we must be nuts I said you won't work for a wage but you'll be a wing cleaner And you do that shit for peanuts Check yourself man, you must be nuts Man I've been getting reloads And I ain't talking about no wheel-ups Man I'm married to the game I married that without no pre-nup So I'm due to lose something I just hope it ain't my freedom I said I'm due to lose something I just hope it ain't my freedom