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J. Cole

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Yeah (yeah)

Yeah, nigga (one two, one two, one)

The Off-Season (one two, one two, one two, one)The Off-Season, nigga

We offing niggas (ayy, that′s right)

The fuck you talking 'bout? (That′s right, ayy)

Offing niggas (yeah, ayy, yeah)

(Vocal up a little more, hey)

Uh, applying pressure

Started my grind with crime festers

And nines showing like they in they second trimesters

That's why a nigga's throw a shot or two online

I pay no mind to their benign gestures

Nigga, please, I got my mind on much bigger things to say the least

My latest speeches sound like they was released by David East (what up East?)

Verses hit hard, never pitched hard or played the streets

These niggas whips are behind closed doors, can′t pay the lease, uh

Ain′t nothing wrong with living check to check

'Cause most have to (I ain′t saying that)

Instead of capping

Why don't you talk about being a broke rapper? (I ain′t saying that)

That's a perspective I respect because it′s real

What it's like to be nice as fuck, but got to stress to pay the bills

That was me in '08, seeing no cake

Not even on dates, I celebrated my birth

Just did the mental math and calculated my worth

Shit crazy, didn′t know I got more M′s

Than a real Slim Shady video (all I'm saying is)

Big Boss, less Rick Ross more like a wavy Hideo

Kojima, they tote steamers around the way we tippy-toe

′Round crack vials and cold-blooded killers, no reptiles

Just projectiles, from niggas salty you rocking the fresher textiles

I seen your best pals grow up and switch (I hate to see it)

Sometimes over a couple dollars, more often over a bitch

I can cap and say that I never scratched my jealousy's itch

But thank God I conquered that ′cause if not I'd never be rich

Envy, keep your pockets empty, so just focus on you

If you broke and clowning a millionaire, the joke is on you

Money ain′t everything, I never say that (never)

But niggas throw stones knowing they sell they soul

To get wherever they at (come on, man)

Just know these verses is some shit

They gon' forever play back, nigga (come on, nigga)

Hell yeah

Fuck, you know what it is nigga

Don't even dare

Niggas try and act like they don′t-, bitch

That′s why I gotta flex sometimes

'Cause niggas tryna act like you not that motherfucking nigga like

Like you just really don′t do it how you do it

Like niggas will really try to act like you don't do what you do

Nigga look you dead in your face

And really act like you don′t do it to the level that you do it

That's why sometimes you gotta come through and just do it

At the level that you do it in front of every nigga face

So they know the difference between you

The real niggas, and the motherfucking fraudulent niggas, man

Don′t never get it fucked up

If a nigga can't do it like you do it sometimes

You gotta do it in front of his fucking face so he'll know forever

"Damn, that nigga did it how I always wanted to do it

And I′ll never be able to do it like that"

Bitch, it′s a difference (ah)

These are the same ones telling our people

What we are and what we aren't

Because we′re just not working hard enough

And that mentality is what we're up against today

But this is good to know because this time

When we march on the Capitol

You can go ahead and let ′em know long before we get there

We're coming to get that check