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Mama Told Me
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J Cole
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[Omen - Verse 1]Tryna follow my intuition as I'm on
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This million dollar mission
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Mama told me I was special, thank God I listened
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My environment never let me be a pretender
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Similar interest with them dope boys but I was different
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The hoop dreaming only child? Hyde park?
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Pimp slayers, gang wars, living in a lonely town
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Who can I relate to?
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Feeling like the Golden child, Chi city culture
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Full of Pain, full of soul sinkers
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Dead bodies in our rivers but their souls link up
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A young black man living with unrealistic dreams
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But luckily I've seen some unrealist things
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A child from the city took the good route
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Always fit in and always stood out, complex
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Layered, rather show you than say it
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Though I know my greatness is always understated
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Mama working 12 hours days on her feet
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Coming home cooking dinner, made her son wanna weep
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My step father working while I'm zoning the beast
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Meanwhile my biological was roaming the streets
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Tryna be an entertainer, but my heart held love no anger
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He yelled, yeah, tryna be a singer
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I guess this just the life I was made for
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[Hook]Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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[J. Cole - Verse 2]Yeah, truly yours, J. Cole
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My mama coulda been a movie star
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Ya know like Judy Garland
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I went to St Johns I coulda went to Julia
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Cause my beautiful mom mixed with my musical bond
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Deep as a funeral line, dawg, I get it from my mama
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I used to be embarrassed getting picked up in that Honda
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Thought my niggas might play me if they found out that
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My mama was a white lady
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So like gravy had to cover that
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Plus my older brother black but he look white
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In an all black school, picture what that look like
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No wonder he was under-acheiving not believin' in himself
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Coming home just be keeping to himself
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Looking back through the silence, he was screaming out for help
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Maybe this verse can find the words to get the demons out himself
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So yeah, I'm exercising
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Right now my record climbing, I'm sort of a stair master
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Niggas got there faster, I took the long route,
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I never been a scared rapper
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Boy this aint fear factor, they tell me can you hear the?
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Spilling out these? Made the world clear a path
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Bet I'll be on top from now till?
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I'm special, mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Know I love her for that
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That's right I'm special
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Know I love her for that
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Know I love her for that
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[Omen - Verse 3]Tell me, what's the marketing plan for realness
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What's the demographic target audience for brilliance
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What's the first week numbers for my inspiration
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Who can A&are this passion and this dedication
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Name: Omen. This aint a verse, this a revelation
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We need some more Sanaa Lathan's in our population
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I'm meetin' women I would never date
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The kind that say they want a marriage but they really want a wedding day
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I'm seeing groupies tryna act like they don't notice me
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But the writings on the wall call it hoe-itry
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My calls but that's not what my focus be
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Music's forever my lady unlike Jodeci
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See when a leaders speaking you should simply follow suit
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I stay in the zone like it's?, let me show you how to shoot
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You know aim for the gold, these are just the chronicles
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There calling me the honorable, though I am not no muslim
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I'm feeling bro like?, tricky like a good sin
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I'm somethin you've mistooken, mistake them for fakeness
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Haters don't know what you facing
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Oh goodness, oh gracious
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They looking at greatness
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I was special, mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Mama told me I was special
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Gotta love her for that
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Gotta love her for that (yeah)
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Mama told me I was special
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