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03\u2019 Adolescence
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J. Cole
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I grew up, a fuckin' screw up
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Tie my shoe up, wish they was newer
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Damn, need somethin' newer
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In love with the baddest girl in the city, I wish I knew her
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I wish I weren't so shy, I wish I was a bit more fly
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I wish that I, could tell her how I really feel inside
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That I'm the perfect nigga for her, but then maybe that's a lie
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She like a certain type of nigga, and it's clear I'm not that guy
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Ball player, star player, I'm just watchin' from the side
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On the bench, cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly
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I ain't grow up with my father, I ain't thinkin' bout that now
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Fast forward four years or so from now I'll probably cry
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When I realize what I missed, but as of now my eyes are dry
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Cause I'm tryna stay alive
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In the city where too many niggas die
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Dream in quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie
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Who am I? Aye who am I? (Yeah)
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Things change, rearrange, or so do I
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It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie
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I get high cause the lows can be so cold
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I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
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One time for my mind and two for yours
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I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul
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If you see my tears fall just let me be..
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Move along, nothing to see
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I always did shit the hard way, my niggas slangin' in the hallway
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Burnt CD's and trees like this was Broadway
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Times Square, kept the dimes there in the locker
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Some Reggie Miller
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With more brown hairs than Chewbaca
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Whispers that he got it for the low low sell a
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Dime for a dub, them white boys ain't know no better
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Besides, what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that?
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He tell his pops he need some lunch and he gon' get it right back
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I peep game, got home snatched my mama keychain
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Took her whip, the appeal, to ill to refrain
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I hit the boulevard pull up to my nigga front door
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His mama at home, she still let em' hit the blunt though
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I told her hello and sat with my nigga and laughed
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And talked about how we gon' smash all the bitches in class
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I complimented how I see him out here getting his cash, and just asked
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"What a nigga gotta do to get that?! Put me on"
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He just laughed when he seen I was sure
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17 Years breathing his demeanor said more
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He told me, "Nigga you know how you sound right now?
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You won't my mans, I would think that you a clown right now, listen"
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"You everything I wanna be that's why I fucks with you
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So how you looking up to me, when I look up to you?"
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"You bout to go get a degree, I'm bout to be stuck with two choices:
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Either graduate to weight or sell a number two
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For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?
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Do you think that you would know what to do if you was me?
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I got, four brothers, one mother that don't love us
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If they ain't never want us why the fuck they never wore rubbers?"
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I felt ashamed to have ever complained about my lack of gear
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And thought about how far we done came
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From trailer park to a front yard with trees in the sky
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Thank you mama dry your eyes, there ain't no reason to cry
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You made a genius and I, ain't gon' take it for granted
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I ain't gon' settle for lesser, I ain't gon' take what they handed
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Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me and show you that I can fly
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And show ol' girl what she missing
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The illest nigga alive
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Aye who am I?
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Things change, rearrange, or so do I, (Aye who am I?)
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It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie (Aye who am I?)
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I get high cause the lows can be so cold
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I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
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One time for my mind and two for yours
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I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul
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If you see my tears fall just let me be
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Move along, nothing to see
03’ Adolescence
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