J. Cole - Immortal lyrics
J. Cole [Jermaine Lamarr Cole] Frankfurt, Germany/Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
[J. Cole - Immortal lyrics]
Now I was barely seventeen with
A pocket full of hope
Screamin' "dollar and a dream" with
My closet lookin' broke
And my nigga's lookin' clean
Gettin' caught up with that dope
Have you ever served a fiend with
A pocket full of soap?
Nigga I can tell you things
That you probably shouldn't know
Have you ever heard the screams when
The body hit the floor?
Flashbacks to the pain, wakin' up
Cold sweats six o'clock in the mornin'
Gotta hit the BowFlex
Get my weight up on the block
Keep watch for the cops
God they love to serve a nigga
Three hots and a cot
Nowadays crime pays like a part time job
And the drought got me prayin'
For a Carl Thom vibe summer Rain come again
Numb the pain 'cause it's hard for a felon
In my mind I been cryin'
Know it's wrong but I'm sellin'
Eyes wellin' up with tears
Thinkin' 'bout my niggas dead in the dirt
Immortalized on this shirt
Real niggas don't die forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five form at the plot
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't lie form in the plot
My niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die real niggas don't die
Have you ever seen a fiend
Cook crack on the spoon?
Have you ever seen a nigga that
Was black on the moon?
Have you ever seen your brother go
To prison as you cry?
Have you ever seen a motherfuckin'
Ribbon in the sky?
Nope, all I see is that CREAM nigga
That green i'm a black king
Black jeans on my black queen
And her ass fat, too fat for a flat screen
I'm the type of nigga make
The whole fuckin' trap lean
Kingpin nigga, put wings on a crack fiend
If they want a nigga
They gon' have to send a SWAT team
And I'm goin' out like Scarface
In his last scene a legend, what that mean?
Real niggas don't die forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five form at the plot
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Hood niggas don't lie form in the plot
My niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die real niggas don't die
To die a young legend or
Live a long life unfulfilled
'Cause you wanna change the world
But while alive you never will
'Cause they only feel you after you gone
Or I've been told
And now I'm caught between bein'
Heard and gettin' old
Damn, death creepin' in my thoughts lately
My one wish in this bitch
"Make it quick if the Lord take me"
I know nobody meant to live forever anyway
And so I hustle like my niggas in Virgini-A
They tellin' niggas, "sell dope
Rap or go to NBA"
In that order, it's that sort of thinkin'
That been keepin' niggas chained at
The bottom and hanged
The strangest fruit that you ever
Seen, ripe with pain, listen
A pocket full of hope
Screamin' "dollar and a dream" with
My closet lookin' broke
And my nigga's lookin' clean
Gettin' caught up with that dope
Have you ever served a fiend with
A pocket full of soap?
Nigga I can tell you things
That you probably shouldn't know
Have you ever heard the screams when
The body hit the floor?
Flashbacks to the pain, wakin' up
Cold sweats six o'clock in the mornin'
Gotta hit the BowFlex
Get my weight up on the block
Keep watch for the cops
God they love to serve a nigga
Three hots and a cot
Nowadays crime pays like a part time job
And the drought got me prayin'
For a Carl Thom vibe summer Rain come again
Numb the pain 'cause it's hard for a felon
In my mind I been cryin'
Know it's wrong but I'm sellin'
Eyes wellin' up with tears
Thinkin' 'bout my niggas dead in the dirt
Immortalized on this shirt
Real niggas don't die forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five form at the plot
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't lie form in the plot
My niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die real niggas don't die
Have you ever seen a fiend
Cook crack on the spoon?
Have you ever seen a nigga that
Was black on the moon?
Have you ever seen your brother go
To prison as you cry?
Have you ever seen a motherfuckin'
Ribbon in the sky?
Nope, all I see is that CREAM nigga
That green i'm a black king
Black jeans on my black queen
And her ass fat, too fat for a flat screen
I'm the type of nigga make
The whole fuckin' trap lean
Kingpin nigga, put wings on a crack fiend
If they want a nigga
They gon' have to send a SWAT team
And I'm goin' out like Scarface
In his last scene a legend, what that mean?
Real niggas don't die forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five form at the plot
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Hood niggas don't lie form in the plot
My niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die form on the block
Real niggas don't die real niggas don't die
To die a young legend or
Live a long life unfulfilled
'Cause you wanna change the world
But while alive you never will
'Cause they only feel you after you gone
Or I've been told
And now I'm caught between bein'
Heard and gettin' old
Damn, death creepin' in my thoughts lately
My one wish in this bitch
"Make it quick if the Lord take me"
I know nobody meant to live forever anyway
And so I hustle like my niggas in Virgini-A
They tellin' niggas, "sell dope
Rap or go to NBA"
In that order, it's that sort of thinkin'
That been keepin' niggas chained at
The bottom and hanged
The strangest fruit that you ever
Seen, ripe with pain, listen