J. Cole - Snow on tha Bluff lyrics
J. Cole [Jermaine Lamarr Cole] Frankfurt, Germany/Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
[J. Cole - Snow on tha Bluff lyrics]
Niggas be thinkin' I'm deep, intelligent
Fooled by my college degree
My IQ is average
There's a young lady out there
She way smarter than me
I scrolled through her timeline in
These wild times, and I started to read
She mad at these crackers, she mad
At these capitalists
Mad at these murder police
She mad at my niggas, she
Mad at our ignorance
She wear her heart on her sleeve
She mad at the celebrities
Lowkey I be thinkin' she talkin' 'bout me
Now I ain't no dummy to
Think I'm above criticism
So when I see something that's valid
I listen but shit
It's something about the queen
Tone that's botherin' me
She strike me as somebody blessed enough
To grow up in conscious environment
With parents that know 'bout
The struggle for liberation
And in turn they provide her with
A perspective and awareness of the system
And unfairness that afflicts 'em
And the clearest understandin' of what we
Gotta do to get free
And the frustration that fills her
Words seems to come
From the fact that most people don't see
Just 'cause you woke and I'm not
That shit ain't no reason to talk
Like you better than me how you gon' lead
When you attackin' the very
Same niggas that really
Do need the shit that you sayin'?
Instead of conveyin' you holier
Come help us get up to speed
Shit, it's a reason it took like two hundred
Years for our ancestors just to get freed
These shackles be lockin' the mental
Way more than the physical
I look at freedom like trees
Can't grow a forest like overnight
Hit the ghetto and slowly
Start plantin' your seeds
Fuck is the point of
You preaching your message
To those that already believe
What you believe?
I'm on some "Fuck a retweet
" most people is sheep
You got all the answers but
How you gon' reach? If I could make one
More suggestion respectfully
I would say it's more effective
To treat people like children
Understandin' the time and love and
Patience that's needed to grow
This change is inevitable
But ain't none of us seen this before
Therefore, we just gotta learn
Everything as we go
I struggle with thoughts on the daily
Feel like a slave that
Somehow done saved enough
Coins to buy his way up outta slavery
Thinkin' just maybe
In my pursuit to make life so much
Better for me and my babies
I done betrayed the very same
People that look at
Me like I'm some kind of a hero
Because of the zeros that's
Next to the commas but look here
I promise I'm not who you think
Ran into this nigga outside
Of the store yesterday
He said something that had me like, "Wait"
He was like, "Cole, 'preciate what
You been doin', my nigga, that's real"
But damn
Why I feel faker than Snow on tha Bluff?
Well, maybe 'cause deep down I
Know I ain't doin' enough
The sun is shinin' today
The sun is shinin' today
The sun is shinin' today
Can you walk with me?
I hope we'll find the reason why
We often sob, go on, cry
Painful memories fuck up the vibe
Though I be tryin' to let
The time heal my mind
I was once a child, I've gotten older
Still, I know I'm just a boy in God's eyes
Fill me up with wisdom and some courage
Plus endurance to survive, help mine thrive
Fooled by my college degree
My IQ is average
There's a young lady out there
She way smarter than me
I scrolled through her timeline in
These wild times, and I started to read
She mad at these crackers, she mad
At these capitalists
Mad at these murder police
She mad at my niggas, she
Mad at our ignorance
She wear her heart on her sleeve
She mad at the celebrities
Lowkey I be thinkin' she talkin' 'bout me
Now I ain't no dummy to
Think I'm above criticism
So when I see something that's valid
I listen but shit
It's something about the queen
Tone that's botherin' me
She strike me as somebody blessed enough
To grow up in conscious environment
With parents that know 'bout
The struggle for liberation
And in turn they provide her with
A perspective and awareness of the system
And unfairness that afflicts 'em
And the clearest understandin' of what we
Gotta do to get free
And the frustration that fills her
Words seems to come
From the fact that most people don't see
Just 'cause you woke and I'm not
That shit ain't no reason to talk
Like you better than me how you gon' lead
When you attackin' the very
Same niggas that really
Do need the shit that you sayin'?
Instead of conveyin' you holier
Come help us get up to speed
Shit, it's a reason it took like two hundred
Years for our ancestors just to get freed
These shackles be lockin' the mental
Way more than the physical
I look at freedom like trees
Can't grow a forest like overnight
Hit the ghetto and slowly
Start plantin' your seeds
Fuck is the point of
You preaching your message
To those that already believe
What you believe?
I'm on some "Fuck a retweet
" most people is sheep
You got all the answers but
How you gon' reach? If I could make one
More suggestion respectfully
I would say it's more effective
To treat people like children
Understandin' the time and love and
Patience that's needed to grow
This change is inevitable
But ain't none of us seen this before
Therefore, we just gotta learn
Everything as we go
I struggle with thoughts on the daily
Feel like a slave that
Somehow done saved enough
Coins to buy his way up outta slavery
Thinkin' just maybe
In my pursuit to make life so much
Better for me and my babies
I done betrayed the very same
People that look at
Me like I'm some kind of a hero
Because of the zeros that's
Next to the commas but look here
I promise I'm not who you think
Ran into this nigga outside
Of the store yesterday
He said something that had me like, "Wait"
He was like, "Cole, 'preciate what
You been doin', my nigga, that's real"
But damn
Why I feel faker than Snow on tha Bluff?
Well, maybe 'cause deep down I
Know I ain't doin' enough
The sun is shinin' today
The sun is shinin' today
The sun is shinin' today
Can you walk with me?
I hope we'll find the reason why
We often sob, go on, cry
Painful memories fuck up the vibe
Though I be tryin' to let
The time heal my mind
I was once a child, I've gotten older
Still, I know I'm just a boy in God's eyes
Fill me up with wisdom and some courage
Plus endurance to survive, help mine thrive