J. Cole - a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e lyrics

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)
Fuck you talkin’ 'bout? (That's right, ayy)
Offing niggas (yeah, hey yeah)
(Vocal up a little more, hey)

Uh, applying pressure
Started my grind where crime festers
And nines showing like they
In they second trimesters (Pregnant)
That’s why when niggas throw a
Shot or two online
I pay no mind to their benign gesturеs (Mm)
Nigga, please, I got my mind
On much bigger things, to say thе 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 hard
Behind closed doors, can't pay the lease
(Uh)
Ain't nothin' wrong with livin' check to
Check 'cause most have to
(I understand that) instead of cappin'
Why don’t you talk about
Being a broke rapper?
(I don’t understand 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, seein' 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 (I'm the real Shady)
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 rockin' the fresher textiles
I seen best pals grow up and switch
(I hate to see it)
Sometimes over a couple dollars
More often over a bitch
(Ah, I hate to see it)
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 clownin' a millionaire
The joke is on you
Money ain't everything, I never say that
(Never) but niggas throw stones knowin'
They sell they soul to get wherever they at
(Come on, man)
Just know these verses is some
Shit they gon' forever playback, nigga
(Come on, nigga)

Hell yeah (O oh)
Fuck, you know what it is, nigga
Don't even dare
Niggas try to act like they don't, bitch
That's why I gotta flex sometimes
'Cause niggas just try to act like
You just not that motherfuckin' 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
Mothafuckin' 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 fuckin'
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 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)