[Verse 1: Bas] They putting prices on heads, silver or lead I pray the scores settle 'fore the devil notice you dead Got me smoking the potent, my eyes open and Otis, they red Thoughts of my eye roam and words that I hoped I had said That aunty sippin on, we missin ya Even tho you gone, your thought alone can lift us up This is us Got some n***as never call me 'less they need something But I pick up, like, "wha**up, what you need cousin?" My n***as know that I love 'em Give 'em roses while they can smell 'em Cause ain't no tellin' who'll be here tomorrow Used to borrow your digital scale Flippin' them sales But now it's digital dash while you're still in the past Boy, trust me when I tell you, the picture got much bigger The swishers and dutch fill up b**hes in lust with us Momma would dissapprove, losing my way Lost in the sauce, this bolognese is so amazing Had a talk and she remark: "you so engaging" Running game, it's all the same I'm growing jaded Had a couple things in common, like Lonnie Lynn But I'm too faded for conversatin' I'm sittin' here contemplatin' how to win [Hook: J Cole](x2) Time keeps slipping away, away Another day another love song, hey Another day another love song, hey [Verse 2: J Cole] Yeah Cousin in jail again, asking me for bail again Close when I was 12, but I was much frailer then He was like 16, a n***a from the gutter and Years ago his favorite uncle had married my mother and Here we are, runnin' through the Ville like dumb and dumber and For that summer man I swear I wish you was my brother then Well time pa**ed and we fell off cause you moved back home Little did you know Jermaine done grew a new back bone n***as thought he wouldn't make it 'till he proved that wrong 12 years later on the radio that Who Dat song Your homeboy bumps the Warm Up now you buggin' Cause you looking at the cover and you say "Yo that's my cousin" And n***as looking at you like you lying but you wasn't Next thing I know you blowing up my line all a sudden And I'm showing love saying "yo look what I did Man, nobody coming from here ever did this sh** this big" But now you saying "Man enough about you sh** what about me, my n***a what about me? Oh you forgot about me?" Same n***as showed you how to rap, now you don't know how to act Boy I'm at the bottom you could pull a n***a out of that Put me in a video, yo put me on your hottest track Bring me on the road with you, you know 'cuz got yo back And I'm strapped up if them n***as act up See you headed to the top you need to let me catch up Please let me catch up Won't you let me catch up man" "I'll see you when I see you Harsh as it seems to say, I wouldn't want to be you Bail you out for your daughter and I pray to God A n***a never pull your card or she won't ever get to see you" [Hook]