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

[00:00.0]a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e (Explicit) - J. Cole
[00:00.95]Lyrics by：J. Cole
[00:01.91]Composed by：J. Cole
[00:02.87]Yeah
[00:04.46]Yeah
[00:06.26]Yeah n***a
[00:06.9]One two one two one
[00:07.88]The Off-Season
[00:08.62]One two one two one two one
[00:10.24]The Off-Season n***a
[00:13.2]We offing n***as
[00:13.69]Ayy that's right
[00:14.43]F**k you talkin' 'bout
[00:15.64]That's right ayy
[00:17.21]Offing n***as
[00:18.6]Yeah hey yeah
[00:20.27]Vocal up a little more hey
[00:22.84]Uh applying pressure
[00:24.48]Started my grind where crime festers
[00:26.21]And nines showing like they in they second trimesters
[00:28.97]Crazy
[00:29.09]That's why when n***as throw a shot or two online
[00:31.17]I pay no mind to their benign gestures
[00:33.16]Mm
[00:33.57]N***a please I got my mind on much bigger things to say the least
[00:37.03]My latest speeches sound like they was released by David East
[00:39.6]What up East
[00:40.18]Verses hit hard never pitched hard or played the streets
[00:42.53]These n***as' whips hard behind closed doors can't pay the lease
[00:45.55]Uh
[00:46.34]Ain't nothin' wrong with livin' check to check 'cause most have to
[00:48.68]I understand that
[00:49.19]Instead of cappin' why don't you talk about being a broke rapper
[00:51.49]I don't understand that
[00:52.11]That's a perspective I respect because it's real
[00:54.28]What it's like to be nice as f**k
[00:55.43]But got to stress to pay the bills
[00:57.26]That was me in '08 seein' no cake
[00:59.61]Not even on dates I celebrated my birth
[01:02.02]Just did the mental math and calculated my worth
[01:04.34]S**t crazy didn't know I got more M's than a real Slim Shady video
[01:07.61]I'm the real Shady
[01:08.65]Big Boss less Rick Ross more like a wavy Hideo
[01:11.19]Kojima they tote steamers around the way we tippy-toe
[01:14.17]'Round crack vials and cold-blooded killers no reptiles
[01:17.1]Just projectiles from n***as salty you rockin' the fresher textiles
[01:20.79]I seen best pals grow up and switch
[01:22.59]I hate to see it
[01:23.28]Sometimes over a couple dollars more often over a b***h
[01:25.29]Ah I hate to see it
[01:26.14]I can cap and say that I never scratched my jealousy's itch
[01:28.53]But thank God I conquered that 'cause if not I'd never be rich
[01:31.41]Envy keep your pockets empty so just focus on you
[01:34.0]If you broke and clownin' a millionaire the joke is on you
[01:37.020004]Money ain't everything I never say that
[01:38.93]Never
[01:39.11]But n***as throw stones knowin' they sell they soul to get wherever they at
[01:42.33]Come on man
[01:42.82]Just know these verses is some s**t they gon' forever playback n***a
[01:45.61]Come on n***a
[01:47.15]Hell yeah
[01:48.9]Ooh
[01:50.53]F**k you know what it is n***a
[01:54.0]Don't even dare
[01:55.39]N***as try to act like they don't b***h
[01:58.64]That's why I gotta flex sometimes
[01:59.91]'Cause n***as just try to act like you just not that motherf**kin' n***a like
[02:04.95]Like you just really don't do it how you do it
[02:07.37]Like n***as will really try to act like you don't do what you do
[02:10.19]N***a look you dead in your face
[02:12.25]And really act like you don't do it to the level that you do it
[02:15.35]That's why sometimes you gotta come through
[02:16.98]And just do it at the level
[02:18.57]That you do it in front of every n***a face
[02:21.26]So they know the difference between you the real n***as
[02:24.70999]And the mothaf**kin' fraudulent n***as man
[02:27.39]Don't never get it f**ked up
[02:29.15]If a n***a can't do it like you do it
[02:30.64]Sometimes you gotta do it in front of his f**kin' face
[02:32.91]So he'll know forever
[02:33.9]"D**n that n***a did it how I always wanted to do it
[02:35.53]And I'll never be able to do it like that"
[02:37.3]B***h it's a difference
[02:38.36]Ah
[02:38.51]These are the same ones telling our people
[02:40.82]What we are and we aren't
[02:42.19]Because we're just not working hard enough
[02:44.69]And that mentality is what we're up against today
[02:47.64]But this is good to know because this time
[02:50.17]When we March on the Capitol
[02:51.75]You can go ahead and let 'em know long before we get there
[02:53.87]We're coming to get that check