Dead Presidents - J. Cole

[00:00.59]Let me try this
[00:04.83]Money coming soon
[00:06.23]I'm out for Presidents to represent me
[00:07.82]Omen what up bitch?
[00:11.91]Gimme my money, man, why else would a nigga be grinding?
[00:14.69]Out for them diamonds, dog, how else could a nigga be shining?
[00:17.42]I'm glowing, knowing that the flow intact
[00:19.72]Get this record deal, I swear to God, my first 'mil I'm blowing that!
[00:22.78]Like **** it I know I'll grow it back, friend, it's nothing
[00:25.24]Funny how blacks spend dough on mad shit for stuntin'
[00:28.04]But shit, that's all we know man, that's how a friend is raised
[00:30.85]You learn bout two things: getting pussy, getting paid
[00:33.53]And you should be gettin' laid by the time you in ninth grade
[00:36.21]So friends lying on their dicks and hoes giving nice brain, yeah
[00:39.45]In class dreamin' bout having these nice things
[00:41.71]And then you look around and wonder why you strugglin'
[00:43.94]But them whites ain't
[00:44.91]I brush it off like, '**** it, it's motivation.'
[00:47.45]Some niggas gotta walk through life, some niggas roller skating
[00:50.07]Some niggas bypassing steps, some niggas chose to take 'em
[00:53.04]And for that fortune, man, some niggas sold their soul to Satan
[00:55.53]But **** it man, I ain't hatin,' I gotta go for mine
[00:58.17]My little God-sister pregnant now, I put in overtime
[01:00.84]On my grind, yea, just like the nigga making Folgers
[01:03.95]I'm focused, on my bite, like a cobra, I'm tryna get my Oprah on
[01:06.34]These hoes is crying cuz I won't pay 'em attention
[01:09.57]Time is money, nigga, and a nigga payin tuition
[01:11.97]Real niggas hustle by using their intuition
[01:14.56]While these fake niggas ain't into doing, they into wishin,'
[01:23.12]I'm out for Presidents to represent me
[01:27.43]I'm talking Benjamins, nigga
[01:31.34]Grants, nigga
[01:34.23]From Washingtons, man
[01:37.13]Tired of those
[01:38.50]Yeah!
[01:39.82]Till I'm rich, ain't no reason to settle nigga
[01:42.29]Its greed that make a nigga wink at the devil to get that cheese
[01:45.38]You niggas couldn't think at my level, even with trees
[01:48.19]You couldn't get this deep with a shovel, now nigga, please
[01:50.91]I'm chasing G's tryna throw some diamonds on them freeze
[01:53.67]Sick shit, sneeze on some thousand-dollar sleeves
[01:56.30]Ease to the top and I'm not finna leave till I'm hot
[01:59.57]But my watch gotta breeze, a south nigga
[02:02.20]Boy, I'm shining without the diamonds in my mouth
[02:04.24]Out grindin' while you reclining on your couch
[02:06.38]I'm climbing, you haters blinded by the doubt
[02:08.50]My niggas riding is devout
[02:09.72]So talking violence out yo' mouth
[02:11.18]And you gonna find what I'm about, nigga!
[02:13.07]Far from a slouch, nigga, I ain't gonna parle with y'all
[02:15.61]I'll probably hit ya, my hand game like Bobby Fisher
[02:18.72]But check, them checks is all a nigga thinking
[02:20.81]For them Presidents, I'll treat a nigga like Lincoln