a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e (Clean)

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

Lyrics by：J. Cole

Composed by：J. Cole

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah n***a

One two one two one

The Off-Season

One two one two one two one

The Off-Season n***a

We offing n***as

Ayy that's right

F**k you talkin' 'bout

That's right ayy

Offing n***as

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

Crazy

That's why when n***as throw a shot or two online

I pay no mind to their benign gestures

Mm

N***a please I got my mind on much bigger things to say the 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 n***as' 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 f**k

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

S**t 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 n***as 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 b***h

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 n***as throw stones knowin' they sell they soul to get wherever they at

Come on man

Just know these verses is some s**t they gon' forever playback n***a

Come on n***a

Hell yeah

Ooh

F**k you know what it is n***a

Don't even dare

N***as try to act like they don't b***h

That's why I gotta flex sometimes

'Cause n***as just try to act like you just not that motherf**kin' n***a like

Like you just really don't do it how you do it

Like n***as will really try to act like you don't do what you do

N***a 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 n***a face

So they know the difference between you the real n***as

And the mothaf**kin' fraudulent n***as man

Don't never get it f**ked up

If a n***a can't do it like you do it

Sometimes you gotta do it in front of his f**kin' face

So he'll know forever

"D**n that n***a did it how I always wanted to do it

And I'll never be able to do it like that"

B***h 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