Immortal

Immortal - J. Cole

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Now I was barely seventeen with a pocket full of hope

Screamin' dollar and a dream with my closet lookin' broke

And my ni**a's lookin' clean gettin' caught up with that d**e

Have you ever served a fiend with a pocket full of soap

Ni**a I can tell you things that you probably shouldn't know

Have you ever heard the screams when the body hit the floor

Flashbacks to the pain wakin' up cold sweats

Six o'clock in the mornin' gotta hit the bowflex

Get my weight up on the block keep watch for the cops

God they love to serve a ni**a three hots and a cot

Nowadays crime pays like a part time job

And the drought got me prayin' for a car time vibe

Summer rain come again

Numb the pain 'cause it's hard for a felon

In my mind I been cryin'

Know it's wrong but I'm sellin'

Eyes wellin' up with tears

Thinkin' 'bout my niggas dead in the dirt

Immortalized on this shirt

Real niggas don't die

Forward with the plot

One seven forty five

For him at the plot

Real niggas don't die

Form him on the block

Hood niggas don't lie

For him in the plot

My niggas don't die

For him on the block

Real niggas don't die

For him on the block

Real niggas don't die

Real niggas don't die

Have you ever seen a fiend cook crack on the spoon

Have you ever seen a ni**a that was black on the moon

Have you ever seen your brother go to prison as you cried

Have you ever seen a motherf**kin' ribbon in the sky

Nope all I see is that cream ni**a that green

I'm a black king black jeans on my black queen

And her a** fat too fat for a flat screen

I'm the type of ni**a make the whole f**kin' trap lean

Kingpin ni**a put wings on a crack fiend

If they want a ni**a they gon' have to send a swat team

And I'm goin' out like scarface in his last scene

A legend what that mean

Real niggas don't die

Forward with the plot

One seven forty five

Form at the plot

Real niggas don't die

Form on the plot

Hood niggas don't lie

Form on the plot

My niggas don't die

For 'em the block

Real niggas don't die

For 'em the block

Real niggas don't die

Real niggas don't die

To die a young legend or live a long life unfulfilled

Cause you wanna change the world

But while alive you never will

Cause they only feel you after you gone or I've been told

And now I'm caught between bein' heard and gettin' old

Damn death creepin' in my thoughts lately

My one wish in this b**ch make it quick if the lord take me

I know nobody meant to live forever anyway

And so I hustle like my niggas in Virginia a

They tellin' niggas sell d**e rap or go to NBA in that order

It's that sort of thinkin' that been keepin' niggas chained

At the bottom and hanged

The strangest fruit that you ever seen

Ripe with pain listen