Can't Cry (Explicit)

Can't Cry (Explicit) - J. Cole (J. 科爾)

Lyrics by：Jermaine Cole

Composed by：Jermaine Cole

Produced by：J. Cole

Yeah

Need y'all niggas to feel me yo

Feel my pain

Said soft niggas can't last hard times yo

Believe that ****

Yeah

Yeah

Aye

Aye

Real niggas don't cry

Look yo

Was just a youngin' with that fresh fade

Bird chest legs skinny

That hoop dreaming had me tryna be the next Penny

Fresh Pennys on my feet

Momma paid for everything I'm wearing

At the fair staring at girls not a care in the world

Aw nigga but **** done changed since Mane was my nickname

A little nigga chasing things tryna kick game

Now I'm a man worried about my fam

Let me explain

It's like my pockets stay broke and if not them ****'s sprained

And so I rap for my niggas trapped in the struggle

You feeling like the world's on your back so you stumble

In the field like a quarterback get sacked then you fumble

Jobs don't call a nigga back so it's back to the hustle

Niggas praying for they moms the same time they moms pray for them

Ask the Lord to stay with them guide them on they way

But damn a nigga been a lost faith

It hurts on the usual

The only time you catch me up at church is a funeral

Damn

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my nigga

The same ones you love will bring you pain my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

But I won't cry no I can't cry

And in this life times getting hard my nigga

But **** that I'm aiming for the stars my nigga

I won't stop try 'til the day I die

And I won't cry no I can't cry no

Ay ay ay yea

Listen yo

I sit back and watch the news every now and then

Either get depressed or mad from watching the world just crash

Even the weather's bad

It be the same **** got my brain twisted

Like "Damn it's '06 and niggas still up on that gang ****?"

That **** old dawg

Yesterday this kid got his whole frame split

Only seventeen he was finna graduate in like three weeks

Some stupid niggas got him for his chain

But he fought back they blasted him and left him on the pavement uh

Rest in peace

And now they telling me this little girl just got raped

Some dude snatched her she was standing at the bus stop

Wait man she was eleven

What the **** is up with this world?

Got these grown niggas ******* with girls?

Plus the cops harassing us

Every week be blasting us on accident or so they claim

Reporters sympathizing like they truly know the pain

Right

They killed her only son

Now she wanna blow her brains out

Change the channel man I can't watch this ****

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my nigga

The same ones you love will bring you pain my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

And I won't cry no I can't cry

And in this life times getting hard my nigga

But **** that I'm aiming for the stars my nigga

I won't stop try 'til the day I die

And I won't cry no I can't cry no

Take a ride through the city man tell me what you witness

Poverty richness crooked cops and misfits

Violence hatred real devastation

Neighborhoods looking like there's still segregation

Welfare single mothers no jobs

Tryna get a piece for yourself but they hogging up the whole pie

Fiends in the street so high off of that crack ****

This nigga thirteen with a gat under his mattress

Bang

White folks got the road to success mapped and that's all good

But why don't blacks got that same atlas?

I asked the same question a million ways

And it seems like I done prayed for a million days

But still the ills remain just bills and pain

Shootouts in project buildings children slain

Skies filled with rain and I just sit and wonder why

It's enough to make a nigga wanna cry but I can't though

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my nigga

The same ones you love will bring you pain my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

And I won't cry no I can't cry

And in this life times getting hard my nigga

But **** that I'm aiming for the stars my nigga

I won't stop try 'til the day I die

And I won't cry no I can't cry no

Yeah **** dedicated to my cousin Ricky man

Hoop dreams cut short man

Learned he had a baby on the way

Nigga wasn't even a senior in high school

Hold your head man