[00:00.00]A lot + m y l i f e - J.Cole / 21 Savage
[00:00.50]I love you
[00:02.23]Turn my headphone down a little bit yeah
[00:04.39]
[00:05.18]For so many reasons
[00:06.78]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:10.67]I do
[00:11.20]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:13.30]
[00:13.85]Yeah yeah ah ah whoa whoa whoa yeah
[00:19.93]How much money you got
[00:21.23]Straight up
[00:21.66]How much money you got
[00:22.84]Straight up
[00:23.26]How much money you got
[00:24.50]Straight up
[00:24.91]How much money you got
[00:26.07]A lot
[00:26.64]How much money you got
[00:27.60]A lot
[00:28.21]How many problems you got
[00:29.25]A lot
[00:29.86]How many people done doubted you
[00:31.02]A lot
[00:31.44]Left you out to rot
[00:32.65]A lot
[00:33.16]How many pray that you flop
[00:34.21]A lot
[00:34.78]How many lawyers you got
[00:35.86]A lot
[00:36.40]How many times you got shot
[00:37.51]A lot
[00:38.10]How many n***as you shot
[00:39.20]A lot
[00:39.78]How many times did you ride
[00:40.78]A lot
[00:41.32]How many n***as done died
[00:42.46]A lot
[00:42.97]How many times did you cheat
[00:44.07]A lot
[00:44.63]How many times did you lie
[00:45.71]A lot
[00:46.33]How many times did she leave
[00:47.30]A lot
[00:47.91]How many times did she cry
[00:49.04]A lot
[00:49.60]How many chances she done gave you ****** around with these thots
[00:52.26]A lot
[00:52.59]Every day that I'm alive I'ma ride with the stick
[00:55.98]I'd rather be broke in jail than be dead and rich
[00:59.08]Told my brothers take my breath if I turn to a snitch
[01:02.26]But I'm 21 4L ain't no way I'ma switch
[01:05.20]
[01:05.95]Break it down I break it down
[01:09.13]I break it down I break it down
[01:12.38]I break it down I break it down
[01:15.59]I break it down I break it down
[01:18.72]
[01:19.23]Penitentiary chances just to make a couple bucks
[01:22.29]My heart so cold I could put it in my cup
[01:25.66]Gang vs. the world me and my dawg it was us
[01:28.49]Then you went and wrote a statement
[01:30.25]And that really ****** me up
[01:32.13]My brother lost his life and it turned me to a beast
[01:35.35]My brother got life and it turned me to the streets
[01:38.85]I been through the storm and it turned me to a G
[01:41.88]But the other side was sunny I get paid to rap on beats
[01:45.45]How much money you got
[01:46.44]A lot
[01:47.05]How many problems you got
[01:48.13]A lot
[01:48.75]How many people done doubted you
[01:49.97]A lot
[01:50.38]Left you out to rot
[01:51.40]A lot
[01:52.03]How many pray that you flop
[01:53.12]A lot
[01:53.67]How many lawyers you got
[01:54.69]A lot
[01:55.30]How many times you got shot
[01:56.41]A lot
[01:56.98]How many n***as you shot
[01:57.99]A lot
[01:58.60]How many times did you ride
[01:59.70]A lot
[02:00.28]How many n***as done died
[02:01.32]A lot
[02:01.96]How many times did you cheat
[02:03.04]A lot
[02:03.53]How many times did you lie
[02:04.62]A lot
[02:05.15]How many times did she leave
[02:06.29]A lot
[02:06.77]How many times did she cry
[02:07.89]A lot
[02:08.50]How many chances she done gave you
[02:10.06]**** around with these thots
[02:11.14]A lot
[02:11.76]Break it on down I break it on down
[02:14.79]I break it on down I break it on down
[02:17.62]Yeah I just came from the A
[02:19.04]I drove back home six-hour drive six-and-a-half
[02:22.01]
[02:25.53]Before I left
[02:26.04]I stopped by to see my n***a 21 in the studio
[02:28.32]
[02:30.68]He had two of his kids with him right in the studio
[02:32.82]That's when I knew
[02:33.65]
[02:34.21]You a stand-up n***a I love seein' **** like that
[02:36.23]
[02:36.77]Question
[02:37.29]
[02:38.17]How many faking they streams
[02:39.16]A lot
[02:39.79]Getting they plays from machines
[02:40.91]A lot
[02:41.41]I can see behind the smoke and mirrors
[02:42.75]N***as ain't really big as they seem
[02:44.18]Hmm
[02:44.70]I never say anything
[02:45.85]Nah
[02:46.25]Everybody got they thing
[02:47.48]True
[02:47.89]Some n***as make millions other n***as make memes
[02:50.86]Hmm
[02:51.28]I'm on a money routine
[02:52.78]I don't want smoke I want cream
[02:54.46]I don't want no more comparisons
[02:55.86]This is a marathon and I'm aware
[02:57.20]I been playing it back from a lack of promotions
[02:59.00]I never was one for the bragging and boasting
[03:00.49]I guess I was hoping the music would speak for itself
[03:02.40]But the people want everything else
[03:03.92]Okay no problem I'll show up on everyone album
[03:05.89]You know what the outcome will be
[03:07.21]I'm batting a thousand
[03:07.91]It's got to the point that these rappers
[03:09.19]Don't even like rappin' with me
[03:10.53]**** it 'cause my n***a 21 Savage just hit me
[03:12.57]And told me he saved me a spot on a new record he got
[03:14.89]He call it"a lot" I open my book and I jot
[03:17.06]Pray for Tekashi they want him to rot
[03:18.64]I picture him inside a cell on a cot
[03:20.32]'Flectin' on how he made it to the top
[03:21.98]Wondering if it was worth it or not
[03:23.68]I pray for Markelle 'cause they ****** up his shot
[03:25.21]Just want you to know that you got it my n***a
[03:26.88]Though I never met you I know that you special
[03:28.53]And that the Lord blessed you don't doubt it my n***a
[03:30.36]Dennis Smith Jr. stay solid my n***a
[03:31.91]I'm on a tangent not how I planned it
[03:33.65]I had some fans that hopped and abandoned ship
[03:35.34]When they thought that I wasn't gon' pan out
[03:36.80]I got a plan
[03:37.54]They say that success is the greatest revenge
[03:39.24]Tell all your friends
[03:40.12]Cole on a mission
[03:40.78]Cementin' the spot as the greatest that did it
[03:42.56]Before it all ends n***a
[03:43.93]How much money you got
[03:44.97]A lot
[03:45.48]How many problems you got
[03:46.50]A lot
[03:47.15]How many people done doubted you
[03:48.27]A lot
[03:48.74]Left you out to rot
[03:49.76]A lot
[03:50.41]How many pray that you flop
[03:51.39]A lot
[03:52.05]How many lawyers you got
[03:53.16]A lot
[03:53.66]How many times you got shot
[03:54.73]A lot
[03:55.32]How many n***as you shot
[03:56.39]A lot
[03:57.01]How many times did you ride
[03:58.03]A lot
[03:58.56]How many n***as done died
[03:59.68]A lot
[04:00.27]How many times did you cheat
[04:01.35]A lot
[04:01.84]How many times did you lie
[04:02.97]A lot
[04:03.53]How many times did she leave
[04:04.73]A lot
[04:05.16]How many times did she cry
[04:06.32]A lot
[04:06.83]How many chances she done gave you
[04:08.46]**** around with these thots
[04:09.56]A lot
[04:10.14]Break it on down I break it on down
[04:13.18]I break it on down I break it on down
[04:16.53]I break it down I break it down
[04:19.75]I break it down I break it down
[04:23.08]I break it on down I break it down
[04:26.34]I break it down I break it down
[04:29.65]I break it down I break it down
[04:32.95]I break it down I break it down I br-
[04:36.83]Spiralin' up just like a rich n***a staircase
[04:39.45]Spiral up
[04:40.21]No fly zone please stay the **** out my airspace
[04:42.65]Out my face
[04:43.59]N***as say things behind backs that they wouldn't dare say
[04:46.07]Dare say
[04:47.11]Know it's on sight when I see you
[04:48.53]I'm workin' at Squarespace
[04:49.65]Yeah top of the mornin'
[04:51.37]I know that you thought I was dormant
[04:53.01]Woke up early from shots that were swarmin'
[04:54.28]A block full of opps now the cops in an orbit
[04:56.21]Guess somebody got popped now they knockin' on doors
[04:58.07]Tryna find an informant but I ain't see Nathan
[04:59.92]I'm mindin' my business as God is my witness
[05:01.63]No weapon gon' prosper that's formin' against me
[05:04.19]N***a I'm starvin' immensely
[05:05.55]Know when I'm done with these songs
[05:06.84]You gon' miss me
[05:07.61]Ja Morant I'm on my Grizzly
[05:09.37]You n***as just cubs but no
[05:10.53]Not the ones in the big leagues
[05:11.60]After The Fall Off
[05:12.39]I promise I'm comin' to sellin' out Wrigley's
[05:14.48]N***a I'm just a product of poverty
[05:16.78]Full of narcotics to profit off quickly
[05:18.68]My family tree got a history of users that struggle with demons
[05:21.37]Not really the hustler instincts
[05:22.81]Therefore often my pockets was empty
[05:24.68]So while some of my partners was servin' up rocks on the corners
[05:26.94]The project assemblies
[05:28.14]Me I was startin' to envy
[05:29.84]Wanna be on the top where it's plenty
[05:31.42]Wanna be in the spot like where every ***** want me
[05:33.45]Like Rihanna droppin' new Fenty
[05:34.80]What I see in the sky the 'Ville is the ceilin'
[05:36.90]Can't reach up too high evidently
[05:38.52]Nah **** I can't reach up too high evidently
[05:41.84]Never seen no one drivin' a Bentley
[05:43.47]I can't be out here moppin' up Wendy's
[05:45.05]
[05:45.83]My life is all I have
[05:49.10]My rhymes my pen my pad
[05:52.24]And I done made it out the struggle don't judge me
[05:55.67]What you sayin' now won't budge me
[05:59.12]'Cause where I come from
[06:00.37]Come from
[06:01.00]So often
[06:01.68]So often
[06:02.59]People you grow up with layin' in a coffin
[06:05.98]But I done made it through the pain and strife
[06:08.98]It's my time now my world my life my life
[06:13.57]Say what
[06:14.17]The stuff that I've seen got me traumatized
[06:15.82]I let the K go when Johnny died
[06:17.53]Swangin' that muh*****' side to side
[06:19.15]We don't participate ain't with that squashin' ****
[06:21.03]All we believe in is homicide
[06:22.62]I got a good heart
[06:23.59]So I send teddy bears every time we make they mommas cry
[06:26.32]I pray that my past ain't ahead of me
[06:28.02]21
[06:28.35]When I'm in love I love heavily
[06:29.45]On God
[06:30.09]If you betray me you dead to me
[06:31.29]21
[06:31.72]I disrespect you respectfully
[06:32.95]Straight up
[06:33.35]I got some partners who left this Earth
[06:35.02]Maybe the pain made a better me
[06:36.35]On God
[06:36.91]Just know that they secrets is kept with me
[06:38.23]On God
[06:38.61]I feel like the streets is in debt with me
[06:40.04]Straight up
[06:40.23]I gave my heart away to all the dawg h*es
[06:42.14]'Cause that's who accepted me
[06:43.19]21
[06:43.67]I blame my pops for that ****
[06:44.76]'Cause if he didn't fail he could've corrected me
[06:46.74]21
[06:47.04]Give all the props to my momma
[06:48.30]'Cause no matter what she always protected me
[06:50.14]On God
[06:50.58]I promise you it ain't no checkin' me
[06:51.91]On God
[06:52.28]Jump in the water get wet with me
[06:53.59]Straight up 21 21
[06:55.47]You want my money or wanna have sex with me
[06:57.04]Can't let the opps or the law get the best of me
[06:58.85]I get to answerin' you get to testin' me
[07:00.43]I see chicken you n***as is breast to me
[07:02.15]
[07:03.87]Planted a seed but it ain't a sesame
[07:05.46]Can't let you n***as or ******* grow next to me
[07:07.97]My life is all I have
[07:11.43]My rhymes my pen my pad
[07:14.57]And I done made it out the struggle don't judge me
[07:18.09]What you sayin' now won't budge me
[07:21.39]'Cause where I come from
[07:22.74]Come from
[07:23.26]So often
[07:24.11]So often
[07:24.75]People you grow up with layin' in a coffin
[07:27.99]But I done made it through the pain and strife
[07:31.27]It's my time now my world my life my life