A p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e Songtext

von J. Cole

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, nigga
The Off-Season
The Off-Season, nigga
We off of niggas
The fuck you talkin' 'bout?
Off of niggas (yeah, yeah)

Uh, applying pressure
Started my grind with crime festers
And now it's showing like they second trimesters
That's why a nigga's throwing shout out to online
I pay no mind to their benign gestures

Nigga, please, I got my mind on much bigger things to say the least
My latest beat just sound like they
Was released by David East (what up East?)
Ver3s hit hard, never pitched hard or played thе streets
These niggas whips are bеhind closed doors, can't pay the lease, uh

Ain't nothin' wrong with livin' check to
Check 'cause most have to (I ain't sayin' that)
Instead of cappin'
Why don't you talk about being a broke rapper? (I ain't sayin' that)
That's a perspective I respect because it's real
What it's like to be nice as fuck, but have 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
Shit crazy, didn't know I have more M's
Than a real Slim Shady video (all I'm sayin' is)
Big Boss, less Rick Ross more like a wavy Hideo
Kojima, they tote steamers around the way we tippy-toe

'Round crack vibes and cold-blooded killers no reptiles
Just projectiles (pew, pew, pew) from niggas salt to you rockin' the fresher textiles
I seen your best pals grow up and switch (I hate to see it)
Sometimes over a couple dollars, more often over a bitch
I can cap and say 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 niggas throw stones knowin' they sell
Soul to get wherever they at (come on, man)
Just know these verses is some shit they
Gon' forever playback, nigga (come on, nigga)

Hell yeah, woo
Fuck, you know what it is nigga
Don't even dare
Niggas try and act like they a bitch
That's why I gotta flex sometimes
'Cause niggas tryna act like you not that motherfuckin' nigga like
Like you just really don't do it how you do it
Like niggas really try to act like you don't really do what you do

Nigga 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 nigga face
So they know the difference between you
The real niggas, and the mothafuckin' fraudulent niggas, man
Don't never get it fucked up

If a nigga can't do it like you do it sometimes you just
Gotta do it in front of his fuckin' face so he'll know forever
"Damn, that nigga did it how I always wanted to"
"Do it and I'll never be able to do it like that"
Bitch there's a difference, ow