Cousins - J. Cole

They putting prices on heads, silver or lead

I pray the scores settle 'fore the devil notice you dead

Got me smoking the potent, my eyes open and Otis, they red

Thoughts of my eye roam and words that I hoped I had said

That aunty sippin on, we missin ya

Even tho you gone, your thought alone can lift us up

This is us

Got some niggas never call me 'less they need something

But I pick up, like, «whassup, what you need cousin?»

My niggas know that I love 'em

Give 'em roses while they can smell 'em

Cause ain’t no tellin' who’ll be here tomorrow

Used to borrow your digital scale

Flippin' them sales

But now it’s digital dash while you’re still in the past

Boy, trust me when I tell you, the picture got much bigger

The swishers and dutch fill up

Bitches in lust with us

Momma would dissapprove, losing my way

Lost in the sauce, this bolognese is so amazing

Had a talk and she remark: «you so engaging»

Running game, it’s all the same

I’m growing jaded

Had a couple things in common, like Lonnie Lynn

But I’m too faded for conversatin'

I’m sittin' here contemplatin' how to win

Time keeps slipping away (—how to win), away

Another day another love song, hey

Another day another love song, hey

Time keeps slipping away, away

Another day another love song, hey

Another day another love song, hey

Yeah

Cousin in jail again, asking me for bail again

Close when I was 12, but I was much frailer then

He was like 16, a nigga from the gutter and

Years ago his favorite uncle had married my mother and

Here we are, runnin' through the Ville like dumb and dumber and

For that summer man I swear I wish you was my brother then

Well time passed and we fell off cause you moved back home

Little did you know Jermaine done grew a new back bone

Niggas thought he wouldn’t make it 'till he proved that wrong

12 years later on the radio, that «Who Dat» song

Your homeboy bumps the Warm Up now you buggin'

Cause you looking at the cover and you say «Yo that’s my cousin»

And niggas looking at you like you lying but you wasn’t

Next thing I know you blowing up my line all a sudden

And I’m showing love saying «yo look what I did

Man, nobody coming from here ever did this shit this big»

But now you saying «Man enough about you

Shit what about me, my nigga what about me?

Oh you forgot about me?»

Same niggas showed you how to rap, now you don’t know how to act

Boy I’m at the bottom you could pull a nigga out of that

Put me in a video, yo put me on your hottest track

Bring me on the road with you, you know 'cuz got yo back

And I’m strapped up if them niggas act up

See you headed to the top you need to let me catch up

Please let me catch up

Won’t you let me catch up man"

«I'll see you when I see you

Harsh as it seems to say, I wouldn’t want to be you

Bail you out for your daughter and I pray to God

A nigga never pull your card or she won’t ever get to see you»

Time keeps slipping away, away

Another day another love song, hey

Another day another love song, hey

Time keeps slipping away, away

Another day another love song, hey

Another day another love song, hey