In this life ain’t no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
J. Cole, “Runaway,” Born Sinner, 2013
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The sky is falling, the wind is calling,
Stand for something, or die in the morning.Kendrick Lamar, “HiiPower,” Section.80, 2011 -
I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now,
If they don’t know your dreams, they can’t shoot ‘em down.J. Cole, “Too Deep For The Intro,” Friday Night Lights, 2010 -
They tell me ‘find God’ like I don’t know where He at.
And if He lost, then why we followin’ Him?
Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists,
And a Devil’s alive…I’m just caught in the mix.Fashawn, “Nothin’ for the Radio,” from Higher Learning Vol. 2, 2011 -
He’s fallin’ apart, but we deny it,
Justifying that half-ass shit he dropped, we always buy it.
When he tell us he a genius, but it’s clearer lately
It’s been hard for him to look into the mirror lately.
There was a time when this nigga was my hero, maybe,
That’s the reason why his fall from grace is hard to take.
‘Cause I believed him when he said his shit was purer and he
The type of nigga swear he real, but all around him’s fake:
The women, the dickriders, you know, the yes men,
Nobody with the balls to say somethin’ to contest him.
So he grows out of control,
Into the person that he truly was all along, it’s startin’ to show.
Damn, wonder what happened?
Maybe it’s my fault for idolizing niggas
Based off the words they be rappin’.J. Cole, “False Prophets,” Dreamville, 2016