[00:00.00]Dollar And A Dream (Explicit) - J. Cole (J. 科尔) [00:00.39]Lyrics by:Jermaine Cole [00:00.78]Composed by:Jermaine Cole [00:01.17]Produced by:Just Blaze [00:01.56]Yeah uh [00:03.16]This for all my ville niggas man [00:04.61]All my Carolina niggas man [00:05.90]The lights off and **** [00:06.54]All my real niggas no matter where you come from and **** [00:09.40]We gon' call this **** right here"A Dolla And A Dream" [00:11.71]A dolla and a dream that's all a nigga got so [00:14.28]Yeah [00:14.58]If it's about that cream then I'm all up in the spot [00:17.10]I was raised in the F-A-Y a nigga never gave me nothing [00:20.71]Pops left me I ain't never cry baby **** him that's life [00:24.44]And trust me I'm living look what a nigga made out [00:27.42]The **** that I was given look what a nigga came out [00:30.45]Momma sewing patches on my holes [00:32.23]Man our h*es couldn't put this flame out [00:34.37]Straight up I got my back against the brick wall [00:36.89]Yeah [00:37.23]I'm from a world where niggas never pop no Cristal it was pistols [00:41.42]You pass through you better pray them bullets miss y'all [00:44.26]I thank the Lord He let a nigga make it this far [00:47.14]A lot niggas don't a lot of moms weep [00:49.73]Yeah [00:50.14]I gotta carry on all the weight is on me [00:52.93]You never know when a nigga might try to harm me [00:55.54]Rest In Peace that nigga John Lee I pour liquor homie [00:58.57]It's foul but yo the world keeps spinning [01:01.48]Gotta keep winning get up off this cheap linen [01:04.27]Nigga I'mma eat even if it means sinning [01:07.11]Niggas want beef I'ma sink my teeth in 'em [01:09.86]Pause I go harder [01:11.14]Yeah [01:11.47]I am all about a dollar [01:12.53]Yeah [01:12.85]You niggas street smart? [01:14.08]I'm a ************* scholar [01:15.69]So trust me I ain't stopping 'til my money is long [01:18.20]So much dough them h*es will think I'm rocking money cologne [01:21.09]Have a model at the crib waiting"Honey I'm home" [01:24.03]Cooking greens for a nigga give him plenty of dome [01:26.65]It's funny we dream about money so much it's like we almost got it [01:30.38]Until we reach up in our pockets [01:31.93]Damn [01:32.31]It's time to face reality [01:33.56]Yeah [01:33.88]The ville is a trap nigga now [01:35.68]And if you ain't focused you gonna be here for a while yeah [01:38.90]My nigga Mike rolling with me riding shotgun [01:41.74]Type a nigga know about every car but don't got one [01:44.44]That's hunger no wonder niggas ******* with the evils [01:47.36]Posted on the corner selling crack like its legal [01:50.05]But who am I to judge how a nigga get his paper? [01:52.93]This money coming soon dog I'm tryna get my cake up [01:55.82]I guess I gotta wake up these niggas myself [01:58.36]Uh-huh [01:58.89]An E&J sipper but my **** is top shelf [02:01.43]Young J [02:02.08]Uh [02:02.56]The rawest **** you niggas ever heard of [02:04.15]Yeah [02:04.54]A journalist nigga call me the Fayetteville Observer [02:07.24]Uh yeah [02:07.90]Yeah [02:10.40]You know the routine man [02:12.53]Fayettnam [02:14.74]Real niggas can relate [02:17.48]And Ville niggas can relate man [02:21.17]My niggas know about the struggle man [02:24.78]What you know about your momma sewing patches on your holes nigga? [02:29.95]I had the light blue jeans with the green patches haha oh **** [02:37.31]I was in like first grade man I swear [02:42.91]It was like the Sixes came out the Jordan Sixes [02:47.80]Them **** was so fly man I wanted them so bad [02:49.99]Darryl what up man? [02:50.95]My nigga Darryl had them ****s on in class yo [02:53.91]I wanted that **** so bad [02:56.46]I begged my mom for that **** you know [02:59.19]But she couldn't afford it yo she gave me [03:02.37]Got me some Reeboks Blacktops ahaha [03:06.55]But that was all good tho cuz uh [03:08.29]The year after that I had I had some some no name ****s [03:11.56]Some all black ****s haha [03:13.81]Them ****s had metal metal shoelace buckles and **** you know? [03:20.32]But you know back then niggas didn't [03:22.49]Niggas ain't even know we was broke man no worries and **** [03:26.54]But uh times have changed man I got bills [03:35.50]My mom is in debt what you know about that? [03:39.44]College loans and **** nigga [03:46.00]Gotta get this money ma