Note to Self-J. Cole

[ti:Note To Self] [ar:J. Cole] [al:2014 Forest Hills Drive] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Note to Self (Clean) - J. Cole [00:13.36]Lyrics by：Ronald Gilm [00:26.73]Composed by：Ronald Gilm [00:40.10]Produced by：J. Cole/J. Cole/Ronald Gilmore [00:53.46]And wherever we go [00:55.61] [00:59.16]And whatever we do [01:00.91] [01:04.76]And whatever we see [01:07.39] [01:10.62]And whoever we be [01:13.64] [01:16.09]It don't matter [01:17.25] [01:21.84]It don't matter [01:22.85] [01:26.25]I don't mind cause you don't matter [01:28.49] [01:32.00]I don't mind cause I don't matter [01:34.28] [01:36.32](And don't sh*t matter) [01:37.85]You'll see in the end [01:38.91] [01:44.70]I've got a feeling that there's somethin' more [01:48.11] [01:50.31]Something that holds us together [01:52.44] [01:53.23]Something that holds us together [01:55.35] [01:56.05]The strangest feeling but I can't be sure [01:59.86] [02:01.78]Something that's old is forever [02:03.87] [02:04.62]Something that's old is forever [02:06.86] [02:08.59]Love [02:09.12] [02:14.26]Love [02:15.12] [02:20.01]Love [02:21.10] [02:25.80]Love [02:27.25] [02:34.53]And wherever we go [02:36.57] [02:40.27]And whatever we do [02:42.31] [02:45.98]And whatever we see [02:48.38] [02:51.85]And whoever we be [02:54.96] [02:57.31]It don't matter [02:58.34] [03:03.15]It don't matter [03:04.08] [03:07.48]I don't mind cause you don't matter [03:09.89] [03:13.26]I don't mind cause I don't matter [03:15.66] [03:17.73](And don't sh*t matter) [03:18.97]You'll see in the end [03:20.05] [03:27.26]Yeah ni**a, Forest Hills Drive. [03:30.18] [03:31.67]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. [03:33.76] [03:34.94]We made it, baby! [03:35.77] [03:36.88]As we speak the last sample just cleared. [03:38.77]Thank you to whoever in Japan, [03:40.62]Just cleared that sh*t. [03:41.67]Turn my vocal up [03:42.29]And turn the headphones down a little bit. [03:43.87] [03:44.72]I gotta do my thank you's man [03:46.17]I didn't have enough time to [03:47.12]Turn my thank you's for that [03:48.23] [03:49.28]For the artwork, [03:49.78]So f**k it. [03:51.09] [03:51.90]I'm a do it right now [03:52.83] [03:53.99]This is the credits. [03:55.42]This is role credits ni**a, [03:56.68]If you don't wanna sit through [03:57.93]The credits get your a** up [03:59.19]And walk out the movie theatre. [04:00.25]First and foremost my entire Dreamville team, [04:03.50]Thank you man. [04:04.13] [04:04.75]Before that I'm buggin, thank you God! [04:06.80]Oh my God. [04:07.37] [04:08.64]Everything happened too perfectly and in line, [04:11.44]This whole thing [04:11.99] [04:12.79]Thank you God. [04:13.42] [04:15.57]Thank my Dreamville family. [04:16.52] [04:17.94]Mez who f**kin' sleep right now, [04:19.34]That ni**a ain't even recording [04:20.68] [04:21.91]Niggas been working' hard mna, [04:23.09]Mez I'm proud as f**k of you man, [04:24.58]For real you killed this sh*t. [04:26.09] [04:27.45]Ib what up. [04:28.42] [04:28.99]El Presidente what up! [04:30.02] [04:30.86]We killed this sh*t ni**a, [04:31.91]We killed this sh*t ni**a! [04:32.70] [04:33.37]I don't give a f**k [04:34.47]If we sell 3 copies ni**a, [04:35.46]We killed this sh*t ni**a! [04:36.70] [04:37.44]My ni**a Adam, [04:38.01] [04:39.67]I'm proud of y'all man, for real. [04:41.04] [04:41.80]Ron Gilmore, my ni**a. [04:43.43] [04:44.10]Yes, Camille, yes that's my sister. [04:47.01]Casey, [04:47.25] [04:48.18]That's like a father figure right there, Casey. [04:49.90]I love you man [04:50.63] [04:51.36]My brother Ced, wow, [04:52.00]We done came a long way [04:52.98]From the Ville, [04:53.58] [04:54.76]My ni**a Felton, you killed it, [04:56.71]You killed that Friday night Lights sh*t ni**a [04:57.91]And you killed this one too man. [04:59.37] [05:00.39]I should a been coming to you man. [05:01.80] [05:03.91]You only do the classic though, [05:05.14]That's what it is, for real. [05:07.32] [05:07.85]My ni**a Mike Shaw shiggity, [05:09.29]You already know [05:09.90]Where he at right now [05:10.79]Posted up somewhere in D.R. [05:12.36]My ni**a RJ Trump Trump gettin' [05:14.05]That motherf**kin' bread, [05:15.15]You know what it is man. [05:16.34]My ni**a Diz, I see you, [05:18.06]I see your vision, [05:18.70]I believe in you. [05:19.44]I love y'all niggas. [05:20.23] [05:21.22]Big D, thank you man for real. [05:22.95](Teddy what up) (Shotgun) [05:25.18]We believe in y'all, [05:26.20](Proof!) you and the fiends, [05:27.27]My ni**a Bassy Badass, Bas, Bas, Bas, [05:29.78]I can't believe it ni**a! [05:30.87](Marquis Jones) You changed your life, [05:32.58]Man, keep goin'. [05:33.17] [05:34.22]Keep goin', the sky is the limit. [05:35.65]F**k that, man, [05:36.38]Super Mooking Fiends. [05:37.19] [05:38.52]It's Super Mooking Fiends ni**a! [05:39.91] [05:40.72]My ni**a Depp, [05:42.05]You know what I mean? [05:43.27]Razzle Dazzle, [05:43.69] [05:45.77]Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite what up! [05:48.07] [05:49.43]What up man, [05:50.45]My ni**a Reagan put in them hours! [05:51.56]My ni**a Omen, man, [05:52.25]Elephant Eyes, [05:53.15]That sh*t is a confirmed classic, man. [05:55.22]Dreamville, [05:55.81]We only did confirmed classics so far, [05:57.90]That's all we doin'. [05:59.14]Yo Elijah! Aye if we go diamond, [06:02.26]Ni**a you got the triple crown, man. [06:03.65] [06:05.28]First 50, then Usher, [06:06.11] [06:06.80]Ni**a you f**kin' out of here. [06:08.04]But we might go wood though. [06:09.60]Nervous Reck, man, [06:10.27] [06:10.88]Congratulations to you, brother, [06:11.99]I love you. [06:12.43](At least go silver) Filthy, [06:13.25] [06:13.91]I love you too, man. [06:15.06]I know you feel a way about me right now [06:16.44]But I love you. [06:17.27]Yo shout to the young niggas, man. [06:18.60]Forreal, [06:18.75] [06:19.33]We blessed to have y'all on board, man, [06:20.72]We feel so grateful [06:21.80]Cozz, that Cozz [06:22.93]And Effect is a mothaf**kin' classic, ni**a. [06:24.92]I be ridin' my bike through [06:25.84]Manhattan listenin' to [06:26.74]That sh*t, man. [06:27.43] [06:28.00]I've been livin' with [06:28.63]That sh*t for like the past 4 days, [06:30.01]I finally got a chance to slow down. [06:31.41]That sh*t is a classic, my ni**a. [06:32.60]Congratulations to you. [06:33.93]We don't give a f**k what it sold, [06:35.77]I don't even know [06:36.62]What that sh*t sold to tell you the truth, man. [06:38.53]And I'm proud of you, man. [06:39.80]I'm proud of you and your homeboys. [06:41.45]Y'all it's really gon' be great to watch y'all grow. [06:43.84]I'm appreciatin' watchin' y'all grow [06:45.26]More than more than we did! [06:46.46] [06:47.14]I get to relive it all again [06:48.24]And actually appreciate it this time. [06:49.85] [06:50.53]Shout out to the whole committee, man. [06:51.92] [06:52.57]Tone, Meez, what up. [06:54.20] [06:54.76]My ni**a Money Makin Matt, [06:55.55]What up man? [06:56.51]Treat them boys right, man [06:57.55] [06:59.75]Everybody that was involved in makin' this album, [07:01.33]My ni**a Jack [07:01.83]Who's at the board right now, [07:02.91]What's up man!? [07:03.43] [07:03.99]Yo you made the album, man! [07:05.29]We gon' live forever, man! [07:06.15] [07:06.77]You gotta loop the beat up right [07:07.87]Now though cause [07:08.34]It can't okay Raph, [07:09.33]Wreck-It-Raph, [07:09.93]Perfect Sound Studios, [07:10.67]LA we couldn't have did it without you. [07:12.39]My ni**a Dave Linaburg, [07:13.50]Nate Jones, [07:14.29]Yolanda, TS, [07:15.07]Kaye Fox came through and killed it. [07:16.62]My ni**a Quick with the clean versions, [07:18.01]Vinylz killed that beat! My ni**a Phonix, [07:19.53]Oh that beat is hard! [07:20.85]Dahi brought that beat, [07:21.92]Who does that? [07:22.72]Pop and Oak, my ni**a Pop, [07:24.11]Thank you man, [07:24.73]And Willie B, [07:25.58]I never met you, [07:26.31]But you did the beat. [07:27.37]Mind you killed the beat, [07:28.19]Social Experiment, [07:29.09]My ni**a Jeff on the guitar, [07:30.44]You know what I mean? [07:31.39]Nuno did the mothaf**kin' strings, [07:33.29]I appreciate that sh*t, man! [07:34.47]We gon' pay you. [07:35.33]Hey, the horn players that came through, [07:37.24]I don't know y'all names [07:38.05]But y'all killed that sh*t, man, [07:39.15]We was lovin' that sh*t! [07:40.63]Shout out to all the girls [07:41.74]On the mothaf**kin' strings. [07:43.07]We appreciate it. [07:44.06]Guess that sh*t a little wild, [07:45.38]I ain't gon' lie. Uh, [07:46.39]Maybe that was my fault, [07:47.16]I set y'all up with Wreck-It-Raph. [07:48.30] [07:49.08]But it's all good, [07:49.81]We still killed it though. [07:51.05]And all the mothaf**kin' samples that cleared, [07:52.97]Thank you, [07:53.62]Y'all be tryin' to give a ni**a [07:54.79]A hard time on the samples, man! [07:56.09] [07:56.61]I'ma go to the f**kin' [07:57.57]Supreme Court and try to make [07:58.93]This sh*t easier for niggas like me [08:00.34] [08:00.92]To clear these samples, man. [08:02.43]If you made the f**kin' music, [08:04.00]And you made the art, [08:05.31]And you put it into the world, [08:06.88]I should be able to use it [08:08.12]However the f**k I want. [08:09.45]I'ma pay you, I'ma give you a percentage, [08:11.12]But you shouldn't [08:11.65]Be able to tell me I can't use it. [08:13.15] [08:13.85]That's f**kin' [08:14.60]That's f**ked up ni**a. [08:15.32] [08:16.04]You was inspired by the world; [08:17.01]Allow the world to be inspired [08:18.32]By your sh*t and to use your sh*t. [08:20.50]So all them people like (censored) [08:21.92]Or whoever that don't let niggas use they sh*t, [08:24.39]F**k that man. [08:25.74]It's 2014, 2015 by the time [08:28.06]You might hear this sh*t. [08:29.07]F**k that man we movin' on [08:30.61]Man, shout out Drizzy Drake, [08:32.37]Kendrick Lamar, Wale, [08:34.18] [08:34.73]I'm so happy to be peers with y'all niggas [08:36.20]And consider y'all niggas friends. [08:37.62]And I'm sorry I had [08:38.61]To come snatch the crown right quick. [08:40.25]I had to do it to show niggas it ain't [08:41.82]No more motherf**kin' crowns man. [08:43.75]We gotta be the example, [08:45.01]We gotta show these niggas man, [08:46.00]It's love at the top. [08:47.11] [08:47.96]Can't you believe, [08:48.47]It's crazy to believe we sitting right here in [08:50.47]These mother f**kin' seats right now. [08:51.64] [08:52.88]15 years ago we was lookin' [08:54.10]At these niggas like [08:54.80]"man we gotta be these niggas!". [08:56.25]Now we those niggas, [08:56.85]But it's our responsibility to show [08:58.43]These niggas man it's love up here. [08:59.69]Niggas want beef, [09:00.44]Niggas want drama, [09:01.12] [09:01.66]F**k that we comin' together [09:02.63] [09:03.14]Shout out to everybody [09:03.81]In Ferguson right now still ridin', [09:05.52] [09:06.27]Still ridin'. [09:07.09]Everybody else asleep, [09:08.05]Y'all still ridin'. [09:09.19]And it's bigger than Ferguson, [09:10.34]Man that sh*t is f**kin' nationwide man. [09:12.48]We gotta come together, [09:13.23]Look at each other, [09:13.90]Love each other. [09:14.53]I fell like we are what another [09:15.67]We share a common story ni**a that's pain, [09:17.79]Struggle. [09:18.66]And guess what man, [09:19.36] [09:19.95]We can come together, [09:20.50]And that's one things that's gon' do it, [09:21.88]That's love. I'm just telling y'all, [09:23.32]That's a Public Service Announcement [09:24.08]Back to this sh*t, yo. ByStorm, [09:26.14]I love y'all niggas man, [09:26.90]No matter what. Wayne, Just, [09:29.18]Mark goes you my baby brother [09:30.58]Fret we don't leave the businees [09:32.40]Bigger tonight [09:33.31]MK thank you man you came on board [09:34.85]And killed it. [09:35.67]Natalya, what's up! [09:36.96]My ni**a Julius Garcia, [09:37.78]I already shouted you out [09:39.02]But I shouted out your alias [09:40.66]And I just put your [09:41.72]Whole government on record [09:42.51]And this gon' live forever. Tisha, Tisha, [09:44.46]You know I love you Tisha! [09:45.60] [09:46.19]Future the Prince, [09:47.25]Thank you for those conversations man [09:48.53]I needed that [09:49.00]Roc Nation daamnn, [09:49.95] [09:50.54]We feel like a family now man, forreal. [09:52.40] [09:53.00]It was always family [09:54.03]But it's so ill to see us come [09:55.18]Together on this album, [09:56.20]Thank y'all very much man. [09:57.38]Thank y'all for believing, [09:58.41]I know this is a scary idea, [09:59.76]I don't know if it's gonna work or not, [10:01.15]As I speak, I don't gave a f**k! F**k man, [10:03.44]I'm just happy we did this sh*t. [10:04.97]Shout out to Nelly, [10:05.88]Ted, Christina, [10:06.42] [10:06.98]Chaka I love you, [10:07.61]Jeff what up, Jay-Z, Hov, holla! [10:11.36]Jay Brown what up! [10:12.46]Rich Kleiman [10:12.83]Ty-Ty, my ni**a Emory, [10:14.43]You know what it is [10:15.20]Shout out to Interscope. [10:16.35]Yeah, Joey I.E, 'preciate you, [10:17.90]Janet, Gary, Steve Berman, yeah. [10:20.00]Columbia, we love y'all man, damn. [10:21.60] [10:22.81]I'm runnin out of breath and sh*t. [10:23.97] [10:24.50]I'm sad this is my last album with Columbia, [10:26.42]It's not my fault it's all contractual, [10:27.71]But I love the f**k out of y'all, [10:29.26]We made relationships there [10:30.27]That ain't never going away [10:31.14](Lisa Wiggins!!). [10:31.85]Ain't never know [10:32.35]What the future holds man. [10:33.10]We hope we can do business some day. April, [10:34.90] [10:35.51]Thank you very much my baby, [10:36.54]Ayelet, you are a legend, [10:37.84]We f**kin' love you [10:39.10]CJ same to you man, [10:40.04]Y'all been killin' this sh*t for years, [10:41.95]Thank you man, thank you. [10:43.30]Rob Stringer, [10:43.65] [10:44.18]Thank you sir, [10:44.67]Joel Klaiman, yes sir. [10:46.30]The whole sales team, production, [10:48.00]Marketing team. [10:48.72]My man B Nolan [10:49.45]Who drove us around in a f**kin' van [10:51.22]And a SUV and showed us [10:52.65]All about the radio game, man. [10:53.92] [10:55.07]And we ain't had no hits, [10:56.52]All we had was f**kin' "Who Dat." [10:57.79] [10:58.53]Tryin' figure this sh*t out man [11:00.01]And I figured it out. [11:00.87] [11:01.57]B Nolan I finally figured it out. [11:02.88]I know you like damn [11:03.74]This ni**a talking to me, [11:04.63]I'm talking to you man. [11:06.04]Cause you used to hear us stressin' over this sh*t, [11:07.79]And I finally figured it out man. [11:09.55]Don't none of that sh*t matter yo. [11:10.90] [11:11.66]I came all this way, [11:12.53]All the way from Fayetteville, [11:13.42]North Carolina. [11:13.84] [11:14.90]Went to New York City got [11:15.86]This motherf**kin' record deal. [11:17.00] [11:18.64]Put out some classics, [11:19.31] [11:21.21]Put out some singles. [11:21.94] [11:23.97]Had my ups, [11:24.43]Had my downs. [11:24.94] [11:25.63]Came all this way [11:26.39] [11:27.15]Just to learn one thing man, [11:28.45]And only one f**kin' thing matters [11:29.74]And that's your happiness. [11:30.84]And the only way you gon' get to [11:32.17]That happiness is through love, [11:33.53]Real, geniuine, motherf**kin' love man. [11:36.60]Not the fake sh*t, [11:37.61]Not the Hollywood sh*t, [11:38.83]Not the niggas giving you props [11:40.18]So you think you the sh*t. [11:41.66]Not motherf**kers knowing you [11:43.08]So you think you famous. [11:43.91] [11:44.76]Not niggas seeing your whip [11:45.66]And they want your whip [11:46.60]So you feel good cause they want your whip. [11:48.63]Or they want your b**ch, [11:49.53] [11:50.15]So you feel better, [11:51.16]F**k that, real love. [11:52.00] [11:53.20]Where your crib is at ni**a [11:54.46]Where your heart is at, [11:55.26]Where your home is at, [11:56.00]Where your mom is at, [11:56.91]Where your girl is at [11:58.13]Mimi what up! I'm f**kin' up my words, [11:59.89]I don't care. [12:00.49]How am I not gon' shout out Mimi man, [12:02.40]F**k that sh*t keep the tape rollin'. [12:03.98]We still goin'. Wassup man! [12:06.01] [12:06.85]Forest Hills Drive we gon' do this sh*t, [12:08.97]If you ain't listening to this sh*t, [12:10.17]I don't give a f**k, [12:11.35]Ni**a it's the f**kin' credits. [12:12.32]Don't nobody stay [12:12.89]For the movie credits anyway man [12:14.22] [12:15.75]My Mama OOOOOOOOOOOH, [12:18.23] [12:20.27]I love you! I'm so grateful, [12:22.26]Blessed to have you. [12:23.10] [12:24.38]Still in my life, [12:25.06]A lot of people ain't got [12:25.96]Their mothers in they life still [12:26.97]And I recognise that I'm blessed. [12:27.96] [12:28.83]Mama I love you. [12:29.73] [12:31.17]Zach I love you. [12:32.06] [12:33.81]My pops I love you. [12:34.68] [12:35.72]James Cole I love you, [12:36.50]Jackie I love ya. [12:37.25] [12:38.34]My whole family I love ya. [12:39.63] [12:41.36]I'm so grateful man, thank y'all. [12:42.63] [12:43.43]It all came full circle [12:44.41]And I had to put this sh*t out in 2014. [12:46.16] [12:47.07]We barely made, [12:47.91]Yo Ib we barely made it ni**a. [12:49.16] [12:50.55]We barely f**kin' made it [12:52.04]But we f**kin' made it man. [12:53.55] [12:54.56]F**k y'all, [12:55.21] [12:56.07]But I love y'all at the same time man [12:57.62] [13:02.17]Man look, [13:02.94]Y'all really wanna know who did it? [13:04.32] [13:04.84]I'mma tell y'all [13:05.37]Who did this sh*t man. Man, [13:08.16] [13:08.97]Dale Earnhardt jr dawg. [13:10.67] [13:12.12]I'm never gon' forget, [13:12.79]This is gonna sound crazy [13:14.08]But I'm never gonna forget [13:15.08]That sh*t you told me yo. [13:16.34] [13:16.94]Forreal Dale Earnhardt jr man, [13:19.11]Thank you dawg. [13:20.05] [13:20.60]From the bottom of my heart. [13:21.80]That sh*t you said to me changed my life man. [13:23.51] [13:24.03]And I ain't never gon' forget, [13:25.25] [13:26.30]Ever forreal. For real Dale, [13:28.60]Form me to you, [13:29.23]You my ni**a man, forreal. [13:30.11] [13:31.85]I love you boy. [13:32.52] [13:34.57]And Jonah hill [13:35.56]Oh Jonah Hill! [13:36.74]How could I forget Jonah Hill! [13:37.98] [13:38.77]Yo, that sh*t you told me [13:40.24]When we was in the elevator, [13:41.22] [13:41.91]Ni**a that sh*t changed my. [13:43.00] [13:44.19]I'm just f**kin' playin', [13:45.33]I don't know either one of [13:46.28]Those two dudes. [13:46.91] [13:48.39]I don't know either one of them niggas, [13:50.17]I was in the moment. I just lied, [13:52.16]I don't give a f**k [13:53.16]2014 Forest Hills Drive. [13:54.12] [13:55.84]Cole World man. [13:56.35] [13:57.38]Thank y'all for listening. [13:58.47]If you made it this far [13:59.37]Then I really f**k with you. [14:00.44] [14:01.73]Until the next time, [14:02.31]I don't know when [14:02.91]That's gonna be but, [14:03.74] [14:05.65]One love baby! [14:06.30] [14:07.41]Love [14:07.90] [14:12.84]Love [14:13.35] [14:18.62]Love [14:19.66] [14:24.39]Love