Mama Told Me-Omen/J. Cole

[ti:Mama Told Me] [ar:Omen] [al:Afraid Of Heights] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mama Told Me - Omen/J. Cole [00:10.71]Tryna follow my intuition as I'm on this million dollar mission [00:14.72]Mama told me I was special thank god I listened [00:17.16]My environment never let me be a pretender [00:19.46]Similar interest with them d**e boys but I was different [00:22.17]The hoop dreaming only child hyde park [00:25.17]Pimp slayers gang wars living in a lonely town [00:29.17]Who can I relate to [00:30.48]Feeling like the golden child chi city culture [00:32.80]Full of pain full of soul sinkers [00:35.04]Dead bodies in our rivers but their souls link up [00:37.86]A young black man living with unrealistic dreams [00:40.48]But luckily I've seen some unrealist things [00:43.17]A child from the city took the good route [00:45.73]Always fit in and always stood out complex [00:49.23]Layered rather show you than say it [00:51.79]Though I know my greatness is always understated [00:53.67]Mama working 12 hours days on her feet [00:56.85]Coming home cooking dinner made her son wanna weep [00:59.36]My step father working while I'm zoning the beast [01:01.98]Meanwhile my biological was roaming the streets [01:04.79]Tryna be an entertainer but my heart held love no anger [01:09.36]He yelled yeah tryna be a singer [01:12.29]I guess this just the life I was made for [01:14.92]Mama told me I was special [01:17.48]Mama told me I was special [01:20.23]Mama told me I was special [01:23.04]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [01:25.54]Mama told me I was special [01:28.29]Mama told me I was special [01:30.92]Mama told me I was special [01:33.73]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [01:37.19]Yeah truly yours j cole [01:39.47]My mama coulda been a movie star [01:41.41]Ya know like judy garland [01:42.72]I went to st johns I coulda went to juliard [01:45.28]Cause my beautiful mom mixed with my musical bond [01:47.91]Deep as a funeral line dawg I get it from my mama [01:51.03]I used to be embarrassed getting picked up in that honda [01:53.60]Thought my niggas might play me if they [01:55.42]Found out that my mama was a white lady [01:57.36]So like gravy had to cover that [01:59.10]Plus my older brother black but he look white [02:01.66]In an all black school picture what that look like [02:04.22]No wonder he was under-acheiving not believin' in himself [02:06.93]Coming home just be keeping to himself [02:09.40]Looking back through the silence he was screaming out for help [02:12.52]Maybe this verse can find the words to get the demons out himself [02:15.27]So yeah I'm exercising [02:16.52]Right now my record climbing I'm sort of a stair master [02:19.02]Niggas got there faster [02:20.27]I took the long route I never been a scared rapper [02:23.08]Boy this aint fear factor [02:24.39]They tell me can you hear the wrath spillin out these paragraphs [02:27.10]Made the world clear a path [02:28.78]Bet I'll be on top from now till [02:30.72]I'm special mama told me I was special [02:35.80]Mama told me I was special [02:38.48]Know I love her for that [02:41.79]That's right I'm special [02:43.86]Mama told me I was special [02:46.55]Mama told me I was special [02:49.27]Know I love her for that [02:52.02]Know I love her for that [02:53.46]Tell me what's the marketing plan for realness [02:55.46]What's the demographic target audience for brilliance [02:58.02]What's the first week numbers for my inspiration [03:00.71]Who can a&r this passion and this dedication [03:03.29]Name: omen this aint a verse this a revelation [03:06.04]We need some more sanaa lathan's in our population [03:08.60]I'm meetin' women I would never date [03:10.71]The kind that say they want a [03:12.33]Marriage but they really want a wedding day [03:14.14]I'm seeing groupies tryna act like they don't notice me [03:16.83]But the writings on the wall call it hoe-itry [03:19.52]My calls but that's not what my focus be [03:22.02]Music's forever my lady unlike jodeci [03:24.77]See when a leaders speaking you should simply follow suit [03:27.46]I stay in the zone like it's let me show you how to shoot [03:30.96]You know aim for the gold these are just the chronicles [03:33.27]There calling me the honorable though I am not no muslim [03:36.08]I'm feeling bro like tricky like a good sin [03:38.52]I'm somethin you've mistooken mistake them for fakeness [03:41.40]Haters don't know what you facing [03:43.48]Oh goodness oh gracious [03:44.79]They looking at greatness [03:46.54]I was special mama told me I was special [03:51.16]Mama told me I was special [03:53.97]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [03:56.67]Mama told me I was special [03:59.29]Mama told me I was special [04:01.91]Mama told me I was special [04:04.85]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:07.73]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:10.10]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:12.85]Gotta love her for that [04:15.05]Gotta love her for that (yeah) [04:18.39]Mama told me I was special