[00:04.70]J.cole-The good son

[00:12.82]Allow me to set the scene first

[00:14.63]This little n-gga no older than 17 in a Martin Luther King *****rt

[00:19.20]Walking down the mean merc where the fiends lurk

[00:22.09]And the same dirt'll find a n-gga

[00:23.83]Even if you tryna get that clean work

[00:26.17]He caught eyes with a bad ***** in a jean skirt

[00:29.24]She gave him a mean smurk, he smiled back

[00:31.72]He remember this man that hit that *****t a while back

[00:34.81]He met her, f-cked her, never dialled back

[00:37.63]How n-ggas do? he kept it moving, couldn't wait to get home

[00:40.76]Report card for his mother couldn't wait to get shown

[00:43.77]Straight A's as usual, his momma would smile

[00:47.29]Youngest child, college bound

[00:48.95]Knew his momma was proud

[00:50.14]Cause he was headed out the hood

[00:51.85]He promised himself one day he'd get her out for good

[00:54.87]That made him smile

[00:56.08]The favourite child, but damn, fate is foul

[00:58.92]Drive by, stray bullets that laid him out

[01:01.86]On the pavement fading out

[01:03.33]Now he bleeding thinking, God, man, you couldn't wait a while

[01:06.21]My momma struggling who gon save her now, huh?

[01:09.05]Now he fading out thinking God, you couldn't wait a while?

[01:12.63]My momma need me, who gon save her now, n-gga? uh

[01:18.95]Yeah, he's fading out, her favourie child

[01:23.16]He's fading out