Note To Self (自我提醒) - J. Cole
Lyrics by：Ronald Gilm
Composed by：Ronald Gilm
Produced by：J. Cole/J. Cole/Ronald Gilmore
And wherever we go
And whatever we do
And whatever we see
And whoever we be
It don't matter
It don't matter
I don't mind cause you don't matter
I don't mind cause I don't matter
(And don't sh*t matter)
You'll see in the end
I've got a feeling that there's somethin' more
Something that holds us together
Something that holds us together
The strangest feeling but I can't be sure
Something that's old is forever
Something that's old is forever
Love
Love
Love
Love
And wherever we go
And whatever we do
And whatever we see
And whoever we be
It don't matter
It don't matter
I don't mind cause you don't matter
I don't mind cause I don't matter
(And don't sh*t matter)
You'll see in the end
Yeah ni**a, Forest Hills Drive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
We made it, baby!
As we speak the last sample just cleared.
Thank you to whoever in Japan,
Just cleared that sh*t.
Turn my vocal up
And turn the headphones down a little bit.
I gotta do my thank you's man
I didn't have enough time to
Turn my thank you's for that
For the artwork,
So f**k it.
I'm a do it right now
This is the credits.
This is role credits ni**a,
If you don't wanna sit through
The credits get your a** up
And walk out the movie theatre.
First and foremost my entire Dreamville team,
Thank you man.
Before that I'm buggin, thank you God!
Oh my God.
Everything happened too perfectly and in line,
This whole thing
Thank you God.
Thank my Dreamville family.
Mez who f**kin' sleep right now,
That ni**a ain't even recording
Niggas been working' hard mna,
Mez I'm proud as f**k of you man,
For real you killed this sh*t.
Ib what up.
El Presidente what up!
We killed this sh*t ni**a,
We killed this sh*t ni**a!
I don't give a f**k
If we sell 3 copies ni**a,
We killed this sh*t ni**a!
My ni**a Adam,
I'm proud of y'all man, for real.
Ron Gilmore, my ni**a.
Yes, Camille, yes that's my sister.
Casey,
That's like a father figure right there, Casey.
I love you man
My brother Ced, wow,
We done came a long way
From the Ville,
My ni**a Felton, you killed it,
You killed that Friday night Lights sh*t ni**a
And you killed this one too man.
I should a been coming to you man.
You only do the classic though,
That's what it is, for real.
My ni**a Mike Shaw shiggity,
You already know
Where he at right now
Posted up somewhere in D.R.
My ni**a RJ Trump Trump gettin'
That motherf**kin' bread,
You know what it is man.
My ni**a Diz, I see you,
I see your vision,
I believe in you.
I love y'all niggas.
Big D, thank you man for real.
(Teddy what up) (Shotgun)
We believe in y'all,
(Proof!) you and the fiends,
My ni**a Bassy Badass, Bas, Bas, Bas,
I can't believe it ni**a!
(Marquis Jones) You changed your life,
Man, keep goin'.
Keep goin', the sky is the limit.
F**k that, man,
Super Mooking Fiends.
It's Super Mooking Fiends ni**a!
My ni**a Depp,
You know what I mean?
Razzle Dazzle,
Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite what up!
What up man,
My ni**a Reagan put in them hours!
My ni**a Omen, man,
Elephant Eyes,
That sh*t is a confirmed classic, man.
Dreamville,
We only did confirmed classics so far,
That's all we doin'.
Yo Elijah! Aye if we go diamond,
Ni**a you got the triple crown, man.
First 50, then Usher,
Ni**a you f**kin' out of here.
But we might go wood though.
Nervous Reck, man,
Congratulations to you, brother,
I love you.
(At least go silver) Filthy,
I love you too, man.
I know you feel a way about me right now
But I love you.
Yo shout to the young niggas, man.
Forreal,
We blessed to have y'all on board, man,
We feel so grateful
Cozz, that Cozz
And Effect is a mothaf**kin' classic, ni**a.
I be ridin' my bike through
Manhattan listenin' to
That sh*t, man.
I've been livin' with
That sh*t for like the past 4 days,
I finally got a chance to slow down.
That sh*t is a classic, my ni**a.
Congratulations to you.
We don't give a f**k what it sold,
I don't even know
What that sh*t sold to tell you the truth, man.
And I'm proud of you, man.
I'm proud of you and your homeboys.
Y'all it's really gon' be great to watch y'all grow.
I'm appreciatin' watchin' y'all grow
More than more than we did!
I get to relive it all again
And actually appreciate it this time.
Shout out to the whole committee, man.
Tone, Meez, what up.
My ni**a Money Makin Matt,
What up man?
Treat them boys right, man
Everybody that was involved in makin' this album,
My ni**a Jack
Who's at the board right now,
What's up man!?
Yo you made the album, man!
We gon' live forever, man!
You gotta loop the beat up right
Now though cause
It can't okay Raph,
Wreck-It-Raph,
Perfect Sound Studios,
LA we couldn't have did it without you.
My ni**a Dave Linaburg,
Nate Jones,
Yolanda, TS,
Kaye Fox came through and killed it.
My ni**a Quick with the clean versions,
Vinylz killed that beat! My ni**a Phonix,
Oh that beat is hard!
Dahi brought that beat,
Who does that?
Pop and Oak, my ni**a Pop,
Thank you man,
And Willie B,
I never met you,
But you did the beat.
Mind you killed the beat,
Social Experiment,
My ni**a Jeff on the guitar,
You know what I mean?
Nuno did the mothaf**kin' strings,
I appreciate that sh*t, man!
We gon' pay you.
Hey, the horn players that came through,
I don't know y'all names
But y'all killed that sh*t, man,
We was lovin' that sh*t!
Shout out to all the girls
On the mothaf**kin' strings.
We appreciate it.
Guess that sh*t a little wild,
I ain't gon' lie. Uh,
Maybe that was my fault,
I set y'all up with Wreck-It-Raph.
But it's all good,
We still killed it though.
And all the mothaf**kin' samples that cleared,
Thank you,
Y'all be tryin' to give a ni**a
A hard time on the samples, man!
I'ma go to the f**kin'
Supreme Court and try to make
This sh*t easier for niggas like me
To clear these samples, man.
If you made the f**kin' music,
And you made the art,
And you put it into the world,
I should be able to use it
However the f**k I want.
I'ma pay you, I'ma give you a percentage,
But you shouldn't
Be able to tell me I can't use it.
That's f**kin'
That's f**ked up ni**a.
You was inspired by the world;
Allow the world to be inspired
By your sh*t and to use your sh*t.
So all them people like (censored)
Or whoever that don't let niggas use they sh*t,
F**k that man.
It's 2014, 2015 by the time
You might hear this sh*t.
F**k that man we movin' on
Man, shout out Drizzy Drake,
Kendrick Lamar, Wale,
I'm so happy to be peers with y'all niggas
And consider y'all niggas friends.
And I'm sorry I had
To come snatch the crown right quick.
I had to do it to show niggas it ain't
No more motherf**kin' crowns man.
We gotta be the example,
We gotta show these niggas man,
It's love at the top.
Can't you believe,
It's crazy to believe we sitting right here in
These mother f**kin' seats right now.
15 years ago we was lookin'
At these niggas like
"man we gotta be these niggas!".
Now we those niggas,
But it's our responsibility to show
These niggas man it's love up here.
Niggas want beef,
Niggas want drama,
F**k that we comin' together
Shout out to everybody
In Ferguson right now still ridin',
Still ridin'.
Everybody else asleep,
Y'all still ridin'.
And it's bigger than Ferguson,
Man that sh*t is f**kin' nationwide man.
We gotta come together,
Look at each other,
Love each other.
I fell like we are what another
We share a common story ni**a that's pain,
Struggle.
And guess what man,
We can come together,
And that's one things that's gon' do it,
That's love. I'm just telling y'all,
That's a Public Service Announcement
Back to this sh*t, yo. ByStorm,
I love y'all niggas man,
No matter what. Wayne, Just,
Mark goes you my baby brother
Fret we don't leave the businees
Bigger tonight
MK thank you man you came on board
And killed it.
Natalya, what's up!
My ni**a Julius Garcia,
I already shouted you out
But I shouted out your alias
And I just put your
Whole government on record
And this gon' live forever. Tisha, Tisha,
You know I love you Tisha!
Future the Prince,
Thank you for those conversations man
I needed that
Roc Nation daamnn,
We feel like a family now man, forreal.
It was always family
But it's so ill to see us come
Together on this album,
Thank y'all very much man.
Thank y'all for believing,
I know this is a scary idea,
I don't know if it's gonna work or not,
As I speak, I don't gave a f**k! F**k man,
I'm just happy we did this sh*t.
Shout out to Nelly,
Ted, Christina,
Chaka I love you,
Jeff what up, Jay-Z, Hov, holla!
Jay Brown what up!
Rich Kleiman
Ty-Ty, my ni**a Emory,
You know what it is
Shout out to Interscope.
Yeah, Joey I.E, 'preciate you,
Janet, Gary, Steve Berman, yeah.
Columbia, we love y'all man, damn.
I'm runnin out of breath and sh*t.
I'm sad this is my last album with Columbia,
It's not my fault it's all contractual,
But I love the f**k out of y'all,
We made relationships there
That ain't never going away
(Lisa Wiggins!!).
Ain't never know
What the future holds man.
We hope we can do business some day. April,
Thank you very much my baby,
Ayelet, you are a legend,
We f**kin' love you
CJ same to you man,
Y'all been killin' this sh*t for years,
Thank you man, thank you.
Rob Stringer,
Thank you sir,
Joel Klaiman, yes sir.
The whole sales team, production,
Marketing team.
My man B Nolan
Who drove us around in a f**kin' van
And a SUV and showed us
All about the radio game, man.
And we ain't had no hits,
All we had was f**kin' "Who Dat."
Tryin' figure this sh*t out man
And I figured it out.
B Nolan I finally figured it out.
I know you like damn
This ni**a talking to me,
I'm talking to you man.
Cause you used to hear us stressin' over this sh*t,
And I finally figured it out man.
Don't none of that sh*t matter yo.
I came all this way,
All the way from Fayetteville,
North Carolina.
Went to New York City got
This motherf**kin' record deal.
Put out some classics,
Put out some singles.
Had my ups,
Had my downs.
Came all this way
Just to learn one thing man,
And only one f**kin' thing matters
And that's your happiness.
And the only way you gon' get to
That happiness is through love,
Real, geniuine, motherf**kin' love man.
Not the fake sh*t,
Not the Hollywood sh*t,
Not the niggas giving you props
So you think you the sh*t.
Not motherf**kers knowing you
So you think you famous.
Not niggas seeing your whip
And they want your whip
So you feel good cause they want your whip.
Or they want your b**ch,
So you feel better,
F**k that, real love.
Where your crib is at ni**a
Where your heart is at,
Where your home is at,
Where your mom is at,
Where your girl is at
Mimi what up! I'm f**kin' up my words,
I don't care.
How am I not gon' shout out Mimi man,
F**k that sh*t keep the tape rollin'.
We still goin'. Wassup man!
Forest Hills Drive we gon' do this sh*t,
If you ain't listening to this sh*t,
I don't give a f**k,
Ni**a it's the f**kin' credits.
Don't nobody stay
For the movie credits anyway man
My Mama OOOOOOOOOOOH,
I love you! I'm so grateful,
Blessed to have you.
Still in my life,
A lot of people ain't got
Their mothers in they life still
And I recognise that I'm blessed.
Mama I love you.
Zach I love you.
My pops I love you.
James Cole I love you,
Jackie I love ya.
My whole family I love ya.
I'm so grateful man, thank y'all.
It all came full circle
And I had to put this sh*t out in 2014.
We barely made,
Yo Ib we barely made it ni**a.
We barely f**kin' made it
But we f**kin' made it man.
F**k y'all,
But I love y'all at the same time man
Man look,
Y'all really wanna know who did it?
I'mma tell y'all
Who did this sh*t man. Man,
Dale Earnhardt jr dawg.
I'm never gon' forget,
This is gonna sound crazy
But I'm never gonna forget
That sh*t you told me yo.
Forreal Dale Earnhardt jr man,
Thank you dawg.
From the bottom of my heart.
That sh*t you said to me changed my life man.
And I ain't never gon' forget,
Ever forreal. For real Dale,
Form me to you,
You my ni**a man, forreal.
I love you boy.
And Jonah hill
Oh Jonah Hill!
How could I forget Jonah Hill!
Yo, that sh*t you told me
When we was in the elevator,
Ni**a that sh*t changed my.
I'm just f**kin' playin',
I don't know either one of
Those two dudes.
I don't know either one of them niggas,
I was in the moment. I just lied,
I don't give a f**k
2014 Forest Hills Drive.
Cole World man.
Thank y'all for listening.
If you made it this far
Then I really f**k with you.
Until the next time,
I don't know when
That's gonna be but,
One love baby!
Love
Love
Love
Love
