The Pessimist - Wale feat J. Cole
[Jerry:] Oh so there's still hope?
[George:] I don't want hope, hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless.
When you're hopeless you don't care, and when you don't care, that indifference, it makes you attractive
[Wale:]
A n_gga feelin' hopeless
Who am I to change perception?
If a n_gga kill a n_gga he's another statistic
If his skin's a little different they gon' say it was self defense
N_gga feelin' hopeless
Starin' at the idiom box, riddle me this
If a killer was a n_gga would n_ggas still really care
Cause n_ggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere
N_ggas hopeless
Small n_ggas with big tools
Couldn't get to Harvard, hard work, he hard whipped
Cause them hardy hah's and hard nights
Are hard to live through
When you hopeless
What we gotta do to be winnin'?
Cause all the schools gettin' closed
Dribble a little, coach, shootin' at a foe
Cause they chargin' them to hoop at community center
My n_gga, hopeless
25 bands, he was shootin' not a damn givin'
Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers
Throwin' back their fat ass, is my glasses confused?
We're the hopeless
America's dream and nightmare in the same being
Even when being polite here
N_ggas try to bring me down, the life of a pioneer
Lightyears worth of hopeless
Celebrities celebratin' disgust me
The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on
Watchin' "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta" as we speak
N_gga we hopeless
Okay, the Steebie show is on
And so my broad rollin' weed now she's mad at me
Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father
Said, "You n_ggas all hopeless"
[Hook - J Cole:]
Got a pocket full of lint again, but it make no difference to me
Fallin' out with my friends again, but it make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless
Oh man I'm hopeless
Got no gas in my tank again, but it make no difference to me
Overdraft at the bank again, but it make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless
Lord knows I'm hopeless
Still I pray
[Wale:]
N_gga feelin' hopeless
Like a Penny with a hole in it
We as empty as a corazon of a widow
From a soul that she don't know when he's comin' home
He don't got no limit, hopeless
What's a purple heart to a hurt head?
He done done 12 years, he was told 6
Prolly go back in a minute, ain't sh_t here
N_gga so hopeless
Thoughts are ravaging in the whole crib
Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge
On the pills, some bills, two kids, one leg
N_gga so hopeless
A lot of black cops always clap back
And some foul white cops always on deck
Playin' race card, guarantee you'll make a blackjack
N_gga so hopeless
Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have sh_t
And we ain't vocal as rap
N_ggas cause we don't mope unless we trap hits
N_gga hopeless
Look at what I go through to show you
N_ggas respect money, money respect power
And power, we never given unless
A n_gga catch, shoot or dribble
We are hopeless
Nah you ain't out here for the culture
You finna riot, without a purpose
You ain't a mothaf_ckin' rider, you a f_ckin' token, posin'
N_gga hopeless
Of course not literal
But why complain about the man
When a n_gga with my skin
The same problems with them I had
Is out there killin' n_ggas too?
Eat your food, n_gga
[Hook]
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