Carolina on My Mind

[Intro: J. Cole]

Yeah

This joint is called "Carolina On My Mind"

Uh (Carolina)

Shout out to Deacon on the hook

Yeah (Fayettenam)

Shout out to By Any Means

Yeah, listen (Let's go)

[Verse 1: J. Cole]

Alive and still kickin', nigga, I survived the 'Ville

But a lotta will not, so they wield Glocks and Bonnevilles

Niggas lyin', still get high, they ride and kill

Money hungry, tryna find a meal, can't stay inside and chill

Lil' niggas thinkin', "Fuck school, I'm finna sign a deal"

Huntin' hoes, trappin' niggas, lyin' like they on the pill

Preacher say we blessed, but all we feel is stressed, tryna deal

If this liquor don't help, nigga, this marijuana will

Roll up and take a shot for them niggas behind the steel gates

My mind is still racin', I'm tryna kill snakes

'Cause niggas is fake, but wait, time reveals, so

Never mind, that real shit is what I'm tryna build

It's kinda ill how I'm givin' y'all that Carolina feel

A nigga so deep, you tryna find me, dog, you gotta drill

It's kinda ill how I'm givin' y'all that Carolina feel

A nigga so deep, you tryna find me, dog, you gotta drill, yeah

Yo, comin' home, y'all (DJ OnPoint)

[Chorus: J. Cole]

Any given time (Uh), got the city on my mind (Yeah)

The city on my mind (Yeah), the city on my mind (Yeah)

I'm ridin' 'round, feelin' like the city, it is mine (Yeah)

The city, it is mine (Yeah), the city, it is mine (Hey)

At any given time, Carolina on my mind (Yeah)

Carolina on my mind, Carolina on my mind

He said, "I feel your pain, nigga, but I'm tryna go for mine" (Uh)

I'm tryna go for mine, I'm tryna go for mine

[Verse 2: J. Cole]

Hey, ayy, fuck them hoes, let them bunnies be

Perfect vision, I'm 20/20 for this money, G

See, it's funny, you get that paper, then them honeys show

'Cause they know we finna blow like a runny nose

Money goes, money come

Barely twenty-one, I'm thinkin' big things

Mama in the mansion with the fish tanks

The Carolina way

If you in college, then you know the crime won't pay

Long as you find a way, fuck what them niggas is tryna say

'Cause in Carolina, we thorough

My niggas hold it down all the way from Fayettenam to the G-Boro

And up in Winston, and Raleigh, did I mention?

The Bull City got them old fake niggas flinchin'

Tar Heel State, you either shootin' or you hoopin', yo

Niggas can't wait for the Panthers to win the Super Bowl

So shout out to them super cold niggas up in Charlotte

No matter the city, man, Carolina shine, regardless

Yeah (Yo)

Comin' home, nigga

[Refrain: Deacon]

Ridin' big in an old-school Chevy

With the windows down when I'm rollin' through my city like oh

On my way to meet up with a freak and

My nigga drunk beatin', she can hear me down the street, she like, "Oh"

Blew game and I do my thing

Ain't tryna settle down, I ain't shoppin' for no ring, oh no (Yeah, shout out to J. Cole)

Ridin' with my niggas for the weekend

With the Carolina sounds pumpin' out the speakers like oh (Told you my nigga got some shit)

[Outro]

We people who are darker than blue (Shout to Amador, Junior, 14th Street)

Are we gonna stand around this town and let what others say come true? (Can't forget my nigga G, Scheme, Downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, and DeKalb)

We're just good for nothing, they all figure, a boyish, grown-up, shiftless jigger

Now we can't hardly stand for that, or is that really where it's at?

We people who are darker than blue

This ain't no time for segregatin', I'm talkin' 'bout brown and yellow too

High yellow gal, can't you tell you're just the surface of our dark, deep well?

If your mind could really see, you'd know your color the same as me

Pardon me, brother, as you stand in your glory

I know you won't mind if I tell the whole story