Chaining Day - J. Cole

Look at me, pathetic nigga

This chain that I bought, greed, pain and fame this a heinous result

Let these words be the colors I’m just paintin’my heart

I’m knee deep in the game and it ain’t what I thought

Copped the Range Rover my girl got the Mercedes

Iced out crazy I wanna shine like Baby

Compared to that nigga I ain’t even got a bib yet

Truth be told I ain’t even bought a crib yet

This is everything they told a nigga not to do Image is everything I see, it got a lot to do With the way that people perceive, and what they believe

Money short so this jewelry is like a weave

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and hear niggas say I see you

Now bitches wanna fuck you and niggas wanna be you

And police wanna stop you, frisk you, wonder what he do If a hater snatch a chain I bet it still won’t free you

Cause I’ll be right back grinding till I cop another

I sit and think 'bout all the shit I could’nt cop my mother

My partner say that’s just a game my nigga

That’s what I heard my jeweler say?

chain my nigga

This is chaining day

Chaining day, my chaining day

This is my chain today

My last piece, I swear

My guilt heavy as this piece I wear

They even iced out Jesus’hair

My last piece, I swear

They even iced out Jesus’hair

Iced on this white Jesus, seem a little unholy

Real strange thing about this iced out Rollie

It’s the same shit a broke black nigga get gassed at The same shit a rich white mo’fucka laugh at Well laugh on white man, I ain’t paid as you

But I bet your rims ain’t the same age as you

And I ain’t got no investment portfolio

But my black and white diamonds shinin’like a Oreo

I know back home where niggas sit today

You rock a chain and they always got some shit to say

Even back when I was broke I knew his shit was fake

He’d prolly sneeze too hard and his shit could break

But hey, you know the sayin', «Fake it 'til you make it»

Me, I did the opposite, made it then I faked it And acted like I gave a fuck, money I was savin’up

Then copped a crib that’s gated till that hundred racks, I gave it up