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J Cole - Take My Phone Lyrics

[Verse]

You see, we're living in a crisis
A space we occupy and operate on an everyday basis
Built for comm U-N-I-T-Y, sis –
Why suffer in silence, my brother?
Long time ago, my mother told me stay offline
Father only just got online with WhatsApp
Parents were once clueless like 'What's that?'
Now even your Grandparents got a tripod and a drone packed in their rucksack
But back to us youts, though
Shit, I'm an adult – forgot time once moved slow
Better rush if you want a Hublot
Better do something mad if you wanna go viral
Many folks like you and I know it's all about TikTok
But if I'm honest, the way they're watching us, I’d wanna keep my kids off
Since they're coming for us all like all the tax money that the king robbed
Oh, God. Please save us peeps on the streets
Pray your revolution's living in these lyrics on these beats
Big up to Avelino; I'm just another tan gent, ranting about
How it's harder to find a good girlfriend than open up to the mandem
Nowadays I see more lads being dads pushing prams and the moms these days got more interest in raising their profile on Instagram
Than their child, not concerned for the future
Just the new stuff
That the bad chicks got off of O-F, not Odd Future
Just funds from the news and simps for views
Sugar daddies tricking, just ‘cause they got it
Don’t mean they’re exempt and I ain’t tryna be rude
I guess whatever you gotta do to get your food
And fulfil your empty voids
Only to end up in even more of a bottomless pit
I spit this to feed the youts, hope they take the words from my tongue, but I am no Dalai Lama, these days I don’t even claim to be wiser
I’d think twice about taking a Phizer
My bredrin had a seizure, I mean seizure
And couldn’t memorise, uh
What happened before the flight, uh
All that pharmacuetical I can’t buy, uh
Even if the NHS is free
Join in to emphasise mmmm with me
To a degree, I feel sorry for all those
Under the spell
Hypnotised, no B-I-G-G-I-E
I lost the T-O-P-I-C
O-K, I G-O-T I-T
Nobody cares even if you’re trending
So don’t go get get go bending over backwards
Or telling all your business like I do (TMI)
About what I been through just like you
So hopefully you can go to your true family and friends to ask what they think
Before you go venting to social media
Hoping someone who can or needs help observes it
Help yourself with a professional shrink
The PMSing no bother to these people
You could be online bleeding out – they’ll watch you die on a steeple
So evil, this world full of so many steep hills
The stunting ain’t [even] worth it neither
Leave it to Evil Knievel
Glad before I touch the sky I can pen my thoughts to this refill
Just talking, I’m still walking
Many times it was just suicide I was resorting to
But the thoughts of you left with a Mom
Who’s so selfish, how selfishly stupid could I be to[o] be searching for love online that I was blind to, thinking I would find, thinking I was fine (it was mine)
Struck by Cupid, but let’s put that behind us
16 months later, a boy entered the world
It was you, kid
Since then, been begging repentance for sins
I put in these sentences equivalent to a YouTube vid
Vlogging, jogging my mind for memories
These things run amok on me and through it I can’t stop l, it’s 24/7 around the clock
These days my son my familia and my music is what’s familiar and all that I’ve got
[Refrain]

But I better put the pen down though
See I’ve doing too much like Sisqo
Been crying too much like Tyrese
A little extra coming like K-Ci
Come off the phone, put that thing down, please
Jheeze, Louise
Too many things be bringing you down below the knees
So at least change what you choose to see
‘cause you ain’t smiled in so long
Gonna end up with triple wrinkles like Paul Levesque, I bet if you don’t quit put pit pit that crown frown
Turn your sad world upside down
This world sometimes only as bad as you make it
So you gotta take it by the horns and curate your playlist
Turn off your radio, check your radius and what’s in it
Tune out all the toxic noise, the screechy voices
Playing all day like modern Britney
Are you with me? Do you feel me?
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Do you feel me? Are you with me?