"school daze" [j.cole]

[Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again.
Yea, I sit and wish I was a kid again,
Yea I sit and wish.
I'm a little grown, but still reminisce,
Close your eyes nigga, you remember this?
Friday night football game, something I'll forever miss.
After parties in the gym, grinding underneath the rim,
You forgot your school I.d.? Fuck, nigga, you ain't getting in.
In the hallways acting like some hoodlums,
See that scrap? Naw, damn I always miss the good ones.
Them rumors spreading fast with that he say she say,
Twenty people on the phone cause everybody did three-way.
Man we played them girls for the fools, but,
Wasn't no ladies like them ladies from other schools,
Cause seeing them same old chicks got tired quick
She was just fucking my boy, now she all on my dick, gossip, damn.
Another chick pregnant, another nigga gone,
I reminisce on all the chicks a nigga never bone,
Pardon me ya'll I'm just flipping through some Kodaks,
Sitting, wishing I could go back.]

J.cole:
Man I felt that verse in my soul bro.
This  particular verse really got me thinking about the past (and it still does). I graduated high school in 2011 and that's around the time I really started taking a liking to your music , your sound , etc... Um, and then I heard "skool daze" and was like "this nigga is just like me (well, was just like me, you get it) , he been through the same shit I have, and he made it out." One thing in particular we both have in common is our absentee fathers; I think yours been gone for awhile ( don't know how long) but mine has been gone as long as I've been living; I finally got to meet my pops when I was 14 , and he's still hardly around but i think he's apologetic. Though I've forgiven him it's still apart of me that's like "nigga why you dip? Nigga why you dip?" Just like , those questions that plague the back of my mind that I wanna ask him but fear it'll leave me answer less and tear us further apart . I don't know...

I don't even know if you'll ever see this my nigga , I'm just saying , I just wanted to let you know how much your music has changed my life and inspired me to keep going through with this college shit and this rap dream. I don't think people know the real Jermaine cole and that's detrimental to how you're perceived in the game, a lot of people don't wanna learn either but i think it's crucial we learn about you And, essentially , form a bond with you through this music shit . Cole, I feel like the level you're at now isn't even where you'll be in, say, 10 years . I say j.cole being brought up when people mention legendary rappers of the mid 2000's and beyond .

Man, thank you. And if you read this i hope you see Just how much like you inspire me, and not just me but my peers who tryna get it out here man. In hard times .

Thank you j.cole .

-Eli

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