Note To Self - J. Cole
And wherever we go
And whatever we do
And whatever we see
And whoever we be
It don't matter
It don't matter
I don't mind cause you don't matter
I don't mind cause I don't matter
(And don't shit matter)
You'll see in the end
I've got a feeling that there's somethin' more
Something that holds us together
Something that holds us together
The strangest feeling but I can't be sure
Something that's old is forever
Something that's old is forever
Love
Love
Love
Love
And wherever we go
And whatever we do
And whatever we see
And whoever we be
It don't matter
It don't matter
I don't mind cause you don't matter
I don't mind cause I don't matter
(And don't shit matter)
You'll see in the end
Yeah nigga, Forest Hills Drive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
We made it, baby!
As we speak the last sample just cleared.
Thank you to whoever in Japan,
just cleared that shit.
Turn my vocal up
and turn the headphones down a little bit.
I gotta do my thank you's man
I didn't have enough time to
turn my thank you's for that
for the artwork,
so fuck it.
I'm a do it right now
This is the credits.
This is role credits nigga,
if you don't wanna sit through
the credits get your ass up
and walk out the movie theatre.
First and foremost my entire Dreamville team,
thank you man.
Before that I'm buggin, thank you God!
Oh my God.
Everything happened too perfectly and in line,
this whole thing
Thank you God.
Thank my Dreamville family.
Mez who fuckin' sleep right now,
that nigga ain't even recording
Niggas been working' hard mna,
Mez I'm proud as fuck of you man,
for real you killed this shit.
Ib what up.
El Presidente what up!
We killed this shit nigga,
we killed this shit nigga!
I don't give a fuck
if we sell 3 copies nigga,
we killed this shit nigga!
My nigga Adam,
I'm proud of y'all man, for real.
Ron Gilmore, my nigga.
Yes, Camille, yes that's my sister.
Casey,
that's like a father figure right there, Casey.
I love you man
My brother Ced, wow,
we done came a long way
from the Ville,
My nigga Felton, you killed it,
you killed that Friday night Lights shit nigga
and you killed this one too man.
I should a been coming to you man.
You only do the classic though,
that's what it is, for real.
My nigga Mike Shaw shiggity,
you already know
where he at right now
posted up somewhere in D.R.
My nigga RJ Trump Trump gettin'
that motherfuckin' bread,
you know what it is man.
My nigga Diz, I see you,
I see your vision,
I believe in you.
I love y'all niggas.
Big D, thank you man for real.
(Teddy what up) (Shotgun)
We believe in y'all,
(Proof!) you and the fiends,
my nigga Bassy Badass, Bas, Bas, Bas,
I can't believe it nigga!
(Marquis Jones) You changed your life,
man, keep goin'.
Keep goin', the sky is the limit.
Fuck that, man,
Super Mooking Fiends.
It's Super Mooking Fiends nigga!
My nigga Depp,
you know what I mean?
Razzle Dazzle,
Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite what up!
What up man,
my nigga Reagan put in them hours!
My nigga Omen, man,
Elephant Eyes,
that shit is a confirmed classic, man.
Dreamville,
we only did confirmed classics so far,
that's all we doin'.
Yo Elijah! Aye if we go diamond,
nigga you got the triple crown, man.
First 50, then Usher,
nigga you fuckin' out of here.
But we might go wood though.
Nervous Reck, man,
congratulations to you, brother,
I love you.
(At least go silver) Filthy,
I love you too, man.
I know you feel a way about me right now
but I love you.
Yo shout to the young niggas, man.
Forreal,
we blessed to have y'all on board, man,
we feel so grateful
Cozz, that Cozz
and Effect is a mothafuckin' classic, nigga.
I be ridin' my bike through
Manhattan listenin' to
that shit, man.
I've been livin' with
that shit for like the past 4 days,
I finally got a chance to slow down.
That shit is a classic, my nigga.
Congratulations to you.
We don't give a fuck what it sold,
I don't even know
what that shit sold to tell you the truth, man.
And I'm proud of you, man.
I'm proud of you and your homeboys.
Y'all it's really gon' be great to watch y'all grow.
I'm appreciatin' watchin' y'all grow
more than more than we did!
I get to relive it all again
and actually appreciate it this time.
Shout out to the whole committee, man.
Tone, Meez, what up.
My nigga Money Makin Matt,
what up man?
Treat them boys right, man
Everybody that was involved in makin' this album,
my nigga Jack
who's at the board right now,
what's up man!?
Yo you made the album, man!
We gon' live forever, man!
You gotta loop the beat up right
now though cause
it can't okay Raph,
Wreck-It-Raph,
Perfect Sound Studios,
LA we couldn't have did it without you.
My nigga Dave Linaburg,
Nate Jones,
Yolanda, TS,
Kaye Fox came through and killed it.
My nigga Quick with the clean versions,
Vinylz killed that beat! My nigga Phonix,
oh that beat is hard!
Dahi brought that beat,
who does that?
Pop and Oak, my nigga Pop,
thank you man,
and Willie B,
I never met you,
but you did the beat.
mind you killed the beat,
Social Experiment,
my nigga Jeff on the guitar,
you know what I mean?
Nuno did the mothafuckin' strings,
I appreciate that shit, man!
We gon' pay you.
Hey, the horn players that came through,
I don't know y'all names
but y'all killed that shit, man,
we was lovin' that shit!
Shout out to all the girls
on the mothafuckin' strings.
We appreciate it.
Guess that shit a little wild,
I ain't gon' lie. Uh,
maybe that was my fault,
I set y'all up with Wreck-It-Raph.
But it's all good,
we still killed it though.
And all the mothafuckin' samples that cleared,
thank you,
y'all be tryin' to give a nigga
a hard time on the samples, man!
I'ma go to the fuckin'
Supreme Court and try to make
this shit easier for niggas like me
to clear these samples, man.
If you made the fuckin' music,
and you made the art,
and you put it into the world,
I should be able to use it
however the fuck I want.
I'ma pay you, I'ma give you a percentage,
but you shouldn't
be able to tell me I can't use it.
that's fuckin'
that's fucked up nigga.
You was inspired by the world;
allow the world to be inspired
by your shit and to use your shit.
So all them people like (censored)
or whoever that don't let niggas use they shit,
fuck that man.
It's 2014, 2015 by the time
you might hear this shit.
Fuck that man we movin' on
Man, shout out Drizzy Drake,
Kendrick Lamar, Wale,
I'm so happy to be peers with y'all niggas
and consider y'all niggas friends.
And I'm sorry I had
to come snatch the crown right quick.
I had to do it to show niggas it ain't
no more motherfuckin' crowns man.
We gotta be the example,
we gotta show these niggas man,
it's love at the top.
Can't you believe,
it's crazy to believe we sitting right here in
these mother fuckin' seats right now.
15 years ago we was lookin'
at these niggas like
"man we gotta be these niggas!".
Now we those niggas,
but it's our responsibility to show
these niggas man it's love up here.
Niggas want beef,
niggas want drama,
fuck that we comin' together
Shout out to everybody
in Ferguson right now still ridin',
still ridin'.
Everybody else asleep,
y'all still ridin'.
And it's bigger than Ferguson,
man that shit is fuckin' nationwide man.
We gotta come together,
look at each other,
love each other.
I fell like we are what another
We share a common story nigga that's pain,
struggle.
And guess what man,
we can come together,
and that's one things that's gon' do it,
that's love. I'm just telling y'all,
that's a Public Service Announcement
Back to this shit, yo. ByStorm,
I love y'all niggas man,
no matter what. Wayne, Just,
Mark goes you my baby brother
fret we don't leave the businees
bigger tonight
MK thank you man you came on board
and killed it.
Natalya, what's up!
My nigga Julius Garcia,
I already shouted you out
but I shouted out your alias
and I just put your
whole government on record
and this gon' live forever. Tisha, Tisha,
you know I love you Tisha!
Future the Prince,
thank you for those conversations man
I needed that
Roc Nation daamnn,
we feel like a family now man, forreal.
It was always family
but it's so ill to see us come
together on this album,
thank y'all very much man.
Thank y'all for believing,
I know this is a scary idea,
I don't know if it's gonna work or not,
as I speak, I don't gave a fuck! Fuck man,
I'm just happy we did this shit.
Shout out to Nelly,
Ted, Christina,
Chaka I love you,
Jeff what up, Jay-Z, Hov, holla!
Jay Brown what up!
Rich Kleiman
Ty-Ty, my nigga Emory,
you know what it is
Shout out to Interscope.
Yeah, Joey I.E, 'preciate you,
Janet, Gary, Steve Berman, yeah.
Columbia, we love y'all man, damn.
I'm runnin out of breath and shit.
I'm sad this is my last album with Columbia,
it's not my fault it's all contractual,
but I love the fuck out of y'all,
we made relationships there
that ain't never going away
(Lisa Wiggins!!).
Ain't never know
what the future holds man.
We hope we can do business some day. April,
thank you very much my baby,
Ayelet, you are a legend,
we fuckin' love you
CJ same to you man,
y'all been killin' this shit for years,
thank you man, thank you.
Rob Stringer,
thank you sir,
Joel Klaiman, yes sir.
The whole sales team, production,
marketing team.
My man B Nolan
who drove us around in a fuckin' van
and a SUV and showed us
all about the radio game, man.
And we ain't had no hits,
all we had was fuckin' "Who Dat."
Tryin' figure this shit out man
and I figured it out.
B Nolan I finally figured it out.
I know you like damn
this nigga talking to me,
I'm talking to you man.
Cause you used to hear us stressin' over this shit,
and I finally figured it out man.
Don't none of that shit matter yo.
I came all this way,
all the way from Fayetteville,
North Carolina.
Went to New York City got
this motherfuckin' record deal.
Put out some classics,
put out some singles.
Had my ups,
had my downs.
Came all this way
just to learn one thing man,
and only one fuckin' thing matters
and that's your happiness.
And the only way you gon' get to
that happiness is through love,
real, geniuine, motherfuckin' love man.
Not the fake shit,
not the Hollywood shit,
not the niggas giving you props
so you think you the shit.
Not motherfuckers knowing you
so you think you famous.
Not niggas seeing your whip
and they want your whip
so you feel good cause they want your whip.
Or they want your bitch,
so you feel better,
fuck that, real love.
Where your crib is at nigga
where your heart is at,
where your home is at,
where your mom is at,
where your girl is at
Mimi what up! I'm fuckin' up my words,
I don't care.
How am I not gon' shout out Mimi man,
fuck that shit keep the tape rollin'.
We still goin'. Wassup man!
Forest Hills Drive we gon' do this shit,
if you ain't listening to this shit,
I don't give a fuck,
nigga it's the fuckin' credits.
Don't nobody stay
for the movie credits anyway man
My Mama OOOOOOOOOOOH,
I love you! I'm so grateful,
blessed to have you.
Still in my life,
a lot of people ain't got
their mothers in they life still
and I recognise that I'm blessed.
Mama I love you.
Zach I love you.
My pops I love you.
James Cole I love you,
Jackie I love ya.
My whole family I love ya.
I'm so grateful man, thank y'all.
It all came full circle
and I had to put this shit out in 2014.
We barely made,
yo Ib we barely made it nigga.
We barely fuckin' made it
but we fuckin' made it man.
Fuck y'all,
but I love y'all at the same time man
Man look,
y'all really wanna know who did it?
I'mma tell y'all
who did this shit man. Man,
Dale Earnhardt jr dawg.
I'm never gon' forget,
this is gonna sound crazy
but I'm never gonna forget
that shit you told me yo.
Forreal Dale Earnhardt jr man,
thank you dawg.
From the bottom of my heart.
That shit you said to me changed my life man.
And I ain't never gon' forget,
ever forreal. For real Dale,
form me to you,
you my nigga man, forreal.
I love you boy.
And Jonah hill
Oh Jonah Hill!
How could I forget Jonah Hill!
Yo, that shit you told me
when we was in the elevator,
nigga that shit changed my.
I'm just fuckin' playin',
I don't know either one of
those two dudes.
I don't know either one of them niggas,
I was in the moment. I just lied,
I don't give a fuck
2014 Forest Hills Drive.
Cole World man.
Thank y'all for listening.
If you made it this far
then I really fuck with you.
Until the next time,
I don't know when
that's gonna be but,
One love baby!
Love
Love
Love
Love