DamnLyrics - The center provides all the lyrics

Can I Holla At Ya? - J. Cole



     
Page format: Left Center Right
Direct link:
BB code:
Embed:

Can I Holla At Ya? Lyrics


(Intro)
One day youre gonna understandAye
Can I holla at ya?
Let me holla at ya(Verse)
Special, never forget the day I met you
We was destined for each other like a son to his mother
Or a sister and brother, man this bond is deep
We go a couple years and dont even speak but know its love though
Could never let them dirty your name, I got the up most respect for ya
Came back home and had the check for you
Word round town is you like down
Some older nigga snatched you up, gave you a right now
Damn, and could it be?
She like if you was me you wouldnt wait for me
Living sassy, wouldnt ask to break from me
Big city slicker nigga on a higher track
Bigger now but when she send a letter always write her back
And time revealed, she feels that she settled too soon

While she see me go for miles and she admire that
We speak about time as if we could just buy it back
If only it was that simple, damn I miss you(Hook)
Can I holla at you?
Can I holla at you?
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but aint no better time than now
Can I holla at you?
Can I holla at you?
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but(Verse)
You betrayed me
The day you played my mama you played me
Cant believe I let you in my heart nigga
I shouldve followed my instincts, a stranger in my house
Only 5 years old but since danger in my house
I was too young to strap you but damned if I didnt want to
Im blowing up fast and I hope these words haunt you
13 years, knew you more than my real pops
Put me on the pack and all the rappers that killed cops
Who wouldve thought that you would leave my mama high and dry?
Last words to a bitch nigga, why you lie?
Feelin bitter so these words might seem jumpy
But when you left I watched that lady crumble
I know by now you probably a old man
But still I feel I wont be satisfied until we throw hands for all the ass whooping
Heard you tryna talk to that punk, dont call
You aint shit and Im scared it rubbed of on me(Hook)
I holla at you
I holla at you
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but aint no better time than now
Can I holla at you?
Can I holla at you?
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but(Verse)
I heard you on that shit, I hope it aint true
Was hard to holla at you last time I came through
Could barely recognize you, nah nigga this aint you
Cuz you aint lookin like that nigga that I once knew
And plus you act like you dont know me
We was homies, now you call me by my rap name
See me do my thing so you expectin me to act strange
Aint hollin but you on my mind nigga
I wont forget the good times, nigga
White Ts in the club, jeans baggy as fuck
Sometimes I look back on my life,
That was the happiest stuff
We had potential to be monumental via mentality
You know that old killa beat? Kill mentality
I look at where you at now, its a real fatality
Cuz where you supposed to be is on top close to me
Chasin hoes like the old days but now we overseas
Dog congratulations on the scene
Yo my nigga!(Hook)
Can I holla at you?
Can I holla at you?
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but aint no better time than now
Can I holla at you?
Can I holla at you?
Let me holla at you
Yea I know its been a while but
Song Discussions is protected by U.S. Patent 9401941. Other patents pending.

Enjoy the lyrics !!!
Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985 in Frankfurt, Germany), better known simply as J. Cole, is an American rapper and producer from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is best known for being the first artist to be signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation after Jay heard his single Lights Please. He released his debut mixtape The Come Up in 2007 and followed this up with 2009's The Warm Up and 2010's Friday Night Lights. Songfacts reports that he dropped his first official single, Work Out on June 15, 2011, the two-year anniversary of The Warm Up. He released his highly anticipated debut album "Cole World: The Sideline Story" on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with approximately 218,000 units sold.

Cole has appeared on the cover of The Source and Beyond Race magazines, as well as being featured as one of XXL’s 2010 Freshmen. Cole appeared on Jay-Z’s 2009 album The Blueprint 3, on the track A Star is Born, and is also featured on labelmate Wale’s debut album, Attention Deficit. Most recently, he was touring with Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Trey Songz on The Blueprint 3 tour. In January 2010, along with Jay Electronica and Mos Def, he appeared on the first single from the new Reflection Eternal album, Just Begun.

The rap world is at a crossroads. In the face of shrinking budgets, music executives, resting on their laurels, search out the next YouTube sensation with a catchy hook and dance move in order to amass digital single sales. While many artists have tried to break through despite an industry melt down, few have been met with critical praise. And the applause for those that have has not been loud enough to sway the course of the current rap market. Looking to excel where his contemporaries have failed, North Carolina native J. Cole (born Jermaine Cole) brings promise of a new day in hip hop music.Raised by his mother in North Carolina, J. Cole's hometown of Fayetteville would provide much of the sights and experiences that would come to shape his sound. Cole fell into rapping at the age of 12 when his cousin from Louisiana spent the summer in Fayetteville, showing him the basics of rhyming. He was instantly hooked. From there he delved deep into the music of hip hop luminaries including Tupac Shakur, Nas and Outkast, taking from them a love for telling stories with an unbridled rigor. Seizing every opportunity to write, at age 15 J. Cole found himself with composition notebooks full of rhymes but no beats of his own to lay them on. Determined to create original songs, he begged his mother for a beat machine so he could produce music solely for himself. She granted his wish and from there, a young Cole spent all his free time creating sounds and songs that would lay the foundation for what his style has evolved to today.

Feeling the need to be heard, J. Cole used college as a tool to chase his dreams. He attended St. John's University on an academic scholarship, choosing the school so that he could be in the heart of the music industry: New York City. After polishing his sound and graduating Magna Cum Laude, J. Cole is dropping his debut mixtape, properly titled "The Come Up" hosted by DJ On Point. A mash up of dusty, soul filled sound beds, raw, energetic drums and an endless range of topics everything from the carefree days of college to the seemingly endless plight of those have-nots scrapping for change. The Come Up puts J. Cole's broad palette of lyrical and production talents on display. "All a nigga wanna do is take his momma from that, but they rather lock us up and make sure we don't come back," he vehemently spits over the cascading keys and triumphant strings of the self produced "Lil' Ghetto Nigga."

With such a diverse display, J. Cole is poised to wake up a dormant industry and cement his name in this game. But more than that, with his debut studio album currently in production, he hopes to change the tide of current rap music, swaying it in a more insightful, meaningful and passionate direction."

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

View All

J. Cole