Man Up Above Lyrics – J. Cole

Read the full Man Up Above lyrics by J. Cole from the album The Fall-Off along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy J Cole’s music, you can also explore I Love Her Again and What If, two other songs by J Cole.

[Intro: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
Never would have made it
Never could have made it without You
Without You
Uh

[Chorus: J. Cole]
Whole lotta O’s getting sold on the block
Don’t go outside a lot, ain’t tryna get popped
12 busting in while we scraping out the pot
We running out the spot, we running out the spot
Singing, “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got”

Somebody’s getting knocked while the bodies getting dropped
I used to have a little, now a n!gga got a lot
I pray the Lord watch, I pray the Lord watch

[Verse 1: J. Cole]
Another year goes by, another n!gga slayed
At the West Indian Day Parade when perpetrators sprayed
You got the nerve to ask why I stay in the house mor
et paid for going in, the fu*k I’m going out for?
When n!ggas stretching s*it like a new school power forward
Naz Reid range, but when these boys are shooting, n!ggas start breathing strange
Heartbeat is faint, now it’s auf wiedersehen
I’m not German, but the wheels currently turning on my mama’s automobiles
Certain of y’all while y’all prefer to be hard
Memories of my dog’s wake, it’s hurting me, y’all
The windows to it so closed, saw its curtains be drawn
Innocent as a child, but weren’t we all?
Before the hoes and the smoke that arose from the Black and Mild cigarellos
Triggers lift the biggest fellows, put seven on his torso and turned him into Melo
But no midrange iso, back to the basket
The streets raised him a ba*tard, wrapped in a casket
Best beware, don’t you dare go laugh at the tragic passing of somebody’s son by somebody’s gun
Give a fu*k if you opps, when dissing the dead, the karma tends to come at you hot
I promise you pray for forgiveness, the Lord’s wrath can astonish you
I’d rather admonish you on this record than impress with perceptions of a designer shoe

Fu*k Gucci, fu*k Louis, fu*k Chanel, fu*k Balenciaga, how we gon’ excel?
Soon as n!ggas make it out, they turning Hollywood as hell
I knew buddy caught that body, but hell, I probably shouldn’t tell
Or else I

[Interlude: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
Never would have made it
I mean, I
Never could have made it without You, yeah

[Refrain: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
Got a soft spot for the man up above
Eastside, Westside, show me love (Without You)
N!ggas duck shots and some n!ggas catch slugs
Northside, Southside, show me love

[Chorus: J. Cole]
Whole lotta O’s getting sold on the block
Don’t go outside a lot, ain’t tryna get popped
12 busting in while we scraping out the pot
We running out the spot, we running out the spot
Singing, “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got”
Somebody’s getting knocked while the bodies getting dropped
I used to have a little, now a n!gga got a lot
I pray the Lord watch, I pray the Lord watch, uh

[Verse 2: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
Someone that’s close to me is facing time
My mind’s racing for some way to find, hope that he may be fine
He got a son the same age as mine
I can’t imagine spending days in a cage not raising mine
These are the years with our kids where we strengthen bonds
I paid his bond, but the trial’s coming
The rain or shine, I know his child love him
But he’s too young to understand it if the outcome is incarceration and charges facing
Bring the possibility of long vacations and complications with his baby mom
She daily crying, saying her heart is vacant
He tryna make it work, he wanna fake it for the sake of family
But she keep throwing old s*it right in his face apparently
Reminding him ’bout how he tried to make her take a plan B and abort the seed
Threatening him with child support so that the court can seize and garnish wages
And all this was before he caught this case that’s brought the latest
Pile of stress to add to all this mess, it’s hard to face it
His thoughts deflated, somewhere ‘long the way, he lost his faith
But now he reads the Bible hoping God’ll see him contemplative
Never would have made it
He praying now, he even threw some gospel on his playlist
Never could have made it without You
Tears falling, Marvin Sapp, “Never Would Have Made It”

[Refrain: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
Man up above
Eastside, Westside, show me love (Without You)
N!ggas duck shots and some n!ggas catch slugs
Northside, Southside, show me love

[Chorus: J. Cole]
Whole lotta O’s getting sold on the block
Don’t go outside a lot, ain’t tryna get popped
12 busting in while we scraping out the pot
We running out the spot, we running out the spot
Singing, “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got”
Somebody’s getting knocked while the bodies getting dropped
I used to have a little, now a n!gga got a lot
I pray the Lord watch, I pray the Lord watch

[Outro: J. Cole & Marvin Sapp]
For me
(Never would have made it)
Oh, I never could have made it
(Never could have made it without You)
Without You