Lyrics

In the song “4 Your Eyez Only” by J.Cole he speaks from multiple point of views explaining:

“ My worst fear is one day that you come home from school And see your father face while hearing 'bout tragedy on news I got the strangest feeling your daddy gonna lose his life soon And sadly if you're listening now it must mean it's true But maybe there's a chance that it's not And this album remains locked In a hard drive like valuable jewels And I can teach you this in person Like I'm teaching you to tie your own shoes I love you and I hope to God I don't lose you For your eyes only”

He has done wrong. All of his sins that he committed are catching up to him so he left his daughter a voice message to explain what happened to him if and when he dies. In a way J.Cole wrote this song through the father. Multiple bars filled with heartbreaking content and the truth come out into a 7 minute song which illustrates the black community in a way we don’t see very often. The father doesn't want to die, he wants to live peacefully with his daughter but he had to do what he had to do. He sold drugs to provide for his daughter and when he got on the gang’s bad side he feared for his life. He knew he was dead from the moment he started.