[Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander as Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza:]
— Oh, so there's still hope?
— I don't want hope, hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless, you don't care, and when you don't care, that indifference, it makes you attractive.
[Verse 1: Wale]
A nigga feelin' hopeless,
Who am I to change perception?
If a nigga kill a nigga, he's another statistic,
If his skin's a little different, they gon' say it was self-defense.
Nigga feelin' hopeless,
Starin' at the idiot box, riddle me this,
If a killer was a nigga, would niggas still really care?
‘Cause niggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere.
Niggas hopeless,
Small niggas with big tools
Couldn't get to Harvard, hard work, he hard whipped
‘Cause them hardy har's and hard nights are hard to live through
When you hopeless.
What we gotta do to be winnin'?
‘Cause all the schools gettin' closed,
Dribble a little coke, shootin' at a foe,
‘Cause they chargin' them to hoop at community center,
My nigga, hopeless.
25 bands, he was shootin' not a damn givin',
Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers,
Throwin' back their fat ass, is my glasses confused?
We're the hopeless.
America's dream and nightmare in the same being,
Even when bein' polite here
Niggas try to bring me down, the life of a pioneer,
Light years worth of hopeless.
Celebrity celebrated disgusts me,
The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on,
Watchin' «Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta» as we speak.
Nigga, we hopeless.
Okay, the Steebie show is on,
And so my broad rollin' weed now she's mad at me
‘Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father,
Said, «You niggas all hopeless!»
[Chorus: J. Cole]
Got a pocket full of lint again, but it make no difference to me,
Fallin' out with my friends again, but it make no difference to me,
Goddamn, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless,
Oh man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless.
Got no gas in my tank again, but it make no difference to me,
Overdraft at the bank again, but it make no difference to me,
Goddamn, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless,
Lord knows, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray.
[Verse 2: Wale]
Nigga feelin' hopeless
Like a penny with a hole in it,
We as empty as a corazón of a widow
From a soul that she don't know when he's comin' home.
He don't got no limit, hopeless,
What's a Purple Heart to a hurt head?
He done done 12 years, he was told 6,
Prolly go back in a minute, ain't shit here.
Nigga so hopeless,
Thoughts are ravagin' in the whole crib,
Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge,
On the pills, some bills, two kids, one leg,
Nigga so hopeless.
A lot of black cops always clap back,
And some foul white cops always on deck
Playin' race card, guarantee you'll make a blackjack.
Nigga so hopeless
‘Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have shit,
And we ain't vocalise rap
Niggas ‘cause we don't promote unless we drop hits,
Nigga hopeless.
Look at what I go through to show you,
Niggas respect money, money respect power,
And power, we never given unless a nigga catch, shoot or dribble,
We are hopeless.
Nah, you ain't out here for the culture,
You finna riot without a purpose,
You ain't a mothafuckin' rider, you a fuckin' token, posin'.
Nigga hopeless, of course not literal,
But why complain about the Man when a nigga want my skin,
The same problems with them I had is out there killin' niggas, too.
Eat your food, nigga!
[Chorus: J. Cole]
Got a pocket full of lint again, but it make no difference to me,
Fallin' out with my friends again, but it make no difference to me,
Goddamn, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless,
Oh man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless.
Got no gas in my tank again, but it make no difference to me,
Overdraft at the bank again, but it make no difference to me,
Goddamn, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless,
Lord knows, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray.