Songs
Artists
Genres
Track cover 39 Intro

39 Intro

6:06rap Album The Fall-Off 2026-02-06

More songs by J. Cole

  1. Power Trip
    r&b, rap 4:01
  2. Bunce Road Blues (with Future & Tems)
  3. SAFETY
    rap 5:18
  4. Poor Thang
    rap 4:50
  5. Bombs in the Ville/Hit the Gas
    rap 4:06
  6. The Let Out
    rap 4:14
All songs

Description

Vocalist, Producer: J. Cole

Producer: T-Minus

Producer: Vinylz

Composer Lyricist, Producer: Steve Bilodeau

Producer: Wu10

Producer, Composer Lyricist: FNZ

Composer Lyricist, Additionalproducer: Coleman

Recording Engineer: Kuldeep Chudasama

Recording Engineer, Composer Lyricist: Jermaine Cole

Recording Second Engineer: Michael Deano

Recording Second Engineer: Stephen Trischitta

Recording Second Engineer: Greg Truitt

Mixing Engineer: Juro "Mez" Davis

Mastering Engineer: Joe LaPorta

Composer Lyricist: Tyler Williams

Composer Lyricist: Kelvin Wooten

Composer Lyricist: Anderson Hernandez

Composer Lyricist: Willie Hutch

Lyrics and translation

Original

A spaceship lands on Mars

Halfway to the stars, halfway to the stars (halfway to the)

I wanna be where you are

It seems we're worlds apart

It seems we're worlds apart (we're worlds apart)

Once in a while, I'll feel myself

Drifting off to somewhere else

Floating past Orion's Belt

Still, there's something I can't help

We were in a world before (I know we was, I know we was together in another life)

Together in the bed, I'm surе (it's the only way I can really explain how I feel insidе)

As sure as one could ever be (it's like, no matter how bad I wanna go, I-)

That explains your hold on me (I find a way to stay)

Back then (it's been like that)

Back then (maybe it'll always be like that)

Back then (I don't know)

Back then

Back then

I'm gold to you

(Love, gravitational, some'n cosmic)

(Universal, metaphysical)

(Unexplainable, just feel it)

I'm gold to you

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh

Gold to you

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop-

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Fuck what you heard (fuck what you-)

Never in my life did I think I'd see the day (the day)

That niggas wanna play with my name, but okay

I'm goin' back in (who's goin' back in?)

I'm goin' back in (who's goin' back in?)

Let me go back in (let him go back in)

I'ma go back in (he's goin' back in, I'ma go in)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

When niggas act like they don't know, you gotta show 'em (you gotta)

I'm pleased to report after many attempts, I climbed out from the mouth of the gritty abyss

The antonym of "idiot", who witty as this?

My mindframe has been trained with NVIDIA chips

My rhymes are like shrines for the city I miss

Where, in time, I found beauty in the hideousness

My tongue can set fire to some

Inspire the young, or put a hickey on the titty of the prettiest bitch

I'm number one, you gettin' the gist?

Anything lower, you better reconsider your list

Play my song when I'm gone, I'ma still be a myth

Even God gon' wonder, "How the fuck did he exist?"

I mean, could he have just slipped through the cracks?

Ain't let a nigga into Heaven so I went through the back

And when I entered, I saw a old friend that I dapped

He said, "Please, nigga, kick one of the infinite raps"

Okay, I flip on tracks long as the beat is on fire

My grip on rap stronger than needle-noes pliers

So, kick on back and enjoy the fresh sound

The best round of Black gettin' rich off rap

I'm from the town where they zip raw packs

We've never seen a trampoline, but a brick? You could flip off that

Well, damn, try to compete, but they just fall flat

Lot of these weak niggas peak where I lift off at

I never trick off racks, I stack what I attract

The money talks to me, and they lack the dialect to reply back as I crack the fire axe

Light refracts when the half-Black messiah raps, uh

Fayettenam,, where they strapped like Iraq

The narcs in the trap with the knack to hire rats

A man's dead 'cause the feds slapped the wiretap

His dawg had his back, so they whacked the chiroprac'

Chemically imbalanced, drippin' style in gallons

I write schemes in my dreams just for the challenge

Woke up in ice-cold sweats 'cause the flows I chose next are like both sets of Bowflex, uh

Hold your breath for the prose I profess

Cole the G.O.A.T, fresh like juice that's cold-pressed

No rest to those who oppose, I don't stress

Rap niggas gotta be in Vogue to pose threats, uh

They don't compare, they're more like Kotex

I'm droppin' niggas off at the door like coat checks

Hold check, I told you they ain't ready to hoop

Them niggas regular, I'm 93 Unleaded, the truth

Hot out of the booth, now I'm lookin for my lil' Betty Boop, cute

Pardon me, shawty, I been out of the loop

Too many lies to refute, but I gotta rebuke

They tryin' to put my neck inside of a noose, it's not happenin'

(Boom-boom)

(Boom-boom)

Never in my life did I think I'd see the day

Where niggas wanna play with my name, but okay

The children that survive the lows and highs, the real will never die, we multiply

The history you're told is mostly lies

You say you want the truth? Well, close your eyes

English translation

A spaceship lands on Mars

Halfway to the stars, halfway to the stars (halfway to the)

I wanna be where you are

It seems we're worlds apart

It seems we're worlds apart (we're worlds apart)

Once in a while, I'll feel myself

Drifting off to somewhere else

Floating past Orion's Belt

Still, there's something I can't help

We were in a world before (I know we was, I know we was together in another life)

Together in the bed, I'm surе (it's the only way I can really explain how I feel insidе)

As sure as one could ever be (it's like, no matter how bad I wanna go, I-)

That explains your hold on me (I find a way to stay)

Back then (it's been like that)

Back then (maybe it'll always be like that)

Back then (I don't know)

Back then

Back then

I'm gold to you

(Love, gravitational, some'n cosmic)

(Universal, metaphysical)

(Unexplainable, just feel it)

I'm gold to you

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh

Gold to you

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop runnin' around

Let's stop playin' in the middle

Let's stop-

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fuck what you heard, bitch

Fuck what you heard (fuck what you-)

Never in my life did I think I'd see the day (the day)

That niggas wanna play with my name, but okay

I'm goin' back in (who's goin' back in?)

I'm goin' back in (who's goin' back in?)

Let me go back in (let him go back in)

I'ma go back in (he's goin' back in, I'ma go in)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

Let me go in, let me go in

Let me go in, let me go in (boom-boom)

When niggas act like they don't know, you gotta show 'em (you gotta)

I'm pleased to report after many attempts, I climbed out from the mouth of the gritty abyss

The antonym of "idiot", who witty as this?

My mindframe has been trained with NVIDIA chips

My rhymes are like shrines for the city I miss

Where, in time, I found beauty in the hideousness

My tongue can set fire to some

Inspire the young, or put a hickey on the titty of the prettiest bitch

I'm number one, you gettin' the gist?

Anything lower, you better reconsider your list

Play my song when I'm gone, I'ma still be a myth

Even God gon' wonder, "How the fuck did he exist?"

I mean, could he have just slipped through the cracks?

Ain't let a nigga into Heaven so I went through the back

And when I entered, I saw a old friend that I dapped

He said, "Please, nigga, kick one of the infinite raps"

Okay, I flip on tracks long as the beat is on fire

My grip on rap stronger than needle-noes pliers

So, kick on back and enjoy the fresh sound

The best round of Black gettin' rich off rap

I'm from the town where they zip raw packs

We've never seen a trampoline, but a brick? You could flip off that

Well, damn, try to compete, but they just fall flat

Lot of these weak niggas peak where I lift off at

I never trick off racks, I stack what I attract

The money talks to me, and they lack the dialect to reply back as I crack the fire axe

Light refracts when the half-Black messiah raps, uh

Fayettenam, where they strapped like Iraq

The narcs in the trap with the knack to hire rats

A man's dead 'cause the feds slapped the wiretap

His dawg had his back, so they whacked the chiroprac'

Chemically imbalanced, drippin' style in gallons

I write schemes in my dreams just for the challenge

Woke up in ice-cold sweats 'cause the flows I chose next are like both sets of Bowflex, uh

Hold your breath for the prose I profess

Cole the G.O.A.T, fresh like juice that's cold-pressed

No rest to those who oppose, I don't stress

Rap niggas gotta be in Vogue to pose threats, uh

They don't compare, they're more like Kotex

I'm droppin' niggas off at the door like coat checks

Hold check, I told you they ain't ready to hoop

Them niggas regular, I'm 93 Unleaded, the truth

Hot out of the booth, now I'm lookin for my lil' Betty Boop, cute

Pardon me, shawty, I been out of the loop

Too many lies to refute, but I gotta rebuke

They tryin' to put my neck inside of a noose, it's not happenin'

(Boom-boom)

(Boom-boom)

Never in my life did I think I'd see the day

Where niggas wanna play with my name, but okay

The children that survive the lows and highs, the real will never die, we multiply

The history you're told is mostly lies

You say you want the truth? Well, close your eyes

Watch video J. Cole - 39 Intro

Track statistics:

Streams Spotify

Chart positions Spotify

Chart peaks

Views YouTube

Chart positions Apple Music

Shazams Shazam

Chart positions Shazam