Discover the story of the song > False Prophets – J. Cole

The song talks about how some famous people let their egos take over and it ends up destroying them. The protagonist says that he used to look up to one of these people, but now he sees that he was just pretending to be something he's not. The protagonist also talks about how he used to care too much about what other people thought of him, but now he just wants to make music that comes from his heart.