Paid Dues
 作词 : Steven D Cooper
 作曲 : Steven D Cooper
Yeah!
It took a long time
To get to it
To a good spot
But I weren't where I need to be
Chorus
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
Verse 1
Ever since I wrote it, trying to get up on it, can't touch this with a ten foot pole
To all my opponents, people have voted, next one up this elections closed
I'm so bold, this I know, I don't need jewelry to prove that I'm cold
Ya'll just go wherever the wind blows
Talking 'bout each other so we never leave the door
That's okay, it's alright now, I back here to shine a different light now
Ya'll stay clear cause this one's bright now, it's my year, I can hear that hype now
I never did understand it, why another hater when we so demanded
Thinking I don't see 'em but I catch 'em candid
Thinking they rough but they just got sanded
Ya'll kept on pushing, and pulling me now I'm fed up
Not one for groupies but this competitions got her leg up
And now it's my time to shine, I'm passing my rhymes while you passing time
I don't really care that I'm last in line, 'cause the last shall be first and I'm first to be live
I might be small but I'll crawl and pull my weight
You can see me how you see me until your pupils dilate
There ain't no faking it, 10 years 'till I started making it
Say money don't grow on trees but if it did I'd be there shaking it
Chorus
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
Verse 2
It took me a minute but I
Came back on the track, they love my
Quick style, but I can't sleep now, ticking even quicker
To the max, no shut eye
Now it's time to spread like butter
You can say you hate it, but there ain't no other
Who's laughing now that I shut it all down
I was born to do it you can blame my mother
Now can't you see, they hate but it's jealousy
I was writing raps just like them, when I was 16
16 ya'll... no need for me to prove it 'cause it's in the pudding
Bringing back the music to the way it should be
You can stand against it but you've got no footing
So if they constantly hate it better go and warn 'em
I've got so many bars other rappers think that I'm a warden
Off in the corner with their fingers pointing,
Thinking I don't see 'em but just wait 'till morning
Dawn of the day I'ma spring up from the underground
Left the whole industry, tired of the run around
Bet you hear my name when I come around
Bet you feel my reign when the thunder sounds
I can hang with you or the next, it's true then I guess
I'm the best that you never found
Not one to listen to hatred, but man I feel it
I'm not violent but I'll write another verse just to kill it
Chorus
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
10 whole years
Finally breaking through
Nobody gets a handout
You've gotta pay your dues
It's been a long while, but I just getting started!