Dues (feat. Amir Maxx)

I had to pay my dues Pay my dues I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you I had to part ways from my closest friends Doesn't make sense Are you down to ride are we ride or die Doesn't feel like that my last goodbye I learned from you Took every word Wrote it down in my memory Spoke highly about all you did In the end you weren't century It makes sense We were seeing from a different balcony How can we? Make the best of a situation All we needed was communication Took life into my own hands Did the best in my first year Became clear I had a lot to learn Ground to cover this frontier Bailed on Running away from a bail bond Hail storm Closing in but I been warned Empty pages I been torn Who do I pay when I gotta make way When the paycheck late no habla ingleis It don't translate so I can't relate Do I belong here? Am I asked to vacate? Graduated from a long list of embarrassment One fan and maybe 5 plays Development with no praise I mean most days I woke up hoping I could bring to light What fell in my lap But I can't look back Ya God said that when he laid out my path, wasssup I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues Rather pay my dues Can't stop til they know my name Can't stop til the rain fades with a change of pace up on the window pane Rather my pay my dues Than to reach fame in an instant Gotta leave an everlasting imprint In result of the pain I relinquish Rather pay my dues Than to be tied to a label Anything they promise is a fable Step away from my table Take my plate, get disabled For you, things will end fatal Crawl back in your cradle You will never last in a world full of pythons That's my point of view with the lights on I've been navigating in the pitch black Tread carefully and never look back Go ahead, try to walk my path You will never see a blade of grass That's the price you pay to make a splash That's facts Rising up like the NASDAQ Carrying nothing but a backpack Smoke you up and then I pass that L.Y.F.E. and J. Faith are lab rats (Yeah yeah!) We make it look effortless (Effortless) That's what you get when you step to this (Step to this) We be up higher than Pegasus (Pegasus) Music the strongest of medicines We finna start a new genesis This ain't for the delicate Subject and predicate I'm ready to finish it I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues ​​Gotta pay that price Put me on the underdog all my life But still I strive I see that light Running through the tunnel imma show who's right All of that pain all this stress All in my veins all the unrest Some for the fame some for the check Some learn the game some be a mess What's the point when there's no purpose Short term or you going furthest Warm bed or a cold surface Still here don't close the curtain I stop hurting can't stay afraid Face the worst and I had to fade Way back where they had me trapped Had to break a curse on a rainy day 4th quarter and my back on the wall Time to serve it like a sample at a mall I won't fall yea I stay going off They won't have if they can't practice Take rap for granted they ain't moving alive From where I started not much survived Cause where I'm from It's like a do or die Who else want it yea who else hungry I'm making sure my plate is clean Keeping and eye who's on my team We don't like rats got traps on me Zapping the game to stacking cheese Better hate less and study more Think you know it but you at fault Got it on tuck up in my vault Making sure I'm doing what I want yea I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you I had to pay my dues This is nothing new Tell me what's the truth It wasn't up to you Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues Without a cent to my name I've been changing the game Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues I had to pay my dues Without a cent to my name This is nothing new I've been changing the game Tell me what's the truth Rather than chase the fame It wasn't up to you Gotta pay my dues Without a cent to my name Rather than chase the fame Gotta pay my dues