L.Y.F.E. And J. Faith - Dues (feat. Amir Maxx)
I had to pay my duesPay 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
Written by:
Amir McDonald, Justin Oliver, Luis Urynowicz
Publisher:
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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