《Paid Dues》是Steven Cooper演唱的歌曲，於2012年8月1日發行。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Paid Dues
- 所屬專輯：Life & Love
- 歌曲原唱：Steven Cooper
- 發行日期：2012年8月1日
- 歌曲語言：英語
歌曲歌詞
Yeah
It took a long time
To get to it
To a good spot
But I weren't where I need to be
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
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
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 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
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
