[id:$00000000] [ar:Steven Cooper] [ti:Paid Dues] [by:] [hash:c7f3b6f35509e1ff42fd6a9345d19511] [al:Life & Love] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:00.37]Paid Dues - Steven Cooper [00:01.35]Yeah [00:03.30]It took a long time [00:06.43]To get to it [00:07.98]To a good spot [00:10.73]But I weren't where I need to be [00:12.67]10 whole years [00:14.85]Finally breaking through [00:16.47]Nobody gets a handout [00:18.06]You've gotta pay your dues [00:19.75]10 whole years [00:21.29]Finally breaking through [00:22.91]Nobody gets a handout [00:24.51]You've gotta pay your dues [00:26.15]10 whole years [00:27.75]Finally breaking through [00:29.47]Nobody gets a handout [00:30.91]You've gotta pay your dues [00:32.66]10 whole years [00:34.26]Finally breaking through [00:35.91]Nobody gets a handout [00:37.49]You've gotta pay your dues [00:38.98]Ever since I wrote it trying to get up on it [00:40.84]Can't touch this with a ten foot pole [00:42.26]To all my opponents people have voted [00:43.73]Next one up this elections closed [00:45.43]I'm so bold this I know [00:46.98]I don't need jewelry to prove that I'm cold [00:48.71]Ya'll just go wherever the wind blows [00:50.28]Talking 'bout each other [00:51.06]So we never leave the door [00:52.02]That's okay it's alright now [00:53.80]I back here to shine a different light now [00:55.41]Ya'll stay clear 'cause this one's bright now [00:56.99]It's my year I can hear that hype now [00:59.11]I never did understand it [01:00.51]Why another hater when we so demanded [01:02.18]Thinking I don't see 'em but I catch 'em candid [01:03.87]Thinking they rough but they just got sanded [01:05.63]Ya'll kept on pushing [01:06.62]And pulling me now I'm fed up [01:08.43]Not one for groupies but [01:09.61]This competitions got her leg up [01:11.76]And now it's my time to shine [01:13.46]I'm passing my rhymes while you passing time [01:15.06]I don't really care that I'm last in line [01:16.55]'Cause the last shall be first [01:17.46]And I'm first to be live [01:18.55]I might be small but [01:19.68]I'll crawl and pull my weight [01:21.18]You can see me how you see me until [01:22.98]Your pupils dilate [01:24.86]There ain't no faking it [01:26.32]10 years 'till I started making it [01:27.95]Say money don't grow on trees [01:29.17]But if it did I'd be there shaking it [01:31.29]10 whole years [01:32.68]Finally breaking through [01:34.25]Nobody gets a handout [01:35.86]You've gotta pay your dues [01:37.57]10 whole years [01:39.22]Finally breaking through [01:40.69]Nobody gets a handout [01:42.34]You've gotta pay your dues [01:44.02]10 whole years [01:45.58]Finally breaking through [01:47.25]Nobody gets a handout [01:48.83]You've gotta pay your dues [01:50.53]10 whole years [01:52.19]Finally breaking through [01:53.84]Nobody gets a handout [01:55.27]You've gotta pay your dues [01:57.44]It took me a minute but I [01:58.87]Came back on the track they love my [02:00.55]Quick style but I can't sleep now [02:02.10]Ticking even quicker [02:02.69]To the max no shut eye [02:03.79]Now it's time to spread like butter [02:05.37]You can say you hate it but there ain't no other [02:07.04]Who's laughing now that I shut it all down [02:08.60]I was born to do it you can blame my mother [02:10.26]Now can't you see they hate but it's jealousy [02:12.92]I was writing raps just like them when I was 16 [02:16.23]16 ya'll no need for me to prove it [02:19.33]'Cause it's in the pudding [02:20.14]Bringing back the music to the way it should be [02:21.79]You can stand against it but you've got no footing [02:23.43]So if they constantly hate it better go and warn 'em [02:26.41]I've got so many bars other rappers [02:27.99]Think that I'm a warden [02:29.61]Off in the corner with their fingers pointing [02:31.31]Thinking I don't see 'em but just wait 'till morning [02:33.06]Dawn of the day I'ma spring up from the underground [02:34.76]Left the whole industry tired of the run around [02:36.25]Bet you hear my name when I come around [02:37.88]Bet you feel my reign when the thunder sounds [02:39.47]I can hang with you or the next [02:40.92]It's true then I guess [02:41.77]I'm the best that you never found [02:42.99]Not one to listen to hatred but man I feel it [02:45.62]I'm not violent but I'll write another verse [02:47.75]Just to kill it [02:49.10]10 whole years [02:50.45]Finally breaking through [02:52.05]Nobody gets a handout [02:53.66]You've gotta pay your dues [02:55.26]10 whole years [02:56.94]Finally breaking through [02:58.50]Nobody gets a handout [03:00.08]You've gotta pay your dues [03:01.82]10 whole years [03:03.42]Finally breaking through [03:05.02]Nobody gets a handout [03:06.54]You've gotta pay your dues [03:08.27]10 whole years [03:09.87]Finally breaking through [03:11.49]Nobody gets a handout [03:13.06]You've gotta pay your dues [03:15.57]It's been a long while but I just getting started