Paid Dues Lyrics

Paid Dues lyrics

Intro (Eightball)

 

 Yeah, Yeah...Space Age forever..Niggas and hoes better recognize

 Eightball & MJG...been ten toes down in this game

 since we were two young playas in a one horse town

 then hopped to a muthafuckin grasshopper

 Nigga, my life would have been done got cut off...

 If my dues weren't paid.

 

 Chorus (Cee-Lo)

 

 It's ah, skinnin lines between wrong and right

 Trapped in a trap til the mornin light

 Ghetto ain't left me no choices, I had to fight

 My momma and daddy was too young to raise me right.

 Maybe I been made a man from all the mistakes I made

 Niggas dead, niggas gone, I still ain't afraid.

 Ain't too grown to get back on with ghetto games I played

 My life would have been done got cut off if the dues weren't paid.

 

 MJG

 

 In the middle of doin crime (Uggh), it never stopped me from writin rhymes

 It never stopped me from playin music,

 God, but it didn't mean I had to use it

 It was obvious, I had to give up the streets - for the beats

 Not knowin, but havin faith on just how long that it would be

 Before I made it, before somebody picked up my tape and played it

 With a remark like, "Hey, played that instrumental, you cat's got
potential."

 In the process of doing talent shows, parties, and mix tapes

 We even put it down on some of our homeboys jail release dates

 I can remember in the past closin down at fast foods

 Strictly stickin to my dreams, but feelin like I'd be the last dude

 Who can make it in this rap, I thought that they ain't go see me in Memphis

 It was like a time they looked over Tennesseee,

 and didn't know Hip-Hop was in us.

 To all my vets in the game, I got love, stay on your toes

 Cause back in the days, I use to use your 4-5 instrumental to do my shows

 And look, I was 17 - when I signed my first contract

 And about 18 1/2 when I signed my worst contract, we hurt from that

 And til this day, they still distributin - our first tape

 before Comin Out Hard, now can you feel it?

 Be humble and patient with whatever you should choose

 Cause, to get to where I am right now, I don't paid my dues.

 

 Chorus

 

 Eightball

 

 A C-note for a concert, I know that sounds preposterous

 Nigga, we didn't have a pot to piss

 So we got on stage and we rocked the bitch.

 Fuck the chee$e, I love to see...My niggas in the front row

 Get buck wild, start a fight, the police make a nigga stop the show

 Niggas all in the parkin lot, bustin shots, fuckin with hoes

 Box chevy with the spokes and vogues,

 niggas didn't know shit about a 20 inch Mo-Mo

 Hard head, young nigga don't believe that shit, til I see that shit

 See them heavyweight niggas, one day, I'm gonna be that shit

 Ok, everybody know everybody done sold dope, ran with a gang

 Pimp some hoes, and..snorted a little coke..but uhh..

 I'm space agein..and we'll forever be

 Eightball, the fat mack, and...M-J fuckin G

 Turn the page, from then to now, and we still grindin

 Small clubs and small towns think they bouncin, and we find them

 Put them on the guest list, make them pump their fist and get buck to this

 Make one of them weed smokin, gangsta bitches get fucked to this

 Expand, give all my true fans what they demand

 Do my part again and uhh...come out hard again and uhh..

 Keep space agein, and we'll forever be...

 Eightball, the fat mack, and...M-J fuckin G.

 

 Chorus