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Yeah! |
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It took a long time |
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To get to it |
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To a good spot |
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But I weren't where I need to be |
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Chorus |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
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Nobody gets a handout |
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You've gotta pay your dues |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
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Nobody gets a handout |
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You've gotta pay your dues |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
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Nobody gets a handout |
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You've gotta pay your dues |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
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Nobody gets a handout |
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You've gotta pay your dues |
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Verse 1 |
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Ever since I wrote it, trying to get up on it, can't touch this with a ten foot pole |
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To all my opponents, people have voted, next one up this elections closed |
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I'm so bold, this I know, I don't need jewelry to prove that I'm cold |
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Ya'll just go wherever the wind blows |
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Talking 'bout each other so we never leave the door |
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That's okay, it's alright now, I back here to shine a different light now |
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Ya'll stay clear cause this one's bright now, it's my year, I can hear that hype now |
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I never did understand it, why another hater when we so demanded |
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Thinking I don't see 'em but I catch 'em candid |
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Thinking they rough but they just got sanded |
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Ya'll kept on pushing, and pulling me now I'm fed up |
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Not one for groupies but this competitions got her leg up |
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And now it's my time to shine, I'm passing my rhymes while you passing time |
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I don't really care that I'm last in line, 'cause the last shall be first and I'm first to be live |
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I might be small but I'll crawl and pull my weight |
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You can see me how you see me until your pupils dilate |
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There ain't no faking it, 10 years 'till I started making it |
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Say money don't grow on trees but if it did I'd be there shaking it |
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Chorus |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
| [01:34.05] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [01:35.66] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [01:37.52] |
10 whole years |
| [01:39.11] |
Finally breaking through |
| [01:40.70] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [01:42.35] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [01:43.90] |
10 whole years |
| [01:45.50] |
Finally breaking through |
| [01:47.09] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [01:48.53] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [01:50.34] |
10 whole years |
| [01:51.88] |
Finally breaking through |
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Nobody gets a handout |
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You've gotta pay your dues |
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Verse 2 |
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It took me a minute but I |
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Came back on the track, they love my |
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Quick style, but I can't sleep now, ticking even quicker |
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To the max, no shut eye |
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Now it's time to spread like butter |
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You can say you hate it, but there ain't no other |
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Who's laughing now that I shut it all down |
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I was born to do it you can blame my mother |
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Now can't you see, they hate but it's jealousy |
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I was writing raps just like them, when I was 16 |
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16 ya'll... no need for me to prove it 'cause it's in the pudding |
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Bringing back the music to the way it should be |
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You can stand against it but you've got no footing |
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So if they constantly hate it better go and warn 'em |
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I've got so many bars other rappers think that I'm a warden |
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Off in the corner with their fingers pointing, |
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Thinking I don't see 'em but just wait 'till morning |
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Dawn of the day I'ma spring up from the underground |
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Left the whole industry, tired of the run around |
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Bet you hear my name when I come around |
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Bet you feel my reign when the thunder sounds |
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I can hang with you or the next, it's true then I guess |
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I'm the best that you never found |
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Not one to listen to hatred, but man I feel it |
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I'm not violent but I'll write another verse just to kill it |
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Chorus |
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10 whole years |
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Finally breaking through |
| [02:51.95] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [02:53.59] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [02:55.14] |
10 whole years |
| [02:56.84] |
Finally breaking through |
| [02:58.34] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [03:00.03] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [03:01.57] |
10 whole years |
| [03:03.36] |
Finally breaking through |
| [03:04.95] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [03:06.56] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
| [03:08.25] |
10 whole years |
| [03:09.90] |
Finally breaking through |
| [03:11.33] |
Nobody gets a handout |
| [03:12.89] |
You've gotta pay your dues |
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It's been a long while, but I just getting started! |
