Paid Dues lyrics

Artist  : Eightball & MJG 
Song : Paid Dues
 


featuring Cee Lo

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