Pay Ya Dues - Low Profile.mp3

[00:02.55]Now here we go, y'all gotta play this
[00:05.07](Why?) Cause the others are so scared to say this
[00:07.41]Now tell me, what am I supposed to do
[00:09.54]About a sucker like you who ain't never paid dues?
[00:12.21]Slapper, hip-happer, you're gettin wacker
[00:14.46]Your girl better step, or I just might jack her
[00:16.80]Smack her like a gangster, but I don't bang
[00:19.05]I gank suckers like you for thick gold chains
[00:21.39]He don't deserve it (Hell nah)
[00:23.04]So take it off your neck
[00:24.33]Cause goddamn, you ain't comin correct
[00:26.16]What's this, a sucker duck holdin a mic?
[00:28.59]Like Keith Sweat said, somethin just ain't right
[00:30.87]Seems nowadays everybody wanna be a rapper, down with crews,
[00:34.26]But they ain't never paid dues
[00:35.94]Suckers perpatratin, playin hardcore
[00:38.28]Punks, I bet you worked at a flower store
[00:40.86]You know what eats me up the most?
[00:42.75]Is when a sucker just started and thinks he's high post
[00:45.69]You ain't pay a nann due in your life
[00:47.49]Talkin bout a new style, you know who you sound like?
[00:50.07]KRS, Chuck D, Kool Moe, as one
[00:52.44]Yellin on the mic like the name was Run
[00:54.60]You'se a peon, when I bought a pair of Lee's
[00:57.12]Now all of a sudden you're supposed to be an MC?
[00:59.25]Yo, that's wack, it just ain't right
[01:01.62]You only stood on one stage in your whole damn life
[01:04.05]Now you want respect, hey yo, you'se a fool
[01:06.57]Everybody wanna rap, but they ain't paid dues
[01:27.84]I can still remember way, way back in the days
[01:30.33]The times me and Aladdin dreamed of gettin paid
[01:32.76]Standin outside just pullin the jacks
[01:35.07]To earn a little money to drop a dope track
[01:37.53]Back in the days I drove a raggedy Dodge
[01:39.63]Couldn't afford a studio, so we used a garage
[01:42.24]Aladdin used to grab a gang of disco breaks
[01:44.61]One turntable and a broken 808
[01:46.95]My little brother Tunes and Frank, they hung around all night
[01:49.59]To make sure that the demo was tight
[01:51.48]Didn't have an enigneer, if you know what I mean
[01:54.09]Aladdin did it all at the age of 16
[01:56.55]Gifted, uplifted, I was mad as The Mack
[01:59.43]Suckers had me playin the back
[02:00.96]But thanks to Ice-T I got my foot in the door
[02:03.21]Now I'ma rock the mutha-(uh) till it ain't no more
[02:05.52]We paid dues
[02:43.53]I knew a brother who used to dress just like a faggot
[02:46.20]Real tight jeans, some boots and leather jackets
[02:48.60]Homey as hell, he never came outside
[02:50.61]Cause everytime I came around, he used to run and hide
[02:53.31]Spoiled like a brat, had everything he wanted
[02:55.95]And when he walked, he switched like a woman
[02:58.05]Rode a pink bike, man, the sucker was soft
[03:00.15]Had to be in before the street lights came on
[03:02.46]Yo, just the other day I turned my radio on
[03:05.04]The _Mack Attack_ kicked on a brand new song
[03:07.26]I didn't know what it was, I never heard it before
[03:10.26]But the record was smooth and hardcore
[03:12.27]I said to myself, 'Hey yo, I gotta see this group'
[03:14.91]So I called up Aladdin and the rest of the crew
[03:17.19]Grabbed the nine with the hollow point tip
[03:19.14]Stepped in the party with a gangster limp
[03:21.51]Took a look at the stage, and yo, what do you know?
[03:24.03]The same old faggot from a long time ago
[03:26.40]From real tight jeans and a go-go boot
[03:28.83]He went to Pendeltons and a khaki suit
[03:31.08]Now tell me, ain't this a blip?
[03:33.48]Somebody need to slap the perpetrator in the lip
[03:35.73]Yesterday he was a mama boy, now he's rappin?
[03:38.34]Foolin the crowd because he got you all clappin
[03:40.56]And tappin, an example of what I'm tryin to prove
[03:42.81]A sucker like this who ain't never paid dues
[03:45.24]To those who wanna rap, I'm pertainin to you
[03:47.34]Before you pick up a mic, you gotta pay dues
[03:50.31]Let the story be told
[03:51.96]That's the way it is
[03:53.37]You got to pay your dues
[03:55.17]Low Profile definitely payin the dues
[03:57.63]W.C, DJ Aladdin
[03:59.43]Frank, my little brother Crazy Tunes, Jazzy D
[04:02.01]We in there, everypaid they dues
[04:03.93]Abracadabra, DJ Aladdin
[04:05.79]We outta here