Dubgee:
I dropped the bass line so you’d hear it / Composed the beat choose a topic / Wrote lyrics and engineered it / Tuned the signal crystal clear no millihertz of interference / I focused on substance over appearance / Then I sent it out for mix and master spreading works part of the hustle / But hustling harders pushing just as hard as the muscle / Starting to bubble up - pop! / The dream crumble and drop / Just like that back to struggle raps like it or not / Back to handling graphics photoshopping my flyers and posters / I pick’em up from the printers and hang em high like I’m ‘sposed to / I hand em out when I’m close / Deliver tickets and ghost I ain’t got time to kick it / Alright, 5 minutes at most / I’m sorry for the time limit homie I got a rap showcase / I host and I rhyme in it / So my mind’s committed like time is infinite / I’m spending my nickels and dimes until my finance is finished
Attikus
Okay, 25 hours a day / stretch my week into 8 / 366 days, no wonder they say / I’m hustling
Dubgee
The first three are personal / hustle for fam I gotta give em what they deserve /
I’m hustling
Harder for 4 - 7 the hustles neverending / never sleeping never pretending
Now all this money I’m making from my 9 to 5 grinding / I pay my bills and skim a little means - I’m barely surviving / I put it back into my rappin, it’s what I take pride in / That mix and master I subbed, it’s back and it bumps when I’m ridin / I make music with kids and spit raps for their parents / These 20 somethings at the club I’m at home peeling carrots / I got some mouths to feed I got my heart on my sleeve / the hardest article to wear but if you feelin it share it / These rappers are parrots reciting biting from elders / They just lightning claiming they thunder stealing artistic merit / That they partly inherited I can hardly bear it / Hip hop is stuck in the snow you tryin to get chairlifted / So when i say that I’m hustlin to clear up the air / I’m working hard staying legit and if I get it I share / My success money or love but i don’t think that you care / Cuz you claim that you don’t give a fuck so I’mma leave that right there / Homey it feel like we kicking it so I’m spitting it intimate / Now that money’s involved you got it twisted like licorice / This is wisdom not gibberish looking out for that bigger fish / Stayin playin my position till the inning is finished
Attikus
Okay, 25 hours a day / stretch my week into 8 / 366 days, no wonder they say / I’m hustling
Dubgee
The first three are personal / hustle for fam I gotta give em what they deserve /
I’m hustling
Harder for 4 - 7 the hustles neverending / never sleeping never pretending
credits
from Truth,
released September 19, 2018
Recorder and produced by Dubgee
Chorus written and performed by Attikus