[Intro | dry close-mic | immediate] ITZ HIM Pay me. [Verse 1 | connected pocket | quick conversational flow] Been broke, rent due, card damn near dead Still walked in that bitch like I already had bread “Overqualified” every time the money got mentioned Till their numbers went left, now they need my attention Talk KPIs like I don't know the math I built half the shit you use to judge my ass Take my line, shave a word, put your name on the deck Then sit me down talking 'bout what I should improve next Man, fuck that You ain't gotta tell me what I'm good at You call when the shit goes bad You ain't gotta tell me where I'm weak at I stayed way too long—that's that Two steps back? Back to where? Same broke shit with a nicer chair? Same work, same check, more shit every year? Nah, motherfucker, I can see this clear If I made it move then say I made it move If I brought the fix then say I brought the fix Don't hand me praise like that pays my bills Put the money on it That's respect [Chorus] R-E S-P E-C T Me B-O S-S U-P Boss up R-E S-P E-C T Me P-A Y U-P Pay up [Verse 2 | harder pocket | faster internal rhyme] I can code-switch all week, button every sentence Still get “tone” in the notes when I stop playing pleasant Same point gets buried when the wrong mouth says it Then somebody else repeats it and the whole room gets it That's the shit Want slang in the campaign Culture in the rollout Faces in the photo when the cameras get brought out Then cuts come down Watch who gets walked out Same people they needed when the brand had no pulse Boxes by the desk Badge don't work Email gets killed before they finish packing shirts Then Monday comes around and the work still runs So who really got cut if you kept what they done? And don't come “bro” me now Fuck all that fake shit You don't get close 'cause you learned how to say shit You want what sells without paying who made it Then call it “business” Nah Call it what the fuck it is [Chorus] R-E S-P E-C T Me B-O S-S U-P Boss up R-E S-P E-C T Me P-A Y U-P Pay up [Verse 3 | rolling pocket | builds into faster delivery] Hustler Entrepreneur Businessman Three different lanes same lesson in the end Hourly? You pay for the time that I give Contract? You pay when I handle the shit Business? My name on the invoice My risk My bill My loss if it misses That's different I done seen what a skill gets paid When somebody else puts a markup on the same damn thing Seen what ten years turns into when five quick minutes saves somebody two damn days So don't look at the clock and tell me what it's worth You paying for the years that made the answer come first I used to give that shit away Just to show I could do it Now every “real quick” got a number attached to it Need the fix? Pay up Need the plan? Pay up Need somebody to walk in and unfuck what you fucked up? Pay up Need the idea the angle the answer the move? Pay up You want all that shit but don't wanna pay what it's worth? Then figure it the fuck out yourself [Chorus | biggest | stacked doubles] R-E S-P E-C T Me B-O S-S U-P Boss up R-E S-P E-C T Me P-A Y U-P Pay up [Outro | 808 only] You know what I did. Pay me. [Hard stop]
