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Dave

Six Paths

Release date: 29th September 2016

From Six Paths - EP
Track 1
3:43
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About This Track

Dave moves through 'Six Paths' with the confidence of someone who has already calculated the cost. The track is built on a catalogue of near-misses and hard choices: the freedom he risked for trainers and chain, the luck that kept him alive when others weren't, the pivot from the street to legitimacy. His delivery is conversational but precise, each bar weighted with specificity rather than bravado. The song circles back repeatedly to the same question: was any of it worth it? He doesn't answer it directly. Instead he catalogs the alternatives he dodged, death, wealth through crime, prison, and settles into a present where he can move without the feds watching his face. There's a sharpness to how he reads the men still performing the old rituals on social media, still talking the talk without having taken the actual risks. 'Six Paths' doesn't celebrate the escape so much as examine it, turning over the weight of the choices that made it possible.

"Six Paths" is a track by Dave, from the album Six Paths - EP, released 29th September 2016. The track is 3:43 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Dave.

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Dave

Dave

Lyrics

Six Paths

Six, paths they calling me Madara
Your guys will hide in the mist if my brother's put iron in fist like kazuya
Man call me an amateur
I put numbers in squares like dates on a calendar
Had everyone dressed in black like I came here tryna unlock a new character
Had everyone dressed in black with a bottle in hand like Lei Wulong
I just hit my runner widda bang to the chest cah that boy takes way too long
I was risking my freedom for what 2-2 kicks and a name brand top
And now I think back, was it worth it? All for a chain and a watch

I grew up in estates, feds watching my face
I'm masked up on the move, I need money in the bank like Kane
Look, man took so many different risks on so many different days
When I coulda been dead, I coulda been rich, I coulda been locked in a cage
I grew up in estates, feds watching my face
I'm masked up on the move, I need money in the bank like Kane
Look, man took so many different risks on so many different days
When I coulda been dead, I coulda been rich

Look, man just talk like I never took risks
In the field like I never took risks with squares
When I put the dare in Santan and the Santan in Santander
Wait, look, man get aired
I've done everything that you did
I was 16 with a grand in my jeans
And all the same clothes that you wear in your vid
Walk in a party see a barbie looking nice
I just give her a smile and a wink
Her boyfriend's holding his hand in a fist
Like he can't get more than a bang to the ribs
Them man there are just angry and pissed
I took the right path, got cash in legit

Why so bitter? Indirects on Twitter
Them man they're just chatting for chicks
No them man there are just chatting for girls
They don't put ammi on scales
Them man there, them man bad in a group
They ain't run a man down by themself (Shoo shoo)
You was in creams with a milkshake, now you gotta run wid ya girl
Jump out the line to two left hooks
And a right show a boy how to handle himself, look

I can handle a jarring girl, I can't stand when she's acting crazy
I got two brown tings in grove, I might call down AJ Tracey
They talk my name, they just talking man, just talk like the talking pays me
And all my Gs look fly and young, and that's why the olders hate me
But them man old and broke, no, them man old and lazy
No, them man still do draws, they shoulda got a night job at Sainsbury's
You put that girl in Chanel, and spent 450 on her kicks
And then I link that girl two roads away, I can't show that cattie where I live
No I don't reply, I don't need to
And girls are calling me a prick
But I can tell you from experience, nice guys never win
And I'll have love for my girlfriend
But I've got nothing for a chick
Can't trust that girl with a shh nah, nah, I'm expecting her to snitch

I grew up in estates, feds watching my face
I'm masked up on the move, I need money in the bank like Kane
Look, man took so many different risks on so many different days
When I coulda been dead, I coulda been rich, I coulda been locked in a cage
I grew up in estates, feds watching my face
I'm masked up on the move, I need money in the bank like Kane
Look, man took so many different risks on so many different days
When I coulda been dead, I coulda been rich
I coulda been locked in a cage

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From Six Paths - EP

3:432016
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Six Paths - EP
Six Paths - EP
Dave
30th September 2016
Track number
1
Release year
2016
  1. 1Six Paths
    3:43
  2. 2Picture Me
    4:40
  3. 3Panic Attack
    5:27
  4. 4Breathe
    3:55

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