Packy

Released: June 16, 2013

Songwriter: Packy

Producer: J. Cole

[Verse]
Livin' life but it feels like the end of it
It's a cold world when you don't got a friend in it
Hell, what am I to do?
What if I don't give a damn what I am to you?
I do this shit for me, it's like therapy
That's why I keep the pen around
'Cause you were never there for me but it is
And you don't like the fact that I did this
But it's whatever, I could stay forever on your shit list
This time, I'll do it for me
I don't care about the money, I would do this shit for free
If it ain't about the words then it's all about the beat
Lose yourself in the music, put it on repeat
Tryna put your ass to sleep but the music got you thinkin'
Thinkin' 'bout your problems and that shit got you drinkin'
Drinkin' 'til you solve 'em or drinkin' 'til you're numb
You could figure it out, but now drinkin' got you dumb
And you wonder what happened, everything used to be fine
Everything I want now used to be mine
And it slipped away, wishin' you could rewind
Lookin' at your girlfriend, wishin' you could read minds
Lookin' at your watch, wishin' you could freeze time
Lookin' at your problems, tryna throw the peace sign
Deuces, and get the hell up outta there
But you got no cash flow, you don't even got a prayer
Dang, it's weighin' on you heavy
You weren't even ready and it hit you like a ton of bricks
Everything was cool, how the hell'd it go from fun to this?

[Outro]
There's gotta be a better way
There's gotta be a better way
There's gotta be a better way
Get the hell outta your bed and get a better day

Patrick “Packy” Duda is an up-and-coming artist who is signed by and is co-owner of The Specktators Collective. Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, Packy began as the emcee in rapper/producer duo, The Specktators. Their first—but unofficial—project was The Never Ending Mixtape, in which songs were released monthly from October 2009 to January 2011. In October of 2011, The Specktators hit the scene with their first official mixtape, Familiar with Floss. This mixtape was followed up by two more, The Sunroom and About That Life. A handful of songs were taken from these mixtapes to create a compilation album called The Transition.

In December 2013, The Specktators relocated to Los Angeles, California, and released their first official album, The Parlay, which would debut at #6 on the iTunes Hip-Hop chart. In 2014, The Specktators moved back to Michigan and transitioned into an independent label headed by Matt “Moe-T” Duda (the producer half of The Specktators) while Packy became a solo artist under the label that he helped to build.

Packy would go on to release two more albums, Same Difference in 2014 and Mad Lifey in 2016, as well as one mixtape, Area 51 in 2017. Later that year and throughout 2018 and 2019, Packy released 28 “inkblot” singles as a way to provide fans with new music consistently. This led to the release of his third album, Guess You Had To Be There, in 2020.

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