At What Cost?-GRIP

[ti:At What Cost? (Explicit)] [ar:GRIP] [al:I Died For This!? (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At What Cost? (Clean) - GRIP [00:03.91]Lyrics by：Latrell James/Neal H. Pogue II/Shellie Robinson/Kyle Clow [00:07.83]Composed by：Latrell James/Neal H. Pogue II/Shellie Robinson/Kyle Clow [00:11.75]There's some confusion about nooses [00:13.49] [00:14.28]Guess our lessons ain't been learned [00:17.02] [00:17.56]There's a contusion in our music [00:20.44]Guess our trauma our ain't been earned [00:23.64]I realize my sacrifice [00:26.39]Don't mean s**t to my masters burn [00:29.64]All of this s**t down to the ground [00:32.25]Until ownership gets its turn [00:35.27] [00:36.36]We been rappin for pennies for half of a century [00:38.57] [00:39.62]Laughing to mask the fact that I'm baskin in envy [00:41.50] [00:42.42]Mastered the craft now they use my masters against me [00:44.61] [00:45.47]Advance me some cash after taxes [00:46.55]I'm practically empty [00:47.24] [00:48.51]Slowly losin my passion the path of an emcee [00:50.42] [00:51.30]Got me gaspin passing the henney n grasping the semi [00:53.59] [00:54.30]N***as think cuz I dropped a classic I'm doin better like [00:57.32]I got a slew of cheddar [00:58.62]If only you knew my thoughts of pursuing a new endeavor [01:01.02] [01:01.67]They sayin Grip u can't give up on the music never [01:03.79] [01:04.64]I quit is sumn you could never say [01:05.86] [01:06.38]It's funny they act like I just started rappin yesterday [01:08.79] [01:09.35]Fact of the matter is you n***as just started pressing play [01:12.23] [01:13.43]I met a man who's pupils were dollar signs [01:14.99] [01:15.85]He made a deal that promised I won't be forgot in time [01:18.06] [01:18.79]But here's the catch every single rhyme u jot is mine [01:21.59]Not a problem fine just put yo name on dis dotted line [01:24.30]There's some confusion about nooses [01:27.23]Guess our lessons ain't been learned [01:30.45]There's a contusion in our music [01:33.28]Guess our trauma our ain't been earned [01:36.56]I realize my sacrifice [01:39.05]Don't mean s**t to my masters burn [01:42.51]All of this s**t down to the ground [01:45.22]Until ownership gets its turn [01:48.16] [01:49.34]Product of the madness sold as product to the masses [01:51.40] [01:51.96]From poverty we bastards [01:52.77] [01:53.32]So we flashing in high fashion [01:54.31] [01:55.40]Never learned cash money so when earnd cash money we burned cash money [01:59.45]Ghetto stars turned crash dummies [02:00.61] [02:01.32]In foreign cars that's leased n Audemars wit links [02:03.69] [02:04.27]We had to buss down for all dem times a n***a had to bus it [02:07.17] [02:07.83]Or spent like half the budget to put some gas in the bucket [02:10.70]Down to yo last like f**k it [02:12.18]If I was a lad who's dad had ducketts would [02:14.67]I give this biz the green light if I knew the words [02:16.93]I sing might put me on a string like puppets [02:19.00] [02:20.16]Controlled by japeto from ghetto to ghetto [02:21.84] [02:22.86]Kiss yo hood goodbye and tell Hollywood hello [02:24.96] [02:25.74]But old habits die hard n where [02:27.62]I'm from we die young cuz we can't [02:29.15]Let bygones be bygones so we buy guns [02:30.80] [02:31.45]And when u caught slippin they gon make a killing off yo killing [02:34.05] [02:34.78]And the cycle continues for your children [02:36.84]D**n [02:37.27]There's some confusion about nooses [02:40.27]Guess our lessons ain't been learned [02:43.28]There's a contusion in our music [02:46.13]Guess our trauma our ain't been earned [02:48.88] [02:49.41]I realize my sacrifice [02:51.92]Don't mean s**t to my masters burn [02:55.48]All of this s**t down to the ground [02:58.10]Until ownership gets its turn