[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
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[00:14.28]Guess our lessons ain't been learned
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[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
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[00:36.36]We been rappin for pennies for half of a century
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[00:39.62]Laughing to mask the fact that I'm baskin in envy
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[00:42.42]Mastered the craft now they use my masters against me
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[00:45.47]Advance me some cash after taxes
[00:46.55]I'm practically empty
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[00:48.51]Slowly losin my passion the path of an emcee
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[00:51.30]Got me gaspin passing the henney n grasping the semi
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[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
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[01:01.67]They sayin Grip u can't give up on the music never
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[01:04.64]I quit is sumn you could never say
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[01:06.38]It's funny they act like I just started rappin yesterday
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[01:09.35]Fact of the matter is you n***as just started pressing play
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[01:13.43]I met a man who's pupils were dollar signs
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[01:15.85]He made a deal that promised I won't be forgot in time
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[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
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[01:49.34]Product of the madness sold as product to the masses
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[01:51.96]From poverty we bastards
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[01:53.32]So we flashing in high fashion
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[01:55.40]Never learned cash money so when earnd cash money we burned cash money
[01:59.45]Ghetto stars turned crash dummies
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[02:01.32]In foreign cars that's leased n Audemars wit links
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[02:04.27]We had to buss down for all dem times a n***a had to bus it
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[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
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[02:20.16]Controlled by japeto from ghetto to ghetto
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[02:22.86]Kiss yo hood goodbye and tell Hollywood hello
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[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
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[02:31.45]And when u caught slippin they gon make a killing off yo killing
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[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