Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song At What Cost?, artist - Grip.
Date of issue: 26.08.2021
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
At What Cost? |
There’s some confusion about nooses |
Guess our lessons ain’t been learned |
There’s a contusion in our music |
Guess our trauma our ain’t been |
I realize my sacrifice |
Don’t mean shit to my masters burn |
All of this shit down to the ground |
Until ownership gets its turn |
We been rapping for pennies for half of a century |
Laughing to mask the fact that I’m basking in envy |
Mastered the craft now they use my masters against me |
Advance me some cash after taxes I’m practically empty |
Slowly losing my passion the path of an emcee |
Got me gasping passing the Henny and grasping the semi |
Niggas think cause I dropped a classic I’m doing better |
Like I got a slew of cheddar |
If only you knew my thoughts of pursuing a new endeavor |
They saying Grip you can’t give up on the music never |
I quit is something you could never say |
It’s funny, they act like I just started rapping yesterday |
Fact of the matter is, you niggas just started pressing play |
I met a man who’s pupils were dollar signs |
He made a deal that promised I won’t be forgot in time |
But here’s the catch |
Every single rhyme you jot is mine, not a problem, fine |
Just put your name on this dotted line |
There’s some confusion about nooses |
Guess our lessons ain’t been learned |
There’s a contusion in our music |
Guess our trauma our ain’t been |
I realize my sacrifice |
Don’t mean shit to my masters burn |
All of this shit down to the ground |
Until ownership gets its turn |
Product of the madness sold as product to the masses |
From poverty we bastards so we flashing in high fashion |
Never learned cash money so when earned cash money |
We burned cash money, ghetto stars turned crash dummies |
In foreign cars, that’s leased and Audemars with links |
We had to buss down for all them times a nigga had to bus it |
Spent like half the budget to put some gas in the bucket |
Down to your last like fuck it if I was a lad who’s dad had duckets |
Would I give this biz the green light |
If I knew the words I sing might put me on a string like puppets |
Controlled by japeto from ghetto to ghetto |
Kiss your hood goodbye and tell Hollywood hello |
But old habits die hard and where I’m from we die young |
Cause we can’t let bygones be bygones so we buy guns |
And when you caught slipping, they gone make a killing off your killing |
And the cycle continues for your children, damn |
There’s some confusion about nooses |
Guess our lessons ain’t been learned |
There’s a contusion in our music |
Guess our trauma our ain’t been |
I realize my sacrifice |
Don’t mean shit to my masters burn |
All of this shit down to the ground |
Until ownership gets its turn |