What It Cost Us Lyrics

Why they lock my nigga up, he ain't do shit

And we was raised around the bloods, we hardly knew Crip

Nah, I ain't never join the gang, but I knew the lingo

Index finger to the thumb, yeah, that's where the B go

Papa tried to keep us from it, but he banged too

He had PDL, Tatted, he from Lanes too

Saying Blood in his vernacular, he's slippin' up

Sugar free in the LAC when he picked us up

Studio is in the back, I think some bangers in it

Cause they khaki creases flat, where the Phillies fit it

St. Ives and 211 take it to the neck

And keep the Nina on his hip in case of disrespect

Holla blood this and blood that, fuck this and fuck that

Catchin' anybody fade, you know we pushin' love back

When you pack em out, brag about it, cause they love that

Then Lamar Love died, had me thinkin', fuck that,

Can you imagine what it cost us

I see some dreamers turn to corpses

Can you imagine what it cost us

I see some dreamers in a coffin

Trust and attention is real when it get real in the field

The drink and the smoke of the pill, I just need somethin' to heal

Or it be makin' me numb, I don't be wantin' to feel

Heart beatin' like it's a drum, all of my feelings concealed

Trust and attention is real when it get real in the field

The drink and the smoke of the pill, I just need somethin' to heal

Or it be makin' me numb, I don't be wantin' to feel

Heart beatin' like it's a drum, all of my feelings concealed

Ain't no discounts on trauma, I put that on my mama

The preacher tell us about hell, but he gon' skip Nirvana

Was like we barely holdin' on, I talk a sorta kinda

Ain't no clouds out, cause it's hot out, ain't no silver linings

Soon as we take a step up, the system gon' remind us

That we ain't nothin' but a nigga, tryin' to keep us blinded

I'm talkin' 400 years, they tryin' to push behind us

That's why we bust down these diamonds, and drape it in designer

Can you imagine what it cost us

I see some dreamers turn to corpses

Can you imagine what it cost us

I see some dreamers in the coffin