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GRIP

Walkthrough!

Release date: 27th August 2021

From I Died For This!?
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About This Track

GRIP walks through the depths of a violent upbringing on this Shady Records collaboration, Eminem arriving for the second verse to mirror the Atlanta rapper's journey from hardship to studio craft. The track appears on 'I Died For This!?', GRIP's first album since signing to Eminem's label, and the pairing feels less like a ceremonial co-sign than a shared autopsy of trauma and ambition. GRIP's opening verse maps a neighbourhood where gunfire punctuates weekends and inherited debt sets the terms, his wordplay dense enough to earn the comparison he's inviting. The chorus pulls focus to the cost, a furnished flat that cannot fill the emptiness left by choosing rap over human connection. Eminem's verse pivots to closed head injury and childhood cruelty, the fuel that drove him toward either death or prison or the pencil that rewrote both outcomes. The production, handled by AHYES and MTK, leaves space for the syllables to land without clutter, two voices threading the same wire at different points in the climb.

"Walkthrough!" is a track by GRIP, from the album I Died For This!?, released 27th August 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

GRIP

GRIP

Lyrics

Walkthrough!

[Verse 1: GRIP]

Look, I can walk you through the depths of hell where vexed rejects elect to sell

Keep TECs to protect your tail

No respected male to blaze a separate trail 'cause, uh, they was inept as well

Inherited they debt, we set to fail, please reset the scale

Niggas clappin' on Saturday, but we ain't see SNL

No comedy skits, just llamas and sticks and drama and shit

Baby mamas and jits, piranhas and pits, and product to pitch

Honestly, it's only right I give the zombies a fix

This bass to your facе from a speaker make you a twеaker

I laced it with ether

It'll take you a week to

Bounce back off one hit of this

Niggas is clitoris, way too frivolous

This is far more dire

The bars is hardcore like parkour with barbed wire

GRIP is the dark horse that spark wars and start fires

Hole in one on a par of four or higher, and your supplier

Tour guide for hire, poor guy, he's tired

Cut him some slack, he's strapped, rap to his back

[Chorus: GRIP]

Back to the wall and they all against me

Love on my mind, but it's cash to earn

I was hopin' maybe we could ball eventually

If only one time 'fore we crash and burn

Fully furnished crib, but inside, you're empty

'Cause you chose rap as your favorite girl

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Back to the wall and they all against me

Love on my mind, but it's cash to earn

I was hopin' maybe we could ball eventually

If only one time 'fore we crash and burn

Fully furnished crib, but inside, you're empty

'Cause you chose rap as your favorite girl

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

[Verse 2: Eminem]

Yeah

Sometimes I wonder, really, what did my closed head injury do?

I'm literally missin' a screw, but it seems like my memory's too vivid to forget the shit I've been through (Yeah)

So as my residuals grew, I remembered those kids who were cruel

Same individuals at Elizabeth Little and essentially used them as the fuel

Who would've knew what a pencil could do though, so mentally screwed

They said, "Marshall, you're either gonna wind up dead or in the penitentiary

'Cause eventually you'll end up clenchin' a tool

And come back vengefully to shoot them bullies who clowned you in elementary school"

Yeah, my head, something's wrong with it (Yeah)

But that makes me me, I'm different (Yup)

That lyrical phenom misfit

Since I was a bleach blond, you hear the beat on this

Which makes me only think of demonic shit (What?)

I was knockin' at death's door (Yep), I fuckin' ding-dong ditched it (Haha, yeah)

Yeah, and I don't do that sing-song bitch shit (Yeah)

And I don't use Auto-Tune, all I do is spit, and this shit just bothers you

Call it quits, bitch, impossible

My pen just popped your thought balloon

You dipshits know how I'ma do it

Send the motherfucking beat to the trauma-unit

Yeah, Shady Records, look at all these squad killers we brought with us

Juggernauts and Godzillas, you don't rock with us, you're off of your rockers

Bitch, back's to the wall as it always is

Why I'm not talkin' about wallets and knots

When I say that the wall it is not against

It's more like the cross (Cross), look at how far this is past you

Regardless, you want me to reach a fuckin' bar that does not exist

No pun intended, but GRIP, hold on to this moment

'Cause soon as you reach the top, they're gonna want you to fall from it (Yeah)

So you better grab your seatbelt like I did mine, and fasten yours

Like a motherfucking plane-crash passenger

'Cause one day, you'll be crashing back to Earth

And if you don't ever stop to smell the roses

I do know one thing, that's for sure

You don't get your flowers 'til you're pushin' up daisies (No)

And that's about all your ashes earn

[Chorus: GRIP]

Back to the wall and they all against me

Love on my mind, but it's cash to earn

I was hopin' maybe we could ball eventually

If only one time 'fore we crash and burn

Fully furnished crib, but inside, you're empty

'Cause you chose rap as your favorite girl

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Back to the wall and they all against me

Love on my mind, but it's cash to earn

I was hopin' maybe we could ball eventually

If only one time 'fore we crash and burn

Fully furnished crib, but inside, you're empty

'Cause you chose rap as your favorite girl

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Could've fooled me, can't save the world

Track details

From I Died For This!?

2021
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Eminem, GRIP, MTK, TU!
    Lyricist
    Eminem, GRIP, MTK, TU!
    Composer
    Eminem, GRIP, MTK, TU!
    Producer
    MTK, TU!
    Additional Vocals
    TU!
    Mastering Engineer
    Mike Bozzi
    Mixing Engineer
    John Kadadu
    Recording Engineer
    Eminem, GRIP
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