Underdogs

When u say I am, it means you exist and that you gave yourself The means to resist despite the scenes in the script Faced with situations that got me like "Aww damn what is this?" What a dead beat of dad Uncle Sam is Look at his kid The world's a powder keg The power hungry became power fed Stock market numbers more important than a child's breathe Working got us wild stress North East South by Southwest Starving watching people eat with their mouth wet Meanwhile, a single mom at the shelter Abused by her boyfriend Her dreams of having a decent life full of love completely frozen Homeless teens overdosing Forward motion is stalled Gravity plus no momentum means everything falls What you mean? Y'all expect me to sell y'all on a lifestyle Of fake opulence, popularity and nice crowds Some of my boy ain't make it yo this game ain't sacred A painstaking task to see my soul lay there naked And just exposed like a stripper on a pole Trying to make herself whole But for the most part dismissed as a hoe We're pigeonholed prisoners of the positions we hold Winners write history, some stories will never be told We wish upon a star, it's one nation under god But they don't care about the underdogs Wish upon a star, it's one nation under god They never care about the underdogs Unless they win Life doesn't come with a map, or a GPS app Whether you a GD with a vest or at a dead end job trap A war zone with a dog tag going through a dark patch Wide awake in the nighttime Watching your thoughts flash Crossing paths, some people match Some people don't match Other surpass expectations Some of these people don't last The real ones don't brag Those who talk a lot do the worse The universe makes no mistakes I let the vibes do the work Some get sick and die You cannot predict the ride Just evict the negative and never end up victimized In the world, in different spots They praying to different gods Liquor shots, delinquents licking shots Dodge em like Baryshnikov Mafia types with big cigars, reading Khalil Gibran Trying to balance the karmic debt So he can heal the wrongs Bottom to the apex moments those that define us Your body could be swimming in dirt And roll out a diamond And it's a timing The promises you keep yourself You feed the hell or the heaven no joke, no D. Chappell Sometime your feet rebel even though the mind desires Skin hardened by the shells of standing in the line of fire We wish upon a star, it's one nation under god But they don't care about the underdogs Wish upon a star, it's one nation under god They never care about the underdogs Unless they win Off the wall like Michael Jackson We stay prepped when it's time for action Might cross paths with a psychopath And it's hard to tell when the lights are flashing Cruising up in a two door duplex that's two floors Me and my crew too raw that's before I move to New York Use to think I was from New York Chicks were digging my accent We was thinking of way to get out this city and get my raps lit We ain't wanna be average Wanted to have our names light Fame and the hype all the girls Going on tours around the world