[Verse 1:]

Little is known why I beckon and moan

I see what's comin

Madd brothers will be bumming

After the math the drug lords brought the wrath

Of those of us who once thought we needed to be weeded

Bust, dust made that head bust

I remember came after

Cheba cheba had you wide like a receiver

What looks like fire is ice

Fall for the flame

Catch it twice like Jerry Rice

Nice !!

Against odds I recognize it in the cards

Hard to be played back and black the jack of all spades

Ash to ashes blunts to blunts

Some of these geez ain't real

I seen em once upon a time

So many rhymers and not enuff rhymes

I hope they around next year but I fear

I'm all time and I'm down for the ruffness

But what good is the rhyme without substance



[Chorus:]

Now back to the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York



[Verse 2:]

Nobody savin the time

The rhyme never thanks

Who be givin

Ravin who on top of the charts

Grabbin the Gavin

Now I can't use my name

Half the body be dancing head swoll

But one thing I can do is finger roll

The hit list grows like Pete Rose

As I rise above who you recognize

I wanna know that disguise

Who are you?

And wher'd you come from ?

I don't know where you come from now see how you run

First on a verse I gets vertical

Flip works like a grammatical gigolo

A head from many years ago

I brought the noise on the R&B boys

The chronological

Or the ghetto celeb

Never claimed the best

Nor was I great at finesse

But everything is everything

And everything is real

It appears I shift gears

To the ears of my peers

No appeal

I'd rather be the underdog



[Chorus:]

...the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York



[BRIDGE: x4]

Ashes to ashes blunts to blunts

Some of these geez ain't real

I seen em once



[Chorus:]

It's the underdog

Now whooooo

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York



[Verse 3:]

I'm low maintenance

The picture I'm paintin

Is just intelligence

Not another nitwit you can get with

Self haters, traitors

Thinking now that later

Turned they head

Dissin something that I said

I get ill on a beat track

Make me wanna go back

Way back

Where it's not a trace of Babyface

Unplugged tempos from this undrugged temple catalog

I rather be the underdog



...the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York

...the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Now whooooo

East to the....

Live from New York

It's the underdog

Who they least expected

Live from New York