[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