Lazarus, Royce da 5'9" - Underdog lyrics

I'm Chuck D
Giving Hip-Hop's state of mind back
Lazarus, we played him last week
We're going to play this out here in Detroit
Royce Da 5'9" also recorded
With Lazarus as well been one of the most
Powerful interviews I've heard
What we played last week with Lazarus

Yeah yeah royce Da 5'9"
I'm upin here with my man, Lazarus yo Amir
Next time you knock somebody's
Fucking head off
I want you to think about these verses
IV, what up, my nigga?
People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
I'm me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them
(People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
Of me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them)

Back-to back platinum plaques
Switched my car from white to black
After Charleston switched it back to black
My rapping style is acrobat
Mixed with a private plane
Fly even while I'm plain, come to bars
I don't talk i sound off thunder thoughts
I will give you all a running start
Anytime, three sixty-five days, try me
Or y'all may want to keep throw or somersault
Look dog, I'm not not underdog
I pop to put your dog up under tar
A headstone, some grass up under stars for
Rapping at the one
Smiling at you while you're
Howling at the moon, and how so long
I'm laughing at the sun
Laughing at the fact I'm fucking like
A rabbit having fun
And you ain't having none
And ask us now the rabbit got the gun
And I don't need no explanation
I try to keep my past behind me
Fuck my recent destination
You dissing me for my attention
You won't be getting it undivided
Cause I will come divide you to
Five hundred degrees and separate you

People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
I'm me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them
(People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
Of me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them)

Check it out, now picture me the underdog
Unknown whose hunger claws
Jugulars ruptured, crush his jaws
Feeling the blood in my surgeon galls, pause
I came from nothing and caused an eruption
Put my hands in these racks and gloves
Then I became Gennady Golovkin
Without an assumption, I'm like a hybrid
It's preposterous
As Rakim, and the Indominus
Rex our perplexion
Raise the spirit as our possession
From the village of Sargodha
Here comes the twist of a rollercoaster
Chase me but you can't catch me
When I'm repping like Furiosa
Furious as a Sosa apocalypses, a narcissist
My arms and wrists are twisting
Write my bars like I got Parkinsons
Against the odds
Better myself, I'm profiting
And rose up on there chessboard and they
Got the king dropping all competitors
On any verse, I'm rep for my city
My home is a symbol for overachievers
And those who believe us that
We are the leaders
The congressmen and senators
I slay who slaves his masters
I'm the prey who preys on predators

People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
I'm me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them
(People see I'm from the D and
Say that I ain't nothing
But I turned around
Flip the script and made something
Of me, now let's run it back on them
They tried to take me for a slave
Now I own them)
They try to take me as a slave
Now I own them