Underestimated (Feat. Che Noir & Benny The Butcher)

Yo, my mama made a hustler, for that alone I'm grateful / And gave me to the streets, so y'all owe her a thank you / That's real shit, my relationship with my mom was different / I sold drugs for her in school, me and my mom did business / It was harsh, she threw me to the sharks, and knew the consequences / But she knew I was street, that lady knew my heart was in it / Stuck by my side the day the FBI caught me slippin' / 'Cause you know the ones that go the most hard be women / I used to watch her let dope boys stash in the house / I felt like one when I brought my first half in the house / I took that and broke it down to a fraction amount / Gave her loot she used to put food back in our mouth / The good, bad, and the illegal, those the traits we inherit / Word to God, the look on your seed face could be a mirror / Yeah, you probably see yourself when you look at your kids / I turned out to be a hustler, ma, look what you did / Let's go

Mama gave you tools as a freedom / Mama taught you how to bring food to your people / Mama taught you how to pray and get the root of all evil / And if it all falls apart, then I'm your glue and your needle / Mama taught you how to stack and never spend what you need / Crack baby, God's greatest gift to a fiend / Mama gave you all the jewels, from a pencil you bleed / A black queen sacrificed to raise a prince to a king

Ayo, huh, let's take it back, round '85 / Pops had a family and a lady on the side / Guess who got pregnant? The lady on the side / Guess what that made me? The baby he denied / Now, moms working double shifts, crazy from her job / And pops never claimed me, maybe it's his pride / But a man is a man from the way that he provides / Huh, only thing that man gave me was his eyes / Now, moms was suffering, government checks / Pops hustling, sending weed to my mother's address / I ain't know and he ain't know that his son would be Spesh / Thought that I'd be a loser, but I grew to be next / And it's similar, 'cause I got babies by my hoes now / And I'm rich from the bricks that they drove down / I'm the man in my hometown / I'm a hustler and you underestimated your own child, huh

Mama gave you tools as a freedom / Mama taught you how to bring food to your people / Mama taught you how to pray and get the root of all evil / And if it all falls apart, then I'm your glue and your needle / Mama taught you how to stack and never spend what you need / Crack baby, God's greatest gift to a fiend / Mama gave you all the jewels, from a pencil you bleed / A black queen sacrificed to raise a prince to a king