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Underdogs
- The Underdogs (Ft. Vortex, Lil’C, and Velocity)
- Velocity: Alright, you boys ready?
- Lil’C: We’re good, bro, start the beat.
- Velocity: Yo, ‘Tex, you good over there?
- Vortex: Homey, start the damn beat!
- (Beat Plays)
- Vortex: This song goes to all of you haters.
- Lil’C: And it’s the hope for those who couldn’t make it.
- Velocity: Yeah, yeah, yeah here we go!
- (Vortex’s Verse) Ayo,
- Vortex, Lil’C and Velocity, causin’ all the monstrosity!
- Hip Hop’s my only form of Democracy, politics ain’t my kind of hypocrisy.
- If I die young, I die loyal as an Underdog.
- The Hip Hop’s Three Musketeers, All for one, and one for all!
- I’d never be Vortex without the guys, and I’d rather die than try!
- Three names, same weather, different scars,
- Same lunch tables, same doubts, same stars,
- They don’t see work when it’s done in the dark,
- Just the moment it sparks —like it happened by luck.
- I learned early you stand on what you say,
- No echoes, no masks, no borrowing names,
- If I rap it, I live it, if I wrote it, I’m there,
- I don’t need volume —put silence in air.
- Underdogs ain’t victims, we chose this lane,
- Pressure either breaks you or sharpens the blade,
- I ain’t ever askin’ for belief, just space to grow,
- If we make it out, let ‘em say they didn’t know.
- (Lil’C’s Verse)
- They judge from a distance, don’t know the deal,
- I learned quick what’s borrowed don’t feel real,
- Tried soundin’ like everybody else at first,
- Until I felt the weight of words in a verse.
- I’m here ‘cause the pen still answers me,
- Every line gotta breathe when the beat goes free,
- Underdogs taught me skill’s more than speed,
- It’s sayin’ what you mean and meanin’ what you speak.
- No shortcuts taken, no faces copied,
- Grew into myself when the crowd got loud,
- If the light never hits, I’m still proud,
- ‘Cause we built this circle when nobody came ‘round.
- (Velocity’s Verse)
- I don’t need the mic to put my name on the sound,
- Every kick, every drop, got my fingerprints now,
- Built beats outta rooms where the noise stayed low,
- Turned nothing but time into highs and lows.
- Underdogs don’t chase what’s trendy today,
- I design the space where the words can stay,
- If they ever ask who shaped that wave,
- Tell ‘em Velocity —I made the stage
- (Vortex, Lil’C, and Velocity’s Verse)
- And everybody lookin’ for a reason to speak,
- Look all around you, you just gotta believe!
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