Underestimated Songtext
von 38 Spesh

Mother
Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother
You underestimated your child

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 (You underestimated your child)
I sold drugs for school, me and my mom did business
Was hard, 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' (You underestimated your child)
'Cause you know the ones that go the most hard be women
I used to watch and 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 (You underestimated your child)
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 gon′ be a mirror

Yeah, you probably see yourself when you look
At your kids (You underestimated your child)
I turned out to be a hustler, ma, look what you did, let′s go

Mama gave you tools as a fetal
Mama taught you how to bring food to your people
Mama taught you how to pray and get the root
Of all evil (You underestimated your child)
And if it all falls apart, then I'm your glue and your needle
Mama taught you how to stack and never spill what you need
Crack baby, God′s greatest gift to a fiend
Mama gave you all the jewels, from a pencil
You bleed (You underestimated your child)
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 (You underestimated your child)
Guess what that made me? The baby he denied
Now Mom′s 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 Mom's was sufferin′, government checks

Pops hustlin′, sendin' weed to my mother address
I ain′t know and he ain't know that his son′d
Be Spesh (You underestimated your child)
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 (You underestimated your child)
I′m a hustler and you underestimated your own child, huh

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

You underestimated your child
Mother
Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother
You underestimated your child
You underestimated your child