Beat the Odds - Lil B

Momma working all day, I’mma pray to God

If I don’t make it in the world, please protect my mom

The pressure on a teenage man, I can understand

I just turned twenty myself, the world be a cold place

Yeah, life is real, but ain’t nobody see a life you feel

When I write I feel some kind of way that relates to real

So I understand how you feel

I’m a loner too, I’m online just to watch the news

And when I upload, I appreciate the views

Cause you don’t gotta watch me, you don’t gotta like me

So if you ride with me, shit, I’m riding for life."

I never had nobody that cared

Except a few close people everybody was scared

Because I didn’t know myself that particular time

That’s why I’m always writing rhymes and speaking my mind

I work every day, it’s a common goal

To keep my head right and buy my moms a home

The hustle don’t stop, the hustle don’t stop

I work every day, it’s a common goal

To keep my head right and buy my moms a home!

The hustle don’t stop, the hustle don’t stop

I failed so many times, I ain’t learn the lesson

Hope I’m not an example, hope you really see my message

I do this for my fam and everybody that respect it

But time fly fast and I’m feeling resentment

I don’t think I’m at my best I’m moving fifty percent

Five percent, ten, the other thirty five in the pen

My right hand made it if I’m thinking I win

But where I grew up, either you sink or you swim

So it’s crabs in the bucket, know you heard that phrase

But everybody got a chance to shower, then praise

So I’m tryin' to change the old way of thinkin, peep it

Wrote a book 19, I hope that Jesus reads it

A lot of people thought I’m dumb like an underachievement

Cause my grades wasn’t good, and I was smoking that reefer

But my mom said son, if you keep believing

You can be anything, just keep on breathing!

And I try to stay clean, but drugs is pain

This is something in my brain since a early age

And I’ll never fall off, but this is word to god

Ain’t nothin' promised in this life, Imma beat the odds

My momma struggle everyday just to keep her job

And don’t nobody understand what I go through daily

So if I’m lookin' kinda down, just salute the god

And root for me, cuz to really tell the truth, it’s hard

I’m writin' rhymes every day, it’s a gift from god

And if you listen to this rap, this is from my heart

Lil B for Lil Boss, I’mma beat the odds

And I’mma do the right thing, be the based-est god

I’mma beat the odds, Lil B