Underdog Lyrics Review

"This is for my folkers who got bills overdue" is the first line for the lyrics Underdog by The Coup. This line caught my attention as we all get bills everyday and then we face the problem of trying to catch up  paying all of it. These bills are the outcomes of the power of the society we are living in. Just to be able to survive we have to overcome obstacles each and every day.  The artist also mentions  that " crime rises consistent with the poverty rate". As people are not able to find jobs, trying to survive,  the brutality of life becomes hard which leads to crime. " You take the workers and jobs, you're gonna have murders and mobs" which states that each day people get laid off from work so they try to find others means to get money to survive. The increase in cost of living has made the poverty rate increase whereby the people who were middle waged family are also being classified as below poverty line . The artist mentions " You gotta hustle 'cause they're trying to push and shove you. The "they" mentioned in the quote is the society we are all living in. We are being "pushed" and "shoved" so that they society can run properly. But is the society taking care of us? Just living each day without worrying is impossible. " When she breathe, she swear it feels like plastic wrap around her face"which represents the burdens of everyday life suffocating people. This burdens which sometimes kills a person from within just trying to cater for themselves and their loved ones. Parents work 12 hour shifts just so that their children can have roof over their head and food on the table. Tired and exhausted but a parent never backs down without a fight as the artist mentions " Big ol' spoons of peanut butter, big ass glass of water, makes the hunger subside, save the real for you daughter"