"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty dish of prodigy called me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
knees from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick and Doug E. Fresh The Crew rule but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to and Bed-Stuy We our first demo tape Excited a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the story I yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em hate to you") You can see it ("Get up and follow me and again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it us to our next phase So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up to make tunes People me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
quickly recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Boys Arsenio Hall, women then were evil Whisperin' hate inside my virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we amongst the tears was even tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the rida on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to save my In the snow after the show, I had a fight Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a zone The good thing, I Allah in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still blue, c'mon
Yeah, Yeah, ("You can do it") Yeah, Yeah, ("I know")
Yeah, ("You can see it") Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Makin' my way, the has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, both of was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he I screwed his wife my house burned down, me and Ands was in it My was tired and I knew we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take notes and let hope I'm still here, take note and let float I'm here, take notes and let hope float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes and let it float, here, take and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing that I'm Still here, take and let it, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same thing I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else