"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine Said shine, c'mon"
not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for up on the New York concrete lookin' Like a little snotty dish of prodigy They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to ketchup The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys sirens and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Taylor 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., Rick and Doug E. Fresh The Juice rule but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw let my dream die I was happy and high goin' to and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited like a mawfucka, 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 to front you") You can see it ("Get up and me and flow again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One year later, the was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it parled us to our next So in those days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to tunes People me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People recognized who we are is ill and Busta is a superstar Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, women then were evil Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save my life In the snow after the show, I had a wit' Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was us, it sent me through a danger zone The thing, I found Allah in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's but I'm still feelin' blue, c'mon
Yeah, Yeah, ("You can do it") Yeah, Yeah, ("I know")
Yeah, ("You can see it") Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, both of was pierced Crashed my truck, didn't I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his my house burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm here Take and let hope floats I'm here, take note and let hope float I'm still here, take and let hope float
You can do the shit that I'm doin' You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, here, take notes and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' here, take and let it, uh-hah Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same thing that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else