"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New York lookin' Like a snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of kids turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street to tracks, could you beat that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, in the backroom For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was and high goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the I tell yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em to front you") You can see it ("Get up and follow me and flow again, use my as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Jungle Brothers, De La, gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One later, the Tribe was initiated came, it was wild how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to make cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women then evil toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we amongst the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to my life In the snow after the show, I had a fight Phife Moves to a to get away but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found Allah in the An angel wit' sneaky ways 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 wilderness has grown Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was and I knew we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take and let hope floats I'm still here, note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the same thing that I'm doin', I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing I'm doin' Still here, and let it, uh-hah here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else