"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all in by Allah that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto copped the Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the 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 nigga points, too many to wish for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was happy and high to Alee's 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 hate to 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
Brothers, De La, they gave me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One year later, the Tribe was came, it was wild how she dominated Can I it parled us to our next phase So drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to make People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
quickly recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, then were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to save my In the snow the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and 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,
Makin' my way, the has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he I screwed his wife Plus my 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 still Take notes and let hope I'm still here, note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same shit I'm doin' You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the same I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else