"For real, a star, e'rybody shine your heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah 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 When I was young, my family used to party Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
knees from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack 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 and Doug E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? points, too many to wish 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 like a mawfucka, 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 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 else
Brothers, De La, they gave me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One year later, the Tribe was Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it us to our next phase So in those days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to make People cheered me, it was Foreign, then 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 toys Whisperin' hate inside my virgin ears to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to save my In the snow after the show, I had a fight wit' to a land to get away but back home Job was urkin' us, it 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,
Makin' my way, the wilderness has grown Redemption and my heart, both of was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my house 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 still here, take note and let float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the same thing I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody