"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 luck that I'm sittin' here for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty dish of cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of kids turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard and Ronnie Bump
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you that? Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" years old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? Reference points, too to wish for niggas on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to and Bed-Stuy We made our first demo Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first
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, they me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One year later, the Tribe was Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our next 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 with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women then were evil hate inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the was even tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the rida on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save 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 me through a danger zone The good thing, I Allah in the process 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 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 I screwed his wife my house 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 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 shit that I'm doin' You can do the same thing I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', 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 thing that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else