"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New York lookin' a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of uncatched kids to blood ketchup The niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
knees from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto copped the Street to tracks, could you beat that? Malik Taylor it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Rick 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 let my dream die I was happy and high to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited a mawfucka, lookin' 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 again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me 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 us to our next phase So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up enough to tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
People quickly 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' inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got right here, I had to save my life In the after the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but back Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a zone The thing, I found Allah in the process An angel appeared wit' ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My platinum 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, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, 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 tired and I we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take notes and let 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 that I'm doin', I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, Still here, take notes, let it float, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the thing that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else