"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine Said 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 lookin' Like a little dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Richard and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys sirens and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack poetry to tracks, could you beat that? Malik 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 KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and goin' 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 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 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 in those days, I truly was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, came Low End Theory
quickly recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women were evil toys hate inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to but, yo, we stood 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 save my In the after the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get 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' ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm 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 fierce and my heart, both 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 house burned down, me and 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 hope I'm here, take 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 thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah here, take 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' here, take and let it, uh-hah Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon here, take 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 else