"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for up on the New York concrete lookin' Like a snotty dish of prodigy cookin' called me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard of uncatched kids turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees from being little boys Police sirens and baby was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's nigga KRS? points, too many to wish for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was and high goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our 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 me and flow again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up enough to make cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, women then evil toys Whisperin' hate 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 stored on the bus
It got right here, I had to save my life In the snow after the show, I had a fight wit' Moves to a land to get away but back Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found Allah in the An angel wit' sneaky ways 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,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was tired and I we had to end it But through all of this, I'm here notes and let hope floats I'm still here, take note and let hope I'm still here, notes and let hope float
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 Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing that I'm Still here, and let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes, let it float, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else