"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow heart 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' spittin' for y'all Preeld in by that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty of prodigy cookin' called me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees from being bad-ass little Police sirens and 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 Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, 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? Reference points, too 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 demo 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 again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, 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 drunk in those days, I truly was How I got up enough to tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
People 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 Tryin to hurt but, yo, we amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got right here, I had to save my life In the snow after the show, I had a fight Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was us, it sent me through a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and 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, both of them was Crashed my truck, didn't I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his my house 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 notes and let hope floats I'm still here, take note and let float I'm still here, take notes and let float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the same thing that I'm doin', 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 same thing I'm doin', thing that I'm 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 thing that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody