"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine your 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 that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack poetry 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 used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Rick and Doug E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? Reference points, too to wish for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw let my dream die I was happy and high goin' to Alee's and We our first demo tape like a mawfucka, lookin' 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 else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, 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 to make tunes cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women then were toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the Midnight was even tighter, now at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky 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 home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found Allah in the An angel appeared sneaky ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still feelin' blue,
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 grown Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, think 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 and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm still notes and let hope floats I'm still here, note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the thing that 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' Still here, take and let it, 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