"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody your heart 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 for y'all in by Allah that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was average Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street to tracks, could you beat that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? points, too many to wish for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to and Bed-Stuy We made our first demo Excited 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 flow again, use my as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One year later, the was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it us to our next phase So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up enough to tunes cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People recognized who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's virgin Tryin to but, yo, we stood 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 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 a danger zone 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 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,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my house burned down, me and was in it My was tired and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm 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 shit that I'm doin' You can do the same thing that I'm doin', I'm here, take 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 I'm doin' Still here, and let it, uh-hah here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody