"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow 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 Allah I'm hittin' for y'all up on the New York concrete lookin' Like a little dish of prodigy cookin' called me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys sirens and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto copped the Street poetry to tracks, 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 in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick and Doug E. Fresh The Juice Crew but who's this nigga KRS? points, too many to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw let my dream die I was happy and high to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our demo 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 me and flow again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Brothers, De La, they gave me little 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 drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women then evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save my life In the snow the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a to get away but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I Allah in the process An appeared 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,
Makin' my way, the has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, both of was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his Plus my house 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 here notes and let hope floats I'm still here, note and let hope float I'm here, take notes and let hope float
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the same thing I'm doin', uh-huh 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 thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' here, take and let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes, let it float, Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same thing I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else