"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow 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 here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was average Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you 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 Rick and 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 goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the story I 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 nobody
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 parled us to our phase So drunk in those days, I truly was How I got up enough to tunes People me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are is ill and Busta 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 hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the was even tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the rida on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to my life In the snow after the show, I had a wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found in the process An angel appeared wit' ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still 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 was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he I screwed his wife Plus my burned down, me and Ands 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 float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the same thing that I'm doin', I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, Still here, take notes, let it float, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing that I'm if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody