"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine your 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' here for y'all Preeld in by Allah I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little snotty dish of prodigy They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees from bad-ass little boys Police sirens and screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped 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 rule but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was and high goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We our first demo tape Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our 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 me and flow 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 Tribe was 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 to make tunes People 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 evil Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the rida on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save my life In the snow after the show, I had a wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but back Job was urkin' us, it me through a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process 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,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife 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 Take notes and let floats I'm still here, take note and let float I'm still here, take notes and let float
You can do the same 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, notes and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon here, take 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 else