"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm here spittin' for y'all in by Allah that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty dish of prodigy They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Bump
knees from being bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Malik Taylor it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" years old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice Crew but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too many to 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 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 me and flow 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, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she 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 recognized who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, then were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears 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 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 Allah 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, both of was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his Plus my burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was tired and I we had to end it But through all of this, I'm still Take notes and let hope I'm still here, take 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 thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah here, take notes 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, and let it, uh-hah Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same thing that I'm if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody